We are announcing strataOS: our next generation onchain asset management platform. It is designed to enable fund managers to adopt and fully realize the benefits of blockchain while preserving the compliance and regulatory features that institutions expect.
About us: RockSolid has built and operated onchain vault infrastructure since September 2025, with $25M+ of AUM for partners including Rocket Pool, MAVAN (a Bitmine company) and MegaETH, with zero losses or exploits since inception. That experience shapes strataOS, our onchain asset management platform for institutions.
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How vaults and tokenization benefit asset managers
Tokenization is well understood by traditional asset managers as the next wave of finance. See statements from the BlackRock and Franklin Templeton CEOs as examples. There are several key benefits to asset managers:
1. Collateral utility across digital markets. Tokenized fund shares can be posted as collateral and moved between approved counterparties at any hour, not only when traditional markets are open. For example, BlackRock's BUIDL tokenized liquidity fund was accepted as collateral on Crypto.com and Deribit in June 2025. Investors can earn fund income while using eligible shares to support trading positions.
2. Distribution to onchain investors. Stablecoins alone hold about $300bn today, and Standard Chartered expects that number to rise to $2tn by 2030. Under the US GENIUS Act, stablecoin issuers can't pay holders yield, so this creates an opportunity for regulated funds and vaults to serve stablecoin holders seeking income. This nascent global market is currently underserved by traditional regulated assets.
3. Lower operating costs. Shared transaction records can reduce repeated data entry and reconciliation, and let investors check holdings, NAV and flows at any time instead of waiting for a month-end report. Calastone's survey of 26 asset managers estimates that tokenization could cut fund operating costs by 23% and reduce a 12-week fund launch by 3 weeks.
How close is the industry to realizing these benefits?
Vaults are the closest thing DeFi has to a TradFi fund (see our prior post for a primer on vaults). Indeed, some vaults do look like open ended, actively managed hedge funds in terms of their mandate, redemption profile and manager-led allocations. However, there is a large gulf between vault platforms today and what is required for the wide array of traditional funds to be both issued and managed onchain. Even the largest onchain funds, such as BlackRock’s BUIDL, is still largely managed offchain; subscriptions, redemptions and valuation are handled by BlackRock as investment manager, BNY Mellon as custodian and fund administrator, and Securitize as transfer agent
For traditional finance to fully embrace public permissionless blockchains and realize all the benefits thereof we need sophisticated infrastructure to not just issue shares but also to manage funds onchain.
strataOS is a next generation onchain asset management platform. It is designed with our experience of managing RockSolid vaults during one of the most volatile periods in DeFi and with a mission to help fund managers fully realize the benefits of the blockchain technology to their operation and customers.
Onchain vs Offchain Fund Management
This table summarises the new capabilities that strataOS enables with onchain fund management:
| Role | Offchain | Onchain with strataOS |
|---|---|---|
| Fund manager / sponsor | Sets up the legal fund and is responsible for it. Appoints the service providers. | Same legal responsibility. The mandate is also written as enforceable policy rules, and the vault's admin role can pause it in an emergency. |
| Investment manager | Makes investment decisions within the mandate and sends instructions to brokers and the custodian. Compliance is partly pre-trade, and breaches, if identified, will be found in post-trade review. | Makes the same decisions, but expresses each one as a transaction. An out-of-mandate trade can't be signed, so a breach is prevented rather than reported afterwards. |
| Transfer agent | Keeps the investor register and processes subscriptions and redemptions, usually in batches on dealing dates, with settlement days or weeks later. Handles investor KYC/AML. | The vault contract is the share register. It issues and redeems shares at the reported NAV, and every investor can see their own position onchain. KYC and the mapping of wallets to investor identities stay offchain (for now). |
| Administrator | Collects statements from custodians and brokers, reconciles them, and calculates NAV. NAV typically arrives days after the valuation date, and investors rely on the reported figure. | Automates NAV from positions read directly onchain. Each report publishes a fingerprint of its evidence, so it can be independently re-derived, and the contract rejects any NAV outside a preset band. Larger moves need a human-approved exceptional process. |
| Custodian | Holds assets in segregated accounts and settles trades on instruction. May also oversee compliance with fund rules. | Assets sit in the vault contract or in a policy-controlled allocator wallet, with signing split by role in an MPC or Safe. Value can move only between the vault and approved venues. |
Why onchain is superior
- Rock solid fund mandate enforcement: a transaction outside the mandate can't be proposed or signed, and value can move only between the vault and approved protocols. Mistakes or malicious trades are actively prevented by the platform, rather than pre- or post-trade human review
- Instant and accurate reporting: investors can value their holdings continuously and accurately, rather than waiting for monthly statements or audits.
- Efficiency: offchain, each party keeps its own books and spends time reconciling them. Onchain, everyone reads the same ledger. Less errors means less human time and human error on less valuable work.
- Fast settlement: subscriptions and redemptions settle by contract at NAV, without a chain of instructions between providers.
Summary
Blockchains represent a significant opportunity for fund managers to reduce costs, through the use of shared ledger technology, vastly reducing the size of back office operations required to settle transactions. Additionally, there are significant new AUM opportunities for funds who adopt blockchains to reach new markets.
The reason that onchain funds and ‘real world assets’ (RWAs) today only represent a tiny fraction of the trillions of funds offchain, is that managing a fund natively onchain requires far more than just adopting a shared ledger. The need for investment managers, custodians, transfer agents, fund administrators and their fiduciary and compliance roles remain, but many onchain platforms ignore that reality.
Modern fund managers who seek to embrace the cost reduction and revenue opportunities of blockchains to bring products onchain, similar to how BlackRock has done with BUIDL, need both a platform and a team that can help them adopt the technology, while fitting neatly to their existing operations. The RockSolid team and the strataOS onchain management platform is that combination.
To learn more, contact us at hello@rocksolid.network