Institutional Research from Re7 Capital and Clear Street: A Framework for Decomposing DeFi Risk in the Age of AI.
OCT 13, 2026
Re7 Capital and Clear Street propose an industry standard for DeFi risk, assessing chain, protocol, and asset risk and how AI is reshaping the landscape.
DeFi has matured rapidly, yet it still lacks a common language for measuring and comparing risk across its technology stack. In this report, Re7 Capital and Clear Street propose a foundation for an industry-wide DeFi risk standard, built on the methodology Re7 applies to every chain, protocol, and asset before deploying capital. Drawing on the logic of the XVA framework from traditional finance, it breaks DeFi risk into three interdependent layers, chain, protocol, and asset, and examines how risks compound across them, with standardised scores for each layer. It also looks at how AI is reshaping DeFi risk, both as an emerging source of exposure and as a tool for managing it at institutional scale.
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