# DFNS

> DFNS is a Paris-founded financial infrastructure company that gives banks, fintechs, payment providers and tokenization platforms one programmable layer for wallets, keys, transactions, treasury, policies and compliance across blockchains. Its wager is that digital assets will go mainstream only when the machinery underneath them behaves less like a crypto wallet and more like a core banking system.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Paris, France
- **Founders:** Clarisse Hagège (CEO and Co-founder), Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines (Co-CEO and Co-founder)
- **Team size:** 87 employees listed on LinkedIn in 2026
- **Products:** Wallet-as-a-Service, Key Management, Transaction Management, Policy and Governance Engines, Treasury Management
- **Notable:** DFNS reports $100B+ in client assets secured and $10B+ in monthly transaction volume., DFNS reports 400+ fintech and institutional clients., The company reports 99.997% historical uptime since 2022.

## Products & services

- **Wallet-as-a-Service** — APIs and SDKs for creating and embedding custodial or user-controlled wallets across supported networks.
- **Key Management** — MPC, HSM, TEE and offline signing options, including hybrid and on-premises deployment models.
- **Transaction Management** — Construction, signing, broadcast, monitoring, retries, webhooks, fee sponsorship and screening across the transaction lifecycle.
- **Policy and Governance Engines** — Roles, approval quorums, limits, allowlists and customer-controlled validation before signing.
- **Treasury Management** — Multichain balances, sweeping, swaps, staking, yield allocations, reports and governed movement of funds.
- **Tokenization** — Tools to issue, mint, transfer, burn and govern stablecoins and tokenized assets through smart contracts.
- **Core Banking Platform for Digital Assets** — A unified operating layer spanning wallets, accounts, transactions, treasury, tokenization, identity, policy and integrations.

## Achievements

- DFNS reports $100B+ in client assets secured and $10B+ in monthly transaction volume.
- DFNS reports 400+ fintech and institutional clients.
- The company reports 99.997% historical uptime since 2022.
- IBM selected DFNS technology for IBM Digital Asset Haven in 2025.
- DFNS says it has had zero key losses and zero security breaches since launch.
- The company reports SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 certifications.
- Clarisse Hagège won the VivaTech Female Founder Challenge in 2021.
- Sifted named DFNS among Europe's 100 fastest-growing startups in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Stabyl chose DFNS as the operating layer beneath liquidity infrastructure serving African payment providers and banks.
- **2026-07** — DFNS introduced transaction screening with lookalike detection for address-poisoning attacks.
- **2026-07** — AWS CloudHSM became a supported customer-controlled key backend.
- **2026-07** — DFNS integrated with Wyden for straight-through institutional trade execution and settlement.
- **2026-07** — Equisafe selected DFNS for wallets, transfers, restrictions and records across its tokenization platform.
- **2026-07** — DFNS added Robinhood Chain as a Tier-1 supported network.
- **2026-06** — DFNS introduced a customer-controlled Governance Engine for hybrid and on-premises deployments.
- **2026-05** — Former IBM and Bastion executive Jared Klee joined as Chief Revenue Officer.

## Links

- Website: https://dfns.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dfnshq
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/dfnsHQ
- GitHub: https://github.com/dfns
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/dfnscustody/

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Last updated: 2026-08-21