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Executive Summary
Utila partners with Hypernative to deliver automated transaction and liquidity security for institutional digital asset operations. The integration combines Utila’s enterprise MPC custody and policy engine with Hypernative’s real-time threat detection, enabling organizations to automatically assess and approve safe transactions, deny malicious activity, and execute emergency responses during live exploits – eliminating manual review bottlenecks while strengthening security across the digital asset lifecycle.
Solving the Control-Speed Trade-Off in Institutional Operations
Institutions managing digital assets face a fundamental challenge: maintaining rigorous security controls while operating at blockchain speed. For example, treasury teams moving tens of millions daily can’t afford to manually validate every transaction, yet they also can’t compromise on security standards. DeFi positions require 24/7 monitoring for emerging threats, but human-dependent response processes introduce delays that can turn exploits into losses.
The partnership between Utila and Hypernative eliminates that trade-off by automating security validation and emergency response directly within operational workflows. Organizations gain both the speed advantages of digital assets and the deterministic security controls that institutional operations require.
How the Integration Works
The Utila-Hypernative integration delivers two complementary security capabilities that work together across the digital asset lifecycle:
Automated Transaction Security
Every transaction initiated in Utila is analyzed by Hypernative Guardian before execution. Guardian simulates the transaction outcome, assigns a real-time risk score based on threat intelligence and onchain analysis, and returns a verdict directly into Utila’s policy engine.
Safe transactions that meet organizational policies are auto-approved and execute immediately – eliminating review bottlenecks for the vast majority of routine activity. Transactions with elevated risk are flagged for manual review with full context about the identified concerns. Malicious or policy-violating transactions are automatically denied before reaching approvers.
This process happens in real-time without adding latency to operations. Security and compliance teams maintain oversight where it matters while removing the operational drag of reviewing thousands of low-risk transactions.
Automated Liquidity Security
Hypernative Platform continuously monitors onchain positions for active exploits, smart contract vulnerabilities, and market instability. When a threat is detected affecting positions held in Utila wallets, the platform triggers pre-configured emergency responses through Utila’s infrastructure.
Assets can be automatically unwound from compromised protocols, withdrawn to secure custody, or moved according to customer-defined response policies – all without human intervention. This 24/7 automated defense operates continuously, protecting positions even when teams are offline.
The response protocols are fully customizable based on organizational risk tolerance and operational requirements. Teams define the conditions and actions in advance, then the integrated system executes automatically when threats emerge.
Technical Implementation
The integration connects both platforms through secure webhook and API workflows:
Utila sends every initiated transaction to Hypernative for real-time analysis
Hypernative returns verdicts (approve, deny, or manual review) directly into Utila’s policy engine through the approval API
When Hypernative Platform detects active exploits, it triggers Utila to execute emergency actions defined by customer policies
All activities generate complete audit trails with risk assessments and automated decision records
This architecture transforms security policy into programmable automation while maintaining institutional-grade controls and visibility throughout.
For Utila users, this integration delivers three critical advantages:
Operational efficiency without compromise: Auto-approval of low-risk transactions eliminates manual review for routine activity while maintaining full security controls for high-risk interactions.
Proactive threat protection: Real-time threat detection identifies emerging risks before they impact operations, with automated responses that execute faster than any manual process.
Complete audit readiness: Every automated decision includes full context – risk scores, threat indicators, policy evaluations, and response actions – creating comprehensive records for compliance and regulatory requirements.
Why This Partnership Matters
As digital assets move into mainstream institutional adoption, operational infrastructure must evolve beyond manual processes. The seamless cooperation of MPC custody, policy automation, and real-time threat intelligence represents the new standard for enterprise-grade operations.
Institutional users need to know that every transaction leaving their wallet is secure. By integrating Hypernative’s intelligence directly into our approval cycle, we’re giving clients the ability to automate policy-driven security decisions without slowing down their operations.
Bentzi Rabi, Co-Founder & CEO of Utila
Utila solves the custody and workflow challenge, while Hypernative secures the decision layer. Together, we’re helping institutions move from reactive defense to automated, policy-based protection – securing funds before they move, not after they’re lost.
Gal Sagie, Co-Founder & CEO of Hypernative
About Hypernative
Hypernative is a real-time monitoring, risk detection and automated response solution that identifies threats with high accuracy and gives customers precious minutes to respond before exploits can do damage. The platform tracks both onchain and offchain data sources and uses battle-tested, sophisticated machine learning models, heuristics, simulations, and graph-based detections to identify over 300 risk types, from smart contract hacks and bridge security incidents to frontend compromises, market manipulations and private key theft. Learn more at hypernative.io.
About Utila
Utila is the secure, all-in-one infrastructure for institutional stablecoin and digital-asset operations. Utila provides MPC wallets, granular policy controls, robust APIs, and a payments and tokenization engine, with integrations across banking rails, AML/KYT, exchanges, and DeFi. Trusted by 200+ institutions, Utila processes $15B+ in monthly volume and has secured $90B+ in transactions. Learn more at utila.io.
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