Executive Summary

Utila, Meria, and Yield.xyz are joining forces to bring institutional-grade staking to Utila's platform. Meria operates the validator infrastructure across 30+ Proof-of-Stake networks, Yield.xyz provides a unified API layer for accessing staking and onchain yield strategies, and Utila handles custody, transaction signing, and policy enforcement. The architecture is fully non-custodial: assets stay within Utila's infrastructure and under client control at every step.

Why Meria - MiCA-Aligned Staking Infrastructure Across 30+ PoS Networks

Founded in 2017, Meria is one of France's earliest cryptocurrency platforms and has since built a focused staking operation spanning more than 30 Proof-of-Stake networks, including Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Cosmos, Avalanche, and Celestia. Meria is registered as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) with France's AMF and is pursuing MiCA compliance, with alignment to DORA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 standards.

For institutions operating under European regulatory frameworks, this matters. MiCA introduces specific requirements for digital asset service providers, and working with a validator operator that has built its compliance posture around these standards reduces the due diligence burden on both sides. Meria's infrastructure runs across multiple data centers and cloud providers with hardened security practices, 24/7 monitoring, and defined SLAs.

How This Integration Works

Institutions need staking access that fits their existing custody, approval, and signing workflows. This integration brings together three components of that workflow: Utila for wallet infrastructure and governance, Yield.xyz for transaction orchestration, and Meria for validator execution.

Utila provides the digital asset infrastructure where institutions manage wallets, configure approval policies, and sign transactions. Yield.xyz constructs standardized transaction flows for staking and yield strategies across more than 70 blockchain networks, delivering ready-to-sign payloads to the client's infrastructure rather than requiring protocol-specific integrations. Meria operates the validator nodes that receive delegations and perform onchain validation, backed by monitoring, redundancy, and anti-slashing protections.

In practice, this means a client initiates a staking position from their Utila console, the transaction routes through Utila's policy engine (roles, spending limits, required approvals, allowlisted addresses), and execution reaches Meria's validator infrastructure without assets ever leaving client custody. No pooled structures, no transfers to third-party protocols, no loss of control.

What This Means for Utila Clients

Institutions and fintechs using Utila can now access staking across a significantly broader set of PoS networks through a single integration point, without changing their existing workflows.

• Non-custodial throughout: Assets remain within Utila's MPC wallet infrastructure. Staking transactions are constructed by Yield.xyz's API and signed within Utila's policy engine. At no point do funds move to a third-party custodian or pooled vehicle.

• Policy-controlled staking: Every staking delegation passes through the same governance controls Utila clients already use for treasury operations: role-based permissions, multi-approval thresholds, contract call rules, and pre-trade simulations.

• Multi-network access from one console: Rather than building separate integrations for each PoS network, clients access staking across Meria's supported networks through Yield.xyz's standardized API layer. One workflow, regardless of chain.

• European regulatory alignment: Meria's VASP registration and MiCA compliance posture give European institutions a validator partner whose regulatory standing they can document and reference in their own compliance processes.

• Transparent risk architecture: No forced exposure to liquid staking mechanisms or pooled liquidity unless explicitly selected. Clients choose their staking strategy and retain full visibility into where delegations go and what returns they generate.

Expanding Utila’s Institutional Staking Coverage

The Meria partnership gives Utila clients another route to access staking across major Proof-of-Stake networks while keeping custody, signing, and transaction governance inside the Utila platform.

For institutions, staking infrastructure is usually evaluated across several operational requirements: validator coverage, custody model, policy enforcement, reporting, regulatory alignment, and risk controls. This integration brings those requirements into one governed workflow. Clients can initiate staking positions through Utila, route transactions through their existing approval policies, and delegate to Meria-operated validators through standardized flows delivered by Yield.xyz.

The result is broader staking access without additional custody fragmentation. Clients can expand their PoS exposure, choose validator infrastructure aligned with their compliance needs, and maintain visibility into how staking transactions are approved, signed, and executed.

As institutional demand for staking grows beyond a small set of major networks, this structure gives Utila clients more flexibility in how they build staking strategies across portfolios. Validator execution, transaction orchestration, custody, and governance remain distinct layers, while the client experience stays consistent inside Utila.

This partnership extends Utila's staking capabilities alongside existing integrations. By adding Meria's European-regulated infrastructure and multi-network expertise, Utila clients gain more flexibility in how they construct staking strategies across their portfolios, while keeping execution, custody, and governance within a single platform.