Dfns

Dfns provides a core banking platform for digital assets that enables banks, fintechs, and businesses to run financial operations and build products on-chain. The platform secures over $100 billion in client assets and processes over $10 billion in monthly transaction volume across 400+ fintech and institutional clients, with approximately 1% of the global stablecoin payments industry settling through Dfns infrastructure. The platform comprises eight core modules: Wallet-as-a-Service for creating, indexing, and managing wallets across 100+ blockchains; Transaction Management for formatting, approving, decoding, simulating, signing, broadcasting, and tracking transactions at scale; Treasury Management for managing on-chain treasury across entities, currencies, and networks; Tokenization Engine for issuing and servicing tokenized assets across their full lifecycle; Workflows for setting up operations across execution, settlement, compliance, and reporting; Policy Engine for enforcing rules before every signature including limits, whitelists, quorums, and roles; Governance Engine for cryptographically verifying every intent, policy, and signature; and Key Management supporting MPC, HSMs, TEEs, and BYOK models. Dfns supports SaaS, hybrid, and on-premises deployments with HSM and TEE options from Thales, IBM, AWS Nitro, and Intel FDX. The platform is SOC 2 Type I and II, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018 certified, with zero security breaches and zero client key losses, 24/7 security operations, quarterly audits by Halborn, IBM, and Kudelski, and $15M insurance coverage underwritten by Beazley and Munich Re. IBM selected Dfns as the core technology for IBM Digital Asset Haven, and customers include Stripe, Apex Group, Zodia Custody, and Keyrails. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Paris, France, Dfns has raised approximately $29.6 million in Series A funding from investors including White Star Capital, Hashed, SIG, ABN AMRO, Coinbase, Motive Partners, Bpifrance, and Further Ventures.