What is Upshift?

Teams use Upshift to turn digital assets, such as stablecoins, into financial products, and the platform works as the operating system for institutional onchain asset management.

Upshift lets teams design and launch vaults on 30+ chains with any DeFi or CeFi strategy. Upshift has reached $550M+ in peak TVL across 50+ vaults, with 66,000+ users and 11 smart contract audits by 6 independent firms. The vaults sit on a proprietary prime stack. That stack gives them access to an institutional LP network with $1B+ in capital, multi-oracle NAV validation and a policy engine that keeps funds on allowlisted chains and protocols.

Broadly, Upshift enables:

• Custom Earn vaults - Teams ranging from crypto neobanks to institutional credit issuers can use Upshift to design yield strategies on and off chain e.g. lending, basis trade, RWAs. Upshift vaults can deploy simultaneously to multiple protocols, meaning developers can build vaults customised to their users' risk profile.

• Custom financial products - Beyond Earn, teams can use Upshift vaults to build solutions for card settlement financing and instant redemption facilities for RWAs. Vaults are infrastructure for accessing the benefits of crypto and DeFi.

• Drop-in SDK integration - The Upshift SDK makes it simple to white-label any existing Upshift vault on third-party frontends. Functionality includes deposit/withdrawal, alongside metadata such as historical performance and total assets deposited.

Keep reading

• What is an onchain vault: what a vault is, who holds the assets, and how money moves in and out.
• The DeFi yield strategies onchain vaults run: the strategy shapes, the risk in each, and measured returns.
• Why every financial product will run on vaults: the case for the vault as the wrapper products ship inside.