Since the ‘ DeFi Summer ’ of 2020, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has changed the financial landscape, offering an alternative to traditional financial systems by removing intermediaries like banks and brokers. However, the rapid expansion of DeFi across over 3,000 protocols and 300+ blockchain networks has created a fragmented ecosystem.
Investors managing assets across Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Base, and Solana face significant inefficiencies and increased risks when consolidating portfolios. For example, delays caused by switching between networks can lead to missed opportunities or errors when managing cross-chain assets.
Regardless of how new or seasoned the investor is, navigating this landscape often requires juggling multiple wallets, platforms, and tools to track performance, manage assets, and optimize yield strategies. This fragmentation isn’t just inefficient; it’s a barrier to using DeFi to its full potential.
Velvet Capital directly addresses these challenges by providing a unified platform for on-chain portfolio management, enabling cross-chain execution, seamless yield optimization, and tokenized asset integration—all from a single interface.
Addressing the barriers to DeFi adoption
Velvet Capital is an Intent Operating System for DeFi designed to simplify on-chain portfolio management and trading. By providing an intuitive interface, it allows users—individual investors, funds, or AI agents—to effortlessly trade any token or DeFi asset and launch portfolios in just a few clicks.
Backed by Binance Labs, Velvet Capital offers a suite of trading and portfolio management tools catering to a wide array of DeFi users.
When deploying a public portfolio, Velvet acts as a personal smart contract factory, enabling vault managers to deploy a unique series of custom smart contracts whenever they create a new vault. Each product is entirely independent, designed, and controlled by the vault manager, ensuring maximum flexibility and autonomy. More importantly, Velvet operates on a non-custodial model, meaning the platform never takes control of users’ assets. This approach combines the efficiency of on-chain asset management with the security and transparency DeFi users expect.
The platform will introduce omni-chain capabilities in future versions to ensure vaults operate across multiple networks. Meanwhile, upcoming features like real-world asset integration and advanced derivative strategies will further enhance its utility. Omni-chain allows assets and data to flow freely across chains, giving users the flexibility to manage and execute strategies without being confined to a single ecosystem.
With upcoming features like real-world asset integration, advanced derivative strategies, and AI portfolios further enhancing the utility, Velvet is not just simplifying DeFi—it’s laying the groundwork for more efficient and scalable portfolio management in an increasingly complex ecosystem.
Velvet Capital’s edge: Intent-based architecture
Velvet Capital’s unique edge lies in its intent-based trade routing. Intent-based architecture automates user-defined actions in DeFi, like trading or staking, by executing all necessary steps seamlessly in the background according to the user’s intent. It simplifies complex tasks, reduces errors, and improves efficiency across protocols and blockchains.
The Velvet Capital trade routing sources liquidity from both on-chain pools and private venues like market makers. This system ensures efficient routing, offering performance that rivals centralized exchanges (CEXes), particularly for less liquid niche assets. Its flexibility allows new tokens and protocols to be added and traded seamlessly without requiring changes to core contracts.
Velvet Capital on Ethereum Mainnet, Base, Solana, and other Networks
Velvet Capital is currently deployed on Ethereum, Base, Solana, BNB Chain, and Bitlayer with more to come! With its reach across five blockchains to date, one can use Velvet Capital to trade most of the crypto ecosystem and find the hottest DeFi Activities, making Velvet Capital an all-encompassing DeFi infrastructure layer for traders big and small.
Paving the way for future growth
Velvet Capital is positioning itself for future growth through the DeFAI infrastructure (combination of DeFI and AI) with an aggressive roadmap to cover multiple areas.
On-chain Trading: With the recently launched Trading Terminal, Velvet Capital gives users access to the intent-based trade execution right from their wallet. With its multichain nature, it is currently able to cover most of the crypto ecosystem and is continuously growing in supported networks.
DeFAI Ecosystem: Many believe that a majority of crypto transactions will be done via AI Agents (and not humans) in the near future. Velvet Capital is developing its own DeFAI framework which will allow it to launch AI agent swarms working alongside traders & portfolio managers to provide analytics & help execute complex transactions.
Telegram Bot: As the future of crypto applications continues to expand and improve, many have started to transact through Telegram Bots. Through launching Velvet Unicorn Bot on top of Velvet Capital tech stack, they are creating an on-the-go experience for trading & DeFi right within one of the most popular messaging apps.
Decentralized Finance market landscape
The DeFi market is predicted to hit $178B in 2029, expanding at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43%. This growth is fueled by increased adoption of multi-chain solutions and tokenized assets—two areas where Velvet Capital excels. Offering omni-chain capabilities that will allow users to seamlessly manage assets across ecosystems, solving one of DeFi’s greatest challenges: interoperability.
Technological advancements are another major growth driver in the DeFi space, as companies are adopting innovative tools to enhance their platforms. Further expanding user access to cryptocurrencies and streamlining trading & portfolio management, delivering a superior user experience.
The Team behind Velvet Capital
Velvet Capital is led by CEO Vasily Nikonov , a former Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) New York, where he launched digital ventures, including WealthTech startups and SaaS platforms for financial advisors. Vasily has also helped incubate startups at LongHash Ventures, where he supported projects like Xanpool and Astar, which have collectively raised around $100M.
Ankit Raj , the CTO, is an experienced blockchain developer and an early grantee from the Ethereum Foundation, with a background in Open Finance from roles at Red Hat, Ocean Protocol, and Pandora Protocol. Ankit has also contributed significantly to the Core Solidity repository, won over 30 hackathons, and founded the Hyperledger Bangalore Chapter.
Conclusion
By merging secure on-chain infrastructure with intelligent off-chain computation and seamless user interface, Velvet Capital addresses some of DeFi’s core challenges—fragmented liquidity and complex custody options. As DeFi continues to mature, Velvet Capital’s approach could set a new standard, redefining what it means to manage assets in a decentralized, scalable, and user-friendly way.
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