Centrifuge adds Symbiotic Liquid Lane across $1.6B in tokenized funds

Centrifuge added Symbiotic's Liquid Lane liquidity network across $1.6 billion in tokenized funds, giving eligible holders instant USDC redemptions.

Existing liquidity models tie capital to product-specific pools, while Liquid Lane lets one capital base support multiple real-world assets and earn between settlement events, Misha Putiatin, co-founder of Symbiotic, said.

The integration covers JAAA, Janus Henderson's AAA-rated collateralized loan obligation strategy; JTRSY, its short-duration US Treasury strategy; and HYB, New York Life Investment Management's US high-yield corporate bond strategy. Liquid Lane operates through an onchain request-for-quote marketplace where market makers tap curator-managed Symbiotic vaults to fill redemptions, accelerating JAAA and JTRSY from T+1 and HYB from T+3–T+5.

Redemption periods for some private-credit and structured products can stretch to 90 days, and BitMart research found less than 10 percent of tokenized RWA value is actively deployed across DeFi lending and collateral markets. Centrifuge's 2026 Tokenization Outlook found 67 percent of surveyed operators identified reliable liquidity and redemption as the most important factor in building investor confidence.

How Liquid Lane works

Symbiotic's Liquid Lane runs on an onchain request-for-quote system. When a holder wants to exit a tokenized fund position, market makers draw on curator-managed Symbiotic vaults to provide USDC upfront, then redeem the acquired fund tokens through the issuer or sell them in another RFQ transaction. The market makers earn DeFi yields on the collateral they post, creating an incentive loop that keeps liquidity available without a centralized intermediary holding a stablecoin inventory.

The capital structure, not speed, is the distinction, Felix Lutsch, Symbiotic's head of ecosystem, said. The marketplace lets multiple market makers and curators participate without pre-funding and carrying inventory for individual assets. "The bigger constraint has been flow," Lutsch said, adding that low trading volumes in tokenized assets have historically given market makers little incentive to commit capital.

The funds behind the numbers

Janus Henderson, a global asset manager with about $500 billion in assets under management, has driven much of Centrifuge's growth. By December 2025, Centrifuge had attracted about $1.3 billion in new inflows, driven primarily by the two Janus Henderson funds, according to Token Terminal. JAAA alone contributed about $1 billion in total value locked and ranked among the largest tokenized funds in the market.

Liquid Lane is not the first liquidity route for Centrifuge's funds. Centrifuge partnered with Wintermute in February 2025 to provide 24/7 instant redemptions for JTRSY, and HYB launched in June with a separate near-instant redemption arrangement. "We're not claiming to be first, and other liquidity routes exist. That's healthy for the market," Lutsch said.

Aggregating redemption demand across issuers and asset classes could improve market-maker economics as tokenized funds are increasingly used as collateral and financing assets in onchain markets, Lutsch said. Symbiotic, backed by Paradigm, Pantera Capital, cyber•Fund, and Coinbase Ventures, also powers applications for Cap Labs and Nexus Mutual. Centrifuge's tokens are live across Sky, Aave, and Morpho.

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