We've been quiet, on purpose, and today you'll see why.
We are excited to reintroduce Sprinter. What started as crosschain solver infrastructure evolved into something much bigger.
Credit is the layer nobody has built yet, and we are building the engine for it.
More below ๐
At Money 20/20 Europe this week.
Building credit infra for crypto-native products @sprinter_ux - undercollateralised lending, cross-venue margin, stablecoin settlement.
Looking for partners with a credit or payments use case. DM me if you're there.
How do instant redemptions actually work?
A user wants out of a yield-bearing stablecoin. Normally they'd wait 7 days.
With Sprinter: they get USDC now. Sprinter queues the underlying redemption and gets paid back when it completes.
Money out, money back. Defined timeline. No uncertainty about whether repayment happens.
This is why Sprinter can price a 1-day redemption differently from a 30-day one. We know exactly where the money is going, when it's coming back, and what happens at every step.
Great read from @ChainSafeth on why decentralised infrastructure means adapting to protocol rules, not writing them. If you're building on top of those protocols, that shift defines how you build.
A more intentional Ethereum.
From RFQs to solver competition, intents infrastructure should be permissionless, shared, and owned by no one.
Excited to have contributed to the Open Intents Framework and to see this next phase of adoption begin!
The Open Intents Framework is designed as shared infrastructure for intents.
A modular, open framework that the ecosystem can build intents on, together.
Today, it takes its next step: adoption at scale.
Big news! @lifiprotocol Intents is live and Sprinter is one of the first solvers on the network ๐
Crosschain is moving towards intents & solver competition, https://t.co/JLhjFnhst0 just shipped a serious piece of that puzzle. Congrats team!
Excited to be here from day one.
Introducing LI.โFI Intents.
Infrastructure for apps, wallets, and neobanks to:
โข Enable stablecoin payments
โข Access real-world assets
โข Tap into compliant onchain liquidity
Built for enterprises bringing financial products onchain.
That's why Sprinter doesn't need to demand massive collateral buffers. The system itself ensures repayment.
Result = better rates, higher LTV, lower risk.
Not because we're taking shortcuts. Because the architecture is better.
Most onchain credit works like a pawn shop. Hand over your assets, get a loan, hope you pay it back. If you don't, you get liquidated.
Sprinter works like a tab at a bar. You can order freely because the system knows who you are and the bill clears before you walk out the door.
Instead of locking collateral and hoping borrowers repay, Sprinter embeds credit directly into the transaction loop.
Every dollar lent moves through a controlled system where repayment is enforced by the flow itself, not by the borrower's good behaviour.
What if your users could trade with capital they've already deployed somewhere else?
@alexmattm breaks down how credit-backed Trading Accounts work, and what Sprinter's credit engine looks like in practice ๐
We've been thinking a lot about how onchain credit can level up. ๐
What and where collateral can be located is one important aspect. Enjoy the read ๐ฟ
The DeFi stack, 2026:
Settlement โ๏ธ
Trading โ๏ธ
Stablecoins โ๏ธ
Lending โ๏ธ
Creditโ
One layer is still uncredited.
This month we're filling it in - sector by sector.
Credit is the thread that runs through every unsolved problem in DeFi. Card programmes, stablecoin redemptions, RWA liquidity. Different pain points, same missing layer.
In the next few weeks we are going to break it all down, sector by sector. Watch this space...
DeFi volumes plateau for a structural reason: cash settlement places a hard ceiling on how much capital can actually move through these rails.
Credit is what unlocks the next order of magnitude.
DeFi rebuilt finance from first principles.
New ways of trading, new dollars, new lending and new settlement.
But it left out the layer that makes all of it actually work for real financial products.
DeFi is uncredited.
DeFi runs on credit. It just doesn't know it yet.
Over the next few weeks we're going to break this down, sector by sector, in a series called Credit Check.
Which parts of DeFi are credit-ready? What unlocks when you add this layer? What changes?