Firelight Partners with Sentora for DeFi Vault Insurance

Firelight Protocol and Sentora announced a partnership on April 23 in Dubai to integrate capital-backed protection directly into Sentora's institutional decentralized finance vaults, aiming to address key risks that have hindered broader adoption by large investors.

The collaboration positions Firelight as the dedicated cover protocol for Sentora's public and private vaults, providing native insurance against smart contract exploits, oracle failures, and bad debt events. Sentora, which curates noncustodial DeFi strategies and has managed more than $3 billion in historical deployments, integrates this protection at the vault level to streamline onchain capital deployment. The company's ecosystem already connects with major platforms, including Kraken and Fireblocks, where its Advanced Strategy Vault for Kraken DeFi Earn holds over $110 million in deposits from approximately 30,000 participants, with related vaults totaling around $148 million.

This embedded coverage responds to demands from institutional allocators and retail platforms for more than just risk analysis, according to Sentora CEO Anthony DeMartino. "Even with leading risk models, many participants want more than...