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It has been stable problems-free since implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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More tutorial videos that explains about sdk or dfns use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dfns solving and how is that benefiting you?

Crypto currency custody for our customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines of Dfns

Thank you for your feedback! At Dfns, we prioritize stability, infrastructural performance, and service availability as crucial indicators of success. Our mission is to offer peace of mind to application developers who rely on Dfns for their projects. While most of our informative videos and educational content can be found in our API documentation (https://docs.dfns.co), additional resources are available in our data room (see below).

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Dfns Overview

What is Dfns?

Dfns is a leading Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS) platform that helps fintechs, institutions, and enterprises worldwide simplify digital asset management and securely bring users into crypto. Our secure wallet APIs include Wallet Entitlement Management (WAM) for workflow governance and a Key Deployment Service (KDS) to manage multiple keys from one platform, ensuring global security, compliance, and regulatory standards. Incubated by Techstars and Station F, Dfns has raised $30M from investors like Further Ventures, White Star Capital, Motive Ventures, Bpifrance, Coinbase, Semantic, Wintermute, Figment, Motier, Hashed, 6MV, Susquehanna, and others.

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Dfns is the leading wallets-as-a-service platform in web3. Startups, enterprises and financial institutions use Dfns to create, embed and manage programmable wallets at scale powered by the industry's most advanced MPC technology. Built by PhDs and experts in security and cryptography, Dfns is spearheading research in threshold signatures applied to key management. Since 2020, Dfns has helped ABN AMRO, Fidelity, Zodia Custody, FIFA and many others companies to create over a million wallets.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Our API-first approach has made Dfns the most popular developer platform to configure, automate and orchestrate digital asset applications and operations at scale. Powered by advanced security and cryptography, Dfns serves as the reliable multi-chain wallet backend for top players in banking, payments, trading, lending, and tokenization. Trusted by clients like ABN AMRO, Fidelity, Zodia Custody, Bridge, Stripe, and more than 100 financial applications, Dfns has created over 10 million wallets and secures $1 billion in monthly transactions with perfect security record: zero hacks or lost keys.

Founded by PhDs in security and cryptography, Dfns is also actively pushing the scientific frontiers of threshold protocols for key management. As an awarded member organization of the MPC Alliance, NIST and W3C, our expertise positions Dfns as an authority in the field.


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Dfns is the leading wallets-as-a-service (WaaS) platform in the digital asset industry. Startups, enterprises and financial institutions use Dfns to create, integrate and manage programmable wallets at scale powered by state-of-the-art cryptography. Built by PhDs and experts in security and cryptography, Dfns is also leading research and development in applied multi-party computation (MPC) and threshold signatures (TSS). ABN AMRO, Fidelity, Zodia Custody, FIFA and 100+ other financial services have created over millions of wallets and secured over $500 million in transaction value using Dfns since 2020. No wallet has ever been hacked. Dfns has been incubated by Techstars, Station F and raised over $20M with White Star Capital, Motive Partners, Bpifrance, Coinbase, Semantic, Wintermute, Figment, Motier, Hashed, 6MV, Susquehanna Investment Group and other investors.


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"Dfns offers top notch customer service and integration support"
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The flexibility of the product to adapt to all necessities and the great help and responsiveness of the DFNS team
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Dfns Demo - Home
The main page of the Dfns dashboard.
Dfns Demo - Wallet Management
Create, view and manage all your wallets from a unified platform.
Dfns Demo - Policy Approvals
Set up transactions policies and controls to protect from unwarranted edits. View all transactions that require approvals prior to execution.
Dfns Demo - Service Accounts
Create service accounts to automate approval workflows with machine users.
Dfns Demo - Permission Settings
Our permission model enables admins to set the right level of authorization for each user across the organization.
Dfns Demo - Authentication Credentials
You can add as many authenticators as you want for added flexibility and wallet recovery options.
Creating the most powerful web3 wallet infrastructure with Clarisse Hagège, CEO of Dfns. Episode produced by Tanner Gesek, host of the WAGMI Ventures Podcast.
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Creating the most powerful web3 wallet infrastructure with Clarisse Hagège, CEO of Dfns. Episode produced by Tanner Gesek, host of the WAGMI Ventures Podcast.
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"Securing Wallets: Threshold Cryptography in Federated Key Management Network" presented by Dr. Jonathan Katz, Chief Scientist of Dfns and Professor at Maryland University. This keynote was given at DeCompute 2023.
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Milan A.
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What do you like best about Dfns?

The integration of the dfns wallet infrastructure is super convenient. Anyone with basic knowledge of blockchain can implement their solution. The top-notch security of the dfns wallet saved us time and money so we could focus more on business development. Their solution gave us the flexibility to operate on multiple blockchains simultaneously and reduced our go-to-market time. Integrating these chains individually would have cost us a ton of manpower and money. Now dfns is the backbone of our product. Another thing we like is their expert support team. No matter our issue, these guys had a solution for everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dfns?

Dfns solutions meet our expectations however during the onboarding process, we faced certain delays but dfns handled those issues within due time. As an early customer of dfns, few development journeys were travelled together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dfns solving and how is that benefiting you?

DFNS provides MPC wallets to ScopeX customers, incorporating advanced biometric security features. Their private key securing mechanisms eliminated the operational complexity for users. This enhanced the user experience, which is the most challenging issue in adopting blockchain technology to the mass market. Dfns wallet infrastructure enables us to provide web3 services to web2 people seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines of Dfns

Thank you, Milan! We appreciate your feedback and your engagement with Dfns. Your input helps us improve our product. We look forward to supporting ScopeX as you grow.

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What do you like best about Dfns?

The signature/wallet service that DFNS offers is state of the art and exactly what most web3 companies need. Besides their excellent service and pricing, the team from DFNS really goes that extra mile in making sure that you get the right support with integrating their software but also in connecting with other parties that may be of value. We really feel we have a partnership with DFNS and not that we are just another customer. I can highly recommend DFNS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dfns?

To be honest we haven't found one. We did a very thorough market research before selecting DFNS and since we have been using DFNS (at the time of writing this review for around 6 months) it not only fulfilled our expectations but also exceeded them. This is mainly due to their excellent support which is obviously very hard to judge when comparing various companies beforehand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dfns solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a platform on which we tokenize our assets. With DFNS we create wallets for our users so that they don't have to create a non-custodial wallet and can directly invest in our tokenized assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines of Dfns

Thank you, David! Our team is very grateful for your feedback, which means a lot.

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What do you like best about Dfns?

Their product solves a significant problem in Web3's path towards mainstream adoption: providing secure keyless wallets that anyone can use. They have a really strong team, both on the tech and the business side, along with excellent support and a clear roadmap, and they always provide helpful easy to understand introductions to all updates they ship. You can feel that they really want you to succeed in what you are buidling, and they are always there to help and share knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dfns?

Nothing I can think of. Really enjoy their new blog as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dfns solving and how is that benefiting you?

Web3 is growing even faster than the Internet did in its early days, but one significant hurdle remains: wallet security. Consider the concept of individuals becoming their own bank and managing their own security, only to be asked to rely on 12 words written on a piece of paper. Dfns remove the keys while still empowering users with control. They make it possible to establish different rules, making it easy to adapt whether for individual users or organizations. In case of lost access, the system itself can facilitate recovery, so no need for any centralized intermediaries. During our benchmarking of various wallets, one standout feature was the ability to withdraw access in a multisig setup. This means that even if an employee has the ability to sign transactions, access can be revoked upon their departure. This capability is unique and is crucial for organizations, as the need for this feature will inevitably arise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines of Dfns

Thank you, Peter! Your feedback means a lot.

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What do you like best about Dfns?

I have tried several Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS) platforms, both self-custodial and custodial, and DFNS stands out as one of the most flexible in this field. For example, you can craft your transactions exactly as you want. Although this might add complexity for some, my team and I greatly prefer this approach.

The documentation is well written and simple to understand. Their team is always there to answer any questions you may have.

DFNS provides everything you need to effectively manage your digital assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dfns?

Nothing to complain about for now. If there are features missing, they will implement them quite quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dfns solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed audited, flexible, and future-proof software to manage our digital assets (Bitcoin and others). After trying and discussing many platforms, we settled on DFNS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines of Dfns

Thank you, Alexandre!

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What do you like best about Dfns?

The flexibility of the product to adapt to all necessities and the great help and responsiveness of the DFNS team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dfns?

Documentation is a bit chaotic both for API and SDK. I'd provide less examples and more structured topic learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dfns solving and how is that benefiting you?

Web2 users don't know what a crypto wallet is and the main bottleneck for blockchain adoption is how rapid and easy the web3 onboarding is. DFNS uses latest cutting edge security and cryptogrsphy patterns with a comprehensive solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines of Dfns

Thank you! Improving the developer experience is our top priority. We'll be making significant updates to our API documentation in the coming weeks and months.

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What do you like best about Dfns?

The solution is easy to use even in the most complex situations. Great documentation makes it quick and easy to get started. The customer service is very responsive and knowledgeable. Newer standards, techs, protocols, DTLs etc. are proactively incorporated into the solution so DFNS wallets always work regardless of your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dfns?

The wallets are so secured and permissions so fine-grained that it's sometimes difficult to reason about the best way to secure assets, but it will certainly satisfy the most complex enterprise requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dfns solving and how is that benefiting you?

I want to keep my customer's assets secured and easily control who can access the wallets and sign transactions. I don't have to worry about managing secrets keys Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines of Dfns

Thank you, Olivier! We're lucky to have you as our clients.

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What do you like best about Dfns?

The wallet creation and management system is so well taken care of by dfns that we don't have to worry about the security of the wallets, they provide an simple API hiding all the complexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dfns?

Their typescript docs is not very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dfns solving and how is that benefiting you?

DFNS is taking care of underlying complexities and security behind blockchain wallets and providing with a simple endpoint to interact with, which makes development from our side faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines of Dfns

Hey Teshank! Thank you very much for the positive feedback.

Let us know via email or chat what specifically about the Typescript SDK is not helpful enough and we will do our best to adjust the descriptions and guidelines within the docs.

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What do you like best about Dfns?

The Dfns team consistently demonstrates a positive and collaborative approach. They are receptive to customer feedback and provide prompt support during the integration process. Additionally, the development team is highly responsive to technical questions and actively assists with debugging efforts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dfns?

Nothing as such, we haven't run into anything specific yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dfns solving and how is that benefiting you?

We at Yolo Group are coming out with a self-custodial offering called Open Wallet. Dfns provides the wallet infrastructure for us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines of Dfns

Thank you, Mitul!

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What do you like best about Dfns?

- Extremely flexible infrastructure

- Affordable pricing for large scale usage

- Broad, multi-chain support

- Quick and effective issue resolution

- Helpful integration guides Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dfns?

- Expensive for low volume use

- Limited Rust Support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dfns solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need the ability to offer keyless wallets to our users in a flexible and multi-chain manner, that allows for complex user actions and gives us full control over the user experience and authentication schemas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines of Dfns

Thank you for the feedback, Luke!

The Rust SDK is on our near-term roadmap and we'd be happy to discuss a new pricing structure that works better for you.

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What do you like best about Dfns?

Team is awesome. Product does what it should. It has been a pleasure to work with them. They are responsive, sharp, and have gone above and beyond to help us out. Easy to use. Easy to integrate/implement. We use dfns daily, and there are a lot of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dfns?

Only complaint is that certain virtual machines have more robust support than others. But this shouldn't really matter if you know your way around the less supported ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dfns solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need to issue customers custodial wallets so that way they control their funds. dfns is that in an API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines of Dfns

Thank you sincerely for your heartfelt feedback!

Just to inform you: Our Transaction Broadcasting API empowers any feature within any virtual machine (VM) to access bespoke functionalities through the native blockchain SDK. For further details, please refer below.

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