Resolv and Centrifuge Deploy a $100M JAAA Strategy on Aave Horizon

Centrifuge, a leading platform for onchain asset management and tokenization, today announced that Resolv, a decentralized stablecoin protocol, integrates up to $100 million of JAAA, the tokenized Janus Henderson Anemoy AAA CLO fund, directly into its collateral and yield framework. Through Aave Horizon, Resolv is deploying JAAA as actively managed, leveraged collateral inside decentralized lending markets. The strategy is expected to become the largest RWA loop trade ever executed in DeFi.

JAAA was the first AAA-rated CLO fund brought fully onchain and the fastest tokenized fund to reach $1 billion in AUM. Managed by Janus Henderson, a global asset manager overseeing more than $500 billion, the strategy combines daily liquidity, institutional risk controls, and AAA-rated underlying exposure. Through Centrifuge’s tokenization and onchain asset management infrastructure, JAAA is uniquely positioned to serve as high-quality collateral for onchain lending markets.

With this integration, Resolv is not using JAAA as passive exposure. It is embedding institutional credit directly into its yield architecture using defined LTV parameters, active funding management, and onchain liquidity to support capital-efficient stablecoin design. Because the underlying strategy is actively managed, highly rated, and designed for institutional allocators, the loop represents a structurally conservative leverage strategy relative to traditional crypto collateral. 

Aave Horizon was designed to support institutional-grade collateral within DeFi lending markets.

“This was exactly our vision for Horizon,” said Stani Kulechov, Founder and CEO of Aave Labs. “We are excited to see institutional asset managers, tokenization platforms, and stablecoin protocols coming together to make high-quality real-world assets usable inside DeFi.”

“Some of the most important developments in financial services today are happening at the intersection of traditional markets and digital asset infrastructure,” said Tim Shekikhachev, Co-Founder of Resolv Labs. “In collaboration with Janus Henderson, Centrifuge, and Aave, we are enabling institutional credit to function as live, programmable collateral inside decentralized markets. This demonstrates how DeFi can serve as a transparent and capital-efficient layer within global finance.”

For Centrifuge, the deployment represents the next stage of onchain capital formation.

“Tokenization is the foundation,” said Bhaji Illuminati, CEO of Centrifuge Labs. “The real shift happens when tokenized assets become functional inside markets. When institutional credit can serve as composable collateral at scale, onchain capital markets begin to look structurally different.”

For Janus Henderson, the deployment reflects the next stage of onchain asset management.

“This is what DeFi was meant to enable,” said Nick Cherney, Head of Innovation at Janus Henderson. “Greater access and new utility for high-quality assets. Seeing our AAA CLO strategy used as live collateral in DeFi lending markets is a meaningful step forward.”

Real-world assets have grown from roughly $8 billion to more than $35 billion onchain in just a few years. The first phase was tokenization. The next phase is utility.

As RWAs continue to expand rapidly onchain, this deployment signals a structural shift. Tokenized assets are no longer passive representations of traditional products. They are liquid, composable, and increasingly more functional than their offchain equivalents.