Aera

Name

Aera

Legal name

Aera

Website

https://aera.finance

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

DeFi Treasury Management

NAICS

Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles (525)

SIC

Finance Services (6199), Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services (6200)

akta.pro primary industry

Yield, Vaults & Asset Management (vault strategies, robo-vaults, structured yield) (FSAPAEAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Treasury Management & Corporate Crypto Yield Programs (FSADAHAL), Grants, Funding & Budget Allocation Platforms (FSAPAHAE), DAO Treasury, Governance & On-Chain Finance Tools (FSADAMAL)

Keywords

• DeFi treasury management
• Onchain vault infrastructure
• DAO treasury services
• Yield optimization strategies
• Smart contract vaults

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Vault Guardian Fees: Fees accrue as a proportion of vault holdings. The fee rate is set upon vault creation and capped at 0.0000001% per second (approximately 3.1536% per year). Fee recipients claim accumulated fees through the claim function.
2. Platform Services: Aera offers on-boarding support including discussion on objective function and asset selection, front-end access, selection and recruitment of vault guardians, back-end services like arbitrage agents and options brokers, and client-specific economic simulations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Aera provides non-custodial onchain vault infrastructure for DAOs and DeFi protocols, enabling automated treasury management via configurable "guardian" agents that execute strategies off-chain while assets remain protected on-chain. The platform supports a range of treasury strategies (stablecoin yield, protocol-owned liquidity, ETH yield, volatility targeting, grants distribution, trade execution, and incentive optimization) deployed through modular SingleDepositorVault and MultiDepositorVault contracts on EVM-compatible networks.

Product overview

Aera is a decentralized treasury management protocol providing institutional-grade, scalable onchain vault infrastructure. The platform operates as a modular system with the core Aera Platform and multiple strategy modules including Stablecoin Yield (deposits stablecoins across Compound, Aave, Morpho), Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL), Trade Execution, ETH Yield, Volatility Targeting, Grants Distribution, and Incentive Optimization. The protocol supports different vault types including SingleDepositorVault for treasury management and MultiDepositorVault for yield strategies, each configurable through hooks and guardians. The system has evolved through three major versions: V1 (2023) with two-asset vault, V2 (2024) with multi-asset support and off-chain execution, and V3 (2025) with full decentralization and competing guardian network.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Aera Platform Institutional-grade, scalable vault infrastructure protocol for onchain treasury management. Enables DAOs and protocols to deploy non-custodial vaults with automated strategy execution through configurable guardians.
• Stablecoin Yield Strategy Strategy that deposits stablecoins across Compound, Aave, and Morpho lending protocols, automatically rebalancing to maximize risk-adjusted yields through five-minute risk assessments by the Guardian.
• Protocol-Owned Liquidity Strategy Strategy that enables protocols to bootstrap liquidity with protocol-owned assets to encourage DeFi adoption by reducing slippage, increasing volume, and generating fees.
• Trade Execution Strategy Strategy focused on efficient trade execution for treasury operations, enabling best price execution with minimal price impact for token swaps and grants distribution.
• ETH Yield Strategy Strategy that deposits idle ETH into blue-chip lending protocols to generate yield above the staking rate via leverage.
• Volatility Targeting Strategy Treasury strategy that minimizes volatility by dynamically rebalancing assets via optimized execution in response to changing market conditions.
• Grants Distribution Feature enabling flexible grants distribution in native tokens or stablecoins with best price execution and minimal price impact.
• Incentive Optimization Service for efficient incentive distribution to avoid overspending without sacrificing growth objectives.
• SingleDepositorVault Vault type for single depositor (treasury) use cases, allowing DAOs to manage their treasury without compromising voter control or speed.
• MultiDepositorVault Vault type for multi-depositor use cases, enabling purpose-built yield-generating strategies or new reward programs for multiple participants.
• FeeVault Vault type for fee management with configurable fee calculators (BaseFeeCalculator, DelayedFeeCalculator, PriceAndFeeCalculator).
• Aera App Web application for accessing Aera vaults, viewing the public vault dashboard, and managing treasury operations. Currently in closed beta.

Quantifiable outcome

• Guardian risk assessments run every five minutes for stablecoin yield strategies

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability2 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• GauntletcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAera hired Gauntlet's economic research experts to design the DeFi treasury management protocol. Gauntlet continues to provide off-chain intelligence and risk analysis capabilities for vault guardians.
• AuditlesscoreTechnology or IntegrationSmart contract engineers at Auditless were hired to design and build the Aera protocol. Auditless contributed to the architecture and implementation of the decentralized treasury management system.
• SpearbitcoreTechnology or IntegrationConducted security review and audit of the Aera V2 protocol in August 2023. Provides ongoing security assurance through competitive bug bounties.
• OpenZeppelincoreTechnology or IntegrationOpenZeppelin conducted security audits of the Aera protocol, providing security assurance for the vault infrastructure.
• Gnosis SafecoreTechnology or IntegrationSupports Gnosis Safe integration for vault operation. The vault owner can be a Gnosis Safe multisig, with specific guides for composing transactions from Gnosis Safe to interact with Aera vaults.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Yearn Finance: Yearn is the original DeFi yield aggregator using vault strategies that automatically rebalance across lending protocols. Aera competes directly with it in the automated on-chain treasury/yield optimization space, though Yearn's vaults are custodial-in-style while Aera emphasizes non-custodial guardian execution.
• Beefy Finance: Beefy is a multi-chain yield optimizer running automated vault strategies across dozens of protocols and networks. Aera targets the same automated yield strategy use case (especially MultiDepositorVault), making Beefy a closely comparable yield-aggregator peer.
• Convex Finance: Convex aggregates Curve LP positions via boosted yields and is a major DeFi treasury/yield platform. It competes with Aera for the same institutional/DAO treasury management wallet share using different but overlapping automated-yield mechanics.
• Stake DAO: Stake DAO provides yield-aggregating vaults and treasury management for DeFi protocols and DAOs, with multi-strategy automation. It is a direct competitor to Aera in protocol treasury management and yield optimization.
• Idle Finance: Idle is a DeFi yield aggregator offering automated yield-rebalancing strategies across lending protocols. It is comparable to Aera's Stablecoin Yield strategy and shares a similar multi-protocol rebalancing mechanism.
• Enzyme (formerly Melon): Enzyme is an on-chain asset management protocol enabling managers to deploy vaults with custom strategies. Aera's non-custodial vaults with guardian-driven strategies overlap directly with Enzyme's on-chain fund management offering.
• Set Protocol (TokenSets): Set Protocol offers automated, on-chain investment strategies (Robo Sets) that rebalance across DeFi assets. Its automated rebalancing parallels Aera's Volatility Targeting and other strategy offerings.

Emerging players

• Morpho (Blue): Morpho is a lending optimizer and one of Aera's integrated yield sources (Aera Stablecoin Yield monitors Morpho APYs). It competes in the optimized-lending layer beneath Aera's vaults but also serves as infrastructure Aera builds on.
• Tokemak: Tokemak is a liquidity management protocol that directs deposits across DeFi venues via 'reactors.' It overlaps with Aera's Protocol-Owned Liquidity and treasury strategy use cases, though the two take materially different architectural approaches.

Others

• Gauntlet: Gauntlet built Aera and provides ongoing economic research and risk modeling. While Gauntlet itself offers simulation/risk services to protocols, it is an enabling partner rather than a competitor and is critical to Aera's positioning as 'built by Gauntlet.'

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/aerafinance
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/aera-finance

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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