Firelight Protocol has partnered with Sentora, formerly known as IntoTheBlock, to embed a capital-backed protection layer directly into Sentora's institutional DeFi vault infrastructure. The integration, announced in Dubai on April 23, is designed to offer native cover for technical and economic risks across Sentora's public and private vaults, targeting institutional allocators that have so far treated DeFi with caution.
Under the partnership, Firelight will function as the dedicated cover protocol for Sentora's vault ecosystem, giving participants embedded protection against smart contract exploits, oracle failures, and bad debt when deploying capital onchain. Sentora positions itself as a curator of institutional-grade DeFi strategies, with non-custodial vaults, real-time analytics, and more than $3 billion in cumulative deployed capital across hundreds of positions.
Sentora CEO Anthony DeMartino said: "What we hear consistently from institutional allocators and retail platforms is that an onchain cover primitive is needed for DeFi to reach broader adoption. Even with leading risk models, many participants want more than risk mitigation alone. They want a clear, capital-backed protection layer that can be integrated directly into how capital is deployed onchain."
The Firelight–Sentora tie-up targets one of DeFi's structural weaknesses: persistent exploit and oracle risk has repeatedly capped institutional participation despite the growth of curated products like Kraken's DeFi vaults and Fireblocks' Earn offering. By embedding coverage at the vault level, both teams aim to standardize protection as a first-class component of onchain capital deployment.
Firelight is built on the Flare Network and uses FXRP — a non-custodial, 1:1 wrapped representation of XRP — as its primary collateral base, allowing staked XRP to underwrite protocol risk while remaining a yield-bearing asset. Flare has emerged as a leading DeFi venue for XRP after FXRP's launch, with network total value locked rising nearly 38%.
Flare co-founder Hugo Philion stated: "Firelight and Sentora represent exactly what we’ve been building toward with Flare, which is institutional-grade infrastructure that puts XRP to work in ways that were not previously possible." He framed the system as a way to "support DeFi at scale with robust collateral, transparent risk frameworks, and integrated protection mechanisms."
Architecturally, Firelight combines diversified collateral pools backed by FXRP, programmatic underwriting powered by Sentora's proprietary risk models, and automated claims processing designed to reduce friction and improve transparency for both stakers and cover buyers.
The Vault on-chain security solution uses advanced smart contract logic to monitor transactions in real time, enforce strict access controls, and freeze suspicious activity instantly. Key features include real-time transaction monitoring for anomaly detection, multi-signature authorization for high-value transfers, automated risk assessment using on-chain data analytics, emergency pause mechanisms, and transparent audit trails for regulatory compliance.
Sentora contributed advanced on-chain analytics capabilities, while Firelight brought deep expertise in DeFi protocol development. The system operates on Ethereum, Polygon, and other EVM-compatible chains, with plans to expand to non-EVM networks.
