According to TechFlow, on December 4, ETHZilla Corporation (NASDAQ: ETHZ) announced the acquisition of a 20% fully diluted equity stake in the AI auto finance decision platform Karus, Inc. for $8 million (comprised of $3 million in cash and $5 million in stock). Under the agreement, ETHZilla will integrate Karus’s AI-driven loan assessment technology into its blockchain infrastructure to enable the tokenization of auto loan assets. Karus’s AI decision engine is based on over 20 million historical auto loan records and analyzes more than 1,000 variables, having processed over $5 billion in auto loans. The first batch of tokenized portfolios is expected to launch in early 2026 and will be traded on the Liquidity.io platform.
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ETHZilla acquires 20% stake in Karus to advance AI auto loan tokenization
According to TechFlow, on December 4, ETHZilla Corporation (NASDAQ: ETHZ) announced the acquisition of a 20% fully diluted equity stake in the AI auto finance decision platform Karus, Inc. for $8 million (comprised of $3 million in cash and $5 million in stock). Under the agreement, ETHZilla will integrate Karus’s AI-driven loan assessment technology into its blockchain infrastructure to enable the tokenization of auto loan assets. Karus’s AI decision engine is based on over 20 million historical auto loan records and analyzes more than 1,000 variables, having processed over $5 billion in auto loans. The first batch of tokenized portfolios is expected to launch in early 2026 and will be traded on the Liquidity.io platform.