Finance is already onchain. Institutions are running blockchain systems at scale, moving billions in digital assets, and asking how to operate onchain to the same standard they've always maintained. For the teams shaping global financial systems, the margin for error is functionally zero.
For eight years, Tenderly has powered the simulation technology behind crypto's most respected protocols, such as Chainlink, Aave, Uniswap, Yearn Finance, Safe, Morpho, Sky (ex-MakerDAO), and others. Our modeling technology has become the cornerstone for how serious teams answer the question: what will happen?
Tenderly is opening new possibilities by expanding our product offering so the onchain institution can model every onchain move against real conditions, before any capital is exposed. Building on top of our existing simulation technology, we’re repositioning as the simulation company for onchain institutions.
Modeling is not optional. It’s the institutional standard.
Institutions don't build like startups. Every new system, tool, or infrastructure decision needs to pass through risk reviews, compliance sign-offs, legal scrutiny, and internal audits before a single dollar is exposed.
Yet blockchain environments introduce a new risk: every transaction, integration, or onchain response interacts with third-party protocols, external APIs, and dependencies. When you sign a transaction, assets move. The decision is final. You've initiated a chain of events no longer under your control.
Risk modeling, stress testing, and scenario analysis have long been the standard in traditional finance. Tenderly’s simulation technology makes them possible against the real conditions of dynamic blockchain environments, enriched with the depth and granularity of data spanning every user activity, protocol, and chain.
To achieve this, we’re unifying our simulation infrastructure, introducing new simulation functionalities across the platform, and redesigning the Tenderly platform as Console.
What institutions can now do onchain
From pioneering transaction simulations to developing entire simulated networks, Tenderly has been building simulation technology to support the evolving needs of teams innovating onchain. We’ve been working closely with all major protocols and EVM networks to support their entire operations on the blockchain, from initial development and validation to production operations and mitigation.
Now, we’re extending our simulation technology with powerful new features and functionalities that enable risk modeling against real conditions of production systems. Enriched with the context and data Tenderly’s been tracing, decoding, and surfacing for years, we now unlock the use cases institutional teams require to operate blockchain products at scale:
- Financial modeling: Model complex strategies against full position books, stress-test allocations under edge-case scenarios, and preview liquidation effects before committing real capital.
- Sandbox environments: Run any onchain flow in a sandbox environment to isolate issues and enable safe interactions with your product. Enable users to experiment with strategies, test AI workflows, validate integrations, and demo your product against real state, live oracle prices, and real liquidity before any production exposure.
- Customer support operations: Resolve blockchain issues faster without escalating to engineering. Act with confidence with transaction previews for your team and users, troubleshoot issues with fully decoded data and human-readable error reasoning, and validate fixes before presenting them.
- CI/CD and staging across chains: Run reproducible testing, stage your application, and verify cross-chain upgrades, multichain workflows, and message passing with built-in bridge support before anything reaches production.
- Incident management pipeline: Detect early signals of unexpected behavior and act on verified responses, knowing the effects of every onchain action before executing it in production.
How Tenderly makes this possible
Tenderly will continue to act as a single operational layer for every stage of your blockchain operations, now with expanded capabilities and new flows for institutional teams operating onchain with confidence.
In practice, your risk, operations, customer support, and engineering teams can now:
- Reduce financial risk and production exposure by modeling every onchain action against a complete twin of production networks. Simulator and Virtual Environments are now unified as a single layer, replicating production conditions with a newly released Mirror Mode. This way, teams can validate any deployment, upgrade, integration, or cross-protocol interaction against live conditions.
- Ensure cross-chain production readiness in a single simulation environment. The new multichain simulations and native bridge support for LayerZero, Chainlink CCIP, Circle CCTP, and Across let you test cross-chain workflows across 100+ chains that previously required workarounds.
- Understand and resolve issues with greater visibility into your and your users' onchain activity. With the Tenderly Platform redesigned as Console, every team gains enriched data and full execution context with DeFi Modules, while the new Simulation Mode and Simulation Bundles enable account impersonation and troubleshooting of complex user flows.
- Maintain continuous visibility, operational rigor, and system reliability with an end-to-end monitoring and response pipeline. Detect the moment a system behaves outside the expected parameters and enable every relevant team to act early with confidence before a small anomaly becomes a critical failure.
- Ensure stakeholder alignment across risk, finance, and engineering departments. With transaction hashes documented by default, shareable simulation environments, access control, and built-in private verification, you can run your blockchain operations without public exposure, yet with complete stakeholder alignment and transparency.
Model every onchain move across your blockchain operations
Crypto spent fifteen years building the infrastructure to bring institutional systems onchain. They’re now here. What comes next is operating these systems at an institutional level, which means lower risk tolerance and a greater level of operational confidence.
Modeling every onchain move, from a single transaction to entire cross-chain system integrations, isn’t optional. It's a prerequisite for the actual adoption of the technology that teams have spent years building.
Tenderly gives you the operational layer for testing every outcome, validating every decision, and evaluating every risk against actual conditions you operate in.
Reach out to our team to set up your simulation environment!
