# RIADeFi: on-chain finance for financial advisors

> An advisor’s field guide to on-chain finance, published by Ketju Research. Control profiles, published verdicts, regulation, and due diligence for RIAs.

- Reviewed: 2026-09-30
- The Atlas: https://riadefi.com/atlas/ (92 assets, 28 chains; JSON at /atlas/assets.json and /atlas/chains.json)
- The Ledger: https://riadefi.com/on-chain/ (JSON at /on-chain/ledger.json)
- Regulation: https://riadefi.com/regulation/ (JSON at /regulation/ledger.json)
- The Research Files: https://riadefi.com/rejections/ (173 rejections, 173 full memos)

## Field guides

- [DeFi for RIAs: the due-diligence guide to asset, protocol, chain, and custody](https://riadefi.com/defi-for-rias/): How an RIA diligences a DeFi position: the four-layer test of asset, protocol, chain, and custody, the failures that taught each layer, and the file to keep.
- [On-chain finance for financial advisors: a field guide](https://riadefi.com/on-chain-finance/): On-chain finance for advisors: what public-chain settlement changes, DeFi versus tokenized securities, who pays stablecoin yield, and what control means.
- [Tokenized assets for RIAs: wrapper, exposure, and who may hold it](https://riadefi.com/tokenized-assets/): Tokenized assets for RIAs: what the holder owns, how the wrapper works, who may hold each program on file, and what the issuers say about IRAs.
- [Tokenized securities for advisors: what the holder actually owns](https://riadefi.com/asset-classes/tokenized-securities/): Tokenized stock explained for advisors: the SEC staff’s four models, the DTC path, who keeps the official record, what “same rights” means, and what belongs in the file.
- [Tokenized Treasuries for advisors: what changes and what does not](https://riadefi.com/asset-classes/tokenized-treasuries/): How tokenized Treasury funds work: structure, transfer agent, mint and redemption mechanics, eligibility gates, and what a five-product access review found.
- [RIA digital-asset regulatory tracker: primary sources and open questions](https://riadefi.com/regulation/): A source-first regulatory tracker for RIAs evaluating digital assets, tokenized securities, DeFi, custody, communications, tax, and market-structure developments.

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Published by Ketju Research (https://ketjuresearch.com). Educational analysis only; not legal, tax, compliance, or investment advice.
Machine-readable index: https://riadefi.com/llms.txt · Content API: https://riadefi.com/content.json