Centrifuge Ships Vault Development Kit With LayerZero Cross-Chain Rails

Centrifuge has released a Vault Development Kit that lets issuers deploy onchain funds across multiple blockchains using LayerZero's messaging infrastructure, extending the protocol's ERC-7540 vault standards to tokenized products that span chains.

The kit builds on vault standards already documented in Centrifuge's GitHub repository. Those include asynchronous vaults under ERC-7540, which process deposits and redemptions as requests rather than immediate settlements, and synchronous deposit vaults that allow instant deposits paired with asynchronous redemptions. For fund operators, the distinction matters: request-based flows mirror the subscription and redemption cycles institutional allocators already use in traditional fund administration.

How does the architecture work?

Centrifuge runs a hub-and-spoke design. Each pool designates a single hub chain as its source of truth, then issues tokens and vaults across any number of spoke chains. That model concentrates accounting on one network while distributing investor access to others, reducing the operational burden of reconciling balances across environments.

The LayerZero integration is not the first step between the two companies. LayerZero and Centrifuge announced a partnership in March 2026 to bring Centrifuge's tokenization and onchain asset infrastructure into the LayerZero ecosystem. Under that arrangement, issuers can launch a tokenized fund once and extend access across 165 ecosystems without rebuilding the product for each new chain.

The first Centrifuge assets to adopt LayerZero included JTRSY, JAAA and SPXA. Those funds expanded to chains including Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Base, Optimism and HyperEVM — seven networks spanning both EVM-compatible and non-EVM environments.

How large are the assets involved?

JTRSY, the Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund, is Centrifuge's largest tokenized fund, according to The Defiant. DefiLlama data shows it holds roughly $870 million in short-term U.S. Treasury bills. That scale places the fund among the more substantial tokenized Treasury products in the market and raises the operational stakes of any cross-chain expansion.

For issuers, the development kit changes the economics of multichain distribution. Instead of deploying and auditing separate fund contracts per network, an issuer builds against one vault standard and lets the messaging layer carry instructions between hub and spokes. That compresses time-to-market on new chains but concentrates dependence on the bridge layer itself.

What are the remaining risks?

Moving assets between blockchains depends on a messaging layer, and a failure or attack at that layer can affect every product built on it. Cross-chain messaging infrastructure has historically been a concentrated point of failure in decentralized finance, with bridge exploits accounting for some of the largest losses in the sector's history.

That makes the pending security audits of the new kit the main checkpoint before institutional adoption. Centrifuge has not announced a launch date for the toolkit, and the audit outcomes will likely determine when issuers can move production funds through the new rails.

The launch window, in short, is audit-gated rather than calendar-gated: until those reviews clear, the kit remains a developer preview, and the $870 million JTRSY book stays on the integration paths already live since the March 2026 partnership.