DFNS alternative

Secure, govern and grow your digital asset operations from one MPC wallet platform

Fordefi is a self-custodial institutional MPC wallet and security platform used by over 300 organizations transacting $120B+ per month on-chain. Deploy more capital, know what you’re signing, safeguard on-chain funds.

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The Problem

Not all MPC wallets provide the connectivity, transaction clarity or controls that institutions need. For teams touching DeFi every day, those limitations pose critical risks.

DFNS vs Fordefi comparison

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A developer-led, API-first platform offering robust MPC/TSS fundamentals, generally suited for programmatic use cases.

API-first WaaS and SDKs make embedded wallets straightforward to build.

SaaS, hybrid, or on-prem/HSM options fit regulated, bank-grade setups. Their WEM provides granular permissions and quorum approvals out of the box.

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Our MPC wallet offers the same programmatic depth plus:

Extension-native on-chain experience

Full dApp connectivity across 90+ chains

Method-level policy with Collaborative Wallets/Admin Quorum

Operational defense/continuity.

Who we serve

Fordefi’s MPC wallet is trusted across the DeFi ecosystem

Protocols

Run secure treasury and liquidity programs across more chains.

Asset Managers

Deploy capital across chains and dApps whilst running secure portfolio operations.

Trading Firms

Securely execute trading, bridging, staking, and settlement across more chains, DEXs and CEXs.

Banks & Fintechs

Embed wallets, stablecoins, and other digital asset services into your products on our secure wallet infrastructure.

Payments

Launch multi-chain stablecoin accounts and move value globally.

Our Solution

The MPC wallet platform that provides the DeFi connectivity, transaction clarity and controls that institutions need.

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Connectivity

Access 90+ chains from one browser extension, without switching wallets

Immediately operate a multi-chain digital asset strategy without needing to stitch together different wallets and workflows.

Interact with dApps on EVM, Solana, Cosmos, Sui, Hyperliquid, Bitcoin, TON, Starknet, Stacks, and more.

Add new EVM networks through self-serve BYO EVM, bypassing engineering and shortening time to launch.

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Transaction Clarity

Safeguards funds and speed-up review cycles by seeing exactly what you're signing, before you sign

Say goodbye to the old way of signing transactions based on strings of code that you don’t understand.

Fordefi simulates full transaction context to show what will happen: the assets that move, the contract it touches, any risk warnings and the end result - in plain language.

Preview token transfers, balance changes, allowances, bridge details and estimated gas fees before execution.

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Fordefi real-time risk alerts
Transaction Clarity

Avoid exploits with real-time risk alerts on suspicious activity

Receive timely notifications of any potentially suspicious behavior, enabling you to make adjustments to your transaction in real-time.

Identify critical risks with red alerts to block irreversible, high-risk transactions.

Receive yellow warnings for moderate risks, like interacting with unknown contracts.

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Governance & Controls

Set rules on who can move funds, eliminating one admin being a single point of failure

Policy Engine - set rules (allow / block / requires approval) on every transaction, including who can approve transactions, where funds can go, and which actions (e.g. mint, burn, or role changes) are allowed.

Admin Quorum - prevent unauthorized actions (e.g. changing a policy or adding another admin) by requiring sign-off from more than one admin.

Clear low-materiality actions automatically, whilst ensuring anything above thresholds or outside defined rules routes to the right quorum.

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Fordefi policy engine
Governance & Controls

Risk management tools that mean you stay one step ahead of negative on-chain events

Pre-recorded transactions automatically trigger if a critical on-chain event occurs (e.g. hacks, depegging, market disruptions, whale activity and price changes).

Automatically revoke vulnerable smart contract allowances when an exploit is detected.

Station70 Standby Wallet - a disaster recovery solution that ensures operational continuity.

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Customer Stories

Vault Curators

How Gami Labs Curates Institutional Vaults with Fordefi's Policy Engine

A curator whose vaults often carry a partner's name beside its own, where the strategy both sides agreed on is not a promise but the rule the vault will enforce, cryptographically, on every transaction, and one that clients can verify for themselves.

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Tokenization

Why Fordefi is Theoriq's Differentiator in the RWA Race

Theoriq, a DeFi strategy curator, runs AI-assisted vault execution across its vaults inside a multi-layer validation framework, with Fordefi enforcing the final boundary at the moment of signing, and increasingly, powering the automation in between.

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Treasury Management

Why infiniFi runs its treasury on Fordefi

infiniFi set out to manage its treasury through self-custody, holding its own assets and keeping direct control rather than relying on a qualified custodian, and chose Fordefi's institutional MPC platform to run its multi-entity treasury and investor token distributions.

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Trading

How Neutral Trade Secured $48M in On-Chain Quant Strategies with Fordefi's DeFi-Native MPC Solution

A walled-garden execution environment for multi-manager quant vaults — where trading teams execute at full speed, and capital never leaves an approved path.

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Tokenisation

How Hyperwave Builds Hyperliquid-Native Strategies With Fordefi’s MPC Wallet

Hyperwave is a Hyperliquid-native team from the builders behind Swell. The group shipped two products in quick succession and needed an execution environment that could keep pace with strategy design.

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Partnership

How Midas Brings Tokenized Investment Opportunities On-Chain with Fordefi’s DeFi-Native Custody

Midas launched in the third quarter of 2024 to offer tokenised certificates via blockchain infrastructure and bring investment-grade assets to the open web.

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Fordefi integrates with the infrastructure that powers the DeFi ecosystem
New

Latest Releases

Fordefi x Yield.xyz

Fordefi EARN

Powered by Yield.xyz - Trading firms, funds, and treasury teams can now earn on the balances in their Fordefi vaults.

Deposit into vaults from 25 institutional managers

170 curated yield options across 17 chains

Your existing Fordefi policies, roles, quorums, and signing workflows continue to govern how capital moves.

Fordefi x Safe

Fordefi decodes & governs Safe transactions

Safe-initiated transactions in Fordefi provide the context reviewers need to approve them with confidence.

Read every Safe transaction in full

See its simulated outcome

Run it through your own policies before signing

Our Founders

Cryptography, security and DeFi is in our DNA

Josh Schwartz

Josh Schwartz

CEO, Co-Founder

Curv (acquired by Paypal), BitGo, and Bloomberg

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Michael Volfman

Michael Volfman

VP R&D, Co-Founder

Toka, Mr. Miyagi, and GuardiCore

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Dima Kogan

Dima Kogan

CTO, Co-Founder

Stanford PhD in Computer Science, Google

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions institutions ask us

How is Fordefi different to DFNS and other MPC Wallet providers?
Is Fordefi a custodian?
Who holds the keys?
How is MPC different from a Multisig wallet?
We already run a Safe multisig, what does Fordefi add?
What blockchains and protocols does Fordefi support?
Fordefi is now part of Paxos - what difference does this make?
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