12 Real Examples of Why Custom Oracle Integrations Are Becoming DeFi’s Most Underrated Strategic Advantage

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Key Results in Numbers

  • $1.5M+ – Total savings returned to CAP users through 80% minting fee reduction enabled by precision oracle feeds
  • $1.5B+ – All-time trading volume across 12 HIP-3 markets powered by HyperStone, RedStone’s purpose-built oracle for Hyperliquid perpetuals
  • $50M+ – TVL secured by RedStone’s LBTC Proof of Reserves feeds across Morpho markets alone, trusted by top DeFi curators including Gauntlet, Yearn, and SteakhouseFi
  • 2.4 ms – Tested latency delivered by RedStone Bolt for MegaETH, enabling deterministic execution where milliseconds carry material risk
  • 24/7 – Always-on pricing for Brix’s Turkish lira exposure through RedStone’s hybrid feed that switches between institutional FX and CEX data
  • 12 – Custom integrations shipped across RWA, PoR, stablecoins, real-time execution, and new ecosystem categories

The DeFi landscape has matured. For years, the oracle was treated as a commodity, a plumbing layer that fetched a price and delivered it onchain. You picked a standard pipe, connected it, integrated it, and as long as it didn’t leak, you moved on. That model served well enough when most protocols were doing roughly the same thing.

That era is over.

The most ambitious protocols being built today are not doing roughly the same thing. They are entering new asset classes, execution environments, and markets that have never been touched by onchain infrastructure. It imposes a ceiling on innovation, scalability, and market entry.

RedStone was built on a different premise: that oracle infrastructure is a product layer, not a commodity, and that the right oracle partner can determine whether a product is even possible.

Across 12 custom integrations that validate this thesis, demonstrating how bespoke oracle design unlocks new markets, enhances capital efficiency, and enables novel product architectures that would otherwise be impossible.



What “Custom” Actually Means

The word gets used loosely. In this context, custom refers to oracle systems purpose-built for a protocol’s use. We designed collaboratively to capabilities that weren’t previously possible. This is an oracle that cannot be supported, emphasizing its strategic importance.

In some cases, that means building a new pricing methodology from scratch. In others, it means creating infrastructure for an asset class that has never been priced onchain. In every case, it means RedStone’s team approaches the integration as a product design collaboration rather than a plug-and-play configuration.

The 12 integrations below represent different verticals, asset classes, and constraints, all purpose-built to empower your common outcome: infrastructure that unlocks new markets, delivers safer scale, and supports capabilities standard oracles can’t.



Real-World Assets: Pricing What Has Never Been Priced Onchain Before

The tokenization of real-world assets is the most consequential shift in DeFi right now, with the RWA market growing from $5 billion to over $30 billion in recent years and projections reaching $30 trillion by 2034. It is also the vertical where commodity oracles fail most visibly, because RWA pricing does not fulfill RedStone’s role in enabling this transformation through custom oracle solutions.

Securitize (TSSO) – As the primary oracle partner for Securitize, the leading RWA tokenization platform, RedStone delivers NAV and daily interest rate feeds for institutional tokenized funds, including Apollo’s Diversified Credit Fund (ACRED), BlackRock’s BUIDL, and Hamilton Lane’s SCOPE. A central outcome of the RedStone and Securitize collaboration is the Trusted Single Source Oracle (TSSO), a new oracle primitive designed specifically for real-world assets whose valuation is inherently single-source.

Securitize (ACRED – Apollo’s Diversified Credit Fund) – RedStone’s infrastructure enabled the first-ever onchain leverage-looping strategy for a private credit fund, executed in collaboration with Gauntlet and Morpho.

Brix – Brix tokenises Turkish sovereign carry trade exposure, giving stablecoin holders access to yields approaching 40% annually, driven by central bank monetary policy. RedStone built a hybrid adaptive feed that sources TRY/USD from institutional FX desks during market hours and automatically switches to CEX aggregation off-hours and on weekends, alongside a DLF NAV feed and a Publishing Timestamp feed. The result: always-on pricing for an asset class whose underlying markets close every night.

Proof of Reserve: Verifying What Backs the Token

Bitcoin and asset-backed tokens share a common infrastructure requirement: users need cryptographic proof that reserves match circulating supply. Without real-time verification, these assets cannot safely function as collateral in lending markets.

RedStone built the Proof of Reserves oracle category specifically to solve this.

Lombard – Lombard’s LBTC is the leading liquid-staked Bitcoin asset in DeFi, backed 1:1 by BTC. RedStone built the first real-time Proof of Reserves oracle for a Bitcoin LST, independently verifying BTC reserves held by the Lombard protocol every 20 minutes across all supported EVM chains. The feed monitors Bitcoin addresses, verifies ownership cryptographically, and calculates the precise reserve ratio that keeps LBTC safe as collateral across 70+ DeFi protocols.

Accountable – Accountable builds a real-time financial verification infrastructure that proves tokenized assets are actually backed by what they claim. RedStone built the oracle layer that brings Accountable’s cryptographically verified reserve data onchain, publishing it as a continuous, immutable feed that any user or protocol can inspect. This integration enables tokenized yield products and RWA assets to function safely as collateral in DeFi lending markets, because lenders can verify backing in real time rather than waiting for periodic attestations that may be days or weeks out of date. The result: transparent, verifiable backing becomes the default, not the exception.

Stablecoins and Lending: Where Precision Compounds

In high-throughput lending and stablecoin systems, oracle precision is not a nice-to-have; it is essential. A few basis points of deviation, replicated across millions of daily transactions, become a material leak of value.

RedStone’s tightest custom feeds were built for exactly this constraint.

CAP – CAP is a stablecoin protocol that separates risk from yield, allowing liquidity providers to mint cUSD 1:1 against collateral. Its previous oracle forced a 0.50% minting fee to hedge against pricing uncertainty. RedStone deployed a custom precision-first pricing system with a 0.05% deviation threshold, five times tighter than what is typically achievable on mainnet, and reduced CAP’s minting fee by 80%. In the first week after launch, over $300,000 was returned to users. Total user savings from this integration have now exceeded $1.5 million.

PT Oracle (Pendle) – Pendle’s Principal Tokens represent the fixed-value portion of yield-bearing assets and now comprise the majority of Pendle’s $6 billion TVL. Existing oracles were built for simpler assets and could not handle PTs’ constantly shifting time-value component. RedStone built the Dynamic PT Oracle: a hybrid system combining a long-window external TWAP for manipulation resistance with onchain exponential interpolation that continuously adjusts price based on time to maturity, keeping PT pricing accurate between updates rather than freezing it in place.

Real-Time Execution: Building for Blockchains That Don’t Slow Down

A new generation of high-throughput blockchains, such as MegaETH, Hyperliquid, and Monad, is pushing execution speeds into territory where traditional oracle architectures simply cannot keep pace.

RedStone Bolt was built specifically for this environment, and several integrations have put it into production.

MegaETH – MegaETH is redefining blockchain UX with real-time performance. RedStone Bolt’s oracle infrastructure was the first usable solution for MegaETH’s design. RedStone Bolt has been tested at latencies as low as 2.4 milliseconds, a capability that becomes available whenever MegaETH applications require it. The result: deterministic execution in an environment where milliseconds carry material risk.

Bolt for Euphoria – Euphoria Finance enables tap-based trading on MegaETH, where execution, price visibility, and risk exposure collapse into a single user moment. Any delay between market movement and price data becomes slippage. RedStone built a custom OHLC oracle solution for Euphoria using Bolt, computing prices multiple times per second and constructing High/Low candle data directly at the oracle layer, cryptographically signed and streamed in real time.

New Ecosystems, New Market Structures

The most ambitious DeFi protocols are launching on chains and market structures that didn’t exist a year ago. No oracle infrastructure. No reference implementations. RedStone built custom oracle architectures for these environments, turning greenfield chains into production-ready ecosystems and enabling market structures that had never been priced onchain before.

HIP-3 Felix (Hyperliquid) – HIP-3 is Hyperliquid’s framework for fully permissionless perpetual market creation, allowing anyone to launch markets for any asset. Unlike native HyperCore markets, HIP-3 markets rely entirely on external oracle data for pricing integrity. RedStone built HyperStone, a purpose-built three-tier oracle stack for HIP-3 with infrastructure collocated in Asia to match Hyperliquid Foundation node latency, a 4-of-6 decentralised verification quorum, and primary/fallback price states with independent offset. Felix used HyperStone to launch the first live HIP-3 market, bringing onchain Tesla stock exposure to Hyperliquid traders, and the infrastructure has since powered over $1.5 billion in all-time trading volume across 12 HIP-3 markets. These markets trade exotic assets like equities and commodities that close during traditional market hours, requiring RedStone’s hybrid methodology to source institutional data during market hours and switch to alternative aggregation off-hours, keeping perpetual markets live 24/7.

Canton – Canton Network is a purpose-built blockchain for institutional financial markets, running on DAML-based smart contract infrastructure. RedStone became the first and primary oracle provider on Canton, navigating its unique technical requirements to bridge institutional-grade traditional finance data with onchain execution, a critical step in making Canton viable for real financial market participants.

Puffer – Puffer Finance introduced a novel liquid restaking architecture using validator tickets. RedStone built a dedicated oracle implementation for Puffer’s validator tickets mechanism, enabling accurate pricing for these unique claims within Puffer’s restaking system.

The Pattern Across All Twelve

Look across these integrations, and a consistent pattern emerges. In each case, the product team arrived with a problem that a standard oracle could not solve:

A market that closes every night. A token whose value changes with every block. An asset class priced by NAV, not by trading. An execution environment where milliseconds determine user outcomes. A new chain with no existing oracle infrastructure.

In each case, the RedStone team treated the problem as a product design challenge and shipped a custom solution. No protocol was asked to bend its architecture to fit an oracle’s limitations.

Each of those outcomes required infrastructure built for it, not borrowed from elsewhere.

The Infrastructure Choice That Compounds

The thesis that oracle data is interchangeable is no longer valid at the frontier of DeFi. For protocols building novel products in new markets, the choice of an oracle is not a tactical configuration; it is a strategic decision that directly impacts what can be built.

An oracle that cannot be customized becomes a hard ceiling on what your product can ever become. RedStone’s 12 custom integrations prove another model works. It demonstrates that infrastructure built around real product constraints, rather than generic templates, is the model that will enable the next generation of financial innovation. A partner that ships with builders, not past them.

For protocols building what comes next, oracle is the strategy.

TL;DR

  • RedStone has shipped 12 custom oracle integrations, each solving a problem that legacy oracles could not address before.
  • Custom integrations span Real-World Assets, Proof of Reserves, Stablecoins & Lending, Real-Time Execution, and New Ecosystems. Custom infrastructure delivered measurable outcomes for each partner.
  • The pattern across all integrations is the same: protocols arrived with structural problems that required bespoke oracle design, not configuration of an existing template.
  • For protocols building at the frontier of new asset classes, execution environments, or market structures, the choice of an oracle infrastructure is a strategy.