🔹Introduction

The evolution of blockchain has always been shaped by one recurring challenge: how to move value between networks without reintroducing the intermediaries or risks that decentralisation was designed to avoid. Early solutions from wrapped tokens to synthetic assets solved the surface problem of portability, but at the cost of reintroducing trust assumptions, custodianship, and fragility.

Crypto Factor’s Mapped Assets (cAssets) were created to overcome these limits. cAssets are protocol-minted representations of native assets, designed to be portable across chains, composable in DeFi systems, and redeemable under transparent vault logic. Unlike wrapped assets, they are not held by custodians or intermediaries. Unlike synthetics, they do not rely on price oracles or simulated balances. Instead, they are minted by protocol infrastructure, mapped 1:1 to staked or deposited native assets, and secured by on-chain rules that guarantee reversibility.

At their core, cAssets embody a principle: decentralised value should remain decentralised, even when it moves. Where wrapped tokens depend on a custodian to “hold” the original and issue an IOU, cAssets map the state of locked or staked assets directly into transferable equivalents. Where synthetic tokens depend on external price feeds, cAssets derive their integrity from vault mechanics, mint-and-burn discipline, and natural arbitrage incentives.

This model allows cAssets to serve as the foundation of the Crypto Factor Interchain Mesh. They provide the liquidity backbone for token ecosystems, the governance layer for cross-chain participation, and the incentive alignment for staking-enhanced yields. In practice, this means that with cAssets, users can vote, stake, provide liquidity, and trade across chains — all while knowing that their mapped assets are fully secured by code, not by trust in third parties.

In this way, cAssets are not just another “bridge asset.” They are instruments of participation: a way to take the economic commitments of one chain and extend them across many, without compromising on decentralisation or security.