
CRDCredit & Collateral
Underwriting, LTV, capital stacks
Lending against something someone already owns instead of making them sell it. The underwriting problem is basically the same whether the collateral is a building or a token, which is why the real estate work and Gether fit together. Chainlink Fulcrum, announced September 2026, is the institutional version of the same problem: a quarter of bank collateral sits idle because it cannot move across venues and chains.
Connects to
- Berkeley Real Estate Investment Group. Debt structuring and capital stacks are credit work with a building as the collateral.
- Gether. Gether is a collateralized credit line. The underwriting and the loan-to-value logic are the product.
- Democratized Access. Credit against assets used to be gated. Opening it up is the theme.
- Payments. A card is a payment on top of a credit line. You cannot separate the two.
- Real Estate. Real estate is credit with a building as collateral.
- Chainlink CRE 2.0. Confidential compute lets an underwriting workflow price collateral without publishing the data.
- Chainlink Fulcrum. Fulcrum is collateral management and repo, which is credit against assets.
- Financial Modeling. Underwriting is a modeling exercise.