2,800+ onchain yield opportunities across 80+ networks will be accessible directly through the Dfns platform.
Dfns has entered a strategic partnership with Yield.xyz, the unified onchain yield infrastructure layer already powering earn products for Zerion, Deblock, Tangem, and Anchorage, to embed yield capabilities directly into the Dfns platform.
What Dfns and Yield.xyz will build together
The integration will give any institution building on Dfns access to onchain yield without sourcing, evaluating, or integrating separate yield infrastructure. Concretely, this means:
Scope: Access to 2,800+ yield opportunities across 80+ blockchain networks, spanning staking, lending, and liquidity provision strategies, through a single API integration point within the existing Dfns stack. No per-protocol work: Yield.xyz abstracts the complexity of individual protocol integrations. Institutions will not need to build separate connectors for each staking provider, lending market, or liquidity pool. One integration covers the full breadth of yield strategies Yield.xyz supports. Revenue generation: Fee-customizable vaults will allow institutions to set their own fee structures on top of underlying yield, creating a direct revenue stream from earn products offered to their clients. Operational automation: Built-in auto-compounding, reward conversion, and secure transaction verification, capabilities that would otherwise require dedicated engineering effort to build and maintain. Self-custodial architecture: Yield.xyz constructs complete transaction flows but leaves execution and signing entirely within the institution's Dfns-powered infrastructure. Assets remain under the institution's control throughout the yield lifecycle. No third-party custody handoff. The yield layer will sit alongside Dfns's existing wallet, transaction, and policy infrastructure - not as a bolted-on integration or Widget, but as a native capability within the platform.
"Dfns is one the best wallet infrastructure providers that many serious fintechs and financial institutions trust to run their digital asset operations. Building yield directly into that infrastructure layer is the right way to scale onchain yield for the institutional market. Any company on Dfns will be able to access thousands of yield opportunities across dozens of networks through a single API call. That is what yield infrastructure at institutional scale looks like and it's exactly the kind of partnership we built Yield.xyz to power," - Serafin Lion Engel, co-founder of Yield.xyz
"Yield is one of the most in-demand capabilities among the institutions we work with, and until now, accessing it required significant infrastructure investment. Yield.xyz has built exactly what we needed: a production-grade yield engine that integrates safely into our stack and gives our clients a direct path to offering competitive earn products. This partnership will close that gap for our clients without requiring them to build or integrate separately. This is a natural extension of what Dfns is built to do, handle the technical complexity so our clients can focus on financial services." - Clarisse Hagege, CEO Dfns
The problem: yield remains the missing layer in institutional wallet infrastructure
Institutions building digital asset platforms face a structural gap. Wallet infrastructure has matured. Transaction orchestration, policy enforcement, and key management are solved problems for organizations running on modern custody stacks. But the moment an institution wants to offer its clients access to onchain yield (staking, lending, liquidity provision) the infrastructure picture fragments.
Each yield strategy requires separate protocol integrations. Each blockchain network demands its own transaction construction logic. Reward collection, compounding, and conversion require additional tooling. Risk assessment, fee structures, and compliance considerations vary across every combination of protocol, asset, and network. For a bank or fintech looking to launch an earn product, the engineering cost is measured in months and dedicated teams, before a single dollar earns a basis point.
The result: yield has been accessible to native DeFi participants and retail wallets, but largely out of reach for institutions. Not because the opportunity is small (onchain yield represents one of the most compelling use cases for digital asset platforms) but because the infrastructure to access it safely at scale has not existed in a form institutions can adopt.
Why this matters for the institutional market
The digital asset industry has spent years building the foundational layers: secure key management, compliant transaction processing, regulatory frameworks. What has been largely absent is a path for institutions to move from holding digital assets to putting them to productive use, without compromising on the security and governance standards they require.
Yield.xyz already powers earn products for platforms serving millions of users, processing hundreds of millions in monthly volume. Dfns provides the wallet and key infrastructure trusted by hundreds of regulated institutions globally. Combining these layers creates a path to institutional yield access that has not previously existed as integrated infrastructure.
The integration is targeted for availability in Q2 2026.
About Dfns
Dfns is the leading Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS) platform that helps fintechs and institutions manage digital asset operations and build applications onchain. Its programmable wallet platform brings together transaction management, workflow governance, key orchestration, and third-party integrations into one secure operating system for blockchains, enabling custody, payments, trading, tokenization, and banking. Dfns powers IBM's Digital Asset Haven and is trusted by over 400 financial institutions and applications, including Kraken, Broadridge, Fidelity, FAB, Zodia Custody, Stripe, Moonpay, Circle, Apex, Susquehanna, and more.
About Yield.xyz
Yield.xyz is the unified onchain yield infrastructure layer for Web3, enabling developers to integrate once and access 2,800+ yield opportunities across 80+ networks spanning staking, lending, and liquidity provision strategies. Trusted by leading wallets and financial platforms including Ledger, DeBlock, Utila, Tangem, and Zerion, Yield.xyz powers production-grade yield products with built-in support for auto-compounding, reward conversion, and secure transaction verification. Yield.xyz abstracts complex strategy engineering into simple API calls and enables teams to launch scalable yield products with minimal overhead while unlocking new revenue streams through fee-customizable vaults.
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