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Lombard Systems Raises $4M to Make Tokenized Assets Easier to Borrow Against
Tokenizing an asset is only the beginning; financing it is another problem entirely. Lombard Systems announced $4 million in pre-seed and seed funding on November 5 to expand a standard it calls Delivery-versus-Lock, or DvL.
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Lombard Systems has secured $4 million across pre-seed and seed rounds, the company disclosed on November 5. The raise aims to widen a framework it names Delivery-versus-Lock, or DvL. Its goal is letting institutions post tokenized assets as loan security without a bespoke legal and technical setup for each transaction. Funds will go toward legal work covering the US, England and Wales, plus other jurisdictions, since lenders need assurance their claims survive insolvency. The company expects its first institutional deployment by the end of 2026. The article stresses this is infrastructure funding, not proof of broad adoption. It also flags custody, control and operational risk, since removing an intermediary can concentrate exposure in software or key management. Next milestones named include a live deployment, legal opinions by jurisdiction, independent technical review and transaction volumes.
Why it matters: It shows tokenized assets face hard legal and operational questions before institutions can rely on them as loan collateral.
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Lombard Systems raises $4 million to expand tokenized collateral standard