Tori raised 50 million USD in funding 7 days before going live, bringing institutional-level arbitrage strategies on-chain

Dutch crypto finance protocol Tori Finance announced that its institutional-grade Delta neutral yield product strUSD has completed a $50 million pre-deposit fundraising before its official launch, reaching the cap in just 7 days. Tori stated that strUSD offers an annualized yield of approximately 12%, with returns derived from global arbitrage trading strategies traditionally used by financial institutions, rather than from the circulation of funds in the crypto market. This strategy achieves low correlation with crypto market cycles by borrowing in low-interest currencies, investing in high-interest markets, and utilizing foreign exchange hedging to lock in dollar returns.

Tori founder Samed Duzcay mentioned that such trades were previously mainly participated in by large institutions like pension funds and banks, which typically required a funding threshold of tens of millions of dollars and involved complex processes such as local bank accounts, custody, tax, and compliance approvals. Tori opens up these institutional strategies to ordinary users through on-chain tokenization. Users can deposit USDC or USDT to obtain the synthetic dollar asset trUSD and stake to earn strUSD. This asset is based on the ERC-20 standard and can be integrated with DeFi protocols such as Morpho, Pendle, and Curve, and can also be used as collateral for lending to further amplify returns.

Tori claims that the protocol constructs an on-chain balance sheet through zero-knowledge proofs and trusted execution environments, with independent verification agency Accountable conducting real-time audits of off-chain fund situations; digital asset investment firm RockawayX serves as the risk management party and anchor liquidity provider. Additionally, Tori's smart contracts have been audited by Sherlock and Nethermind, and Hypernative has been introduced for round-the-clock security monitoring, with all contract upgrades set to a 24-hour delay mechanism. Tori stated that its goal is to bring the neutral yield strategies used by traditional financial institutions for decades into the on-chain financial system, promoting the integration of real yields with DeFi infrastructure.