Understand the asset. Map the control. Defend the decision.
RIADeFi is the advisor’s field guide to DeFi and tokenized markets: what the client owns, where the return comes from, who can change the rules, and what belongs in the file.
Independent education for financial professionals. No protocol pays for coverage. Not legal, tax, compliance, or investment advice.
Digital Asset Control Atlas
Who can freeze, upgrade, or administer what?
A public control database covering 47 assets and 13 chains, with deep profiles for the instruments and settlement layers advisors encounter first.
Can USDC be frozen?
Trace issuer authority, the holder’s claim, redemption access, chain and protocol dependencies, and the exact distinction between non-custodial venue and issuer-controlled asset.
Three maps before any product
DeFi for RIAs
A plain-English guide to DeFi for registered investment advisers: what it is, where yield comes from, and how to structure defensible due diligence.
On-chain finance
On-chain finance explained for financial advisors: tokenized assets, DeFi protocols, settlement networks, custody, liquidity, and fiduciary questions.
Tokenized assets
A framework for RIAs evaluating tokenized assets: identify the underlying exposure, legal claim, transfer restrictions, redemption path, and control surface.
Foundations
DeFi for RIAs
A plain-English guide to DeFi for registered investment advisers: what it is, where yield comes from, and how to structure defensible due diligence.
On-chain finance
On-chain finance explained for financial advisors: tokenized assets, DeFi protocols, settlement networks, custody, liquidity, and fiduciary questions.
DeFi vs. tokenized securities
DeFi and tokenized securities can use the same blockchain while creating different legal claims, controls, return sources, eligibility rules, and diligence requirements.
Asset classes
Tokenized assets
A framework for RIAs evaluating tokenized assets: identify the underlying exposure, legal claim, transfer restrictions, redemption path, and control surface.
Tokenized Treasuries
Tokenized Treasuries explained for financial advisors: underlying exposure, fund structure, eligibility, settlement, redemption, liquidity, and issuer control.
Stablecoin yield
A due-diligence framework for stablecoin yield: distinguish borrower interest, Treasury income, reward subsidies, credit risk, liquidity, and issuer controls.
Due diligence
DeFi checklist
A practical DeFi due-diligence checklist covering instrument, asset, protocol, chain, controls, liquidity, valuation, custody, tax, suitability, and monitoring.
Smart-contract risk
A practical smart-contract risk framework for financial advisors covering scope, upgrades, dependencies, audits, bug bounties, incidents, governance, and monitoring.
On-chain liquidity
An advisor framework for on-chain liquidity: distinguish TVL, withdrawable liquidity, utilization, market depth, redemption queues, slippage, and stressed exits.
Defensible diligence file
A recordkeeping model for digital-asset due diligence: scope, sources, verdict, limits, risks, kill criteria, approvals, monitoring, corrections, and version history.