Centrifuge adds Symbiotic liquidity rail to $1.6 billion in Janus Henderson and NYLIM tokenized funds

Centrifuge adds Symbiotic liquidity rail to $1.6 billion in Janus Henderson and NYLIM tokenized funds

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2026-08-19 12:00:00
Centrifuge has integrated Symbiotic’s liquidity network across three tokenized funds representing about $1.6 billion in assets under management, creating another path for eligible holders to exchange fund positions for USDC. The setup covers Janus Henderson’s JAAA, an AAA-rated collateralized loan obligation strategy, JTRSY, a short-duration US Treasury strategy, and New York Life Investment Management’s HYB, a US high-yield corporate bond strategy. Symbiotic’s Liquid Lane uses an onchain request-for-quote marketplace, where market makers can draw liquidity from vaults to fill redemption requests and later redeem or resell the acquired fund tokens. That structure lets investors receive USDC immediately while the funds’ standard redemption process takes place separately. According to Token Terminal, Centrifuge had brought in about $1.3 billion in new inflows by December 2025, largely driven by Janus Henderson’s two funds, with JAAA alone contributing about $1 billion in total value locked. Symbiotic says Liquid Lane is not the first liquidity option on Centrifuge, but argues its model differs because it broadens participation and reduces the need for market makers to pre-fund inventory for individual assets.

Centrifuge has added Symbiotic’s liquidity network across three tokenized funds that represent about $1.6 billion in assets under management, giving eligible holders another route to exchange their positions for USDC.

Centrifuge adds Symbiotic liquidity rail to $1.6 billion in Janus Henderson and NYLIM tokenized funds 2

The integration covers Janus Henderson’s JAAA, an AAA-rated collateralized loan obligation strategy, JTRSY, a short-duration US Treasury strategy, and New York Life Investment Management’s HYB, a US high-yield corporate bond strategy.

Liquid Lane uses an onchain RFQ marketplace

Symbiotic’s Liquid Lane runs through an onchain request-for-quote marketplace, where market makers can tap liquidity from vaults to fill redemption requests. After acquiring the fund tokens, those market makers can redeem them through the issuer or sell them through another RFQ transaction.

The arrangement gives investors immediate access to USDC, while the funds’ normal redemption process can occur separately.

Centrifuge’s platform and Janus Henderson’s role

Centrifuge is an asset tokenization and vault platform where asset managers issue and manage tokenized funds. According to Cointelegraph, Janus Henderson, a global asset manager with about $500 billion in assets under management, has been a major contributor to the platform’s growth through its JAAA and JTRSY products.

Token Terminal data cited in the report said Centrifuge had attracted about $1.3 billion in new inflows by December 2025, driven primarily by the two Janus Henderson funds. JAAA alone accounted for about $1 billion in total value locked and ranked among the largest tokenized funds in the market.

Symbiotic joins existing liquidity options

Liquid Lane is not the first liquidity route available for Centrifuge’s tokenized funds, Felix Lutsch, Symbiotic’s head of ecosystem, told Cointelegraph.

「We’re not claiming to be first, and other liquidity routes exist. That’s healthy for the market,」 Lutsch said.

Centrifuge announced a partnership with Wintermute in February 2025 to provide 24/7 instant redemptions for JTRSY. HYB, which launched in June, also came with a separate liquidity arrangement for near-instant redemptions.

Lutsch said the distinction with Liquid Lane lies in the capital structure behind the transactions rather than in execution speed. He said the marketplace allows multiple market makers and curators to participate without requiring market makers to pre-fund and hold inventory for individual assets.

He also said the bigger constraint has been flow, adding that low trading volumes in tokenized assets have historically given market makers little incentive to commit capital.

As tokenized funds are used more often as collateral and financing assets in onchain markets, aggregating redemption demand across issuers and asset classes could improve those economics, he said.

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