Catalysis Labs

Most people still underestimate the scale of what we're building. Catalysis isn’t just “risk coverage for DeFi”- it’s the infrastructure layer that connects the traditional insurance and reinsurance industry to digital asset markets. Today, that capital is mostly restaked BTC/ETH/stablecoins. Tomorrow, it generalizes to RWA credit, alternative collateral and global institutional yield. Next week, our team will be in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 for Insurtech Insights Asia, bringing the blockchain vision to the people who are building the future of risk.

We’re launching Catalysis Coverage on Symbiotic, a modular and fully onchain risk coverage network built for institutional DeFi. - Programmable payouts - Transparent pricing - Risk-specific CoverPools - Compliance-first design First, why Symbiotic? We’ve been working very closely with Symbiotic for over a year, from building our security abstraction layer to announcing coverage. Now we’re doubling down to build and scale this network on Symbiotic. Symbiotic’s modular vault + slashing architecture lets teams compose new risk primitives (Financial Guarantees): - Dedicated vaults per use case - Deterministic, programmable slashing - Curator-defined parameters & pricing This is the base layer we needed for institutional scale coverage. Symbiotic's universal staking architecture enables staked capital to act as programmable collateral. Its vaults enforce objective, pre-defined triggers, enabling fast, enforceable payouts and scalable, reliable capacity for institutions. Catalysis plugs into the Symbiotic stack: - Catalysis Core abstracts the restaking layer, aggregating collateral, slashing logic, rewards, and redistribution. - CoverPools, run by risk curators, draw capacity from Core and set onchain policy parameters. - Catalysis Coverage orchestrates pricing, premiums, triggers, and automated claim execution. Result: transparent pricing, programmable protection, and institution-grade design. A quick recap on why now and what it enables? Only ~0.5% of DeFi TVL is covered. Institutions need deterministic loss limits and real capacity, not ticketed claims. Catalysis + Symbiotic unlock billions in potential risk coverage for institutions and DeFi protocols. What it enables: - Covered Lending → capital-efficient borrowing - Covered Vaults → instant withdrawal backstops - Covered Stablecoins/YBT → peg protection - RWA coverage → solar/infra, trade routes, custody, mining Pre-deposits are open for Restakers & LRTs on Symbiotic to underwriting supply. If you’re a Restaker or an LRT looking to participate, DM Yanshu Yadav (or email yanshu@catalysis.network) to chat more. Learn more https://lnkd.in/gCgqerwh

Great conversation with Symbiotic and Edgar Roth ! Listen as Abhishek Kumar digs into programmable risk coverage guarantees backed by Symbiotic's infrastructure, how CoverPools work in practice and much more. Institutions are here!

Today, Catalysis is pivoting to be the first onchain risk coverage infrastructure built for institutions. After months of customer conversations, we've made the most significant strategic decision in the history of Catalysis, driven by a stark reality about institutional DeFi adoption. Despite regulatory clarity finally emerging around digital assets, only 0.5% of DeFi TVL currently has coverage protection. This means institutions with billions in capital are waiting on the sidelines, unable to deploy at scale because the coverage infrastructure simply doesn't exist. Most DeFi coverage protocols can protect a few million dollars at best. But institutions are thinking in hundreds of millions and billions. There's a fundamental mismatch between what exists today and what the market needs. That's why we're announcing our complete strategic pivot to institutional-scale onchain coverage. We're leveraging $20B+ in restaked capital through Catalysis Core, our shared security abstraction layer, to create protection capacity 100x larger than existing protocols. In addition, we offer fully onchain coverage with programmable payouts, transparent algorithmic pricing, and compliance frameworks built for institutional requirements. Here's how it works: 1. Restaked capital (ETH, BTC, and SOL) from restaking protocols gets allocated to professionally managed CoverPools 2. Institutions access coverage through smart contracts and receive claims disbursements programmatically within minutes rather than weeks 3. Restakers earn yield from institutional premiums while providing essential coverage capacity This unlocks applications impossible before at institutional scale: lending markets with coverage-enhanced capital efficiency, enterprise-grade stablecoin protection, and structured yield products with institutional-level risk mitigation. We believe this addresses the core infrastructure gap preventing serious institutional capital from moving onchain. Institutions are ready to deploy, they just need the right coverage infrastructure. If you're an institutional borrower, restaking protocol, LRT or DeFi protocol looking to discuss enterprise-scale coverage solutions, please contact our team. Get Involved Catalysis represents an open coverage ecosystem where developers, curators, and researchers can participate in building the future of onchain capital markets. For institutions: If you're an institutional borrower, restaking protocol, LRT, or DeFi protocol looking for institutional-scale coverage, our sales team is ready to discuss how Catalysis can support your growth. For Developers: While Catalysis Coverage is not yet open-source, teams interested in early access can reach out directly to our business team. Stay Connected: Follow our journey and get the latest updates on our progress toward institutional-scale DeFi. Website: https://catalysis.network/ Twitter: https://x.com/0xcatalysis

Catalysis' new direction. Coming soon. 17.09.2025

A unified gateway to $20B+ in economic security. Catalysis Core v0 is NOW LIVE — The first Security Abstraction Layer that unleashes unified restaked security across Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana. Catalysis Core is built on three key components: 1. Core SDK – Framework for building SSNs 2. Smart Contracts – Onchain logic for coordination and security 3. Lumos CLI – CLI tool for fast SSN setup Learn more about the launch here: https://lnkd.in/gyga4fJd At the heart of this release is the Core SDK, a comprehensive framework for building SSNs that perform distributed computations while maintaining economic security and consensus. We call this: Shared Security Abstraction (SSA). Key features of SDK: • Distributed consensus: Leader election, stake-weighted voting, attestation aggregation • P2P networking: Peer discovery, message relaying • Cryptographic security: ECDSA + BLS • Onchain integration: Result submission, contract triggers, and more Catalysis Core smart contract suite enables secure and scalable SSN deployment. These contracts act as the onchain coordination layer between SSNs, operators and multiple restaking protocols like Eigenlayer and Symbiotic. Catalysis Core also ships with Lumos CLI, a command‑line tool that lets developers scaffold, test and deploy SSNs and service configurations from a terminal. Using the two together, teams can go from idea to a running, secure SSN in days instead of months. What’s next? We’re leveraging Catalysis Core to build Catalysis Coverage — an onchain risk coverage layer for credit protection, stablecoins, and structured yield. Pilot launches in Q4'25 with institutional partners. Mainnet coverage goes live in Q1'26. Learn more about it here - https://lnkd.in/gHBYNA8Q Head over to the blog to learn more about Core v0, its key components, and follow Catalysis Labs to stay updated on upcoming announcements. https://lnkd.in/gyga4fJd