RedStone has acquired Credora, the leading DeFi-native ratings platform. This creates the first oracle that delivers real-time prices and risk ratings, giving protocols and users the tools to build safer and more transparent markets, a big step toward building a unified financial infrastructure.
For most of its history, decentralized finance has lived apart from traditional finance. DeFi is open, fast, programmable, and experimental. TradFi is regulated, slow, opaque, institutional, and risk-aware. Now, those two worlds are converging.
RedStone is at the forefront of that convergence.
With the acquisition of Credora, we are building the first oracle that unites prices, risk ratings, and collateral intelligence under one roof. This is a major step toward creating the unified infrastructure that finance needs to scale.
Key Takeaways
- Price and risk in one place. With Credora, RedStone becomes the first oracle to combine real-time prices with standardized risk ratings.
- Fixing DeFi’s biggest gap. Thousands of protocols exist, but until now, there was no consistent way to measure or compare their risks.
- Already trusted by leaders. Credora ratings are used by protocols like Morpho, proving real adoption and market value.
- Confidence for users and institutions. Ratings give retail investors clarity on risk-adjusted returns and provide institutions with a reliable framework for allocation.
- A growth advantage for protocols. Data shows that rated vaults grow faster and attract more liquidity than unrated ones.
Why this matters
Every modern financial application is built on two universal primitives: price data and risk data.
- Legacy oracles solved the first challenge, bringing price feeds on-chain.
- RedStone improved on that model, making feeds faster, cheaper, and more customizable, while securing over $10B in TVL across 110+ chains with zero mispricing events.
- With Credora, we now extend this foundation to cover risk transparency, offering DeFi the trusted framework it has been missing.
In traditional markets, institutions rely on S&P or Moody’s to evaluate risk. DeFi has lacked an equivalent. Credora by RedStone changes that, making it possible for protocols and users to understand, compare, and price risk with the same confidence they already apply to price data.
From price to risk: a natural progression
As Marcin Kaźmierczak, Co-Founder of RedStone, explains:
“I’m excited about this acquisition because Credora is already the leading DeFi ratings provider, widely used in Morpho and poised to expand across the broader lending ecosystem. Ratings are a natural extension of oracles: oracles gather and deliver data, ratings transform that data into actionable intelligence. As DeFi yield strategies grow more complex — with varying durations, liquidity profiles, and risks — users need a way to navigate opportunities beyond just headline APYs. Ratings provide that clarity.
With institutional adoption of on-chain assets accelerating, from stablecoins and bonds to private credit, reinsurance, and cash-and-carry strategies, risk-aware ratings will become a universal necessity. By bringing Credora into RedStone, we combine world-class expertise in grading with our data infrastructure, creating the most advanced oracle and ratings platform in Finance. I’m also thrilled to welcome Darshan and Matt, Credora’s co-founders, as Strategic Advisors. Their trust in joining forces with us reflects the natural synergy between oracles and ratings, and together we are building the standard for the next era of Finance.”
Credora’s approach
“We’ve always believed that risk transparency is the cornerstone of sustainable DeFi,” said Darshan Vaidya, Founder of Credora. “Joining forces with RedStone allows us to scale this mission globally, and is a natural fit for us to be able to build a more robust and usable DeFi for institutions and individuals alike.”
Credora was built to make DeFi risk easier to see and understand. Instead of using models borrowed from traditional finance, it uses crypto-native methods that look at liquidity, collateral, governance, and volatility in ways that fit how DeFi actually works.
The idea behind this acquisition is straightforward: RedStone and Credora share the same mission. RedStone focuses on delivering reliable price data. Credora focuses on making risk transparent. Together, they create a foundation where both price and risk data can serve as the base layer for everything built on-chain.
Credora’s ratings are already proving their value. They are widely used by leading DeFi protocols like Morpho, with growing interest across the broader lending ecosystem. Now, with RedStone’s infrastructure and distribution, these ratings can scale further and bring risk transparency to the entire DeFi market.
What it means for DeFi protocols
This acquisition directly benefits protocols, users, and institutional allocators:
- Higher growth potential: Data shows that rated vaults grow faster than unrated ones. By signaling reliability through standardized ratings, protocols can attract more capital.
- Dynamic risk management: With integrated ratings, protocols can fine-tune parameters in real time instead of relying on static assumptions.
- Institutional readiness: As more funds and asset managers move on-chain, they need risk-aware ratings. RedStone now provides the transparency required to unlock that adoption.
- Trusted infrastructure: Price + ratings + collateral intelligence form a strong competitive moat, making RedStone the most differentiated oracle in the market.
Looking forward
The transition to Credora by RedStone is already underway. Ratings will be relaunched and made publicly available, with API integrations distributing risk scores instantly to the dozens of protocols already powered by RedStone oracles.
This is not only about RedStone and Credora. It is about building the standard for the next era of finance, where data and risk are not afterthoughts, but foundations.
Price. Risk. Collateral intelligence. All in one place.
That is RedStone’s vision for the future of on-chain markets.
