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OpenTrade’s yield products combine traditional finance assets with crypto systems

• OpenTrade gives financial technology companies tokenized “vaults” that earn yield from real-world assets (RWAs), meaning assets like bonds and credit moved onto blockchain systems, plus selected decentralized finance (DeFi) strategies 1.
• Options run from lower-risk money market funds and US Treasuries to riskier private credit or trade finance exposures 23.
• The lineup also includes crypto-native products, including a delta-neutral strategy that collects Solana staking rewards and SOL perpetual futures funding rates while limiting SOL price swings 45.
• That mix lets clients choose products that fit their risk tolerance, from low single-digit returns on EUR sovereign bonds to possible double-digit returns from some DeFi or private credit strategies 62.

The company is betting financial technology firms will buy complex yield tools instead of building them

• OpenTrade sells business-to-business (B2B) infrastructure for companies that want to offer stablecoin yield products 7.
• Creating this setup internally is hard. It needs treasury management, counterparty risk control, and compliance across several jurisdictions, which can take months to put in place 3.
• With one application programming interface (API) plus a platform, OpenTrade lets financial technology companies, digital banks, and crypto exchanges launch white-labeled yield products without large upfront spending or heavy ongoing operations 23.
• That lower hurdle could help more consumer finance apps add yield products backed by RWAs as they try to compete with traditional savings accounts.