I'm inside the NYSE for Vault Summit today. Fusion co-sponsors the event alongside @tesseractcrypto, with James Harris @jemharris11 here too.
I'm on at 1:30PM ET on how institutions can allocate onchain without triggering the regulator. See you at the venue or via online stream
Yes. This.
"a year of integration plumbing compressed into weeks of design and configuration"
Builder feedback on Fusion infra. Composability compounds.
At IPOR Labs we built our team with stalwarts from enterprise software development, converting them to DeFi engineers. We purposefully invested in a culture of security, scalability, and service.
As @ipor_io Fusion is very much becoming a protocol on which multiple curators, asset managers, and other protocols build strategies, that original DNA has paid dividends
- SDKs for third party integration and automation
- APIs for easy data integration
- Onboarding, white glove service and support
Kudos to the Morpho team also to create one of the first dedicated integration teams in DeFi
Why use Fusion?
On Friday, Aave adjusted its kink rate, pushing several stETH looping strategies deeply negative.
Highly leveraged loops were forced to delever, repay, or risk liquidation. Today, the kink rate was readjusted, bringing most loops back out of negative territory.
But before any of that, the Alpha for the IPOR DAO stETH looping vault was already adapting to market conditions.
During the dislocation:
• The vault maintained a healthy HF throughout
• Alpha actively rebalanced strategically to Morpho and Euler while others remained stuck in static Aave-only loops
• Assets were shifted dynamically as rates moved, capturing lower borrow costs in real time
Ahead of the adjustment, the DAO Economic Workgroup approved adding Spark to the strategy.
Because Spark shares the Aave v3 codebase, fuses were easily validated and deployed.
Thanks to Fusion’s modular architecture:
🔹 No smart contract upgrades required
🔹 Strategy updates executed via configuration, not redeployment
🔹Alpha now loops across Aave, Morpho, Euler, and now Spark, and Spark remains a permanent routing option for this vault.
Full on-chain history & active rebalances
https://t.co/3h5ELwvxYa
This is what active, transparent, on-chain risk management looks like.
The IPOR team and I developed a Fusion infrastructure that can turn vaults into high-performance, high-frequency yield strategies.a 15-minute read for the curious, curators, strategists, and industry professionals 👋
With the launch of the K3 syrupUSDT looping strategy, the Fusion vault UI receives a major update.
It now offers a breakdown of the vault balance sheet, featuring:
🔹 Effective leverage
🔹 Assets and liabilities visualization
🔹 Improved liquidity location and deployment info
8 days until Christmas. 🌟
In DeFi, few metrics matter more than protocol security.
Since its launch in 2021, the IPOR Protocol has maintained a flawless security record with zero incidents.
A lot of people read that article and nod along because the version of crypto it describes, the L1 hype cycles, the casino-style launchpads , the VC theatrics, is the only version they’ve ever seen. But that lens leaves out an entire side of this industry that looks nothing like that.
My experience has been totally different. I’ve spent the last five years building with an incredible 15-person team full of people way smarter than me, including a nuclear physicist, a cryptography-and-math PhD, and a royal statistician. Working with a group like that changes how you see this space. We’ve been focused on making things possible that most people assumed couldn’t run on-chain, and Fusion grew directly out of that mindset.
The irony is that all the noise people complain about only exists because systems like this actually work. The moment you make powerful, permissionless tools available, the first wave is always grifters and speculators. It’s not a sign of rot. It’s what happens whenever real innovation becomes accessible.
And the reason I’m not worried about the future of crypto is simple: I know who is building it. Not just our team, but the small circle of DeFi teams who keep pushing the frontier year after year. The level of intellect, creativity, and engineering firepower in this space is absurd. That’s what actually drives the industry forward, no matter what the surface looks like on any given week.
So when people say crypto or DeFi is collapsing into casinos or PVP, I don’t buy it for a second. If you’ve ever been close to the people building the hard stuff, you know how much potential is still ahead. The loud part will come and go. The work will keep compounding.
And honestly, I’ve never been more excited about what comes next.
Another prime example of DeFi Money Lego excellence.
Featuring:
💸 A 10x Fusion Points boost for all deposits.
🔒 Automated liquidation protection.
🎁 Waived onboarding contribution for the first month.
All IPOR Fusion vaults will soon get risk-rated by @xerberus.
⚡️ The industry’s first vault risk scoring.
Fusion liquidity providers will be able to determine risk for each vault at a glance, using the familiar scoring nomenclature - AAA, AA, A, B, etc.
How does it work? 🧵⬇️
A good reminder in turbulent times: there’s a wide range of risk-adjusted yields — users don’t have to choose only between degen $xUSD looping or $USDC parking on AAVE
But one important point is missing here 👇🧵
@phtevenstrong 43:25
At @ipor_io, we take transparency very seriously. That's why we display both TVM and TVL side by side on the vault details page. Providing a share price chart is also a given for us, whereas some others prefer to hide such information on Dune.