Paris, France, October 20th, 2026 - Armitage, the onchain vault curation arm of Wintermute, will run its managed yield strategies on Railnet’s vault infrastructure, the firms said. The move is aimed at making managed onchain yield accessible to fintech platforms, exchanges and wallets without requiring those platforms to build the underlying positions themselves.
Wintermute, a global algorithmic trading firm, averages more than $10 billion a day in trading volume across more than 70 centralized and decentralized venues. Armitage leverages that execution capability to pursue a broader set of collateral and yield opportunities than typical single-market lending strategies.
How Armitage manages collateral
Armitage’s model differs from many onchain lending approaches because it handles liquidations internally across every market it supports. That ability to execute unwind activity itself reduces dependence on external keepers and allows Armitage to accept collateral beyond the most liquid assets. The firm says this expands the range of collateral types it can curate while maintaining onchain lending access for depositors.
The article notes that the degree to which various collateral markets affect Armitage’s liquidation risk will depend on the liquidity and behavior of those markets; the original material highlights that liquidation risk relates to the collateral markets in use.
Railnet’s role
Railnet will provide the vault infrastructure that lets Armitage combine yield from multiple venues with differing liquidity profiles and settlement timelines into a single onchain net asset value (NAV). Under Railnet’s model, Armitage can rebalance assets among approved venues but does not have the ability to withdraw or redirect assets from the vault on its own. Railnet presents these strategies through Railnet App or a unified API with configurable fees, according to the firms.
WETH Yield: first strategy to go live
WETH Yield is the first Armitage strategy scheduled to be deployed on Railnet. It is described as combining leveraged ETH staking with lending and private credit, using staked ETH as collateral to borrow and then deploy assets into additional yield sources while maintaining a WETH reserve for redemptions. The target yield range for the WETH strategy is 3-4%.
For institutional holders seeking yield on ETH positions, the strategy consolidates exposure into a single managed product that platforms can offer to their users without operating the underlying positions themselves. Redemptions are processed asynchronously and carry a 48-hour redemption period. Risk controls for the strategy include per-market supply caps and oracle monitoring.
USDC Prime and USDC Select: stablecoin strategies next
Following WETH Yield, Armitage plans two USDC-denominated strategies, USDC Prime and USDC Select, each combining onchain lending with tokenized real-world assets and institutional credit in different mixes.
USDC Prime is positioned as the more conservative allocation. Its proposed composition is:
- 80% in Armitage Prime on Morpho, supplying USDC against cbBTC, wstETH and WBTC at conservative liquidation loan-to-value ratios (LTVs)
- 15% in tokenized U.S. Treasuries through Ondo OUSG
- 5% held in a USDC liquidity reserve
USDC Select shifts toward secured institutional lending and a broader Morpho allocation, with a proposed mix of:
- 75% in Armitage Select on Morpho
- 10% in Maple secured lending
- 10% in tokenized U.S. Treasuries through Ondo OUSG
- 5% in a USDC liquidity reserve
Both USDC strategies fold assets with different liquidity characteristics and settlement timelines into a single onchain NAV, with a USDC reserve intended to support redemptions.
Governance, distribution and commentary
Igor Igamberdiev, Lead at Armitage, is quoted saying: "Onchain capital management is maturing past single lending markets, and the hard part of curating across more sources is the risk. Armitage brings years of risk discipline to that, and Railnet provides the infrastructure to run and distribute these strategies onchain."
Laszlo Szabo, CEO and Co-founder of Railnet, added: "Railnet makes it easy for asset managers to manage diversified strategies seamlessly onchain and distribute them to fintechs and institutions through Railnet App, or a unified API with custom fee configurations."
Operational notes and scope
Armitage is described as designed to scale across protocols and chains as yield opportunities emerge, with the specific claim that executing liquidations itself enables acceptance of a wider range of collateral types. Railnet is described as vault infrastructure that supports asset managers in building, operating and distributing strategies across onchain yield sources, including both decentralized finance and tokenized real-world assets, while providing institutional-grade controls and reporting.
Contact and promotional details in the source material identified a marketing director at Railnet; the firms also provided links to their respective sites for additional information.
Implications for markets
By pairing Wintermute’s execution capability and Armitage’s curation approach with Railnet’s distribution and vault controls, the roll-out aims to let fintechs, exchanges and wallets offer managed yield products without taking on the operational burden of constructing and maintaining the underlying positions. The firms emphasize risk controls such as supply caps and oracle monitoring as part of the launch framework.