About us

Our mission: Enable traders, borrowers, and lenders to hedge interest rate risk and bet on interest rate movements though a new onchain primitive.

Kairos is built by Rocko Inc., an Alliance-backed company (ALL15) intent growing the DeFi ecosystem and bringing more people onchain. Through personal experience and countless user interviews, we've identified the lack of tools to hedge and trade on interest rates as the blocker to the next evolution of onchain markets. In traditional markets, interest rate swaps serve a fundamental role in allowing traders to bet on rate movements, lenders to offer long-duration fixed rate loans, corporations to strategically issue debt, borrowers lock in rates and certainty on their loans, and much more. Karios is an onchain primitive that enables the permissionless of rate prediction markets to facilitate all of these use cases and more, while staying true to the ethos of DeFi.

Founding Team:

Thomas Harrison (CEO) and Vince DePalma (CTO) are the founders of Rocko, an Alliance-backed company (ALL15). Thomas is a 2nd-time founder who sold his previous company, Blockrize, to the Winklevoss-owned global cryptocurrency exchange Gemini. At Gemini, Thomas led the development and launch of the Gemini Credit Card and scaled the program from $0 to hundreds of millions in loan volume. Vince is an experienced developer who has led engineering teams at major financial services companies including Goldman Sachs, Gemini, and Nifty Gateway. Vince also served as an engineering advisor for Ondo Finance.