Decentralised Finance: Mapping Yield, Risk, and Institutional Participation
As institutional capital moves into decentralised finance, the frameworks for evaluating it are still catching up. In our latest report, created in collaboration with Re7 Capital, we apply a traditional finance lens to DeFi's return sources and risk structure - and examine the custody and infrastructure requirements for institutional participation.
Zodia contributes the custody and infrastructure expertise while Re7 brings asset management and yield strategy perspective. For more details on Re7, please reach out to [email protected].
What you’ll take away
Discover
where DeFi returns originate, from lending and trading activity through to staking, incentives and tokenised real-world assets
Understand
how regulatory frameworks across the EU, UAE and UK are establishing the basis for institutional digital asset activity
Explore
a structured risk framework covering default, liquidity, market and counterparty risk, alongside smart contract, governance and stablecoin risk
Learn
why custody extends across the full transaction lifecycle when assets are actively deployed into protocols, functioning as an active control layer rather than a vault
Gain
a view of the infrastructure that allows institutions to extend existing operating models into DeFi rather than build parallel ones
“DeFi has matured past the point where institutional interest requires justification. The yield opportunities are real. The asset class is diversifying. Regulatory frameworks are taking shape. And the infrastructure required to support regulated participation is being built by firms who understand what institutional capital needs.”
