The Future of Institutional Yield: Introducing Kiln OmniVault (formerly Kiln DeFi)
< BlogThe digital asset landscape is reaching a critical inflection point.
For years, "yield" in the crypto space was synonymous with the experimental frontier of DeFi – a world of high complexity, fragmented liquidity, and significant operational overhead. While the opportunities were vast, the barriers for institutional players remained high. Platforms – like wallets and exchanges – have historically lacked a unified gateway to access DeFi protocols.
Today, that gap is closing.
We are proud to introduce Kiln OmniVault: the universal interface enabling distributors to access any yield source and offer customized asset management through a single vault infrastructure. Kiln OmniVault is the evolution of "Kiln DeFi," our initial offering launched in early 2025. It delivers a unified product vision: One vault infrastructure to access, govern, and distribute onchain yield – across assets, strategies, and asset managers.
The Interface for Onchain Yield
Kiln OmniVault is institutional vault infrastructure that abstracts protocol complexity into governed, strategy-based vehicles – allowing platforms to embed yield products and institutions to deploy capital directly.
What’s live today: Kiln OmniVault is live across stablecoin, ETH, and BTC strategies, securing over $600M in TVL across leading global platforms.
The current strategy catalog includes:
- Stablecoin lending strategies
- ETH yield strategies
- BTC basis and structured strategies
All strategies operate through vault-level smart contracts that standardize deposits, withdrawals, reporting, and fee logic.
Leading platforms including Crypto.com, Safe, Ledger, and Trust Wallet have already adopted this first version – check out the volume on Dune.
The Pillars of Kiln OmniVault
To succeed at scale, yield access must be both easy and governed. Kiln OmniVault is built on those pillars:
- Multi-access strategies: Kiln OmniVault serves as a single endpoint to any onchain yield source. Instead of managing a fragmented technical stack for every new protocol, platforms use one interface to interact with the entire DeFi ecosystem – from basic staking primitives to sophisticated lending and Real-World Assets.
- Compliance-First Infrastructure: Compliance is "built in, not bolted on." We provide native support for sanctions screening, KYC hooks, and geo-restrictions directly at the smart contract layer.
- Liquidity Sovereignty: We ensure no vendor lock-in. Partners maintain full control to revoke manager rights, switch strategies, or reassign capital at any time.
$600M+ TVL: Proven Scale for Leading Platforms
Kiln OmniVault is already the battle-tested choice for industry leaders like Crypto.com, Ledger, and Trust Wallet. Our infrastructure currently manages over $600M in TVL, providing the reliability the next generation of finance requires.
The results speak for themselves: both Ledger and Trust Wallet surpassed $30M in TVL within just 30 days of launching their OmniVault-powered offerings.
"Stablecoin yield has become one of our most demanded features, as users look to move traditional fiat into crypto to earn rewards. Integrating with Kiln greatly simplified this entire process through their ready-to-use APIs and widget."– Felix Fan, CEO of Trust Wallet
Whether you are a wallet adding "Earn" features or a treasury seeking governed yield, Kiln OmniVault is your single gateway to the expanding DeFi universe.
What's Next?
We're onboarding the first wave of asset managers to offer curated strategies onchain. Stay tuned as we expand our catalog to include sophisticated BTC and ETH wealth management strategies.
About Kiln
Kiln is the leading staking and digital asset rewards management platform, enabling institutional customers to earn rewards on their digital assets, or to whitelabel earning functionality into their products. Kiln runs validators on all major PoS blockchains, with over $11 billion in crypto assets being programmatically staked and running over 5% of the Ethereum network on a multi-client, multi-cloud, and multi-region infrastructure. Kiln also provides a validator-agnostic suite of products for fully automated deployment of validators and reporting and commission management, enabling custodians, wallets, and exchanges to streamline staking or DeFi operations across providers. Kiln is SOC2 Type 2 certified.
