DeFi Technologies Inc., a financial technology company bridging traditional capital markets and decentralized finance (DeFi), announced that its subsidiary Valour Inc., together with Valour Digital Securities Limited (collectively, “Valour”), has launched the DEFT Valour Investment Opportunity (DVIO) Index—a new institutional-grade benchmark designed to illuminate how regulated capital is allocated across the digital asset market.
The DVIO Index provides a forward-looking lens into investor positioning, sentiment, and capital rotation by tracking real investment flows across Valour’s regulated exchange-traded product (ETP) platform. By grounding analysis in observable, regulated capital movements rather than speculative or unregulated activity, the Index aims to deliver clearer market signals than traditional crypto data sources.
Crypto markets generate enormous volumes of data, but much of it is fragmented, noisy, or backward-looking. Metrics such as price action, on-chain activity, and exchange volumes often explain market behavior only after moves have already occurred. In contrast, capital allocation has long served as a leading indicator in traditional finance, offering early insight into investor conviction and risk appetite.
The DVIO Index applies this capital-flow framework to digital assets by capturing how regulated investors allocate capital through Valour’s ETPs. This approach is intended to transform capital allocation into actionable market intelligence, reflecting real-time institutional behavior rather than speculative signals.
“Crypto markets are rich in data, but poor in signal,” said Andrew Forson, President of DeFi Technologies and Chief Growth Officer at Valour. “Capital flows have long been a core lens in traditional markets. With the DEFT Valour Investment Opportunity Index, we bring that same framework to crypto, using real investor capital flowing through regulated products to generate forward-looking insight.”
Valour’s platform plays a central role in differentiating the DVIO Index from other crypto indicators. Access to digital assets is often fragmented across exchanges with varying fees, liquidity conditions, and execution quality, which can distort observed flows. Valour’s ETP ecosystem is designed to minimize these distortions through uniform pricing, transparent and regulated fee structures, consistent risk and liquidity models, and aligned terms across cross-listed products.
As a result, capital movements captured by the DVIO Index are driven primarily by asset fundamentals and investor conviction, rather than by platform mechanics or execution constraints. DeFi Technologies believes this structurally efficient environment enables the Index to provide a clearer, more reliable view of how institutional capital is positioning across the digital asset landscape.
With the launch of the DVIO Index, DeFi Technologies and Valour aim to set a new standard for market intelligence in digital assets, offering investors, institutions, and market participants a more disciplined and forward-looking benchmark rooted in regulated capital flows.
