Sentora, an institutional DeFi intelligence and risk management platform, and Firelight Protocol have partnered to provide native coverage for Sentora’s public and private vaults. In order to facilitate institutional involvement across Sentora’s platform—which now oversees billions in deployed capital—the integration adds a capital-backed protection layer.
With infrastructure integrated into platforms like Kraken and Fireblocks, Sentora has made a name for itself as a top curator of institutional DeFi solutions. Sentora’s vaults will have native security thanks to this collaboration with Firelight, the cover protocol. Participants in Sentora’s vault ecosystem will have access to inherent defense against threats including bad debt, Oracle failures, and smart contract exploitation.
“What we hear consistently from institutional allocators and retail platforms is that an onchain cover primitive is needed for DeFi to reach broader adoption,” said Anthony DeMartino, CEO of Sentora. “Even with leading risk models, many participants want more than risk mitigation alone. They want a clear, capital-backed protection layer that can be integrated directly into how capital is deployed onchain. This partnership with Firelight helps bring that missing layer to market.”
The collaboration fills a significant structural gap in DeFi, where institutional adoption has traditionally been hampered by security concerns. Firelight and Sentora want to standardize protection as a fundamental element of DeFi capital deployment by directly integrating coverage into vault infrastructure.
The main collateral mechanism used by Firelight, which is based on Flare Network, is FXRP, a non-custodial, 1:1 representation of XRP. Through covering provision, this structure allows XRP to be used as a yield-bearing asset while introducing a diverse and uncorrelated reserve basis. Additionally, Flare aligns the infrastructure and risk layers supporting the relationship by acting as a strategic investor in Sentora.
“Firelight and Sentora represent exactly what we’ve been building toward with Flare, which is institutional-grade infrastructure that puts XRP to work in ways that were not previously possible,” said Hugo Philion, co-founder of Flare. “This partnership demonstrates how DeFi at scale can be supported by robust collateral, transparent risk frameworks, and integrated protection mechanisms.”
The architecture of Firelight integrates automated claims processing, programmatic underwriting driven by Sentora’s risk models, and a variety of collateral pools. When combined, these elements are intended to lessen the difficulty of resolving disputes while preserving capital efficiency and openness.
The collaboration is a step in the direction of creating a uniform layer of security for DeFi, especially since institutional demand keeps rising. Firelight and Sentora want to boost trust in onchain financial infrastructure and facilitate wider adoption by directly incorporating coverage into capital allocation processes.
A decentralized layer of security for digital assets is Firelight Protocol. It allows a capital-backed market for DeFi coverage, enabling protocols to buy protection while letting stakers to earn fees for safeguarding the ecosystem. It is built on the Flare Network and is backed by Sentora.
Sentora is a platform for institutional DeFi risk management and intelligence. Sentora, which was created by combining industry data and liquidity sources, oversees a large portfolio of carefully chosen DeFi vaults and provides services to asset managers, exchanges, and custodians.
