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 Kairos Labs Inc., backed by 6MV, Lattice, Advancit, Alliance, and Compa Capital. Through personal experience and speaking with DeFi participants, we've identified the lack of effective interest-rate hedging tools as a blocker to continued onchain growth. The issue isn't the small number of fixed-rate lending protocols; it's that without hedging primitives, those products can't scale. In traditional markets, interest rate swaps let lenders hedge rate risk and traders express views on rate movements. That hedging layer is what makes fixed-rate loans and fixed-income products viable. With no effective way to hedge interest rate risk, onchain lenders and borrowers have been forced to rely on variable rates for every use case. We're setting out to fix that with an onchain primitive for interest rate swap markets that is permissionless, composable, and non-custodial.

Founding Team:

Thomas Harrison (CEO) and Vince DePalma (CTO) are the founders of Kairos Labs Inc. 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.