VerifiedX and Blockdaemon announced a strategic partnership in December 2025 aimed at extending institutional-grade infrastructure into consumer DeFi products, with the goal of broadening global access to scalable decentralized finance. The agreement leverages Blockdaemon’s role in securing more than $110 billion in digital assets as a trust and stability anchor for VerifiedX’s consumer wallet and social payments services.
Institutional Infrastructure Meets Consumer DeFi
Blockdaemon will integrate its production-grade node, staking, and liquidity infrastructure into VerifiedX’s consumer products, including the VFX SwitchBlade Wallet and the Butterfly social payment platform. Blockdaemon’s $207 million Series C funding round, which supported a $3.25 billion valuation, underpins its scaling capacity, and the company currently serves more than 400 institutional clients. It was also recognized as the “Best DeFi Infrastructure Platform” in 2025.
The Earn Stack and the acquisition of expand.network provide a unified DeFi API with roughly 170 endpoints across more than 50 blockchains, creating a streamlined path for mainstream applications to access staking and DeFi features without custom integrations. This unified technical layer significantly reduces the complexity required to connect consumer platforms to multi-chain DeFi infrastructure.
Security architecture and regulatory alignment form a central pillar of the partnership, with Blockdaemon reporting 99.9% operational uptime while securing over $10 billion in staked assets. VerifiedX will inherit these reliability benchmarks for its consumer-facing products. The integration relies on Multi-Party Computation (MPC) wallets and vaults, which distribute cryptographic key shares so no single party ever holds a complete private key. This structure enables users to retain self-custody without managing raw seed phrases.
The roadmap includes new staking and reward markets, cross-chain liquidity tools for mainstream users, expanded institutional rails for banks and fintechs, and advanced on-chain instruments such as tokenized assets and high-security settlement rails. Executives framed the partnership as a way to make complex DeFi functionality accessible without sacrificing performance or compliance. Demetrios Skalkotos, Chief DeFi and Protocols Officer at Blockdaemon, stated that integrating the infrastructure into VerifiedX “offers that same standard to consumers, making decentralized finance both safer and more accessible without compromising on performance or compliance.” The VerifiedX Foundation added that the goal is to make blockchain finance “simple, self-custodial, safe, accessible, and usable for everyone.”
For institutional investors and liquidity providers, the integration establishes clearer on-ramps and a replicable stack to reach retail flows while maintaining custody controls and auditability. For macro analysts, the likely effect is a gradual increase in accessible staking and yield-bearing instruments for retail users, potentially shifting net liquidity dynamics between centralized exchanges, staking pools, and on-chain protocols as custody preferences evolve.
The partnership ultimately combines a large institutional custody footprint with consumer-oriented interfaces to lower the technical and operational barriers to DeFi adoption.