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The Kraken launch is one data point in a broader structural shift
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Revolut, valued at $75 billion and holding over 50 million users, integrated Uniswap into its platform and is aggressively expanding its crypto infrastructure.
Key facts
- PayPal's PYUSD grew 600% in 2025 to $3.6 billion in circulation
- Revolut, valued at $75 billion and holding over 50 million users, integrated Uniswap into its platform and is aggressively expanding its crypto infrastructure
- Stripe acquired Bridge for $1.1 billion and is preparing to launch its own blockchain
- The announcement was straightforward: users could deposit stablecoins and receive up to 8% APY, directly within the exchange interface they already used for trading
Summary
The following is a guest post and opinion from Vincent Maliepaard, VP of Marketing at Sentora. On January 26, 2026, Kraken launched DeFi Earn. Within months, the product had crossed 40,000 unique depositors. For context, this is a crypto-native audience: people who already understand blockchain and have made deliberate choices to hold digital assets. The mechanics behind DeFi Earn are worth understanding because they reveal the architecture of what comes next. Veda provides the vault infrastructure, programmable containers built on the ERC-4626 standard that hold and route user capital.