Re7: The Art of Vault Curation and the Future of Onchain Asset Management

This is a Guest Post written by the Re7 Labs Team

A quick note from The Edge Newsletter:

The rise of modular protocols like Morpho and Euler has ushered in a new player in the world of DeFi: the vault curator. If you're like me, you've probably found yourself wondering what exactly do vault curators do? How do they operate? And, perhaps most importantly, why should we place our trust in them?

This post is all about shining a spotlight on this emerging role. We'll dive into the world of a prominent vault curator, letting them share their story and shed light on how they're shaping the future of the industry.

As more of traditional finance moves onchain, one thing seems clear: the vault curator trend is just getting started, and it's poised to grow bigger by the day.

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Over the last four years, Re7 Capital has emerged as one of the most active DeFi liquidity providers globally, offering sophisticated access to yield and liquid on-chain strategies. Alongside it operates Re7 Labs, its innovation arm, launched just over a year ago, which now curates ~$600 million in vaults across leading DeFi protocols.

Together, they form a dual structure:

• Re7 Capital focuses on fund strategies tailored for HNWIs and institutional allocators.
  

• Re7 Labs builds and curates the vault infrastructure leveraging those strategies and partners with DAOs, protocols, and crypto-native treasuries.

Who We Are

Re7 Capital - a DeFi centric investment company specializing in DeFi yield and liquid alpha strategies as well as on-chain vault management. With a four-year track record and a team drawn from hedge funds, banks, and blockchain ventures, Re7 Capital delivers on-chain returns with institutional-grade structure and risk control.

Re7 Labs, by contrast, is an innovation engine, focused on vault creation, on-chain risk curation, and ecosystem design and development. It builds modular, auditable vault infrastructure designed to integrate seamlessly with both Re7’s funds and third-party treasuries. Think of it as the protocol layer to Re7 Capital’s product layer.

What is Vault Curation?

Vault curation is the process of discovering, evaluating, and managing on-chain yield strategies, combining smart contract architecture, liquidity dynamics, and economic design into deployable capital strategies.

Re7 Labs builds and operates these vaults across the DeFi stack: from lending markets like Morpho, to leverage loops on Aave, to structured products like Pendle. These vaults are programmable wrappers that express strategy views, adjust dynamically to market conditions, and serve as the backbone for Re7 Capital’s structured products.

How We Think About Risk

DeFi is composable, but so is risk. At Re7, we take a layered approach to risk management—integrating the operational robustness of Re7 Capital with the technical depth of Re7 Labs.

We evaluate:

• Technical risk – via contract audits, oracle infrastructure, admin control analysis.
  

• Economic risk – including liquidity depth, utilization models, and rate sensitivity.
  

• Systemic risk – covering governance attack surfaces, inter-protocol dependencies, and contagion factors.
  

Re7 Labs maintains a proprietary risk scoring framework (the Re7 Risk Index), while Re7 Capital applies that insight to capital allocation, hedging, and liquidity provisioning. Together, this creates a unified risk process from infrastructure to investor.

Read more: Re7 Risk Index →

Who We Do It For

• Re7 Capital serves Banks, HNWIs, family offices, and crypto hedge funds looking for risk-adjusted exposure to DeFi, without needing to manage protocol-level complexity.
  

• Re7 Labs powers vault infrastructure for DAOs, Layer 1s, and institutional treasuries looking to deploy and manage capital natively on-chain.
  

Each serves a distinct user base, but both are united by a shared philosophy: transparency, modularity, and performance underpinned by credible risk control.

Where This is Going

Vaults are becoming the operating system of on-chain asset management. In the next 2–3 years, we expect:

• Composable vault factories that let allocators drag, drop, and stack strategies.
  

• Real-time, autonomous hedging agents responding directly to on-chain triggers.
  

• Protocol-level risk tranching offering capital protection or yield enhancement.
  

Institutions are coming, but they need infrastructure that feels familiar and performs natively. Re7 Capital offers the product; Re7 Labs builds the rails.

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