# Why Ketju rejected R25

- URL: https://riadefi.com/rejections/r25/
- Exposure: other
- Memo version: v1
- Reviewed: 2026-08-17
- Next review: 2026-11-17

## The memo

REJECTED ON OPACITY. R25 is vault infrastructure, not a fund: it separates custody, issuance, valuation, fees, and redemption into modules that third-party "curators" plug strategies into, built on ERC-4626/7540/7575 standards. Nearly all of its roughly $131M tracked TVL sits in a single product, Axil Prime Credit, a fixed 3-month USDC vault targeting emerging-market consumer credit that launched on 2026-07-15 — barely a month before this review — on Pharos, a chain that only reached mainnet in late 2024. Every structural question this registry needs answered is unresolved in public sources: no named legal entity or jurisdiction was found for R25 itself, nor for Axil, the credit manager actually running the strategy; no eligibility, KYC, or US-person policy is published; a claimed SlowMist audit and an "APEX" proof-of-reserves for the flagship vault could not be located or verified; and the holder of the vault's upgrade/admin authority is undisclosed. This is a "too sparse to assess" case, not a "researched and found acceptable" one, and this registry's class rules only ever reject on that basis.

## What would reopen the file

- R25 and Axil each disclose a named legal entity and operating jurisdiction
- A verifiable, primary-source audit report and proof-of-reserves mechanism for the Axil Prime Credit vault is published
- An explicit eligibility, KYC, and US-person policy is disclosed
- The vault's upgrade or admin authority holder is disclosed

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