TL;DR: With the launch of the Liquidity Expansion Layer, we’ve tremendously expanded the number of assets users can access on our platform, bringing us closer to our ideal: “Thousand assets, infinite BSKTs.”
The Liquidity Expansion Layer is a significant milestone in our story. It opens access to all the assets aggregated by 1inch and makes them available for BSKT creation on Alvara.
The $145 Trillion Opportunity
The global asset management industry is projected to continue growing, driven by investors’ demand for predictable returns without needing to do the work themselves. Hedge funds and others hold $145 Trillion in assets under management, yet what this number doesn’t account for are all those investors who’ll never gain access to their services.
The traditional managed financial services sector is plagued by high inefficiencies while serving only a select few, namely those who’ve reached certain levels of wealth. High minimums keep out millions of people, and as back offices consolidate, the diversity of offerings diminishes.
It’s a pattern we’re deeply familiar with working in an industry that started with a rebellion against bailing out bankers who’d overleveraged themselves at the cost of taxpayers. The system serves the large players, and neglects smaller investors.
The Onchain Gap
In a choppy market, discretionary strategies have been one of the biggest winners. That means, the highest returns were often achieved by those actively managing their portfolio rather than creating it once and HODLing.
Looking at the current onchain market for such products, the majority of protocols are better described as risk curators. This means, they create vaults (smart contracts that’ll execute their strategy) which investors can lock funds in in return for LP tokens which they can then further use in DeFi.
Yet we’re still nowhere near the trillions in AUM of TradFi, with a generous $35 billion in onchain assets managed in 2025.
It’s also worth mentioning that these risk curators have a limited range of vaults available (for quality sake), yet do not allow anyone to create their own.
That’s the gap we’re filling with Alvara and baskets (BSKTs). With Alvara, anyone can become an asset manager or invest in others’ BSKTs. This is made possible by our custom token standard, which ensures that BSKTs remain composable, 100% backed, and transferable. You can read more about the standard here.
With full transparency ensured, any BSKT creators’ performance is tracked, providing a fully meritocratic playing field, where the best rise to the top of the leaderboard.
Yet for BSKTers to do their best, what they needed was access to more assets.
Unlimited choices with the Liquidity Expansion Layer
As the tokenization wave continues, there are ever more assets to pick from for anyone buying things onchain. Take tokenized gold, which has been the prime driver behind Ethereum RWAs reaching a $15 billion market cap.
To ensure that BSKT creators have access to all the assets they need, we’ve partnered with 1inch. 1inch is a leading DEX aggregator and has helped users find the best prices and fees across decentralized trading venues for years.
Through integration with their infrastructure, Alvara users gain access to all 1inch assets that meet the minimum requirements. A perfect partner that offers not only breadth in asset choices, but depth in liquidity, which matters when building any basket.
Now, BSKT creation is limited only by your imagination. You can build any BSKT, whether it tracks a set category or your personal favorites.
Anything goes, including:
- A blue-chip crypto basket with ETH, BTC, and SOL
- An AI infra basket that tracks all the infra tokens that you expect to benefit from AI adoption, whether it be LINK, Akash, or various agents’ native coins
- A weathering bad macro-political outcomes basket with digital gold, BTC, and Nestle
Whether you’re a savvy individual looking to get into asset management or just a community wanting a shared portfolio, BSKTs is the infrastructure to put your funds where your beliefs are.
Thousands assets. Infinite BSKTs.