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Dfns

Dfns is a wallet-as-a-service platform that provides institutional-grade digital asset wallet infrastructure for fintechs, banks, and enterprises via API.
142 rue de Rivoli, Paris 75001, France
Current stage: Series A0 current maintainers0 active leads

Maintainer signals as of Sep 2, 2026


Dfns


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Dfns provides API-first wallet infrastructure for creating, securing, governing, and operating programmable digital-asset wallets across 100+ blockchain networks. Its platform uses MPC and distributed key shares, with transaction orchestration, policy-based approvals, access controls, signing, broadcasting, treasury, tokenization, and compliance integrations. Dfns describes itself as a technology provider rather than a custodian: clients retain custody and control, with SaaS, hybrid, dedicated, and on-premises deployment options.

Category: Custody Technology Provider

Dfns Wallets-As-A-Service Platform (WaaS)


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A platform that enables applications to create, manage, and embed digital asset wallets at scale with programmable APIs. Supports both custodial and non-custodial models with features for secure user onboarding, multichain wallet creation, staking integration, fee sponsoring, and transaction management across multiple blockchains.

Category: Embedded Wallet

Dfns Wallet Entitlement Management


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A governance system for implementing permission controls, transaction policies, and approval workflows for digital assets. Features include programmable rules for automated transfers, role-based access, and compliance controls that can prevent unauthorized actions.

Category: Developer Tooling

Dfns Key Orchestration Service (KOS)


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Dfns Key Orchestration Service (KOS) is an enterprise key management infrastructure providing flexible, composable deployment of MPC cryptographic key shares across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments including HSMs and trusted execution environments. It supports multi-party computation protocols with dynamic signer quorums, threshold signature schemes, PKCS#11 HSM connectors, and disaster recovery layers, enabling institutions to retain cryptographic control while meeting diverse regulatory requirements.

Category: Custody Technology Provider

Dfns Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM)


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Dfns Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) is a developer platform for orchestrating onchain transaction workflows from initiation to confirmation. It provides APIs for transaction simulation, broadcasting, policy-based approval routing, webhook-driven automation, retry queuing, and redundant blockchain node connectivity, enabling teams to manage the full lifecycle of digital asset transfers with auditability and pre-chain security controls.

Category: Developer Tooling