This article is syndicated from the original blog post on the Staworth website. It serves as a companion piece to the main Beefy article highlighting Staworth and Octav’s progress throughout 2025.

In January 2025, we sought approval from the Beefy DAO to enter into a year-long engagement with Octav — a leading provider of portfolio intelligence data. Our aim for the year was to improve and accelerate Beefy’s accounting efforts by building better tooling.

We chose Octav because, unlike most leading SaaS crypto accounting platforms, their team is developer-led and wants to build alongside their partners, not just onboard them to their monolithic service.

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Octav promised us better automations, open access to our data, and a rapidly-developing platform that we could help to shape. They delivered on every count.

12 months later, and we’re extremely proud of everything that Beefy, Octav and Staworth accomplished in 2025: we unveiled our new Beefy Financial Hub — a one-stop shop for data on Beefy’s financial performance; we opened up Beefy’s transaction data to the public; we made that data easily accessible to our community from Discord via an Octav bot; and, we’ve automated accounting for 90-95% of tens of thousands of annual transactions.

This article recaps the developer experience of building on Octav and the feature design for Beefy’s new tools.

From a brief glance, some may wrongly conclude that Octav is a mere portfolio tracking tool, competing with dozens of others in the industry.

It’s true that Octav’s web application provides industry-leading portfolio tracking and analysis across dozens of blockchains, competing with the likes of DeBank and Nansen. Peeling back a layer, the app’s transaction-level data offers categorisation and user-editable fields, resembling leading crypto accounting subledger apps, like Tres and Cryptio. But under the hood, Octav is a burgeoning data giant that spans a range of verticals, like Dune, DefiLlama or CoinGecko.

We think that Octav can be best understood as a combination of three core services:

• Data collection, processing & distribution - fetching, indexing and cleaning raw data across dozens of blockchains, then processing and distributing simplified, intelligible and accurate derivative data to clients.

  • Octav helped Beefy avoid hundreds of hours’ work, extracting terabytes of data to keep track of treasury activities.

• Digital assets and DeFi position analysis - identifying interactions with over 2 million digital assets and over 10,000 DeFi protocols from within their datasets, and then undertaking the complex process of identifying net asset balances, gathering prices for all relevant assets and discerning value, cost and gains for each position.

  • For Beefy, this means not only monitoring investments, but accounting for revenues, costs and profitability over tens of thousands of transactions annually.

• User-driven interfaces and applications - transforming that generalised data and analysis into specific, actionable insights for users of every aptitude through elegant interfaces and applications. Building the tools to help users conduct their own specific analysis, whether for their internal command centres or their external transparency.

  • Beefy relies on Octav to maximise our internal understanding and control over the treasury, and to help disseminate Beefy’s data to our users and the market.

Historically, Octav has always been set apart by its open approach to technology, which embraces builders and ensures users can own their own data. But in 2025, two fundamental changes took their model to the next level:

• First, Octav completed the move to an API-native model, where all the user data that’s available in their app would be open to users directly through a powerful API service. By offering a full range of flexible endpoints with deep configuration options, Octav has empowered external applications to extract the data they need. In short: Octav opened its backend up to builders.

• Second, Octav launched its V2 web application, which introduced a modular approach to interface design where users build their own workspace using “widgets”. These miniature applications are entirely customisable derivatives of Octav’s data. Users can even create their own widgets and submit them to Octav’s public widget marketplace. In other words: Octav opened its frontend up to builders.

With the stack now complete — and completely open — Octav is ready to bring together its own community of developers and builders looking to apply their DeFi data in new ways.

With that spirit in mind, we — together with contributors to Beefy — entered a team into the ETHGlobal Buenos Aires Hackathon in November 2025 and won first prize in Octav’s Best Widget award.

The project was modelled on Beefy’s own needs: since the start of 2023, we have helped Beefy to prepare and publish routine quarterly financial reports of aggregate performance data. Octav powers these reports, but preparing and distributing them was still a sizeable operation on top of Octav’s existing tools.

Our goal for the hackathon was to turn these processes into a public-facing application built on Octav’s API, capable of applying our accounting methods to both live and historical data. Put simply, we set out to move from static reports to real-time reporting.

The culmination of that vision is the Beefy Financial Hub.

The Hub brings together the structure of our formal accounts with customisable enquiries into the meaning of our data, all powered by Octav’s API.

On the one hand, it serves Reports (above), which detail aggregate figures across Beefy’s financial statements and areas like costs for individual governance proposals. Reports use fixed designs aligned with Beefy’s accounting standards, but the Hub brings them to life with Octav’s live data and Beefy’s full historical data.

On the other hand, it implements Query functionality (below), letting users select, arrange and display data from Beefy’s Octav instance to suit their own needs. Users can request raw data, tables or Octav-compatible widgets, all of which can be downloaded.

The full library of possible Widgets is also displayed for perusal.

Bringing the two together, the heart of the Hub is the Dashboard (below), where a growing selection of widgets, analytics and descriptions paint a picture of performance for Beefy’s users, tokenholders, prospective investors and the industry at large. Where our existing financial reports retell the story of Beefy’s performance each quarter, the Dashboard is a living theatre to watch it unfold.

Through this range of tools, we aim for Beefy’s Financial Hub to become the Swiss Army knife for tokenholders and users assessing the health and performance of Beefy. It’s a one-stop shop to understand Beefy’s value proposition.

As we move into a new year, our achievements to date haven’t dulled our ambitions. If anything, the rate of progress within the Octav Stack has only served to expand our view of what’s possible in 2026.

With Beefy’s Financial Hub live and operational, we’ve barely begun to scratch the surface of the different kinds of widget designs and implementations that we would like to see. By continuing to work closely with Octav, building on their stack and aligning our development paths, we aim to showcase the limitless potential of DeFi to improve our financial systems.

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