DIA, a trustless blockchain oracle provider serving more than 250 dApps, announced Tuesday the launch of DIA Value, a new oracle designed to compute the intrinsic fair value of digital assets that lack liquid secondary markets.
The launch targets a sector currently holding over $100 billion in on-chain capital, including tokenized treasuries, yield-bearing stablecoins, and liquid staking tokens.
DeFi Exposed by Market-Based Pricing
The move comes after a stark demonstration of the risks associated with relying on market-based pricing. On October 10, 2025, nearly $19 billion in leveraged DeFi positions were liquidated within 24 hours when oracles fed stressed market data into automated liquidation systems.
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Thin order books and low trading volumes make illiquid assets vulnerable to price manipulation and outdated data, forcing protocols to either accept the risk or avoid supporting these assets.
Dillon Hanson, Head of Business Development at DIA, said oracles were originally built to report market prices.
“But when most institutional assets entering DeFi don’t trade on secondary markets, you need infrastructure that answers a different question: what is this asset fundamentally worth? That’s what Value does.”
Direct Valuation and Transparency
DIA Value uses a range of methodologies that derive prices from the most direct and verifiable sources available, including on-chain smart contract states, reserve balances, and authoritative off-chain reference data.
For instance, when pricing a yield-bearing token like stETH, the oracle reads the redemption rate directly from the protocol’s smart contract. This ensures the asset is priced at what it can actually be redeemed for, rather than a potentially manipulated price on a secondary exchange.
The same approach extends across other asset types, including stablecoins, tokenized securities, and complex yield-bearing positions.
Institutional-Grade Infrastructure
The infrastructure is designed to align with institutional fair-value measurement standards, which require intrinsic valuation methods when active markets are unavailable.
“Traditional finance solved illiquid asset pricing decades ago with NAV calculations, mark-to-model frameworks, and reserve verification,” said Zygis Marazas, Head of Product at DIA. “Blockchain makes it possible to execute those same methodologies with full transparency and 24/7 availability.”
DIA Value is already live and integrated with protocols including Euler, Morpho, Silo, Hydration, Hemi Network, and Cooper Labs. It operates alongside DIA Market, the company’s existing oracle for more than 3,000 liquid assets, providing a full-spectrum pricing infrastructure for DeFi.
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A blockchain oracle is a system that provides reliable external data to smart contracts. In DeFi, oracles feed price information and other inputs that enable lending, trading, and collateral management. Accurate oracles are crucial to prevent mispricing and liquidations.
Illiquid assets are priced using intrinsic or fundamental valuation methods. This includes data from smart contracts, reserve balances, and authoritative off-chain references, rather than relying on sparse market trades.
Tokenized treasuries, yield-bearing stablecoins, liquid staking tokens, and tokenized securities all benefit. These assets often lack continuous secondary market trades, making conventional market-based pricing unreliable.