What Francium does

Francium is a decentralized finance (DeFi) yield strategy protocol built on the Solana blockchain, founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco. The platform provided a self-serve web application at francium.io/app that allowed users to connect a crypto wallet and deploy capital into automated yield strategies, including yield farming with leverage (1x-6x) on Solana AMM pools, leveraged yield farming (LYF), lending markets, and a yield farming calculator. The core product surface comprised two modules — 'Farm' (yield farming via Raydium and Orca pools) and 'Lend' (supply-side lending pools supporting SOL, USDC, USDT, stSOL, mSOL, ETH, RAY, ORCA and other Solana tokens) — supplemented by a cross-chain Bridge (via Wormhole), a portfolio dashboard (My Page), and a gamified 'Contributions' task system.

The protocol generated revenue from two embedded sources: trading fees earned on AMM liquidity provision and borrowing interest on leveraged positions. There was no explicit pricing surface; fees were enforced via smart contract mechanics. Francium was positioned as a DAO-governed community protocol, with marketing and distribution conducted primarily through organic social channels (Twitter/X, Discord), a Medium blog, GitHub, and documentation. Strategic technology and marketing partnerships included Solana, Orca, Raydium, Jupiter, Marinade, Wormhole, Pyth, Lido, InsurAce, Galxe, Brave Wallet, Zebec, and DefiLlama.

In 2024, Francium announced the wind-down of the protocol, citing reduced demand and liquidity contraction in V2-style AMM pools. The sunset timeline calls for force closure of all leveraged positions and end of the liquidation service by November 30, 2025, with the front-end remaining accessible for withdrawals for the foreseeable future and support being gradually reduced. As a DAO-governed, community-built protocol with 1-10 employees and one disclosed funding event in 2023 (Coinbase Ventures and IVC), the entity is effectively being decommissioned rather than pivoted.

Name

Francium

Legal name

Francium Protocol

Website

https://francium.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Francium was a Solana-based DeFi yield strategy protocol offering leveraged yield farming, lending pools, and cross-chain bridging to global individual crypto users; the protocol is now winding down with liquidation ending November 30, 2025.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Yield Strategy Platform

NAICS

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523), Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage (5231)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Yield Aggregators & Strategy Vaults (FSADAMAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Staking, Restaking & Liquid Staking Finance (LST/LRT, validator markets) (FSAPAEAH), Decentralized Lending & Borrowing Protocols (FSADAMAA)

Keywords

• DeFi yield strategies
• Leveraged yield farming
• Lending pools
• Solana DeFi protocol
• Automated yield farming

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Trading Fee Income: Protocol earns revenue from trading fees generated by yield farming strategies and liquidity provision activities in AMM pools
2. Borrowing Interest: Interest generated from leveraged positions where users borrow assets to amplify their farming strategies

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Francium is a decentralized finance (DeFi) yield strategy platform built on the Solana blockchain. It enables users to deploy capital into yield farming strategies with leverage options (1x–6x), supply assets to lending pools to earn interest, and bridge assets across chains. The platform is operated through self-custodial smart contracts and offers automated on-chain strategy execution targeting multiple AMM pairs on Solana DEXs including Raydium and Orca.

Product overview

Francium is a unified DeFi yield strategy platform built on Solana, comprising the core Francium Protocol with two primary modules: Farm (yield farming with leverage) and Lend (lending pools). The platform also offers supplementary features including a Calculator for yield projections, a Bridge for cross-chain transfers, My Page for position management, and a Contributions gamification system. The platform integrates with Solana DEXs Raydium and Orca for liquidity provision, and utilizes Wormhole for cross-chain bridging and Marinade Finance for staking integration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 48.13% APR on SOL-USDC farming strategies
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SolanacoreTechnology or IntegrationFoundational blockchain platform on which Francium protocol is built. The entire protocol operates on Solana blockchain infrastructure.
• GalxeminorGTM or Marketing PartnerWeb3 credential platform partner for potential NFT/certificate loyalty programs and community engagement initiatives.
• Brave WalletminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorBrowser-based crypto wallet integration allowing Brave browser users to access Francium directly.
• OrcacoreTechnology or IntegrationMajor Solana DEX and automated market maker (AMM) partner. Orca pools are utilized for yield farming strategies on the platform.
• RaydiumcoreTechnology or IntegrationMajor Solana DEX and automated market maker (AMM) partner. Raydium pools (SOL-USDC, RAY-USDT, RAY-USDC, RAY-SOL) are featured farming strategies on the platform.
• DefiLlamaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerDeFi TVL aggregator partner providing protocol statistics and analytics visibility.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Beefy Finance: Multi-chain yield optimizer operating auto-compounding vaults across dozens of chains including Solana. Comparable as a cross-chain yield aggregator with broader chain coverage than Francium.
• Yearn Finance: Original Ethereum yield-aggregator vault protocol with similar auto-compounding and leveraged-yield strategies. Comparable as the category benchmark that informed Francium's strategy-vault design.

Direct peers

• Tulip Protocol: Earlier Solana yield aggregator offering auto-compounding vaults and leveraged yield farming. Closely comparable product architecture to Francium and one of the category originators on Solana.
• Kamino Finance: Solana DeFi protocol offering automated liquidity strategies, lending markets, and leveraged yield farming. Kamino is the most direct competitor that arguably displaced Francium in the Solana yield-aggregation niche.
• Mango Markets: Solana-native DeFi platform offering spot margin trading, lending, and borrowing. Comparable lending-market mechanics and leveraged-position infrastructure to Francium.
• Friktion: Solana structured-products protocol offering yield-bearing strategies via options and perpetuals vaults. Comparable as a Solana-native strategy abstraction layer targeting similar DeFi power users.
• MarginFi: Solana lending and leveraged-yield protocol with similar borrow/lend flywheel and integrated leveraged positions. Competes directly for Francium's power-user yield-farming customer base.
• Drift Protocol: Solana DeFi platform combining a perpetual futures DEX with lending and yield products. Overlaps with Francium's leveraged yield farming and lending pool offerings.

Emerging players

• Marinade Finance: Solana liquid-staking protocol integrated into Francium's lending pools. Comparable as a Solana yield-primitive provider and partial substitute for Francium's passive-lending use case.

Others

• Orca: Solana concentrated-liquidity AMM and core infrastructure partner for Francium. Comparable as the underlying DEX whose liquidity powered Francium's farming strategies and whose migration to CLMMs likely contributed to Francium's wind-down.

Market position

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Francium_Defi
• GitHubgithub.com/Francium-DeFi

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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