As the platform to “democratize” value creation in digital assets, Kiln claims that it has been committed to building the best infrastructure products and tools.
They have announced the launch of Kiln Ventures, their initiative to support the next generation of onchain builders.
With Kiln Ventures, they are taking their mission further by “actively driving new partnerships and fostering ecosystem growth.”
Beyond financial investment, they provide resources and technical insights from their engineering team and “accelerate your GTM strategy through their institutional and investor network to help partner projects succeed.”
Their focus areas:
Kiln Ventures has explained in a blog post that it focuses on projects that align with their core competencies, including 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)
They are partners of several builders, including:
Reown, builders of WalletConnect and tooling for the onchain UX ecosystem
Jess Houlgrave, Reown CEO:
“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.”
Gabriel Begazo, Co-Founder & COO of Cede Labs:
“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.”
Robin A, Founder & CEO of Raiku:
“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.”