A Year of Building: Volo’s 2025

🌊 A Year of Building: Volo’s 2025

2025 marked a defining evolution for Volo, as the protocol expanded from Sui’s leading liquid staking solution into a structured yield and institutional-ready liquidity layer.

While continuing to scale vSUI adoption, Volo introduced vault-based strategies that unlocked BTCFi and stablecoin yields through composable, risk-aware infrastructure.

By bridging staking, Bitcoin liquidity, and engineered yield products, Volo played a central role in shaping Sui’s BTCFi growth and advancing the ecosystem toward more sophisticated capital deployment.

Stats & Milestones

Peak vault TVL - $80M

BTC peak vault TVL - 400+ BTC

Stablecoin peak vault TVL - $5M

Average vault APR range - 10%+

Total Vault Stakers - 4000+

3 BTC-denominated assets onboarded

Share of Sui BTCFi liquidity routed via Volo - 30%

Growth rate of BTC vault deposits - 3000%

Retention rate of BTC vault users - 87%

65k vSUI stakers

Early 2025 - Liquid Staking Expansion

Volo continued scaling vSUI adoption as Sui’s leading liquid staking solution, expanding integrations across DeFi protocols and reinforcing its role as the staking backbone of the ecosystem. Increased composability and deeper protocol integrations positioned vSUI as a core building block for more than 20 protocols across lending, trading, and yield strategies on Sui.

Q2 2025 - Volo V2 Launch

Volo released V2, a major protocol upgrade introducing instant unstaking, fungible vSUI infrastructure, improved delegation mechanics, and enhanced capital efficiency.

These upgrades significantly improved user flexibility and protocol composability, enabling vSUI to function as a first-class DeFi asset rather than a passive staking derivative.

Instant Unstaking Goes Live

With V2, users could move seamlessly between SUI and vSUI without traditional lock-ups or unbonding delays, unlocking more dynamic strategies and improving capital mobility across the Sui ecosystem.

Q3 2025 - Vaults as a Core Growth Engine

BTC Vaults Launch and BTCFi Expansion

In Q3, Volo expanded beyond SUI staking with the launch of BTC vault strategies, marking a major step in Sui’s BTCFi evolution.

These vaults enabled users to deploy BTC-backed assets into structured yield strategies integrated directly with NAVI’s lending infrastructure.

The vaults quickly expanded to support multiple BTC derivatives, including xBTC, wBTC, and YBTC, and reached a peak TVL of $80M within two months of launch.

This rapid adoption underscored strong demand for secure, yield-generating Bitcoin exposure on Sui, positioning Volo as a primary gateway for BTC liquidity entering the ecosystem.

By abstracting strategy complexity and offering one-click access to BTCFi yields, Volo helped transform Bitcoin from a passive asset into an active source of on-chain yield on Sui, generating as high as 15% APR near risk-free for BTC assets that traditionally generate close-to-zero returns

Validator and Infrastructure Expansion

Alongside vault growth, Volo deepened validator partnerships and staking infrastructure to further strengthen decentralization, reliability, and performance.

These improvements ensured that growing capital inflows were supported by robust, production-grade staking and delegation systems.

Q4 2025 - Stablecoin Vaults and Institutional Yield Design

Stablecoin Vaults Launch

In Q4, Volo extended its vault framework to stablecoins, introducing capital-efficient strategies designed for users seeking delta-neutral exposure.

These vaults expand Volo’s reach into the hottest protocols on Sui, such as Momentum and structured allocation logic, to optimize returns while maintaining transparent risk parameters.

The addition of stablecoin vaults expanded Volo’s appeal beyond DeFi-native users to capital allocators seeking predictable, on-chain yield products.

Ecosystem-First Yield Infrastructure

Volo has firmly positioned itself as Sui’s liquid staking and yield pillar.

Through vSUI, BTC & stablecoin vaults, Volo supports a wide range of assets and capital profiles, from retail users to institutional investors.

Our vault-based architecture has laid the groundwork for structured yields that align with long-term liquidity deployment rather than just short-term incentives.

Conclusion

By the end of 2025, Volo had evolved into a cornerstone of Sui’s yield and BTCFi ecosystem.

Through liquid staking innovation, rapid BTCFi expansion, and the launch of structured stablecoin vaults, Volo enabled more efficient, institutional-grade capital deployment on-chain.

As Sui continues to attract deeper liquidity and more sophisticated participants, Volo is positioned to play a central role in shaping the next phase of scalable, risk-aware, and composable DeFi yields.

A Year of Building: Volo’s 2025