The Challenge: Proving Performance Claims in Onchain Finance
When building investment products, asset managers face a fundamental trust problem: how do you prove to potential investors that your performance figures are accurate and unbiased? Traditional finance answers this with auditing firms and regulatory oversight. Onchain asset management needed a different approach. As Cormac Daly, Founder of Nashpoint, explained:“Using vaults.fyi data on our site is like saying we’re audited by such and such… our APYs and data are independently verified by a third party.”Without a neutral data provider, Nashpoint would have had to build and maintain its own analytics stack — and investors would still have had reason to question the numbers.
The Solution: Independent Validation via vaults.fyi
Nashpoint uses the vaults.fyi API to power its entire frontend analytics infrastructure:- Projected APY calculations — weighted averages of yields across underlying protocols.
- Benchmark comparisons — transparent evaluation of performance against DeFi market rates.
- Independent data validation — APY figures sourced from vaults.fyi rather than self-reported.
- Real-time tracking — live performance data across DeFi and RWA strategies.
The Credibility Factor
Third-party verification creates compounding advantages: For investors: Independent validation of performance claims removes a key source of doubt about Nashpoint’s data integrity. For Nashpoint: As Cormac explained, the transparency has an internal benefit too:“It forces us to be good as managers too. Because if we’re underperforming… we need to figure out if we’re doing something bad, then we need to improve. By using a third-party institutional-grade analytics provider like vaults.fyi, there’s no opportunity to ‘play games’ with displayed APY data.”For the industry: This approach establishes a reproducible standard for transparency in onchain asset management — one where performance is validated by neutral, onchain-sourced data rather than protocol-reported figures.
Results
- Instant credibility — industry-standard methodology and third-party validation from launch.
- Development efficiency — the team focused on core asset management, not data infrastructure.
- Investor confidence — independent validation supports institutional due diligence.
Building investment products on DeFi or RWAs? Get API access to explore how vaults.fyi can provide independent performance verification for your platform.

