RWA / YIELD INTELLIGENCE
YLDS YLDS
SEC-registered, blockchain-recorded face-amount certificate paying monthly interest referencing a SOFR-minus-spread rate.
Where does the yield come from?
Trace who economically pays. Reported APY is not a guaranteed return.
- Company holds certificate-backing assets
Per prospectus
- SOFR-minus-spread rate computed each period
Formula, not a fixed number
- Interest accrues to outstanding certificates
- Monthly interest payment to YLDS holders
- Custodians hold assets supporting obligations
UMB Bank / Flagstar Bank
- Certificate holder claim is against the Company
Not a claim on a specific segregated asset pool
- Primary source
- Treasury interest
- Secondary source
- Unknown
- Who pays economically
- Figure Certificate Company, per certificate terms.
- Variable / fixed
- Variable
- Gross / net
- Unresolved
- Dated yield snapshot
- Unknown
Interest rate is set as SOFR minus a spread (a formula, variable and reset per certificate terms), paid monthly. Support for interest payments derives from Figure Certificate Company's asset portfolio per prospectus.
How yield is distributed
- Mechanism
- Interest payment
- Notes
- Monthly interest payments to certificate holders per prospectus terms.
What does the token represent?
Token ownership is not automatically direct ownership of the underlying assets.
- Legal claim type
- Debt claim
- Domicile
- US
Face-amount certificate — a debt claim against Figure Certificate Company under its Investment Company Act of 1940 face-amount certificate company registration.
Derived / wrapped claim: YLDS is the base SEC-registered certificate. wYLDS (used by Hastra AUTO/PRIME) is a separate staking wrapper not issued by Figure Certificate Company — do not conflate the two.
Official website https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1974395/
Issuers, managers & service parties
- Legal issuerFigure Certificate Company
US — SEC-registered face-amount certificate company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
- CustodianUMB Bank, N.A.
US — Custodian referenced in the YLDS structure.
- CustodianFlagstar Bank
US — Custodian referenced in the YLDS structure.
What sits underneath?
Underlying assets and strategies from primary evidence only.
Figure Certificate Company's asset portfolio backing its face-amount certificate obligations, as described in its SEC registration/prospectus.
- Certificate company assets (composition not itemized this pass)
Composition detail beyond entity-level description not structured this pass.
What happens when things go wrong?
Structural loss path — not a risk score. Unknown protections stay Unknown.
- Who takes the loss first
- UNKNOWN — prospectus-level loss allocation/seniority detail beyond 'face-amount certificate' not fully structured this pass.
- Documented protections
- Face-amount certificate structure is a direct debt claim against Figure Certificate Company under 1940 Act registration; specific credit-enhancement mechanics not structured this pass.
- Investor exposure
- Certificate holders are creditors of Figure Certificate Company absent further prospectus detail extracted this pass.
This is a securities-law debt claim, not an FDIC-insured bank deposit.
How do I get my money back?
Primary redemption ≠ secondary DEX liquidity. Eligibility is scoped.
- Eligible investors
- Per SEC-registered offering terms; specific investor eligibility not itemized this pass.
- Primary redemption
- Certificate redemption per Figure Certificate Company terms in the SEC prospectus.
- Timing
- UNKNOWN
- Settlement asset
- UNKNOWN
- Minimum
- UNKNOWN
- Restrictions
- UNKNOWN
- Secondary liquidity
- Any secondary market trading is not issuer redemption.
Who holds the underlying assets?
Separate asset custody, cash custody, crypto custody, and token control.
- Asset custody
- UMB Bank, N.A. and Flagstar Bank named as custodians in the certificate structure.
- Cash custody
- UMB Bank, N.A. / Flagstar Bank (per structure).
- Crypto custody
- Blockchain-recorded representation of certificate ownership; specific chain(s) not itemized in the source excerpt reviewed this pass.
See tokenization block; specific mint/burn mechanics not itemized this pass.
Fees
Gross yield and net yield are not the same. Not ranked by APY.
- Certificate company management/administrative feeUNKNOWN
- Custodian feeUNKNOWN
Regulation
Authorization is entity × jurisdiction × instrument scoped — not a brand label.
YLDS is issued by Figure Certificate Company, an SEC-registered face-amount certificate company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, offered via an SEC-registered prospectus.
- Entity
- Figure Certificate Company
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Instrument
- Face-amount certificate (1940 Act registered company)
- Authorization / registration
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Audit / assurance
Smart-contract audits are not fund audits or loan audits. No combined “audited” badge.
No structured assurance rows in this pack.
Smart-contract / token controls
Operational controls — not a decentralization score.
- Mint
- UNKNOWN — issuance mechanics not itemized in the prospectus excerpt reviewed this pass.
- Burn
- UNKNOWN
- Pause
- UNKNOWN
- Freeze / blacklist
- UNKNOWN
- Upgrade
- UNKNOWN
- Allowlist
- Likely restricted to SEC-registered offering purchasers; specific allowlist mechanics UNKNOWN.
Tokenization layer
- Chains
- Unknown
- Official ownership record
- Figure Certificate Company / its transfer agent maintains the official register; the token is described as blockchain-integrated per the SEC filing context.
- Transfer restrictions
- UNKNOWN
Specific blockchain deployment(s) not itemized in the prospectus excerpt reviewed this pass (UNKNOWN).
Research dimensions
What is YLDS?
An SEC-registered face-amount certificate issued by Figure Certificate Company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, paying monthly SOFR-minus-spread interest.
Who is legally on the hook if YLDS can't pay?
Figure Certificate Company as the face-amount certificate issuer; specific creditor priority is not fully extracted from the prospectus excerpt reviewed this pass.
How is the YLDS interest rate set?
SOFR minus a spread, paid monthly, per certificate terms — a formula, not a fixed published APY.
What must keep working?
Material dependencies only. Count is not a risk score.
- Legal issuerFigure Certificate CompanyCertificate issuance
- RegulatorU.S. SEC1940 Act registration / prospectus
- CustodianUMB Bank, N.A.Asset custody
- CustodianFlagstar BankAsset custody
- Rate BenchmarkSOFR benchmarkInterest rate formula
Evidence domains
- Entity / issuerVerified structured
Figure Certificate Company + custodians named
- Legal claimVerified structured
Face-amount certificate debt claim
- Yield sourceVerified structured
SOFR-minus formula
- Yield waterfallVerified structured
- Loss waterfallResearched unresolved
Seniority/loss detail unresolved
- Underlying assetsResearched unresolved
Asset composition not itemized
- Distribution mechanismVerified structured
Monthly interest payment
- RedemptionResearched unresolved
Redemption specifics unresolved
- FeesResearched unresolved
- CustodyVerified structured
UMB / Flagstar named
- RegulationVerified structured
SEC 1940 Act registration
- Assurance / auditNot researched
No assurance report identified this pass
- Token controlResearched unresolved
Issuance mechanics unresolved
- Tokenization / chainResearched unresolved
Chain(s) not itemized
- DependenciesVerified structured
- Geographic / eligibility restrictionsResearched unresolved
Eligibility not itemized
Open gaps
- Certificate-backing asset composition detail
- Redemption timing/minimum specifics
- Token issuance / control-plane mechanics
- Blockchain deployment chain(s) not itemized
Primary sources
RWA / Yield Asset Intelligence. No RWA score. No APY ranking. Unresolved states remain unresolved.