Dfns
dfns.co
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Blockchain Infrastructure
Crypto Wallets
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$29.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$16M
Series A · Jan 2025 · 21 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
9
open roles
Backers
4
Techstars, Further Ventures
The money's age
Due for its next round
21 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 21, 2025
Raised a round Series A $16M · led by Further Ventures · Pulse 2.0
Apr 13, 2022
Raised a round Seed $13.5M
2020
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.82%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Jan 2025 | $16M | Further Ventures lead | Pulse 2.0 |
| Seed | Apr 2022 | $13.5M | — | coindesk.com |
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Techstars 
White Star Capital 
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How Dfns hires
Truth index
B 81/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
78%
Reposted roles
0%
Dfns scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 9 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 78% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Dfns provides wallet-as-a-service infrastructure built on multi-party computation with bank-grade key management. Fintechs and financial institutions use its APIs to create and control wallets with policy engines and delegated signing. The company positions itself as core banking infrastructure for institutions offering digital asset accounts.
News
Rust SDK
DFNS releases its first Rust SDK. Typed access to the full API, request signing built in, and a design that never asks for your key material.
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Welcome Benoit Boudier
Benoit Boudier joins DFNS as VP Business Development, EMEA, bringing a decade across wallet infrastructure, stablecoin issuance, and regulated exchange infrastructure.
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Announcing Shokran
Shokran, the Sharia-compliant wallet infrastructure for financial applications, chooses DFNS as the operating layer beneath its digital asset services.
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The Coldcard Hack
How a five-year-old build error turned a trusted hardware wallet into predictable keys, and what it really teaches about generating, operating, and governing secrets.
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Elliptic Integration
DFNS integrates Elliptic as a KYT provider, bringing its risk intelligence into the Policy Engine for real-time transaction screening, with fail-closed enforcement and examiner-ready records.
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T3 Defense Reports Significant Recent Common Share Dilution
Detailed price information for T3 Defense Inc (DFNS-Q) from The Globe and Mail including charting and trades.
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Announcing Coincheck
Coincheck Group and DFNS sign a strategic partnership to bring institutional-grade digital asset custody to Japan.
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Coincheck Group and DFNS Announce Strategic Partnership to Bring Institutional-Grade Digital Asset Custody to Japan
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T3 Defense (DFNS) Stock Soars Over 60% Following Noble Financial Upgrade
T3 Defense (DFNS) stock surged 64% in pre-market trading after Noble Financial upgraded it to Buy with a $30 target, despite bearish short-seller report.
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T3 Defense Faces Nasdaq Noncompliance and Delisting Risk
Detailed price information for T3 Defense Inc (DFNS-Q) from The Globe and Mail including charting and trades.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Dfns over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
29
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
78/100
Languages
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node JS
Python
Frameworks & libraries
React Native
React.js
Databases
DynamoDB
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
AWS
GCP
Azure
Kubernetes
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29 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$230k
Typical range
$157k – $500k
Open positions
9
9
Jobs
Senior
33.3%
Staff
11.1%
Principal
22.2%
Architect
33.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 3 | $202k | $157k – $300k |
| Staff | 1 | $220k | $220k |
| Principal | 2 | $235k | $230k – $240k |
| Architect | 3 | $260k | $157k – $500k |
Highest paying role
VP Sales, US
$500k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Dfns
By role, level and city, against the market · 9 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
61/100
Growing
Open positions
9
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
146 days
faster than 9% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Finance
50% ▼
Sales
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added PKI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Amazon ECS to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Hong Kong
Sep 2026
New location: Paris
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
New York
United States
HQ
5 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 100% remote 50-200 est. staff $304k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, DevOps, Finance
Jobs
$135k – $202k per year • Equity • Remote (Europe) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Paris
Python
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
SQL
Node JS
Terraform
GCP
Datadog
Prometheus
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Cybersecurity
PKI
Web3
Smart Contracts
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HK$105k – HK$150k per month • Equity • Remote (Hong Kong, Singapore) • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Hong Kong
TypeScript
Rest API
GCP
Azure
AWS
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
PCI DSS
SOC 2
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$90k – $157k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Paris
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
DynamoDB
DevOps
Rest API
CI/CD
AWS
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$160k – $240k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • New York
TypeScript
Rest API
GCP
Azure
AWS
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
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$120k – $220k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Paris
JavaScript
Kotlin
Swift
React.js
Mobile
React Native
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$220k – $300k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • New York
Python
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
SQL
Node JS
Terraform
GCP
Datadog
Prometheus
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Cybersecurity
PKI
Web3
Smart Contracts
Apply