The decentralized financing companies (DEFI) Intotheblocs and Trident Digital have merged to train Sentora, in uniting their forces to bring institutional investors onchain.
The new company, led by Anthony Demartino, co-founder of Trident and former risk strategies manager at Coinbase (Coin), is also on the right track to close a round of $ 25 million with a new formal capital conducting the investment. Ripple, Tribe Capital, UDHC, joint effects have also participated in the fundraising, with additional support for strategic ecosystem investors, including curved companies, rockets and Bankai companies. While most investors have already closed the investment, two companies will close the process by June, the company told Coindesk.
The merger arrives at a time when Defi has matured since its beginnings “Wild West” in a financial economy based on blockchain with increasingly targeted offers to sophisticated investors.
He also underlines the continuous trend of consolidation within the cryptographic industry. There were 88 mergers and acquisitions in the first four months of 2025, according to architectural partners, putting this year to exceed the record years of 2022 and 2024.
Sentora combines the history of intotheblock in DEFI Analytics – of more than $ 3 billion in institutional deployments – with the experience of Trident which structures liquidity programs and financial products.
The platform aims to provide a single window for institutional investors, offering performance strategies, compliance, risk management and access to structured products in a single hood.
“The vision is to build all the main primitives necessary for any institution, whether it is a cryptographic institution, a DAO foundation, a traditional financial investor or an individual family office, to interact with Defi in a way that feels intelligent, who feels safe, who feels safe,” said Jesus Rodriguez, co-founder of intotheblock and Sentora, in an interview with Coindesk.
A key obstacle that has embarrassed the large -scale asset managers is that space becomes more and more complex and fragmented through new chains and protocols, said Demarino.
“It shouldn’t be so difficult,” he said. “You should not have to find out more about a new channel and discover a whole bunch of different protocols and to understand the bridging and the various wallets each time you want to go to a new channel.”
This can help to fill this gap and even attract traditional chain financing companies, according to DeMartino, is to summarize far from the interaction with individual protocols with a single platform that manages all risk management and liquidity, while keeping transparency on underlying plumbing.
“The DEFI rails are the future of finance, but it’s still a very small market,” he said. Defillama data show that there are less than $ 130 billion in assets on DEFI protocols, overshadowed by the multiple assets under management like Blackrock and Fidelity Investments.
“We build the rails for the 130 billions of assets to come to come to come,” he said.
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