About Merkl Studio

Merkl Studio is the self-serve front end of Merkl, the onchain distribution infrastructure used by stablecoin issuers, fintechs, exchanges, tokenized funds and DeFi protocols to pay yield, dividends and rewards to their users.Studio is where a program manager configures a campaign: pick what behaviour to reward, set the budget and duration, choose the chains, then launch. Merkl handles indexing, computation, and claiming from there. End users see the result on the Merkl App, and partners read the same data through the Merkl API.

What you can do in Studio

Create campaigns across every supported position type: concentrated liquidity on a DEX, lending and borrowing markets, plain token holding, vault deposits, and one-off airdrops. Campaigns can be launched one at a time or in batches from a template.Once a campaign is live, Studio is also your dashboard: track TVL, APR, participation and reward efficiency per campaign, renew or adjust a running program, and manage token wrappers so the reward budget never leaves your control.

Why teams use Merkl rather than building it

Merkl is good at two things. Indexing: knowing every position, holder, NAV and flow in real time, across every supported chain. Distribution: moving value to any address on any chain, reliably and at scale.The part that is hard to replicate is reaching the real beneficial holder wallet. Merkl forwarders trace ownership through nested smart contracts, so a recipient is paid whether they hold an asset in their wallet or have deposited it into a lending market, a vault or a staking contract. You describe who should be paid, and Merkl works out which wallets that actually means.

Scale

Figures below are as of July 2026. Live platform counts are always available from the public API at https://api.merkl.xyz.
$1.8B+
Distributed onchain
1000+
Companies
60+
Chains
5M+
Wallets paid
200,000+
Monthly active users

Who uses Merkl

Stablecoin issuers and fintechs including Circle (USDC), Paxos (USDG), Ethena (USDe), Sky (USDS), SG-Forge (EURCV), Coinbase, Robinhood, Kraken and Deel.DeFi protocols including Aave, Morpho, Uniswap, Euler, Curve and 1inch, and chains and ecosystems including Optimism, Plasma, World Chain and Robinhood Chain.

How a distribution works

Merkl recomputes reward accrual roughly every two hours from indexed onchain state. The result is committed as one merkle root per chain, pushed onchain every two to eight hours depending on the chain.Because there is a single root per chain, a recipient claims every reward they are owed on that chain in one transaction, and the cost per recipient stays flat as the recipient population grows. Merkl is non-custodial toward end users: users keep control of their assets and Merkl only processes claims.

Fees

Claiming is free for end users aside from the gas they pay. Program managers pay a 3% maintenance fee on a standard distribution and 0.5% on an airdrop. Managed and bespoke programs are priced individually.

The company

Merkl Studio and the infrastructure behind it are built and operated by Angle Labs, Inc., headquartered in Paris, France. The team has been running onchain distributions since 2023.