AKD USA LLC, a Reno, Nevada-based capital markets and advisory firm, said on Sept. 4, 2026 that it entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Binaxity Ltd, authorizing AKD to offer Binaxity’s leveraged asset lending products directly to institutional investors in the United States, according to GlobeNewswire PE.
Exclusive U.S. distribution rights
The license grants AKD U.S. distribution rights to Binaxity’s suite of institutional lending products, including leveraged lending against Bitcoin holdings and non-margin asset accumulation programs for gold and Bitcoin, according to GlobeNewswire PE.
The announcement described Binaxity as “the fintech platform behind the embedded rails for asset-linked credit,” and said AKD is authorized to offer “best-in-class Bitcoin-backed lending and non-margin gold and Bitcoin accumulation products to institutional clients,” according to GlobeNewswire PE.
Product structure: Binaxity’s I-LOC model
Both the leveraged lending against Bitcoin holdings and the non-margin asset accumulation programs for gold and Bitcoin are built on Binaxity’s Investment Line of Credit (I-LOC) model, which pairs client capital with structured credit to acquire real assets held in custody, according to GlobeNewswire PE.
The I-LOC “carries no margin-call mechanics,” and the announcement said client positions are supported by a layered capital-protection structure that includes user co-investment, a reserve pool, and a deficiency capital pool, designed to absorb market stress in sequence before client principal is touched, according to GlobeNewswire PE.
Binaxity’s platform already supports asset origination across more than 100 markets, the companies said, and AKD will bring that same infrastructure to U.S. institutional investors seeking Bitcoin and gold-backed credit exposure “without the liquidation risk associated with traditional margin lending,” according to GlobeNewswire PE.
Roles, timeline, and executive comments
Kevin Petersen, managing partner of AKD USA LLC, said the agreement gives AKD’s institutional clients access to “a lending infrastructure that, quite simply, does not exist anywhere else in the market,” and that Binaxity’s model lets clients borrow against Bitcoin and build long-term positions in gold and Bitcoin without the margin-call risk “that has defined this space,” according to GlobeNewswire PE.
Jamie Cunningham, co-founder and CEO of Binaxity, said AKD brings institutional relationships and capital markets expertise to put Binaxity’s platform in front of investors “who can use it at scale,” and said the partnership extends Binaxity’s infrastructure beyond the retail and fintech partners it “originally built it for” into the U.S. institutional market, according to GlobeNewswire PE.
Under the agreement, AKD will lead onboarding and distribution for institutional clients in the U.S., while Binaxity will continue to operate the underlying credit, custody, risk, and servicing infrastructure, according to GlobeNewswire PE.
The companies said they expect to begin onboarding institutional clients “in the coming months,” according to GlobeNewswire PE.
Widely known context: “Bitcoin-backed lending” and “gold-backed credit exposure” refer to borrowing structures that use those assets as collateral, and “margin-call” mechanics commonly require borrowers to post additional collateral or face liquidation when collateral values fall.
