DFNS

DFNS has presented 1 V-Sum technical briefing. Clarisse (co-founder, CEO) and Josh (product) of Dfns introduce Dfns — a developer-first wallet-as-a-service platform that separates the security of the private key from the governance of the assets. Dfns operates a decentralized MPC signer network in secure enclaves so private keys never materialize in memory or on disk — no single point of failure like seed-phrase or multi-sig-HSM setups. The API is chain-agnostic (25 blockchains, 9,000 tokens, new chains in ~3 weeks, new tokens in ~half a day) and built to scale to millions of segregated wallets per customer. A customer demo with Nilos (treasury management) shows how a user signs in and gets a fully functioning EVM wallet in seconds via createAssetAccount (distributed key generation) and initiatePayment, with every transaction subject to Dfns's programmable, API-first policy engine — including 2-of-3-style approvals defined in code rather than in a vendor UI. Pricing is unusual for the custody space: Dfns charges per wallet, per authorized signer, and per policy-engine access — never on AUM or AUC.

Topics: Wallets, Custody, Developer Tools