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DFNS is a core banking platform for digital assets. It gives banks, fintechs, and enterprises the infrastructure to run financial operations and build products onchain, provisioning wallets, securing keys, governing transactions, and servicing tokenized assets across blockchains, the way a traditional core banking system underpins accounts, payments, and ledgers in conventional finance. The platform addresses a structural gap. The core systems financial institutions run today were not built for assets that settle in seconds, on public networks, with cryptographic ownership. Rather than replacing an organization's existing core banking system, hardware security modules, or compliance stack, DFNS provides the layer that lets those systems operate onchain. It is delivered as composable modules through one REST API and SDKs, so an organization can adopt a single capability or the full platform, and it connects to more than 100 blockchains and third party services through a single integration surface. Over 400 institutional and fintech clients run on DFNS, including Standard Chartered, First Abu Dhabi Bank, IBM, Stripe, Circle, Kraken, and Apex Group. Roughly 1% of all global stablecoin payment volume settles through the platform. DFNS is used across digital asset custody, banking, embedded wallets, stablecoin payments, trading operations, tokenization, and treasury and asset management. The platform is organized into modules, including: 1. Wallet-as-a-Service — create, index, and manage wallets across 100+ blockchains and third party services, as one account layer for custody, payments, trading, treasury, and tokenization. 2. Transaction Management — format, approve, decode, simulate, sign, broadcast, and track transactions at scale, built for high volume flows and complex approval logic. 3. Treasury Management and Tokenization Engine — manage onchain treasury across entities, currencies, and networks, and issue and service tokenized assets across their full lifecycle. 4. Policy Engine and Governance Engine — enforce limits, allowlists, quorums, roles, and ABI aware approvals before every signature, and cryptographically verify every intent, policy, and signature against a state the customer controls, deployed within their own perimeter. 5. Key Management — run keys across MPC, HSM, TEE, or BYOK models, with production grade protocols built for resilience, scale, and no single point of failure. A defining characteristic is that authentication and transaction signing are handled as separate functions, and policies are evaluated before any signature is produced, giving organizations programmable control over who can move which assets, under what conditions. Keys are operated so that a complete private key is never assembled in one place. DFNS can be deployed as managed SaaS, hybrid, or fully on premises. The deployment model changes while the modules and controls stay the same, allowing key material and infrastructure to be placed according to regulatory and operational requirements. It integrates with existing systems including core banking platforms, custody and compliance tooling, and payment rails, and organizations typically adopt it to add digital asset capabilities to existing products, to meet requirements under frameworks such as MiCAR and DORA, or to consolidate wallet, transaction, governance, and settlement operations onto one platform.

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