Crypto trading and market-making firm GSR is committing $100 million to Hare, a new onchain credit business designed to bring institutional capital into blockchain-based yield strategies.
Hare is being developed alongside liquidity distribution platform Turtle and will create and manage onchain vaults. GSR’s multi-year commitment will primarily operate as a credit facility, providing anchor liquidity to Hare’s products before capital from outside investors enters.
Onchain vaults allow investors to deposit digital assets into smart contracts, where managers or curators allocate the funds across lending markets and other strategies. The structure can transform idle crypto and tokenized assets into collateral or yield-generating investments.
Demand for this infrastructure is growing alongside real-world asset tokenization, as more funds, commodities and traditional financial assets move onto blockchain networks. According to Vaults.fyi data, curated vaults held $8.6 billion across 788 vaults as of July, reaching 1.4 million users.
“GSR's commitment is deployment capital,” Hare CEO Connor Milner told CoinDesk. “Issuers get liquidity from day one, and allocators see GSR's own capital in the same vaults as theirs.”
Hare will initially launch two products powered by decentralized lending protocol Aave. Hare USD Earn will support major U.S. dollar stablecoins through a single vault. Hare Gold Earn will allow investors holding Paxos tokenized gold products PAXG and PAXGy to generate yield, with Paxos Labs partnering on the offering.
Institutional interest in onchain vaults has also been increasing. Crypto lender Two Prime recently launched a Bitcoin lending vault on Pareto backed by $10 million. Galaxy Digital introduced Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based vault platform offering Fireblocks’ 2,400 institutional clients access to onchain yield strategies.
Hare plans to differentiate itself by focusing on credit risk, including assessments of collateral, counterparties and how positions could perform during periods of market stress.
Milner previously worked as a senior director at London-based decentralized finance hedge fund Re7 Capital.


JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Warns Mythos AI Raises Cyber Risk Tenfold
Evernorth XRPN Nasdaq Listing Delayed to October 12
Intel Reaffirms Role in Elon Musk’s Terafab Chip Project
Bitcoin Price Falls Below $83K as Liquidations Hit $697M
Gate Launches Gate Money as Crypto Super App Race Heats Up
Zcash Prepares for NU7 Upgrade as Zebra Gets Key Security Fixes
LG Electronics Shares Slide as Q3 Profit Misses Estimates
FxWirePro- Major Crypto levels and bias summary
Europol Warns Bitcoin Wallets Face Quantum Computing Risk
Anthropic Expands Claude Access for Cyber Defense Teams
Berenberg Rates Domino’s Pizza ‘Buy’ on Chick ’N’ Dip Growth
Solana User Growth Jumps 33%, Outpacing Ethereum and Chainlink
Founders Fund Leads $5M Anvil Token Purchase 



