@CoinSharesCo, Europe's largest crypto ETP manager with around $10 billion under management, is moving its fund operations onto the blockchain. The firm has announced a strategic partnership
@CoinSharesCo, Europe's largest crypto ETP manager with around $10 billion under management, is moving its fund operations onto the blockchain. The firm has announced a strategic partnership with Kiln, the institutional on-chain yield infrastructure provider, to launch its first on-chain asset management strategy powered by the @railnet_org protocol.
The new strategy brings together three distinct yield sources inside a single regulated product. According to the official announcement, the architecture combines DeFi lending, institutional secured lending, tokenised real-world asset (RWA) yields, and basis arbitrage, a combination that single-protocol strategies cannot replicate. Fund settlement, NAV calculation, and compliance are all handled on-chain, with Railnet standardising how yields are managed across DeFi protocols, secured lending platforms, and tokenised real-world assets within a single, auditable framework. CoinShares says this makes it the first regulated European asset manager to bring all four yield sources under one institutional-grade roof.
The launch rests on a regulatory stack that distinguishes CoinShares from most of its peers. The firm holds existing permissions under the EU's MiFID and AIFM directives and became the first crypto asset manager based in continental Europe to receive a MiCA licence, granted by France's Autorité des Marchés Financiers. That triple combination, AIFM, MiFID, and MiCA, positions CoinShares as the only asset management firm in continental Europe authorised to operate across all asset classes throughout the EU. By combining those three licences, CoinShares says it can design products that blend traditional financial instruments with direct crypto-asset exposure in ways not previously available to regulated managers.
For distribution partners such as custodians, exchanges, and wallet providers, the strategy is intended to offer a turnkey path to institutional-grade yield products backed by CoinShares' regulatory credentials and more than a decade of experience in digital asset management.
Sources:CoinShares Official Press Release: Leverages Railnet to Launch On-Chain Asset Management StrategyCoinDesk: CoinShares Secures EU-Wide MiCA LicenseCoinShares: Our Path to Obtaining the MiCA Authorisation
