Unified Labs × CIAN: Bringing Risk-Managed Leverage to Real-World Asset Yield
A new partnership to explore leveraged yield strategies for tokenized real-world assets — pairing CIAN's automated strategy layer with Unified Labs' RWA risk curation.
Unified Labs and CIAN are partnering to explore one of DeFi's next frontiers: leveraged yield strategies for real-world assets (RWAs). Together, we aim to make the kind of amplified yield that's become familiar on crypto-native assets available on tokenized RWAs — within a disciplined risk framework built for real-world collateral.
Why RWA yield needs a purpose-built layer
Tokenized real-world assets — treasuries, money market funds, private credit — already generate steady, cash-flow-backed yield on-chain. But that yield has largely stayed static. Unlike crypto-native assets, RWAs lack the speculative incentives that drive deep DeFi liquidity, so their on-chain positions rarely move beyond simple holding.
Leverage — specifically recursive "looping" strategies — can amplify these base yields meaningfully. But applying leverage to real-world assets is new ground, and it is inherently risk-sensitive: looping increases exposure to liquidation, collateral depeg, and duration mismatch. The opportunity is real, but it only holds up when the risk layer underneath is purpose-built for it.
What the partnership does
This collaboration brings together two complementary specialties.
CIAN — the Yield Layer of DeFi — provides the automated leverage and strategy layer. Its strategy vaults loop tokenized assets to amplify their base yield, with automated rebalancing and liquidation protection. Through Bondify, CIAN's RWA-focused product, those entire leveraged positions also become transferable — unlocking secondary liquidity and broader use cases for holdings that were previously static.
Unified Labs — Asia's first Risk Curator focused on RWA + DeFi — handles the risk layer. Built on Morpho, we curate the underlying RWA lending markets: the collateral assessment, risk parameters, and exposure limits that keep leveraged positions sound. As a Risk Curator, Unified Labs' role is strictly the risk framework — defining the parameters and boundaries within which capital can be deployed.
The goal is a class of leveraged RWA yield vaults where strategy and risk are each owned by a dedicated specialist.
Why now
Institutional adoption of tokenized assets is accelerating, and tokenized treasuries alone have grown into a multi-billion-dollar on-chain market. As more capital flows into RWAs, the question shifts from whether these assets can earn on-chain to how their yield can be put to work efficiently — and safely.
Leverage is a natural next step. But it only works with a risk layer designed for the specific characteristics of real-world collateral: credit quality of the underlying asset, the technical risk of the tokenization layer, redemption liquidity, and oracle pricing. That is precisely the gap Unified Labs was built to fill, and why this partnership pairs CIAN's strategy automation with dedicated RWA risk curation rather than treating leverage as a one-size-fits-all primitive.
About Unified Labs
Unified Labs is Asia's first institutional-grade Risk Curator focused on RWA + DeFi. Built on Morpho, Unified Labs designs and manages the risk frameworks behind on-chain RWA lending markets — collateral assessment, risk parameters, and exposure limits.
About CIAN
CIAN is the Yield Layer of DeFi: an automated yield platform that consolidates, optimizes, and redistributes yield sources across the crypto ecosystem through advanced strategy automation. Its Bondify product extends these capabilities to tokenized real-world assets.
