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Upshift has rolled out a dedicated vault platform designed to solve one of RWA's most persistent friction points: the lag between a redemption request and actual settlement. Dedicated USDC vaults act as bridging capital, giving RWA holders instant liquidity while the traditional redemption process completes in the background on slower rails.
Liquidity providers who fund the vaults receive receipt tokens that earn a share of the fees generated from the redemption premium — aligning incentives between LPs and the RWA holders they're effectively fronting capital for.
The model targets a structural gap in the RWA stack: tokenization has matured faster than the settlement infrastructure beneath it, and instant redemption has remained a hard problem. Upshift's vault layer sits between the two, letting the on-chain experience decouple from the off-chain settlement timeline.
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