Decentralized Finance (Defi) firms Intothlock and Trident Digital have merged to form Sentora, which means they bundle to bring institutional investors.
The new company, helped by Anthony Demartino, co-founder of Trident and former head of risk strategies at Coinbase (Coin), is also on schedule to close a founder of $ 25 million with new form capital leading the investment. Ripple, Tribe Capital, UDHC, Joint Effects also participated in the fundraising round, with further support of strategic ecosystem investors, including curved companies, Flare and Bankai Ventures. Although most investors have already made the investment, two companies will close the process by June, the company told Coindesk.
The merger comes at a time when Defi matures from his “Wild West” start to a blockchain -based financial economy with offers that are increasingly appointed on advanced investors.
It also underlines the continuous trend of consolidation within the crypto industry. There were 88 mergers and acquisitions in the first four months of 2025, according to architect partners, who put on schedule this year to surpass the record years of 2022 and 2024.
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Sentora combines the Track record of Intotheblock in Defi Analytics – which tension more than $ 3 billion to institutional implementations – with Trident’s experience with structuring liquidity programs and financial products.
The platform is intended to offer a one-stop shop for institutional investors, who all offer yield strategies, compliance, risk management and access to structured products under one roof.
“The vision is to build all core primitives that are necessary for an institution, whether it is a crypto institution, Dao Foundation, traditional financial investor or individual family office, to communicate with Defi in a way that feels intelligent, who feels safe, which feels safe, Jesus and Roddiguez,” Jesus and Roddigez and Roddigez, “Jesus and Rodtriguez and Rodtrigezez and Rodtrigezez and Roddigez and Rod Sentora, in an interview with Coindsk.
An important roadblock that has impeded asset managers who come to Defi scale is that the space is becoming increasingly complex and fragmented about new chains and protocols, Demartino explained.
“It shouldn’t be that difficult,” he said. “You should not learn about a new chain and learn more about a whole series of different protocols and understanding bridges and different portfolios every time you want to go to a new chain.”
What can help to bridge this gap and even pull traditional financing companies on the chain, according to Demartino, is to abstract interaction with individual protocols with a single platform that deals with all risk management and liquidity, while transparency is held about the underlying sanitary.
“Defi rails are the future of finance, but it is still a very small market,” he said. Defillama data shows that there are less than $ 130 billion in assets on Defi protocols, overshadowed by the several trillions of assets that are managed as BlackRock and Fidelity Investments.
“We are building the rails for the next 130 trillion assets to come onchain,” he said.
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