

Further
1.2K posts

@further
Further is a global investment platform connecting pioneering financial infrastructure with global capital markets.









We’re proud to announce that @hifibridge has chosen @dfnsHQ as its core wallet infrastructure 🤝 For platforms operating at the intersection of stablecoins, bank rails, and programmable finance, the wallet layer isn't a procurement decision. It's an architectural one. HIFI is one of the most composable API platform powering programmable money movement at scale: → 130+ countries → 10B+ Visa endpoints → Partnership with @Visa Direct And when you move billions of stablecoins like they do, your wallet layer has to be battle-tested. That's where Dfns comes in. ✔️ 400+ institutional clients ✔️ 100+ blockchain and app integrations ✔️ SOC 2 Type II & ISO 27001 certified ✔️ Zero breaches since inception Next step: HIFI is integrating directly inside Dfns' Payouts and Payins APIs. 📖 Read the full announcement: dfns.co/article/announ…


New Interchange venue, just dropped. @BitMEX is now live on Interchange. Trade perps and derivatives on one of crypto's OG exchanges while your assets stay safely with Zodia Custody. Interchange is supported by Zodia Custody Limited (UK) and available to eligible institutional/professional clients in select jurisdictions. Not an offer or solicitation where prohibited. The network keeps growing 👇 🔗zodia-custody.com/bitmex-launche… #ZodiaCustody #Interchange #BitMEX #DigitalAssets

Smart contracts have been running on Bitcoin L1 for 5+ weeks. The protocol is stable, developer tooling is improving, and teams are deploying independently. We built the rails. Bitcoin DeFi is what builders do with them.


: : Ethereum Infrastructure Operations: A Practical Guide For Institutions And Individuals Researched by @r2Jamong, this report covers Ethereum validator infrastructure design and operations, spanning solo stakers to institutional operators, based on ~3 years of experience running a top 6-7 globally ranked validator setup. 👇

: : We're excited to announce that @FourPillarsFP has raised Series A Funding from @PanteraCapital and @further. This round marks our next chapter: scaling from a research firm into an institutional-focused blockchain research and infrastructure provider.

Something we've been working on for a long time is out today. The first 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙍𝙁𝙋 𝙂𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚, written for financial institutions navigating one of the most consequential infrastructure decisions of their generation. We are living through a quiet but profound rearchitecting of global finance 🌐 Banks are not just "adding crypto." They are rebuilding the layers beneath them, connecting core banking systems to onchain settlement, tokenized assets, stablecoin rails, and programmable money. The BIS has framed this as "the foundation of a next-generation monetary system." The Eurosystem is already settling DLT transactions in central bank money. MiCA is turning wallet infrastructure into a resilience, governance, and supervisory question, not just a product one. This moment deserves more than a vendor comparison spreadsheet. It deserves structure. Rigor. Honest tradeoffs. 𝘈 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸. 💡 That's what this guide is. Not a feature checklist. Not a marketing grid. A framework for thinking through where wallet infrastructure sits inside a financial architecture, how authority should be distributed, how transactions should be governed, and how this new layer should complement—or challenge—everything already built. We wrote it for the banks, FMIs, fintechs, capital market participants, and payment companies that are making these decisions right now, often under regulatory pressure, often without a clear map. Wallets are no longer just endpoints. They are programmable core banking systems sitting at the frontier between banking architecture and onchain finance. Choose accordingly. 🔗 Access here: dfns.co/article/the-wa…

The race for tokenized deposits has begun. Regulatory green lights are turning on across the globe 🟢 Major banks are moving from pilots to production. And the question institutions are now asking is not just which technology to use… but who controls it. Today, @dfnsHQ is glad to announce a MoU with @UDPN_Official by @red_date_tech 🤝 Together, we are giving financial institutions a complete, production-grade stack for tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and CBDCs, deployable entirely on-premise. ✅ Dfns brings the institutional wallet infrastructure layer. ✅ UDPN brings the messaging and interoperability layer. Two critical layers. One integrated solution. Fully owned by the institution. Because for most of banking history, sovereignty over critical infrastructure was assumed, banks owned their systems, their data, their operations, and there wasn’t a problem. But blockchain have complicated that assumption. The novelty of digital assets is pushing institutions into unwarranted dependencies on third-party providers for functions that sit dangerously close to money movement and key control ⚠️ We built this partnership to help institutions own everything, from day one, by architecture. If you’re thinking about tokenized deposits, this is the conversation to have now 📑 Read the blog post → dfns.co/article/dfns-p…











: : We're excited to announce that @FourPillarsFP has raised Series A Funding from @PanteraCapital and @further. This round marks our next chapter: scaling from a research firm into an institutional-focused blockchain research and infrastructure provider.