Product development updates and threads
Stay informed with the latest product development updates, including new features, enhancements, and platform improvements. Here, you'll find key information on upcoming releases, feature rollouts, and progress towards our product roadmap.
Since our last update, we’ve enhanced how investors earn yield, expanded our analytics, taken a big step toward centralized exchange (CEX) integration, and added new collateral options. Let’s dive in.
Arkis Vault
We’ve made key updates to Arkis Vault to improve how yield is earned and tracked:
Investors now receive all Curator earnings, except for the performance fee. This means more rewards go directly to depositors.
Curators now earn a performance fee, creating better incentives for effective capital allocation.
Net APY analytics are now available to both Investors and Curators, offering better transparency into real yield generation.
CEX Integration
One of the biggest challenges in DeFi is the collateral drag that comes with maintaining leveraged positions across both decentralized and centralized exchanges. This month, we made progress toward solving that problem.
Our Arkis Analytics engine now analyzes account clusters across both Ethereum margin accounts and Binance sub-accounts allowing for delta-neutral positions to be considered in aggregate margin calculations. This is a big deal because it lays the groundwork for full CEX integration, allowing clients to optimize margining across both DeFi and CeFi.
Why does this matter?
Reduced Collateral Drag – Right now, traders have to move capital back and forth between CEXs and DeFi protocols to maintain margin. With our system, capital can be deployed more efficiently.
Lower Liquidation Risk – Because our margin engine now recognizes hedged positions on CEXs, it can prevent unnecessary liquidations that would normally occur if the system only accounted for DeFi positions.
This is a step toward Arkis becoming the first true DeFi/CeFi Prime Broker, allowing traders to seamlessly manage leverage across different venues. Clients are now able to apply for Arkis CEX integration, gaining dedicated Binance sub-accounts under Arkis’s entity for optimized portfolio margining.
Pendle LPs Now Accepted as Collateral
We’ve added Pendle LP tokens as a new collateral type. Pendle is a DeFi protocol for institutions and retail consumers that enables yield tokenization, meaning users can separate and trade the yield generated by an asset. This allows for more advanced yield strategies, including fixed-income products and leveraged yield farming. After extensive due diligence, we’ve determined that Pendle meets our risk and security standards and is a strong fit for our walled garden.
As we close out the year, we've been hard at work bringing exciting updates to life. From real-time risk notifications to new tools like Arkis Vault and the Order Book, we're excited to continue innovating while keeping user-friendliness and security top of mind.
Critical Event Alerts
Arkis keeps you in the loop with timely notifications for critical events. Our Telegram-based Arkis Bot sends automatic alerts, while our Slack integration and email notifications ensure you’re always updated.
Looking ahead, we’re working toward providing even more control over your notifications. The team is building support for fine-grain customization, including webhook integrations and the ability to configure notification channels for any system event.
Arkis Vault Beta Update
Arkis Vault simplifies investment management by pooling client funds into a single pool and allocating them across borrowers. This feature is tailored for clients seeking passive yield and provides:
A unified pool for efficient allocation of funds across multiple borrowers and DeFi pools and protocols whitelisted and governed by the Arkis Protocol
Weighted yield based on the performance of selected borrowers
Hands-off fund management handled entirely by the Arkis team
Fund distribution managed by the Credit Manager, targeting Tier-1 certified borrowers onboarded on the Arkis Platform
This solution is ideal for individuals or organizations looking to generate passive income and requiring a simple and effective investment vehicle. This month's progress marked a pivotal step towards delivering a feature-complete Arkis Vault. Our simplified deposit processes for USDC, wETH, and wBTC mean optimized asset utilization within the Arkis ecosystem, all while providing investors passive yield—effortlessly. We’ll have more updates throughout the remainder of Q1!
Arkis Order Book and Request Pool
With the Order Book, you can now view how other participants set their lending and borrowing bids and offers in real time. Arkis Order book:
Displays outstanding lending and borrowing proposals for various assets
Analyzes borrower demand based on loan size, term, and borrowing rate
Highlights APY variations as a function of collateral, LTV, and target leverage or use case
The Request Pool feature allows you to submit personalized requests, which will dynamically update the current state of the Order Book.
Submit personalized lending or borrowing requests directly through the Arkis platform
Customize your transaction by setting the asset, desired APY, and adding comments (e.g., protocol, collateral, or use case)
Lastly, we’re excited to announce our strategic partnership with Hypernative to enhance risk management across our product suite. Hyperactive's real-time threat prevention platform will provide Arkis users with proactive risk mitigation, automated responses to potential threats, and robust protection across staking, custody, and yield-generation strategies.
As 2024 comes to a close, we’re proud to reflect on the growth and milestones we’ve achieved this year. Thank you for your continued support—we can’t wait to share what’s in store for 2025!
As we prepare to close out the year, we’re ramping up to complete our goal of delivering a seamless prime brokerage experience in decentralized finance. This month, we focused on UX improvements centered around dynamic risk management and enhanced transparency. We also completed our second audit - Arkis 2.2 is here!
Here’s what’s new this month:
Improved Borrow UX
We’ve streamlined the borrowing experience to make it faster, more intuitive, and efficient. Here’s what’s new:
See your Risk Factor as a function of leverage and borrowed assets
Support for multiple collateral types
View LTV
Notifications
Staying on top of critical updates is now easier than ever with our real-time notifications and personalized communication channels. When a transaction opens, we create a dedicated Telegram or Slack channel for that investor, where automated alerts go directly to them if their position risk levels start to drop. If liquidation is close, we’ll even call them to help ensure they can act in time.
Investment Dashboard Update
Lenders can now view both the total accrued interest and the interest that's currently claimable - all from their investment dashboard.
Arkis Order Book and Request Pool
With the Order Book, you can now view how other participants set their lending and borrowing bids and offers in real time. The Request Pool feature allows you to submit personalized requests, which will dynamically update the current state of the Order Book.
Arkis Order Book
Displays outstanding lending and borrowing proposals for various assets.
Analyzes borrower demand based on loan size, term, and borrowing rate.
Highlights APY variations as a function of collateral, LTV, and target leverage or use case
Request Pool
Submit personalized lending or borrowing requests directly through the Arkis platform.
Customize your transaction by setting the asset, desired APY, and adding comments (e.g., protocol, collateral, or use case).
Audit Complete
Security is at the core of everything we do. Our second audit by Trail of Bits is complete and we have addressed all identified issues.
Check out our December 2025 audit here.
Audit Process Initiation
We’ve kicked off the audit process with Trail of Bits, which is expected to last between two and four weeks. This will follow up on our previous audit by Quantstamp, viewable here.
Arkis Asset Management Toolkit and Arkis Vault Development
This is designed to enable asset managers to build and manage on-chain portfolios with specific permissions. After multiple architectural discussions, we are finalizing the design and moving toward development completion. The first product utilizing the toolkit will be Arkis Vault, allowing passive lenders to provide liquidity to Credit Managers responsible for lending pool allocations.
Institutional Platform and v2 Protocol Testing
Internal testing for our institutional platform is underway, with promising results so far. We plan to onboard our initial clients within the next two weeks. The platform aims to offer a comprehensive lending and borrowing experience for KYC’d clients interested in institutional credit agreements.
In June, our team at Arkis made substantial progress in advancing our platform's capabilities. Here’s an overview of our major accomplishments in the last month:
Partial Withdrawal Feature Implementation
We have successfully implemented the Partial Withdrawal feature. This allows borrowers to withdraw borrowed assets from their Arkis Margin Account if the value of their collateral exceeds the borrowed assets. This feature opens up numerous new user cases, including:
Collateralizing Pendle PT positions to withdraw assets for use on CEX accounts.
Collateralizing exotic assets and accessing withdrawn funds at the user's convenience
Migration to v2.0 - Multi-Pool System
We are making significant strides in migrating our architecture to version 2.0, featuring a multi-pool system. Key progress includes:
Completed drafts of UI/UX for our institutional platform.
Nearly completed architecture of smart contracts and the margin engine within the new system.
In Arkis v2.0, lenders will have the ability to set up various pools with predefined permissions (white-labeled assets, pools, protocols) and define corresponding interest rate models to compensate for the risk associated with each pool.
We’ll be in Brussels this week for ETHCC! We’re excited to chat with lenders about our prime brokerage model, enablement of PT collateralization, and Arkis’s plans over the next quarter. Also, Arkis is the only platform offering up to 4x leverage on PT tokens—check out our latest article on our Pendle integration!
About Arkis
Arkis offers multichain, undercollateralized leverage powered by portfolio margin. Author Oleksandr Proskurin is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer.
You can follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter and join our Announcements channel on Telegram to be the first to hear about product updates.
This month, Arkis hit significant milestones in our Pendle integration, launched new institutional client functionalities, and implemented several product enhancements.
Key Developments
Pendle Integration Advances: We are excited to announce that next week, our first 5 institutional clients will use their weETH /sUSD Pendle PT tokens as collateral to get 4x leverage on top of collateral to open levered Pendle PT positions.
Pendle PT and SY Support:
Added Pendle PT entry and exit positions through AMM.
Added Pendle SY token support.
Arkis 1.1 Implementation: Finished the implementation of Arkis 1.1, which operates on our new architecture (Onchain Portfolio Analytics) with Pendle integration included.
Development Cluster: Created a dev cluster for comprehensive testing of the new architecture.
1inch Adapter Enhancements: Implemented minor improvements to the 1inch adapter to enhance functionality.
Bug Fixes and Improvements: Conducted various bug fixes in the Arkis dApp, particularly focusing on improving allowances.
We were excited to meet many of you at Consensus in Austin last week as we continue with development based largely on user feedback! Please reach out for more information on our Pendle integration where users can get up to 5x leverage.
About Arkis
Arkis offers multichain, undercollateralized leverage powered by portfolio margin. Author Oleksandr Proskurin is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer.
You can follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter and join our Announcements channel on Telegram to be the first to hear about product updates.
Over the past month, our team at Arkis has made massive progress in migrating to the new architecture, progress in Pendle protocol integration, and improved UI/UX experience. Here’s an overview of our major accomplishments in April:
Key Developments
Pendle Protocol Advances: Integrated PT and YT positions on Pendle.
Lending and Borrowing Interface: Improved the user experience related to allowances in our Lending and Borrowing/Opening Margin Accounts.
Design Mock-Ups: Generated new design mock-ups for the Lender and Borrower pages that aim to streamline the interaction process.
Institutional Engagement: Institutional Lenders and Asset Managers will gain access to the Arkis Platform, which will enable them to create Pools, borrow assets, and conduct client-specific transactions among themselves.
Multi-Tenancy Architecture: Laid the foundation for a multi-tenant architecture, allowing the creation of multiple pools for the same token and client ID. This architecture empowers lenders to set up their own pools with specific risk parameters, whitelist borrowers, and manage collateral effectively.
Memory Leak Resolution: Addressed and resolved a memory leak issue within our Margin Account calculations.
Liquidation Through New Architecture: Successfully tested liquidation process implementation in our new architecture in the development environment.
As we continue to evolve and expand the Arkis platform, our commitment to delivering advanced financial solutions remains stronger than ever. Please have a look at our updated website and About Us pages to learn more about our vision, team, and product.
About Arkis
Arkis offers multichain, undercollateralized leverage powered by portfolio margin. Author Oleksandr Proskurin is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer.
You can follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter and join our Announcements channel on Telegram to be the first to hear about product updates.
This March, the Arkis team has hit significant milestones in enhancing our platform's capabilities and user experience. Our efforts this month have been centered on integrating essential features such as Wallet Connect support, improving user flows for token allowances, and enhancing the overall architecture of our system. Additionally, we've made strides in optimizing our infrastructure costs and laying the groundwork for future integrations and expansions.
Key Developments
Wallet Connect Integration: Added Wallet Connect support for both Lending and Borrowing operations.
User Token Allowance Flow Enhancement: Implemented a more intuitive and efficient flow for user token allowances, significantly improving the user experience in liquidity provision and borrowing activities.
Margin Account Status Updates: Introduced 'Suspended' and 'Pending' statuses for Margin Accounts, now visible on the Arkis dApp.
Architecture Design Improvements: Improved the architecture design for Liquidation, Open Margin Account, and Close Margin Account, incorporating insights from the Onchain Portfolio Analytics Module for more robust system performance.
Multi-Tenancy Architecture Design Initiation: Began the design of a multi-tenancy architecture to enable more efficient onboarding of new clients.
1inch Swap Integration: Finished integrating 1inch swap functionality and used it in our most recent transaction.
Pendle PT, YT Tokens Integration Design: Started the architecture design for the integration of Pendle PT and YT tokens.
LRT Tokens Collateral Support
AWS Infrastructure Cost Optimization: Achieved a 20% cost reduction in our AWS infrastructure, with further optimizations coming soon.
New AWS Infrastructure Implementation: Initiated the implementation of a new AWS infrastructure, designed with multi-tenancy architecture in mind.
Executor Module for Onchain Portfolio Analytics
Second Transaction: Celebrated the execution of our 2nd transaction!
We appreciate the steadfast support of our community and look forward to continuing our journey together. In the next week, we will be launching our revamped website, complete with a detailed "About Us" page to provide more insight into our mission and operations. We invite you to visit us then to learn more about our initiatives and how we are evolving to meet your needs!
About Arkis
Arkis offers multichain, undercollateralized leverage powered by portfolio margin. Author Oleksandr Proskurin is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer.
You can follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter and join our Announcements channel on Telegram to be the first to hear about product updates.
This February, the Arkis team has made significant strides in enhancing our platform's architecture and introducing new features to improve user experience and functionality. Our focus has been on incorporating the Onchain Portfolio Analytics component and optimizing our Allocation and Liquidation flows under the new system.
We have also announced our $2.25m pre-seed round led by gumi Cryptos Capital and including G1 Ventures, Psalion VC, and Roosh Ventures. You can read more about it in our article on The Defiant.
Key Developments
Onchain Portfolio Analytics Integration: A new component has been added to our ecosystem, focusing on providing users with insightful analytics on their onchain portfolios. This development is a step forward in offering comprehensive portfolio management tools.
Allocation and Liquidation Flow Upgrade: The team has began the development and upgrade of the Allocation and Liquidation flow, ensuring a more efficient and user-friendly experience under the newly improved architecture.
Enhanced Smart Contract Adapters for Curve and Convex: We have increased the test coverage for our smart contract adapters, ensuring a higher level of reliability and performance for transactions involving Curve and Convex.
User Flow Enhancements on dApp: Significant improvements have been made to the user flow on our decentralized application (dApp), simplifying the liquidity deposit process. These enhancements aim to provide a more intuitive and straightforward experience for our users
We are dedicated to continuously improving our platform and services to meet the evolving needs of our users. We thank our community for their continued support and engagement as we journey together in shaping the future of decentralized finance. Have a look at our updated website.
About Arkis
Arkis offers multichain, undercollateralized leverage powered by portfolio margin. Author Oleksandr Proskurin is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer.
You can follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter and join our Announcements channel on Telegram to be the first to hear about product updates.
The past month at Arkis has been focused primarily on the development aspects of our first institutional transaction, which you can expect in mid February. This phase is crucial as it sets the stage for our public launch.
Key Developments
Curve LP Position as Collateral Implementation: The implementation for using Curve LP positions as collateral is now complete. This addition broadens our collateral options.
1Inch Liquidation Process Revision and Debugging: We've conducted a revision and debugging of the 1Inch liquidation process, including trials on the Ethereum blockchain to ensure its operational stability.
Convex Adapter Testing on Ethereum Blockchain: The Convex adapter has been rigorously tested and debugged on the Ethereum blockchain, confirming its integration and functionality.
Margin Account and Wallet Connect Functionality for Convex/Curve: New functionalities have been implemented for trading and pooling on Convex/Curve through Margin Account and Wallet Connect, enhancing user transaction options.
Deployment and CI/CD Process Enhancements: Updates to our deployment and CI/CD processes have been made, leading to a more efficient development and debugging cycle.
Onchain Portfolio Analytics Module Progress: Development is underway on the Onchain Portfolio Analytics module. This module is expected to streamline the integration of new protocols like Pendle and Equilibria.
We are committed to maintaining steady progress and keeping our stakeholders informed of key advancements in our technology and offering, and we thank you for your ongoing engagement and interest in our work. Look forward to our first institutional transaction next month!
About Arkis
Arkis offers multichain, undercollateralized leverage powered by portfolio margin. Author Oleksandr Proskurin is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer.
You can follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter and join our Announcements channel on Telegram to be the first to hear about product updates.
Happy New Year from the Arkis team!
This month, we’ve concentrated on strengthening the core aspects of our platform, from making backend improvements to implementing advanced features in our smart contracts, thanks to the completion of the first pass of our audit.
Here's an insight into our key accomplishments and developments over the last month:
Backend Updates
Stabilized and tested yield-farming capabilities through Margin Account on Convex protocol.
Blockchain Updates
Continued progress in the implementation of our Onchain Portfolio Analytics module, which will optimize and speed up the process of integrating new protocols into the Arkis ecosystem. This will be integrated into our production systems by the end of January.
Updated Arkis codebase version in response to delivery of initial audit report by Quantstamp. All issues highlighted in the report have been amended and are awaiting final check to pass the audit.
Our mission to accelerate the maturity of DeFi remains our driving force. We’re excited about what’s to come in 2024, and we thank you for being along for the ride!
About Arkis
Arkis — DeFi Prime Broker offers multichain, undercollateralized leverage powered by portfolio margin. Author Oleksandr Proskurin is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer.
You can follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter and join our Announcements channel on Telegram to be the first to hear about product updates.
As the leaves change color and the year nears its end, the Arkis team remains steadfast in its commitment to innovation and excellence in the world of DeFi. November has been a month of significant strides, marked by key updates across our backend, blockchain, and frontend domains.
From migrating to the latest technology on our development node and smart contracts to enhancing user experience with new front-end features, our journey continues to be as exciting as it is challenging. Here's a glimpse into what we've been up to this past month:
Backend Updates
Successfully migrated to an updated version on our development node and smart contracts, marking a significant step in our technological evolution.
Conducted thorough testing of our liquidation plan generation, focusing on open LP positions liquidation.
Developed several frontend endpoints, including those for detecting LP as collateral to open leveraged positions and for closing open margin accounts.
Blockchain Updates
Launched a special adapters linter, streamlining the process of integrating new protocols.
Made significant progress in the implementation of our Onchain Portfolio Analytics module.
Engaged in detailed discussions with the Quantstamp audit team about our code, architecture, and the specifics of our implementation.
Frontend Updates
Implemented WalletConnect trading without UI lock-up, allowing seamless trade on Curve through the Curve interface using Margin Account.
Rolled out the logic for closing margin accounts, enabling borrowers to close their accounts, repay debts, and withdraw profits efficiently.
As we look back at November, our integration of new technologies, continual testing and refinement of our platforms, and constant dialogue with our audit team brings us one month closer to public launch.
As we gear up for the exciting times ahead, we invite you to stay tuned for more updates on our social platforms linked below. Your support and feedback are invaluable to us on this journey towards accelerating the maturity of DeFi.
About Arkis
Arkis offers multichain, undercollateralized leverage powered by portfolio margin. Author Oleksandr Proskurin is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer.
You can follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter and join our Announcements channel on Telegram to be the first to hear about product updates.
You can apply by joining our exclusive allowlist to be the first to access Arkis. For updates straight to your inbox, join our biweekly newsletter.
Arkis’s Product team is full-steam ahead towards an expected test-net launch around October 2023. During the month of May, our Backend and Blockchain teams were able to send the first liquidation instructions to a local node blockchain smart contract to liquidate traders’ positions. Secondly, our engineers generated stress-tested portfolio values for the Uniswap V3 position for one of our wallets.
Backend
✅ Integration of Curve and Convex protocols whitelisting
✅ Token stress-tested scenario analysis API endpoints.
✅ Stress-testing endpoint for Uniswap V3.
✅ Liquidation routing action list generation for Curve, Convex, Uniswap V3, and tokens.
✅ Formalized the architecture and decision process for the Risk Factor and Liquidation signal.
✅ Created Ethereum wallets with test-case positions to battle-test Margin Engine.
Blockchain
✅ Finished governance system architecture design.
Started architecture merge with backend into a single process and decision flow.
Started AAVE protocol integration.
UI/UX, Frontend
✅ Design and implementation of supply tokens flow.
✅ Design of multi-collateral borrow flow (meaning a user can use any whitelisted tokens as collateral).
Over the next few months, the Product team is aiming to create proper code refactoring of our Margin Engine and undergo more integration tests of its functionality. In the meantime, our blockchain team will be busy integrating AAVE and 1inch protocols into Arkis Protocol. Finally, our Design and Frontend team will continue the development of borrow flow.
We’re excited about the future, and we’ll continue building in public.
About Arkis
Arkis — DeFi Prime Broker offers multichain, undercollateralized leverage powered by portfolio margin. Author Oleksandr Proskurin is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer.
You can follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter and join our Announcements channel on Telegram to be the first to hear about product updates.
You can apply by joining our exclusive allowlist to be the first to access Arkis. For updates straight to your inbox, join our biweekly newsletter.
June saw successful product development from our Backend, Blockchain, and UI/UX & Frontend teams. This month was dedicated to refactoring the current code base, improving our infrastructure, and creating smart contracts for opening margin accounts. We’re on track for testnet launch in October 2023.
Backend
✅ Deployed local blockchain node used to test smart contracts interactions with our backend servers.
✅ Refactored current code base.
✅ Implemented linear interest rate accrue endpoint (Interest accrued = APY / (365- n days since credit has been taken).
✅ Finished AWS set-up for dev environments.
Started user-testing by our internal trading team of Risk-Factor and Stress-Tested Portfolio Value calculation endpoints.
Blockchain
✅ Finished open Margin Account functionality implementation (with ERC20 tokens for now only).
✅ Refined architecture. Now, Margin Account open relies on a signature generated by the backend with initial Risk Factor calculation.
Progressed on Margin Account Factory development.
UI/UX, Frontend
✅ Implemented APY matrix page where users can see available APYs across tokens and chains.
Proceeded with rebranding and generating new design assets (some news to be announced soon!).
Be the first to hear about live product development updates on our social platforms (linked below) and our biweekly newsletter. Targeted testnet launch is only 3 months away, and we aim to make our first transaction soon.
We look forward to continuing to build in public.
About Arkis
Arkis — DeFi Prime Broker offers multichain, undercollateralized leverage powered by portfolio margin. Author Oleksandr Proskurin is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer.
You can follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter and join our Announcements channel on Telegram to be the first to hear about product updates.
You can apply by joining our exclusive allowlist to be the first to access Arkis. For updates straight to your inbox, join our biweekly newsletter.