LONDON, United Kingdom, September 16, 2026 (Chainwire) — BASIS, the institutional-grade crypto yield and staking platform built on market-neutral execution infrastructure, is expanding its institutional footprint with three new developments: an ecosystem partnership with XDC Network, a collaboration with Zypher DAO, and Auto Earn, an automated reward restaking feature now live for BTC, ETH, SOL, and PAXG participants. The moves extend BASIS across real-world asset and AI-native infrastructure, two areas that have drawn increasing attention across institutional crypto.

Yield Infrastructure Meets Real-World Financial Infrastructure

BASIS and XDC Network have announced a new partnership exploring opportunities at the intersection of crypto yield, real-world assets (RWAs), and the broader on-chain economy. XDC Network is an EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain powering payments, trade finance, and real-world asset solutions.

By combining BASIS's market-neutral yield and staking infrastructure with XDC Network's high-throughput, enterprise-oriented blockchain, the two teams are exploring how disciplined yield execution can connect with real-world financial infrastructure, from tokenized assets to trade-finance ecosystems. The partnership lands within a wider industry shift toward tokenizing traditional assets — trade finance among them — as a way to link on-chain capital with off-chain cash flows. As announced, the effort is exploratory, with no joint products or timelines yet disclosed.

Verifiable AI Meets Market-Neutral Yield

In a separate initiative, BASIS has entered into a collaboration with Zypher DAO (Zypher Network), an AI and Zero-Knowledge (ZK) powered Web4 ecosystem building AI-native blockchain infrastructure and intelligent digital economies. The collaboration pairs Zypher's verifiable AI and ZK capabilities with BASIS's market-neutral yield infrastructure, with both teams exploring possibilities across intelligent finance, verifiable execution, and on-chain asset management. The pairing reflects a broader theme in institutional crypto: using cryptographic proofs to make automated, AI-driven systems auditable — a property that becomes when such systems are tied to capital management. Like the XDC partnership, this collaboration is at an exploration stage.

Auto Earn Automates Reward Restaking

Separately, BASIS has launched Auto Earn, an automated process that restakes eligible unclaimed staking rewards into a user's existing position every Monday at 00:00 UTC. The feature touches accrued-but-unclaimed rewards only. It does not create a new position, add a new lock-up, reset the lock-up timer, or change the original maturity date or booster schedule. The fixed weekly cadence removes the manual claim-and-restake cycle, and the platform's explicit list of what the feature does not alter — lock-ups, timers, maturity dates, booster schedules — spells out its scope for participants reviewing how their rewards are handled.

Auto Earn is enabled by default, and users can turn it off or back on at any time in account settings. Full documentation is available at docs.basis.pro/economics-and-rewards/auto-earn.

About BASIS

BASIS is an institutional-grade crypto yield and staking platform for BTC, ETH, SOL, and PAXG, where participants can earn rewards by staking assets on basis.pro at rates following the platform's live Dynamic Reward Rate (DRR), which varies with market conditions and is not fixed or guaranteed. The platform executes market-neutral strategies designed to reduce directional exposure, with capital-preservation controls including risk constraints and circuit breakers embedded across its execution and operating framework.

BASIS is operated by BASIS DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE LTD, a Seychelles-registered IBC (LEI: 254900IX2F2KCWNSSS64), under ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 certified management systems, with execution research, systems modeling, and risk design contributed by Base58 Labs, a London-based independent research and engineering institution.

About XDC Network

XDC Network is an EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain powering payments, trade finance, and real-world asset solutions. More information is available at xinfin.org.

About Zypher Network (ZDAO)

Zypher Network (ZDAO) is an AI and Zero-Knowledge (ZK) powered Web4 ecosystem building the next generation of AI-native blockchain infrastructure and intelligent digital economies. Details are available at zypher.network.

Media Contact: Evan Sinclair, BASIS — press@basis.pro