TREE NEWS reports: Deposits in cryptocurrency “vaults” have grown from $4 billion at the start of last year to more than $10 billion, with fintech firms, digital-asset treasury managers and hedge funds as the main depositors. The vaults run on smart contracts on DeFi platforms, each overseen by a manager who selects lending strategies, sets risk limits and charges fees. Yields typically range from 3% to 10%, with riskier strategies reaching 20% or more, exposing depositors to collateral, liquidity and smart-contract risks.
Crypto vault deposits top $10B, up from $4B in early 2024
AI take
The growth in vault deposits signals that professional capital — fintechs, treasury managers and hedge funds — is increasingly comfortable with delegated on-chain credit strategies, not just passive DeFi exposure. That matters because vault managers now sit between depositors and lending markets, concentrating strategy and risk-limit decisions in a few hands. The wide yield spread, from 3% to over 20%, suggests depositors are being sorted by risk appetite rather than a single market clearing rate. Whether the manager layer improves risk discipline or simply concentrates it is the open question worth watching.
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