strataOS: features and capabilities

In our previous post, we showed how strataOS could be used to operate a fund onchain to fully realize the benefits of blockchain technology to fund managers. In this post, we dive into the individual features and capabilities of our platform.

About us: RockSolid has built and operated 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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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. So if the cost benefit is clear and the technology is over 10 years old, why are only a fraction of global assets onchain?

One reason is that many platforms and DeFi protocols focus on the instant settlement of blockchains, but fail to recognize the real-world requirements of regulated fund managers. Things like sanctions screening, court-ordered seizure, investor KYC and accredited or qualified purchaser checks, separation of roles and responsibilities between the investment manager, custodian, transfer agent and administrator and sophisticated deposit and redemption processing are just some of the requirements to manage a fund natively onchain.

strataOS closes this gap by providing comprehensive onchain asset management functionality, fully compatible with the established regulated roles required to remain compliant. Read on for features and capabilities of the platform today, what’s coming next and how it will help fund managers bring trillions on chain.

Features

Compliance
No software gets adopted by regulated institutions without compliance sign-off. strataOS’ Compliance v1.0 module ships with 4 levels of compliance and is customizable and upgradable (see Module and Extensible section).

Sanctions screening: All fund movements are checked for sanctions compliance on every movement and cannot move if sanctioned. The module is integrated with OFAC’s official lists and can be augmented with any additional proprietary sanctions screening solution.

Court-ordered seizure: Regulated institutions must be able to respond effectively to valid court-ordered seizures in their jurisdiction. strataOS provides the ability to seize shares into a dedicated compliance holding account, without affecting fund accounting, while the legal process takes its course.

Investor eligibility: Investor eligibility is a complex area. A depositor's accredited status, qualified purchaser status, their jurisdiction, their presence or not in a KYC register or prior investments and many more attributes can affect their real time eligibility to invest in a fund. strataOS provides hooks to integrate with on- or off-chain eligibility registers.

Whitelisting and Blacklisting: Vaults can opt into a whitelisted mode and can also manage custom blacklists, independently of the built-in compliance functions.

Separation of Responsibilities

While DeFi has recognized roles such as “curator” (asset manager) being separate from the technology platform, it mostly falls short of what institutions require. strataOS is structured around the principle of least privilege to provide enough access to enable dedicated roles to fulfil their responsibilities, but not more. See: Introducing strataOS: onchain asset management platform for more information about how roles map onto the platform.

NAV Keeper: Can only record the total assets of the vault. Unusual deviations require a separate signoff (see NAV section). By separating this role, it can be fulfilled either by a dedicated accounting role internal to the firm, or an external valuation entity (human or agent).

Access Manager: Can manage whitelists and blacklists, as well as set the “providers” for sanctions and eligibility hooks.

Claim Keeper: A UX side-effect of asynchronous deposits and redemptions is that depositors need to "request" or “queue” a deposit and then later come and claim their shares. The claim keeper role allows an automated house keeper to “claim” queued deposits that have been settled, to the depositor.

Recovery: ERC20 tokens sent directly to a vault can be stranded. A recovery role provides a structured process to recover them.

Investment Manager / Allocator: May deploy fund assets.

Admin: Can grant/revoke roles (including the investment manager)

Modular and Extensible

We’ve seen many DeFi platforms eschew modularity, either to fit inside solidity’s 24kb contract limit, or limit complexity. strataOS combines modularity, allowing individual modules to be extended, while utilizing engineering best practices to make the platform secure and auditable. strataOS is designed to support changing regulations, changing business practices, while providing all the settlement guarantees that make blockchains ideal financial infrastructure.

Standards-based: ERC4626 + async extensions.

Many funds need to queue up deposits and settle them together at the end of the day. Other funds, especially onchain funds, are able to keep a certain amount of liquidity available to instantly settle deposits and redemptions at the last NAV.

strataOS supports ERC4626 to take full advantage of the composability (or money legos) of DeFi, while offering full support asynchronous “queued” deposits and redemptions.^[1]

Fees

Fees are customizable with management, performance with high water mark, deposit and redemption fees included OOTB.

Optimized NAV

NAV calculations are critical and can take a lot of resources. One of the promises of DeFi is to automate NAV calculations, by being able to instantly read the settled state of all positions instantaneously. For example, a smart contract or trusted offchain entity can calculate and submit NAV. However, with great power comes great responsibility. A malicious or simply broken NAV reporter could cause shares to be minted at a discount or redeemed at a premium. strataOS supports configurable thresholds to accept automated NAV reports within tight ranges, but to require administrators to approve NAVs that exceed expected day to day variations.

What’s Next

We think strataOS is the state of the art in onchain fund management and is best positioned to move fund management onchain at scale. But there is more to do!

In the next release we’ll be building out:

If you're an asset manager or fund management platform wanting to adopt blockchain technology for yourself or your clients, contact us at hello@rocksolid.network to learn more.