The MPC wallet platform by Paxos, used by more than 350 institutions, now offers 170 curated yield options across 17 chains.
Fordefi has become core infrastructure for institutions operating onchain. More than 350 trading firms, funds, and treasury teams use its MPC wallet platform across 100+ blockchains. Fordefi clients collectively account for more than $64 billion in monthly transaction volume.
Fordefi was built around a specific institutional need: interacting with DeFi without giving up control over keys or weakening transaction governance. Its platform combines MPC self-custody with transaction context, simulation, granular policies, and approval workflows designed around how professional teams operate. Fordefi is now part of Paxos, pairing its DeFi-focused wallet infrastructure with Paxos’s regulated blockchain platform.
Fordefi has now extended that operating environment into yield. Earn, built with Yield.xyz, lets Fordefi clients discover, deposit into, monitor, and withdraw from curated yield opportunities without leaving the platform or changing how their organizations govern transactions.
From custody to yield in one operating environment
Putting assets to work has often required institutional teams to leave their custody platform, connect to outside applications, and track positions across separate interfaces. Each destination introduced another transaction path and another operating process.
Earn moves that workflow into the Fordefi console. A user selects a Fordefi vault and network, chooses an asset, and browses the opportunities and current APYs available for it. After entering an amount and reviewing estimated network fees, the user can submit the deposit through Fordefi.
“Access to institutional yield should live inside the systems firms already trust to hold and govern their assets. Yield.xyz gives Fordefi the infrastructure to bring discovery, transaction construction, and position management into its Earn product. Fordefi clients can now put capital to work without adding a new custody setup or changing how their teams approve and sign transactions,” said Serafin Lion Engel, Co-Founder and CEO at Yield.xyz.
Positions, rewards, and activity remain visible in the same interface. Users can monitor a position or construct a withdrawal without reconnecting to the underlying protocol through a separate application.
Fordefi preserves its existing role permissions throughout the process. Admins and traders can transact based on the organization’s configuration, while viewers can inspect positions without moving funds.
170 curated options across 17 chains
At launch, Earn includes 170 yield options from 25 institutional managers across 17 chains. The catalog covers vault strategies, lending, staking, liquid staking, and restaking.
Yield.xyz supplies the standardized metadata and transaction infrastructure behind the catalog. Different managers, protocols, and networks use different contracts, transaction sequences, and position lifecycles. Yield.xyz normalizes those differences so Fordefi can support them through one product flow.
Fordefi retains sole discretion over which opportunities appear in Earn. As Fordefi adds approved opportunities, its clients can reach them through the same interface and operating process.
A distribution channel for institutional yield
Fordefi already connects two important sides of the institutional yield market. Trading firms, funds, and treasury teams use the platform to allocate capital, while many of the managers behind the available strategies use Fordefi for their own onchain operations.
“Institutions should not have to choose between broader access to onchain yield and rigorous transaction controls. Through Yield.xyz, Fordefi can support staking, DeFi, and tokenized assets without building separate workflows for every protocol. Our clients can expand the opportunities available to them while keeping every transaction subject to the policies, approvals, and signing controls they already trust,” said Josh Schwartz, CEO and Co-Founder at Fordefi
Earn gives those managers distribution inside the infrastructure their allocators already use. Allocators gain a curated catalog they can fund directly from existing Fordefi vaults, while managers can reach institutional capital without asking clients to adopt another wallet environment or approval process.
Yield access under Fordefi’s existing controls
Yield.xyz and Fordefi perform separate roles in each transaction:
- Yield.xyz supplies the opportunity data required for discovery and position management.
- Yield.xyz constructs the unsigned deposit or withdrawal transaction.
- Fordefi applies the organization’s transaction policies, screening, quorums, and role permissions.
- Fordefi routes the approved transaction through its signing and execution process.
Fordefi also enriches and simulates transactions so approvers can review the expected asset changes, allowances, fees, and contract interactions before signing. Yield.xyz’s Shield verification provides an additional check against the verified template for each requested operation.
Every deposit and withdrawal remains a standard Fordefi transaction. Institutions can add yield positions without creating a separate custody setup or replacing the controls their teams already use.
Infrastructure that keeps control in place
Fordefi Earn is live today for every Fordefi organization. Existing clients can open the Earn tab in the Fordefi console to view the opportunities available for their assets.
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