DFNS now supports Movement with full Tier-1 integration. This brings Movement into the DFNS platform as a fully operational environment for institutions, fintechs, and payment companies building stablecoin settlement, cross-border payments, and yield-bearing products on a Move-based network, governed and operated through the same platform that runs onchain operations for institutions worldwide, alongside the other networks DFNS supports.
What is Movement?
Movement is a settlement and yield layer for emerging markets, built on the Move language and positioned as the rails behind global digital dollars. Its thesis is concrete: $685 billion moves across borders every year, and most of it still clears in three to five days through infrastructure built in the 1970s. With more than $265 billion in stablecoins already in circulation, the missing piece has been a settlement layer fast enough to make them move. Movement is built to be that layer, with sub-second settlement and institutional-grade yield available to any user.
In June 2026, Movement repositioned as a global settlement and yield layer for stablecoins and secured money transmitter licenses, sharpening its focus on moving digital dollars through the corridors where legacy rails are slowest and most expensive. It is building that future with a growing set of partners, including Circle, and recently signed a definitive agreement with Zoth to build a $1 billion cross-border payments corridor and global vault infrastructure for institutional DeFi.
Key characteristics include:
- Built on Move: Movement runs on Move, the language originally developed at Meta for financial assets, designed for safety and expressivity. Its resource-oriented model treats digital assets as first-class objects, preventing whole classes of smart contract bugs that affect other environments.
- A settlement layer for stablecoins: purpose-built to move digital dollars with sub-second settlement, rather than the multi-day timelines of correspondent banking.
- Institutional-grade yield, broadly accessible: through its Canopy yield hub, Movement makes yield-bearing stablecoin and asset products available to users across platforms, spanning dollar and asset-backed instruments.
- Built for emerging markets: focused on the cross-border corridors and digital-dollar demand where the gap between legacy and onchain settlement is widest.
- Compliance-forward: recently secured money transmitter licenses as part of its repositioning toward regulated stablecoin settlement.
- A growing institutional ecosystem: partners and integrations including Circle, Zoth, KAST, Juicyway, and others, with a live network, native token, bridge, and staking.
Why DFNS and Movement are a strong match
A settlement network answers one question for an institution: where can value move quickly, cheaply, and with finality? It does not, on its own, answer the harder one: how do I actually run financial products on that network with the accounts, controls, and audit trail my business and regulators require? That is the gap DFNS fills, and it is why this is more than a wallet integration.
DFNS is a core banking platform for digital assets: the operating layer between an institution’s business logic and the networks it runs on. Just as a core banking system runs accounts, payments, controls, and reporting for a traditional bank, DFNS runs the equivalent for onchain finance. On top of any network it supports, including Movement, DFNS provides:
- Wallet-as-a-Service as the account layer for custody, payments, treasury, and tokenization
- Transaction Management covering construction, broadcast, tracking, and the full lifecycle
- Policy Engine enforcing limits, allowlists, quorums, and roles before anything executes
- Workflows that import an institution’s existing approval chains and triggers
- Treasury and Tokenization to manage balances and service assets end to end
- Governance and compliance sitting directly in the execution path, with exportable audit evidence
There is also a clean technical fit. Movement is built on Move, which uses Ed25519 signatures rather than the ECDSA signing common to EVM chains. DFNS is not limited to one signing scheme: its key infrastructure spans both, including a threshold EdDSA implementation, so Movement accounts are secured natively rather than through a workaround. And that key security is the floor beneath the platform, not the headline: keys are never assembled in one place, and the operating layer above is where the day-to-day value lies.
Put together, the combination is direct: Movement provides the fast, low-cost settlement and yield network for digital dollars, and DFNS provides the operating platform that runs accounts, transactions, treasury, and governance on top of it, the same controls extending across Movement and every other network an institution operates.
Full tier-1 support on DFNS
DFNS provides full tier-1 support for Movement, giving institutions a complete, programmable operating layer on the network:
- Wallet creation: instant provisioning via API or dashboard
- Native transfers: send and receive the network’s native asset
- Token transfers: support for Move-standard tokens, including stablecoins and yield-bearing assets
- Smart contract execution: interact with Move modules and onchain applications
- Transaction broadcast: construct and submit transactions across their full lifecycle
- Secure signing: Ed25519 signing through DFNS’ key infrastructure, with no single point of failure
- Balance retrieval: query balances across wallets
- Webhook notifications: real-time transaction and balance updates
Every one of these operations runs through the same controls. Policies, limits, and approval quorums are enforced below the API, in the same layer that signs, so they hold even if application credentials are compromised. Keys are never assembled in one place, which removes the single point of failure behind most losses in the industry. The track record reflects it: DFNS has maintained zero breaches and zero key losses since 2020. The platform operates under SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, 27017, and 27018 certifications audited by KPMG, with continuous third-party penetration testing, and is backed by crime, cyber, and errors-and-omissions insurance through Beazley and Munich Re. And because DFNS is a technology provider rather than a custodian, every wallet stays inside the institution’s own regulatory perimeter and licensing framework. Control never leaves your hands.
Use Cases
Movement’s focus on fast, low-cost settlement for stablecoins and digital dollars, combined with DFNS’ operating layer, makes it a strong environment for regulated money movement. Examples include:
- Stablecoin settlement: move digital dollars with sub-second finality, governed end to end through DFNS policies and approvals
- Cross-border payments: settle across corridors in seconds rather than days, with screening and audit trails built into the path
- Yield-bearing products: hold and service yield-bearing stablecoin and asset positions under governed, auditable controls
- Treasury operations: manage balances and programmatic flows across Movement and other networks from one control plane
- Tokenized assets: issue and service Move-based assets with policy enforcement and a complete record of every action
For institutions building the rails behind global digital dollars, Movement on DFNS pairs a fast settlement network with the operating platform to run real financial products on it.
Movement joins 60+ blockchain networks supported on DFNS, powering digital asset operations for 400+ institutional clients worldwide.
Get started
- Learn more about onchain core banking: dfns.co
- Explore the platform and documentation: docs.dfns.co
- Start building on Movement: app.dfns.io/get-started
- Talk to our team about Movement: sales@dfns.co