RioDeFi is a blockchain technology project whose mission centers on bridging traditional finance with decentralized finance through its own public chain infrastructure. RioDeFi's Twitter Score is 16 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #62,039 among 486,860 tracked accounts.
RioDeFi was co-founded by James Anderson, Calvin Ng, Stephane Laurent Villedieu, and Ekaterina Volkova. Its core infrastructure, RioChain, is a public blockchain built with the Parity Substrate framework and designed for compatibility with Polkadot. RioChain was upgraded to incorporate EVM compatibility, expanding its reach to Ethereum-compatible tooling and applications.
RioDeFi's product suite has included Rio Mobile Wallet, Rio Web Wallet, and RioWallet, a multichain non-custodial wallet supporting assets across RioChain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, OKExChain, Polkadot, and Kusama. The project's native utility and gas token, RFUEL, has a total supply capped at 1,000,000,000 tokens, covering allocations for staking and validation rewards, grants, sales, team and advisers, reserves, and referrals.
RioDeFi has operated an incubation program for DeFi, NFT, metaverse, and GameFi applications targeting the RioChain ecosystem, and reported integrations and partnerships with PancakeSwap, Poly Network, NetVRk, Defina Finance, KardiaChain, Simplex, and MoonPay. The project has received backing from Moonrock Capital, Consensus Lab, and AU21. On 30 May 2025, RioDeFi and MANTRA announced an amicable resolution of their disputes, with the Hong Kong Court discontinuing all legal actions brought by the parties; their joint statement confirmed no wrongdoing or misappropriation of assets by any party.
RioDeFi has published 1,121 posts and has 19,515 followers as of September 2026. The account has been mentioned by 97 accounts, with 294 total mentions.
RioDeFi's portfolio includes LuxFi and Banksea Finance.
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