Introducing the D3 Vault

The D3 USD Vault allows users to access Sentora’s high-performing stablecoin strategies directly within the D3 platform. Users can seamlessly manage deposits, monitor positions, and execute withdrawals through D3’s intuitive interface without needing third-party applications.

Powered by Upshift’s infrastructure, the vault automatically executes Sentora’s optimized stablecoin strategies. Capital is dynamically diversified across top lending markets and yield sources within a unified risk framework. Pre-set rules for position sizing, venue selection, and exit triggers ensure allocations rebalance automatically as rates and liquidity shift, maximizing yield effortlessly.

Maximize Your Yield & Earn Rewards

Depositors capture competitive yields from underlying stablecoin strategies, along with extra upside from D3 points programs such as Frontier.

How Frontier Works

Opportunities to launch new top-level domains are rare, with the previous round occurring back in 2012, prior to the launch of Ethereum and most of the crypto ecosystem.

A new round is currently underway, and Frontier enables anyone to secure priority access to upcoming domain extensions like .agent, .crypto, .wallet, .sol, .robot, and .hype without needing industry insider status.

Participation follows three straightforward steps:

1. Deposit. Deposit eligible assets with supported vault providers.

2. Earn. Earn Frontier Points to use towards supported top-level domains.

3. Claim. Commit Frontier Points to establish priority for names from participating registries before General Registration.*

To get started, visit the official D3 Vault.

For more information, please read the Frontier Terms.

The Framework Behind the Vault

The vault is backed by Sentora’s proven Earn engine, an institutional-grade risk framework that has safely deployed over $2 billion in digital asset markets. This same infrastructure powers on-chain yield programs for industry leaders like Kraken and Deel.

Final Considerations

The vault holds on-chain positions and carries the risks of the protocols it allocates into, including smart contract risk, market risk and liquidity risk at the point of withdrawal. Published APYs look backward over a trailing 30-day window and do not predict future returns. Withdrawal timing depends on the liquidity of the underlying strategies. D3 rewards and points are set and funded by D3.

Full vault details, including redemption terms and current allocations, are on the vault page.

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The update has two parts:

1. Embedded Wallet Widgets: a low-code way to bring Smart Yield into any crypto or fintech app.
2. Hypernative integration: continuous toxicity and compliance screening across Smart Yield Vaults.

Why we built this

Earn programs have become one of the most effective ways for financial apps to attract and keep users. Kraken’s earn program, for example, grew to nearly $1 billion in 10 months. As stablecoin adoption grows, more users hold digital dollars in their wallets and expect those balances to earn.

For most teams, though, building an earn program in-house can be very demanding. It requires smart contract integrations, ongoing strategy management, risk monitoring, compliance oversight and dedicated engineering time. As a result, many apps offer no yield at all, or they send users to third-party platforms and lose both the deposits and the customer relationship.

This update addresses both sides of that problem: how hard it is to integrate yield, and how much confidence a business can have in what it is offering.

Update 1: Embedded Wallets Smart Yield Widgets

Smart Yield Widgets let any app offer an earn product without building one. Each widget gives users a ready-made interface to view their balance, deposit, track their earnings, withdraw and claim settled withdrawals. You can style the widget to match your app and brand.

We run the vault side behind the widget. Sentora designs and curates the strategies, monitors every position block by block through Sentora Risk Radar, rebalances automatically as conditions change, and manages the onchain mechanics of each vault. The integration is non-custodial: users sign every transaction with their own wallet, and deposits go directly to the vault smart contract.

This feature enables anyone to easily integrate Sentora vaults running on platforms such as Morpho, Upshift or Veda.

Powered by Smart Yield Vaults, including Protected Vaults

Every widget connects to a Sentora Smart Yield Vault. Our vaults run strategies across lending, liquidity, staking and tokenized asset markets, managed on the same risk framework behind more than $2 billion in deployed capital. Each vault is transparent onchain, and live APY, TVL and position data appear directly in the widget.

The widgets also support Sentora Protected Vaults from launch. These add onchain cover through Firelight against a defined set of risks, including smart contract exploits. Protected Vaults integrate like any other Smart Yield Vault, using the same SDK and widget with no additional setup.

Integrate in three steps

1. Install the Sentora SDK.
2. Add the vault module. Each vault comes with its own preconfigured module covering positions, APY and TVL.
3. Drop in the widget. It handles deposits, withdrawals and claims out of the box, and you can style it to match your app.

Every vault on vaults.sentora.com has its own integration guide, with ready-to-copy code for different wallet providers and frameworks and a live StackBlitz example. Simply navigate to the vault you want to integrate and follow the instructions under “integrate”. Full developer documentation is available on Gitbook: https://resources.vaults.sentora.com/vault-integration-guide/overview

Update 2: Toxicity and compliance screening with Hypernative

We’ve integrated Hypernative’s real-time threat intelligence natively into Smart Yield Vaults. Hypernative continuously scans supported vaults and its underlying positions for exposure to toxic or illicit funds, sanctioned addresses and other compliance risks.

This screening works alongside Sentora Risk Radar, so our vault monitoring now covers compliance as well as market and protocol risk. For regulated and risk-conscious businesses, this means clearer visibility into the integrity of the capital their users earn on, and an easier path to meeting internal and regulatory expectations.

Who it’s for

• Wallets and consumer crypto apps that want to give users more to do with their balances
• Fintechs and neobanks adding digital asset features alongside traditional products
• Payment and stablecoin platforms that want to put idle balances to work
• Exchanges and brokers that want an earn offering without building it in-house
• Regulated and risk-conscious businesses that need yield with onchain cover and compliance screening built in

Get started

Smart Yield Widgets and Hypernative screening are live today across Smart Yield Vaults.

• Explore the vaults and integration guides: vaults.sentora.com
• Talk to our team: sentora.com/contact

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Uphold has launched Uphold RLUSD Earn, with Sentora providing the strategy and risk management behind it, and Upshift providing the vault infrastructure. Clients allocate from within the Uphold interface, and the vault puts those dollar balances to work in onchain credit markets, starting with Morpho.

The vault is the first in a series of products Sentora is building with Uphold and Upshift.

Idle dollars are the most common position in crypto

Stablecoins are the unit of account for most onchain activity, and a large share of the supply sits in exchange and wallet balances where it earns nothing for the holder.

The yield those dollars could earn has not disappeared. It is captured further up the chain, by the issuer on reserve assets or by the platform on customer balances, on terms the holder does not see. Where an earn product is offered, the client rarely has visibility into where the funds are lent, against what collateral, or at what utilization.

Onchain credit markets change that. Lending positions, collateral and utilization are public, and a vault share can be checked against the underlying markets at any time. Uphold RLUSD Earn brings that model to Uphold clients without asking them to leave the app, manage a wallet or select markets themselves.

How the vault works

1. Allocate. The client allocates RLUSD from their Uphold account. Access is gated behind Uphold’s existing KYC and AML onboarding, and the deposit is made through Uphold’s embedded wallet.

2. Deposit. Behind the scenes, the RLUSD is deposited into an Upshift vault contract on Ethereum, and the client wallet receives upUSD, a receipt token representing their share of the vault.

3. Deploy. The vault’s strategy allocates the RLUSD into whitelisted lending markets. At launch the vault allocates to Morpho RLUSD markets, and additional strategies can only be added once approved through the vault’s multisig.

4. Accrue. Yield is automatically compounded so users passively receive more RLUSD on a daily basis. Interest paid by borrowers accrues in the upUSD share price. A client who allocates RLUSD holds more RLUSD over time.

For redemptions, clients simply redeem from their Uphold account. This redeems upUSD, the vault releases RLUSD, and the balance returns to the client’s Uphold account, typically within minutes.

The vault contract is public, so the vault’s holdings and allocations can be verified at any point rather than taken from a monthly statement.

Where the risk sits and how it is mitigated

Lending stablecoins into onchain markets carries a different risk profile from holding them, and the vault is built around that difference. Sentora sets exposure limits in advance and monitors collateral, liquidity and market conditions across every venue the vault uses.

The main risks Sentora’s risk framework aims to mitigate include:

• Credit and collateral risk. Vault deposits are lent to borrowers who post collateral. Sentora selects markets based on collateral quality, loan-to-value limits and liquidation parameters.
• Liquidity risk. Redemptions depend on available liquidity in the underlying markets. High utilization can delay withdrawals, and Sentora manages allocations to keep redemption capacity available.
• Smart contract and third-party protocol risk. The vault and the lending venues it uses carry smart contract risk. Neither Sentora, Uphold nor Upshift controls third-party protocols.
• Stablecoin risk. Deposits and returns are denominated in RLUSD and depend on RLUSD maintaining its peg.

Compliance and security controls run at deposit, during participation and at withdrawal:

• Elliptic screens every wallet address against sanctions lists, including OFAC, EU, UN and HM Treasury, and blocks addresses with exposure to darknet markets, mixers or ransomware, with ongoing re-screening.
• Hypernative monitors the vault contracts around the clock for exploits, oracle manipulation, unusual deposit patterns and unexpected parameter changes, and can pause transactions before settlement.
• Deposit caps apply per deposit during the initial phase to limit concentration, and incident response procedures allow vault activity to be frozen within minutes across Sentora, Upshift and Uphold.

Curation means sizing those exposures, monitoring them continuously, and defining in advance the conditions under which a position is reduced. It is the same framework behind the vaults Sentora curates for Kraken DeFi Earn, now applied to Uphold’s client base.

For more information, visit Uphold. Terms and conditions apply.

About Sentora

Sentora is the platform fintechs, neobanks, and exchanges use to build onchain products, providing the infrastructure to make every app earn. Its solutions combine onchain yield strategies, risk management, protection, and distribution in one platform, powering solutions from embedded earn features to stablecoin and tokenized asset growth programs. Sentora’s solutions deploy billions in capital across leading onchain venues, supporting enterprise clients, asset managers and protocols with the infrastructure and expertise to manage it at scale. It curates the vaults behind Kraken’s DeFi Earn program and Uphold’s USD Vault, and its strategies support platforms including PayPal, EtherFi, Ripple and Aave.

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Open USD: A New Stablecoin Standard

Open USD (OUSD) launched on September 30, 2026, across Ethereum, Base, Solana, and Tempo. Introduced by Open Standard, the token is issued through Bridge, Stripe’s stablecoin infrastructure company. Reserves are held with BlackRock, Lead Bank, and BNY, with public reserve attestations.

OUSD is unique because it shares reserve income with participating businesses based on their volume and circulation. Open Standard also plans to distribute most of its equity to partners over time. Founding partners (including Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe, and Visa) have committed over $1 billion in OUSD liquidity, joining a network of more than 200 companies.

Tempo has supported OUSD natively since launch, which fits the network’s focus on enterprise stablecoin flows and onchain payments. Chainlink supplies OUSD price feeds, which are essential for lending markets to value collateral and trigger liquidations.

Lending Infrastructure for OUSD on Tempo

With growing OUSD balances on Tempo, holders require a transparent mechanism to earn yield.

The OUSD vault represents the second deployment under Sentora’s partnership with Tempo, following the pathUSD vault launched in May. It applies the same core model: curated vault infrastructure paired with active risk management on Morpho’s open credit network.

The OUSD Vault

Users deposit OUSD into the vault. The vault lends that capital into an underlying Morpho Blue market, where borrowers post cbBTC as collateral.

Because the market is fully isolated, risk remains tightly contained rather than spreading across other collateral types or lending pools. Sentora curates the vault and directly sets its deployment parameters to ensure optimal stability.

The market launches with conservative risk parameters:

• Loan asset: OUSD
• Collateral: cbBTC
• LLTV: 86%
• Oracles: Chainlink and RedStone

Risk Mitigation

Sentora curates vaults using a risk framework with seven categories: technical, concentration, liquidity, interest rate, duration, leverage and correlation risk.

Every deployment is assessed against these categories before capital goes in. After that, it is monitored continuously through Risk Radar, Sentora’s in-house risk management system.

You can access the vault here:

Morpho Vaults | Sentora OUSD Main

Considerations

The vault holds onchain positions and carries the risks of the protocols and assets involved, including smart contract risk, market risk, oracle risk and liquidity risk at the point of withdrawal.

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With Fordefi’s integration of Sentora’s Smart Vaults, clients gain access to automated DeFi strategies designed for institutional needs. This overview breaks down how Sentora Smart Vaults work, exploring their core design, execution strategies, and robust risk controls to help institutions deploy capital with confidence.

This is increasingly important because two vaults offering similar yields can differ significantly in their mandates, collateral, venues, leverage limits, and behavior during market shifts. Yield is defined by these operational boundaries, and documenting them ensures these yields are meaningful and comparable across products.

About Smart Vaults

Sentora’s Smart Vaults build on traditional DeFi vaults by adding an active strategy layer. They construct and manage structured positions that involve collateralizing, borrowing, and redeploying capital across multiple venues. Capital flows as follows:

1. Users deposit an accepted asset into the vault contract.
2. The vault allocates those assets as collateral or liquidity in an approved protocol.
3. Depending on the strategy, the vault borrows against that collateral or deploys funds into additional markets.
4. The position is monitored and periodically rebalanced to maintain target risk parameters such as health factor and leverage ratio.
5. Unwind logic is defined in advance rather than determined during an event.
6. The additional layer buys capital efficiency and introduces multi protocol dependency: a requirement for active position monitoring and for clearly defined exit behavior.

Sentora does not hold or control user funds, does not exercise discretion over them, and can only move capital between protocols that have already passed the approval process described below.

The Approved Strategy Set

Four strategy types are approved across the Smart Vault range. Every position a vault holds is an instance of one of them.

Lending

The vault supplies assets into a money market where borrowers draw liquidity against posted collateral, and borrower interest is passed through to suppliers. This is the cleanest way to generate base yield on a highly liquid asset because it requires no directional view or complex position construction.

Returns depend on utilization, borrow demand, the design of the interest rate curve, and any protocol incentive program that is active.

DEX Liquidity Provision

The vault supplies assets to decentralized exchange pools and earns a share of trading fees. Impermanent loss, pool composition, and imbalance dynamics are monitored as primary risk factors rather than as secondary considerations.

Supervised Loans

Supervised lending is designed for blue chip assets that have limited native yield in DeFi, such as WBTC. The strategy uses an asset as collateral to borrow a different, more productive asset, which is then deployed elsewhere. The structure has two legs.

• In the primary leg (S1), the vault deposits the blue chip asset as collateral in a lending protocol such as Aave, Morpho, or Euler, and borrows another asset against it, typically ETH or a stablecoin. The collateral may earn a small amount of yield, but the objective of S1 is to create borrowing capacity.
• In the secondary leg (S2), the borrowed asset is deployed into a higher yield strategy such as a lending market, a liquidity pool, or another approved DeFi strategy.

The structure is profitable only while the yield generated in S2 exceeds the borrowing cost incurred in S1, which makes the spread between the two legs a monitored variable rather than an assumption.

Leveraged Loops

Leveraged loop strategies use a yield-bearing asset as collateral to borrow a correlated base asset against it and reinvest the borrowed asset back into the same yield source.

For example, the strategy can supply wstETH to a lending protocol, borrow WETH against it, swap the borrowed WETH into additional wstETH, supply that as collateral again, and repeat until the target leverage ratio is reached. The same structure applies to stablecoin yield assets such as sUSDe, syrupUSDC or Pendle PTs looped against USDC or USDT.

The result is larger exposure to the underlying yield while maintaining a position in the same asset. Correlation between the collateral and the borrowed asset is itself a risk control, since pairing uncorrelated assets is a common source of sudden drawdowns.

Sentora’s use of leverage is cautious and differs from the leverage typically seen in exchange margin trading. Leverage is strictly managed within defined loan-to-value and health factor boundaries, with conservative leverage levels determined directly by our risk framework.

Risk Infrastructure: From Diligence to Live Controls

Most risk disclosures for vaults focus on initial due diligence conducted before a protocol or asset is approved.

Sentora treats risk management as a continuous control process. Protocol parameters, collateral mixes, oracle routes, and market liquidity can change rapidly, so initial approval is just the first step. This is possible through an end-to-end operational framework, real-time monitoring and strict controls that continuously safeguard active positions against evolving risks. The process involves:

1. Diligence. A DDQ review of blockchains, protocols, and assets defines the approved universe.
2. Policy. The risk framework establishes acceptable exposure for Sentora Vaults, Smart Yield clients, and Protocol Vaults.
3. Controls. Policy is codified into allowlists, LLTV settings, borrow caps, leverage limits, and health factor thresholds.
4. Monitoring. The Sentora Risk Application tests those controls against live exposure, parameters, oracles, liquidity, and data health.
5. Escalation. Alerts move into acknowledgement, incident reporting, and Risk Committee review.

Stage One: Diligence Defines What Is Eligible

Before a blockchain, protocol, or asset can support deployment, the Research team prepares an overview covering protocol category, key metrics, capital flow, participant roles, market structure, smart contract architecture, audit history, technical risks, and an initial risk rating. The Risk team converts that into a formal DDQ dossier recording the protocol, token, chain, counterparty context, review scope, decision state, and review timing.

The workflow is evidence-driven and versioned. Dossiers undergo numbered review cycles covering initial assessments, follow-ups, material changes, and re-reviews. Each question maintains a clear status trail, from draft and open to sent, answered, needing follow-up, and closed. This ensures that all questions, answers, supporting evidence, and resulting decisions remain fully auditable after the fact.

Stage Two and Three: Policy Becomes Executable

The framework translates DDQ decisions into controls a system can enforce: allowlists and blocklists, client restrictions, protocol vault directory entries, LLTV settings, maximum borrow caps, collateral tiers, cap utilization thresholds, oracle deviation thresholds, leverage limits, exit maturity limits, and health factor thresholds.

Parameter authority varies by venue: on Aave and Kamino, governance controls core settings (such as caps, liquidation parameters, and oracles), requiring Sentora to monitor settings, evaluate proposals, and engage protocol teams. On Euler and Morpho, curators control these parameters directly, allowing Sentora to establish and govern them. Identical exposures carry distinct control dynamics depending on the venue.

LLTV and maximum borrow cap models sit at the intersection of research, policy, and live risk control. Research designs these models against liquidation buffers, debt capacity, collateral behavior, liquidity depth, and market stress conditions. The Risk team vets the model logic, assumptions, and outputs before a version becomes part of the production control framework.

Stage Four: Controls Tested Against Current Data

Scheduled jobs run daily across position analysis, TVL checks, collateral snapshots, protocol data, client restrictions, and external vault dashboards. Collateral monitoring covers Morpho, Euler, and Kamino, tracking collateral composition, risk tiers, supply caps, and maximum borrow caps, and flagging reserves at the 80 percent, 90 percent, and 100 percent cap utilization bands. This converts a policy limit into a visible risk state before liquidation or exit conditions become disorderly.

Protocol vault monitoring compares current parameters against previous ones and highlights changes in supply caps, borrow caps, oracle fields, LLTV, collateral lists, liquidity, and allocation.

Underneath the monitoring layers sits Risk Radar, Sentora’s proprietary risk analytics platform, which computes economic risk signals block by block across more than 40 protocols.

• At protocol level, it measures solvency and structural stability through health factor distribution, bad debt, liquidation activity, reserve metrics, and peg deviation.
• At vault level, it tracks utilization, collateral composition, and loans at risk of liquidation.
• At market level, it monitors DEX liquidity depth, exit cost, net liquidity flows, whale concentration, and volatility distribution.

Stage Five: Detection Becomes Documented Action

Severity levels determine the response path, which is defined before an event:

Where a protocol or asset issuer is involved, the first step is direct contact through established channels to verify the facts before acting. Larger incidents run through PagerDuty into a coordinated response across risk, research, engineering, operations, and client facing teams. Daily reports link current observations to prior observations, so the change in exposure between T-0 and T-1 is recorded rather than reconstructed.

Weekly checkpoints focus on trend analysis, while monthly reviews examine client accounts, mandate compliance, strategy performance, and any variance. The framework itself undergoes a complete review annually or whenever major market shifts occur.

Together, these steps create an end-to-end audit trail, linking the initial diligence behind every decision to the governing policy, enforcing controls, ongoing monitoring, and ultimate resolution. This traceable process is what makes our strategy curation defensible, proving both sound decision-making and operational discipline.

Three Layers of Defense at The Position Level

While the workflow above operates at the platform level, defense in depth applies the same rigors directly to individual positions.

Research and due diligence, before deployment. Every capital allocation requires a formal review. Technical evaluation focuses on audit histories, codebase provenance, and bug bounties. Economic assessment addresses bad debt, de-peg scenarios, revenue sustainability, liquidation mechanics, and oracle dependencies. Counterparty and operational checks examine team backgrounds, multisig configurations, and admin key management to uncover centralization vectors not documented by the protocol itself.

Automated on chain triggers, in real time. On-chain bots execute the control logic where execution has to be immediate. Positions rebalance to maintain target leverage ratios as markets move, which protects the health factor of a position proactively rather than reactively. If on-chain signals such as sharp changes in liquidity, slippage, or utilization breach safety thresholds, the system can unwind a position within the same block. Deleveraging is designed to occur before a health factor reaches a critical level, so that forced liquidation is prevented rather than survived.

Continuous off-chain quantitative monitoring. Active oversight tracks metrics across six risk categories: concentration, liquidity, interest rate, duration, leverage, and correlation. Key metrics include interest rate sensitivity, exit maturity (a stress test estimating the worst-case timeframe to unwind a position), whale concentration, and available pool liquidity to ensure exits occur without significant price impact. On-chain bots handle immediate, single-block execution, while off-chain analytics handle complex evaluations requiring judgment. The Risk Application governs both, connecting automated execution to the approved policy framework to maintain a unified control narrative.

Return of Capital Before Return on Capital

DeFi offers real yield opportunities alongside a set of risks that traditional frameworks are often ill equipped to handle. That gap is closed by treating risk policy as an operating control system that can approve exposure, constrain deployment, monitor current state, identify breaches, and preserve the record of the response.

That is the system described here, and the Sentora Vaults on Fordefi are examples of vaults that utlize this framework.

Sentora is not a financial institution, investment adviser, asset manager, broker-dealer, or custodian. Sentora does not manage assets, exercise discretion, or hold or control user funds. Sentora provides non-custodial technology, analytics, and strategy-curation services that enable access to third-party, on-chain protocols. All vault activity is executed via smart contracts, and participation involves material risks inherent to decentralized finance. Users are solely responsible for evaluating such risks and any resulting losses.

Originally published at https://sentora.com on October 8, 2026.

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We are excited to announce that Uniswap v4 is now live on Sentora’s DeFi Risk Radar, with risk insights surfaced directly in our Smart Yield Vault interface.

Risk Radar now supports Uniswap v4, using the same indicators already available for v3. The integration extends the existing Uniswap v3 dashboard framework to cover newer v4 pools, including dynamic-fee pools. Users can monitor pool composition, liquidity distribution, and slippage through the same interface.

The v4 integration also connects directly to Sentora’s vault interface. Any vault with exposure to Uniswap v4 pools now surfaces risk insights specific to that vault’s positions, rather than requiring users to cross-reference a separate protocol dashboard.

Comprehensive Risk Indicators, Extended to v4

The same indicators that cover liquidity dynamics, whale LP behavior, market depth, fee tier concentration, and pool distribution for Uniswap v3 are now available for v4 pools.. Existing Uniswap indicators remain unchanged.

Let’s take a look at the most important indicators.

Analyzing Liquidity Flows and Market Depth

Liquidity is the lifeblood of decentralized trading, which is why it matters to analyze liquidity events for the pools a vault is actually exposed to.

Within the interface, the Market Depth indicator shows the liquidity of a market in an order-book style visualization. This helps vault managers and depositors understand how much a vault’s position could move the market, or how exposed it is if others do.

The Historical Slippage indicator highlights the maximum trade size that can execute while staying under a specific slippage threshold. This gives a concrete basis for assessing how easily a vault’s position could be unwound.

Understanding In Range Liquidity

Concentrated liquidity means a pool’s headline TVL is not always the same as its usable liquidity. If LPs are not rebalancing near the spot price, a meaningful share of that TVL can sit out of range and unavailable to trade against.

Risk Monitoring with Risk Pulse

Uniswap v4 is also integrated into Risk Pulse, which delivers near real-time alerts on emerging risk scenarios.

From sudden shifts in concentrated liquidity to large token transfers by major LPs, Risk Pulse highlights the most critical events affecting Uniswap v4 pools. Where a vault holds exposure to an affected pool, that alert is surfaced in the vault view as well.

Review the risk profile of any vault’s Uniswap v4 exposure directly in the vault interface, or explore the full protocol dashboard here: https://defirisk.sentora.com/metrics/ethereum/uniswapv4

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Among the public Sentora Vaults, several have exposure to Maple’s SyrupUSDC, including the PYUSD vault on Kamino and the RLUSD and PYUSD vaults on Morpho. This integration includes 12 in-depth indicators, and we’ll highlight some crucial ones for SyrupUSDC to consider below.

Backing Distribution

syrupUSDC yield comes from a range of sources, including loans to institutional borrowers and providing onchain liquidity. The Backing Distribution indicator breaks that collateral into its component assets and tracks the mix over time. It provides insight into the share of capital held against OTC loans from the share deployed into DeFi strategies.

Loan Collateralization

In this case, since SyrupUSDC is partially backed by lending positions, the collateralization of the underlying loan book is an important component of its risk profile. The chart below breaks down these positions by collateral asset, showing both the value of collateral backing the loan book and the corresponding collateralization ratio. Across the asset types shown, collateralization ratios range from approximately 160% to 240%.

Market Depth and Historical Slippage

The third pair of indicators covers the exit.

syrupUSDC is used as collateral across lending markets, so its liquidity determines what happens when a position is liquidated or when users want to exit the asset. Market Depth measures the size that can be traded through AMM liquidity at a given level of price impact. Historical Slippage records what execution actually cost over time.

You can access these indicators directly through the Sentora Risk Radar here: https://defirisk.sentora.com/metrics/ethereum/maple/0x80ac24aa929eaf5013f6436cda2a7ba190f5cc0b

How This Fits Into Smart Yield

Smart Yield vaults deploy capital across strategies according to defined mandates and risk parameters. Those parameters depend on continuous visibility into the markets underneath them. Risk Radar now supplies that visibility right where users deposit.

Three public vaults currently carry exposure to syrupUSDC: the Sentora PYUSD vault on Kamino, and the Sentora PYUSD and RLUSD vaults on Morpho. In each case syrupUSDC sits as collateral in markets the vault lends into, which means the composition of Maple’s loan book and the depth of syrupUSDC’s secondary liquidity feed directly into the risk parameters.

Maple indicators can be viewed independently through our Risk Radar frontend here. Additional protocols and indicators will follow as the coverage set expands.

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Kraken has launched vaults for SPYx, QQQx and NVDAx, with Sentora providing the strategy and risk solutions behind them, built on Veda’s vault infrastructure. Clients allocate from within the Kraken and Kraken Pro interfaces, and the vaults put those holdings to work in onchain lending markets.

This is the first time tokenized equities have been used as productive collateral inside a major exchange’s allocation product. It extends the framework Sentora already built for Kraken DeFi Earn to a third asset class.

The largest idle position in most portfolios is equity

US households and nonprofits held $45.0 trillion in corporate equities at the end of Q1 2026, equal to 45.8% of their total financial assets. Equity is the largest financial asset class on the household balance sheet, and for most holders it performs a single function, which is tracking the price of the underlying.

Brokers have offered securities lending as the answer to that for decades, and the feature now appears in a growing number of retail investment apps. The economics favour the intermediary as the broker sets the terms, the revenue split is rarely disclosed, and the lender has no visibility into the borrower, the collateral, or the utilisation of their own position.

Tokenization changed where these assets can sit. xStocks put fully collateralized, 1:1 backed equity tokens on blockchain rails, where they move between centralized exchanges, self-custodied wallets and onchain applications. The xStocks vaults enable a range of new use cases for those assets once they arrive. A client keeps the equity exposure they wanted in the first place, and the same position works as collateral in a governed lending strategy they can inspect at any time.

The pool of tokenizable equity is measured in trillions, and almost none of it is currently productive. xStocks vaults transform these assets from static holdings into active, yield-bearing capital, rendering equity as dynamic as the digital markets themselves.

How the strategies work

Allocation follows the same path across all three xStocks vaults, and the yield is generated through supervised loan strategies like the ones used for the BTC Earn vault.

1. Wrap. The client’s base xStock is withdrawn from their Kraken custodial balance and converted into a non-rebasing wrapped token on Ink, Kraken’s L2.
2. Deposit. The wrapped xStock is deposited into a Veda vault contract on Ink. A self-custodial wallet is created through Privy’s infrastructure for the client in the background, unless they already hold another Kraken DeFi Earn position.
3. Deploy. Sentora’s solutions bridge the wrapped xStock to Solana and posts it as collateral in Kamino markets. The strategy borrows stablecoins against that collateral and allocates them into select onchain strategies.
4. Return. Returns are swapped back into the underlying xStock and accrue in the vault share price. A client who allocates SPYx holds more SPYx over time. This is in addition to dividend yield (where applicable)

The vaults are non-custodial, so only depositors can withdraw or transfer their funds. Because the position sits onchain, a client can verify the collateral and the borrow at any point rather than taking a monthly statement on trust.

Deallocation reverses the path. Sentora unwinds the position, the vault releases the wrapped xStock, Kraken unwraps it back to base, and the client receives base xStock in their custodial account. Withdrawal requests can be made at any time, with xStocks returned in three days.

Veda provides the vault infrastructure, which is what allows a new asset class to launch without a new integration.

Where the risk sits and how it is governed

A collateralized borrow position carries a different risk profile from holding a spot token, and the strategies are built around that difference. Sentora sets exposure limits in advance and runs live risk models across collateral, liquidity and oracle conditions.

The most important risks Sentora’s risk engine aims to mitigate include:

• Liquidation risk. The strategy borrows against xStock collateral. A sharp adverse move in collateral value leads to an automatic rebalancing where debt is repaid to avoid liquidation.
• Oracle risk. Tokenized equities trade continuously while their underlying reference market keeps exchange hours. Pricing has to handle that gap, particularly across weekends and market closures. The integration uses Chainlink, the industry standard for oracle infrastructure and cross-chain interoperability, with a track record securing tokenized assets across major institutional deployments.
• Bridge and infrastructure risk. Moving collateral between Ink and Solana creates a dependency on bridge infrastructure.
• Third-party protocol risk. Lending venues carry smart contract risk. Neither Sentora nor Kraken controls third-party protocols.

Curation means sizing those exposures, monitoring them continuously, and defining in advance the conditions under which a position is reduced. That framework is the same one behind the Kraken DeFi Earn stablecoin and Bitcoin vaults, now applied to an asset class with different liquidity and pricing behaviour.

The third asset class in under a year

Kraken DeFi Earn launched in January with risk-tiered stablecoin vaults. The partnership expanded to Bitcoin in May, reaching clients in more than 100 countries, and deposits have since passed $800 million. Tokenized equities are the third asset class, and none of these expansions required existing clients to migrate funds, sign new transactions or change how they use the product.

Veda’s architecture supports that continuity on the infrastructure side. Sentora supplies the strategies and the risk governance that sit on top of it, across stablecoins, Bitcoin and now tokenized equities.

“A Kraken Pro client holding SPYx or NVDAx already has the equity exposure. xStocks vaults let them keep that position while generating additional yield in-kind,” said Anthony DeMartino, CEO and Co-Founder of Sentora. “The strategies behind the xStocks vaults are designed to lend those assets into onchain markets such as Kamino, with exposure limits set in advance and live risk models tracking collateral, liquidity and oracle conditions. It’s the same curation approach we built for Kraken’s DeFi Earn vaults, and we’re now extending it to tokenized equities as we deepen our partnership with Kraken.”

For more information, visit https://www.kraken.com/pro/tokenized-equities/vaults

What comes next

Equities are the largest asset class retail investors hold, and the first one where the tokenized version can do more than the original. The same pattern applies to any asset a client already owns: the exposure stays, the position becomes collateral, and the strategy runs onchain where it can be checked. The utility of tokenized assets through programs such as this will not only enable unique benefits to tokenized equity holders, but unlock significant new opportunities across the industry.

About Sentora

Sentora is the platform fintechs, neobanks, and exchanges use to build onchain products, providing the infrastructure to make every app earn. Its Earn OS combines onchain yield strategies, risk management, protection, and distribution in one platform, powering solutions from embedded earn features to stablecoin and tokenized asset growth programs. Sentora’s solutions deploy billions in capital across leading onchain venues, supporting enterprise clients, asset managers and protocols with the infrastructure and expertise to manage it at scale. It curates the vaults behind Kraken’s DeFi Earn program and its strategies support platforms including PayPal, EtherFi, Ripple and Aave.

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Starting today, four Sentora Smart Yield vaults are available directly inside Fordefi through Fordefi Earn. Teams allocate from their existing Fordefi balances, without transferring capital to a separate venue.

About FordeFi Earn

Fordefi Earn is a new feature inside Fordefi that brings institutional-grade yield into the platform institutions already use to secure their assets. Yield discovery, deposits, monitoring, and withdrawals all happen inside Fordefi, protected by the same controls that govern every other transaction an organization makes.

The vaults

Each vault runs Sentora’s multi-step strategies on Upshift’s vault infrastructure. Capital is deployed across lending markets and yield sources under a single risk framework, with position sizing, venue selection, and exit conditions defined in advance. Allocations are rebalanced automatically as rates and liquidity conditions change.

Allocation stays inside your controls

Allocators initiate deposits and withdrawals from the Fordefi environment that holds the assets. Every transaction passes through the policy engine, quorums, and roles the workspace already runs, and each one is independently verified before it is signed. Approvals stay inside the structure the treasury has already defined.

Allocation therefore runs as a treasury operation, governed by the same controls as any other movement of funds:

• Deposit into a Sentora vault without moving assets to another platform.
• Track positions, rates, and activity beside the balances that fund them.
• Withdraw through the same approval path, with the same verification on every transaction.

You can learn more about Fordefi Earn here: https://medium.com/fordefi/fordefi-and-yield-xyz-bring-institutional-yield-into-the-wallet-infrastructure-1dd4b5bd0c5b

The framework behind the vaults

Sentora solutions have deployed more than $2 billion of capital across digital asset markets, and is the second largest vault curator by TVL. The same strategy and risk framework supports onchain yield programs for Kraken and Deel.

Considerations

The vaults hold onchain positions and carry the risks of the protocols they allocate into, including smart contract risk, market risk, and liquidity risk at the point of withdrawal. Published APYs are backward-looking, calculated over a trailing 30-day window, and do not indicate future returns. Withdrawal timing depends on the liquidity of the underlying strategies. Full parameters, including redemption terms and current allocations, are documented for each vault.

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Transition of Sentora’s Euler Vaults

Sentora is transferring curation of its vaults on Euler before Tuesday the 8th September 2026.

Onchain markets operate under a complex and continuously changing set of conditions. Sentora reviews its deployments on an ongoing basis, assessing protocol risk, collateral profile, liquidity depth, and how each position fits within our broader allocation strategy. As part of this ongoing process, in coordination with The Euler Foundation, Sentora’s Euler vaults will be transferred to Euler for their next phase.

The transfer covers two markets:

• Sentora RLUSD Market
• Sentora PYUSD Market

What this means for depositors

No action is required. Balances, positions, and access remain unchanged, and the vaults continue to operate as normal. Responsibility for risk parameters, collateral configuration, and strategy will sit with Euler (and/or its affiliates) from the effective date. Any future changes will be communicated by Euler.

We value Euler’s contribution to onchain lending infrastructure immensely, and we appreciate the discipline they bring to protocol design. Sentora remains committed to supporting Euler and our risk and research capabilities stay available to them.

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