Concrete's biggest focus last week was institutional capital efficiency.
In order to enable institutions to generate on-chain yield while maintaining assets in qualified custody, @ConcreteXYZ partnered with @BitGo.
The problem they are trying to solve is that, the majority of DeFi yield options are not subject to standard custody, huge sums of institutional capital remain idle.
@ConcreteXYZ Custodial Assets launched on @CapApp lending market on June 5. While keeping to their custody system, institutions are now able to lend, borrow, and use vault assets as collateral.
Institutions should not have to choose between productive capital and secure custody. Concrete is building infra to deliver both at once.
Another Concrete recap
@ConcreteXYZ this past week,
they weren't promoting token speculation, APY, or hype.
Everything was focused on the stuff most DeFi protocols avoid talking about accounting, NAV accuracy, redemption fairness, and infrastructure that can actually handle institutional capital.
The most famous posts of these other defi PJs may be "Problem With Real-Time Vaults."
Many DeFi systems still rely on outdated NAV assumptions, which quietly causes value leakage between redeemers and depositors, especially in cross-chain or async settings.
@ConcreteXYZ strategy seems much more calculated: async withdrawal queues, verification layers, volatility-aware rules, live NAV settlement, etc.
Though this isn't the most attractive story in crypto, DeFi really needs this kind of infrastructure if larger investors are to ever trust it.
Qualified custody used to mean you couldn't earn.
Now it means you can't afford not to.
The line between compliant and capital-efficient just disappeared.
Arcium’s ecosystem explosion over the last weeks is not an accident.
As a team, we’ve been deliberate about being product first from the beginning. A significant amount of hours go into supporting our ecosystem - locked in with the projects that have chosen to build with us, iterating on the things that need to be better and constantly optimizing for growth.
If you think this is an accident, think again. It’s about to get a lot more fun.
Job not finished.