# Dfns > Core banking platform for digital assets Dfns is a core banking platform for digital assets. It provides API-driven wallet and policy infrastructure that lets banks, fintechs, and enterprises run financial operations and build products onchain. Dfns is a company that operates a core banking platform for digital assets, giving regulated institutions, fintechs, and enterprises the infrastructure to run financial operations directly on blockchains. It provides an API-driven control plane for provisioning programmable wallets, signing transactions, and enforcing policy across an organization's digital asset activity. The platform is built for teams that need to manage sensitive onchain operations with the same control and accountability expected of traditional financial systems. At its core, Dfns uses multi-party computation to remove the single point of failure created by traditional private keys, so a complete key is never generated or exposed in one place. Users interact with a unified API that spans multiple blockchains, while the underlying cryptographic signing, key management, and transaction broadcasting are handled by the platform. It is regulated in some jurisdictions and publishes independent certifications covering its security and operational controls, positioning itself as infrastructure that sits between institutions and the chains rather than as a custodian or bank itself. The platform's offerings span wallet infrastructure, transaction and treasury management, a tokenization engine, and policy and governance tooling, alongside key management services. It integrates with exchanges, payment providers, compliance tools, and custody hardware, and is used by banks, fintechs, and enterprises building custody, payments, and tokenization products. Dfns has repositioned its offering from wallet infrastructure toward a broader core banking platform framing, reflecting an expanded scope of services. - Type: Company - Sector: Infrastructure - Status: Active - Founded: 2020-08-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/dfns ## Products - [Dfns Wallets-as-a-Service Platform (WaaS)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/dfns): Dfns Wallets-as-a-Service Platform is an embedded wallet infrastructure that lets banks, fintechs, and enterprises create and manage programmable digital asset wallets without building their own key management or signing stack. It uses multi-party computation to distribute private key shares across enclaved nodes, with every signing operation requiring quorum approval under configurable governance policies. The platform supports custodial and non-custodial models, multichain wallet creation, staking, fee sponsoring, and transaction execution, and can be deployed as a hosted service, hybrid, or fully on-premises to meet data sovereignty requirements. It also connects to centralized exchanges, decentralized liquidity venues, and fiat rails to route trades, swaps, and payments through a single custody interface. (Embedded Wallet, Live, Main Product) - [Dfns Wallet Entitlement Management](https://thegrid.id/profiles/dfns): Dfns Wallet Entitlement Management is a governance module for setting permission controls, transaction policies, and approval workflows over digital asset operations. It lets organizations define programmable rules covering automated transfers, role-based access, quorum-based signing approvals, and allowlists that can block unauthorized actions before they reach the blockchain. The module integrates with the wallet and transaction infrastructure to enforce compliance controls across an organization's digital asset activity. (Developer Tooling, Live) - [Dfns Key Orchestration Service (KOS)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/dfns): Dfns Key Orchestration Service is enterprise key management infrastructure that provides composable deployment of multi-party computation cryptographic key shares across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, including hardware security modules and trusted execution environments. It supports dynamic signer quorums, threshold signature schemes, hardware security module connectors, and disaster recovery layers. The service enables institutions to retain cryptographic control while meeting varied regulatory data sovereignty requirements. (Custody Technology Provider, Live) - [Dfns Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/dfns): Dfns Transaction Lifecycle Management is a developer platform for orchestrating onchain transaction workflows from initiation through confirmation across many blockchains. It provides application programming interfaces for transaction simulation, decoding, broadcasting, policy-based approval routing, webhook-driven automation, retry queuing, and redundant node connectivity. The platform supports transfers, swaps, staking, contract calls, and stablecoin routing, giving teams auditability and pre-broadcast risk controls across the full lifecycle of digital asset transfers. 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