As the leading platform to democratise value creation in digital assets, Kiln has always been committed to building the best infrastructure products and tools. Today, we are thrilled to announce the launch of Kiln Ventures, our dedicated initiative to support the next generation of onchain builders.
With Kiln Ventures, we are taking our mission further by actively driving new partnerships and fostering ecosystem growth.
Beyond financial investment, we provide resources and technical insights from our world-class engineering team and accelerate your GTM strategy through our institutional and investor network to help partner projects succeed.
Our focus areas
Kiln Ventures primarily focuses on projects that align with our core competencies, including new protocols and infrastructure projects in the following areas:
- Ethereum and Solana ecosystem
- New Layer-1s
- DeFi & Stablecoins
- Shared economic security: restaking and Bitcoin staking
- Liquid staking (LSTs) and Liquid restaking (LRTs)
Our partners so far
We are already proud partners of several great builders, including
- Reown, builders of WalletConnect and tooling for the onchain UX ecosystem
"We were really excited to welcome Kiln Ventures into our most recent round. The Kiln team have made staking easy in the way that we aspire to make onchain UX easy for apps, wallets and end users and I’m looking forward to long term collaboration with the team."
— Jess Houlgrave, Reown CEO
- Cede Labs, the institutional-grade CEX connectivity tool
“Cede SDK is a CEX connectivity SDK helping custody solutions easily integrate CEX for transfer & settlement use cases. We’re currently working with Kiln to enable new liquidity venues for institutional staking solutions.”
— Gabriel Begazo, Co-Founder & COO of Cede Labs
- Pye, a new crypto primitive that helps stakers boost yield, get loans and sell their yield upfront
- Fastlane, our preferred MEV partner on Polygon and soon Monad
- Raiku, building high velocity design freedom for developers on Solana
“Raiku is enabling high velocity design freedom for developers on Solana, enabling institutional grade performance and reliability for on-chain applications.Partnerning with Kiln, a leading Solana (SOL) staking provider, allows us to enhance valiador performance, security and streamline staking capabilities for Solana stakeholders.”
— Robin A, Founder & CEO of Raiku
- Dexari, a mobile app for onchain trading, powered by Hyperliquid
Join us in building the onchain future
We are actively looking for projects and partners that innovate in the staking and blockchain ecosystem. If you are building something exciting and believe Kiln Ventures can add value to your journey, we’d love to hear from you.
If you are interested in learning more or submitting a proposal, visit our Kiln Ventures page to get started.
Together, let’s push the boundaries of what’s possible in staking and blockchain technology!
