Report – Decentralised Finance: Mapping Yield, Risk, and Institutional Participation
Our latest report, created in collaboration with Re7 Capital, applies a traditional finance lens to DeFi - examining the return sources, risk structure, and infrastructure requirements for greater institutional participation.
Our latest report, created in collaboration with Re7 Capital, examines decentralised finance through a traditional finance lens. As digital asset frameworks mature across the EU, UAE and UK and tokenised real-world assets draw fixed income functions on-chain, we explore how DeFi’s return sources and risks map onto frameworks institutions already use, and what infrastructure is needed to support secure, compliant participation.
Discover:
- The five sources of DeFi yield and how they differ in durability
- A structured risk framework covering financial, smart contract, structural and stablecoin risk
- How regulatory frameworks across the EU, UAE and UK are shaping institutional participation
- The role of custody as an active control layer across the full on-chain transaction lifecycle
- Why DeFi’s market structure now mirrors traditional finance, and the infrastructure institutions need to enable participation
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