Kaia Q1 2026 Ecosystem Round-Up: Building the Rails for Retail and Institutional Finance

In the first quarter of 2026, the Kaia ecosystem focused heavily on execution and infrastructure. As part of our efforts to move towards sustainable utility, our focus was squarely on building the systems required to anchor APAC’s real-world economy onchain.

Over the past three months, we have expanded our network of partners to bring deeper liquidity, new yield opportunities, and better tooling to our users and developers. Here is a look at the key integrations and campaigns from Q1, categorized by how they strengthen the Kaia network.

1. Real-World Assets (RWA) & Institutional Adoption

Galactica (Pegasus 1 & 2): In January, we successfully closed Pegasus 1, a tokenized funding round for a $25M LNG vessel in partnership with InvestaX and PT Pelayaran Korindo. Following this success, we launched Pegasus 2 in March, opening a $1.5M subscription to support the operational expansion of PT Pelayaran Maritim Prima.

This brings institutional-grade maritime financing onchain, directly connecting accredited investors to high-value, asset-backed lending instruments. By delivering these premium investment opportunities under the strict regulatory oversight of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Kaia continues to securely bridge traditional finance with onchain efficiency.

JPYC: In late February, JPYC announced its official integration into Unifi, the Web3 wallet accessible directly through the LINE app. This integration brings non-custodial security and local currency stability to a domestic base of 100 million users. 

Beyond the immediate wallet integration, JPYC is actively exploring native issuance on the Kaia network to support its broader multi-chain expansion, effectively building the rails to connect Japan with the wider Asian stablecoin ecosystem.

Progmat DCC: In February, Kaia joined Japan’s Progmat DCC, an industry consortium backed by leading Japanese trust banks and financial institutions.

This marks our strategic expansion into Japan’s regulated digital asset ecosystem. It allows Kaia to collaborate directly with institutional partners on stablecoins, tokenized assets, and next-generation payment systems within a strict compliance framework.

Ratio: Incubated by Kaia and unveiled at Consensus Hong Kong in February, Ratio is a next-generation stablecoin orchestration layer designed specifically for the Asian market. Currently in Phase 1 deployment with select institutional partners, Ratio provides a unified API featuring an Advanced FX Engine, an Intelligent Liquidity Hub, and an Integrated Yield Engine.

Ratio brings one of the lowest-fee onchain FX layers to Asia. Leveraging Kaia’s ecosystem, it enables payment providers and financial institutions to settle instantly, operates 24/7, and puts idle liquidity to work.

2. Onchain Finance & Capital Markets

SuperEarn: Acting as Kaia’s “savings account,” SuperEarn abstracts DeFi complexities to offer risk-adjusted stablecoin yields powered by Morpho and curated by Gauntlet, along with OpenEden. Recent updates include Binance Pay integration and daily earnings tracking, with future mainstream distribution planned via LINE’s Unifi wallet.

AlphaSec: AlphaSec is an orderbook DEX delivering CEX-level execution onchain. With its custom L2 (NitroX) for sub-10ms latency and 100K TPS, it delivers an AI trading interface that allows retail traders to execute pro-level strategies with no hurdles. To ensure top-tier security, AlphaSec recently launched a $50,000 bug bounty with HackenProof.

3. Technical Integrations & Infrastructure

This quarter, we focused on removing infrastructure overhead for developers building on Kaia.

Goldsky: We partnered with Goldsky to provide high-performance managed indexing infrastructure through Subgraphs (instant GraphQL APIs) and Mirror (real-time data replication).

Builders get zero-maintenance indexing and reduced infrastructure costs. For users, dApps on Kaia, like portfolio trackers and DeFi dashboards, will load instantly and display highly accurate real-time data.

Google Cloud: Following their onboarding as a block validator late last year, Q1 saw the operationalization of our partnership with Google Cloud.

As a validator within the Kaia ecosystem, Google Cloud is instrumental in collectively verifying the integrity of onchain transactions. Builders on Kaia can also streamline their Dapp development workflow by building on Google Cloud’s secure and scalable cloud infrastructure.

SODAX: SODAX Swap is a cross-network execution and liquidity system designed for a financial world that operates across many networks simultaneously. It coordinates execution and liquidity across all major networks, including Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Base, Avalanche, Sui, and Stellar, and now, Kaia. 

Its solver-based execution model routes actions across liquidity domains, manages multi-bridge infrastructure through proprietary bridging relays and compatibility with leading interoperability protocols. As a result, users can execute direct, predictable cross-network swaps without manual bridges or wrapping, gaining reliable access to USDT and native KAIA liquidity.

4. Ecosystem & Chain Integrations

Consensus Liquidity on SwapScanner: Kaia’s Consensus Liquidity (CL) is now live on Swapscanner for the KAIA-BORA and KAIA-SCNR pools. CL allows users to use their staked KAIA to provide liquidity, earning both validator staking rewards and DEX swap fees simultaneously. The team is currently working to integrate CL directly into the Kaia Portal next.

Laguna Network & SuperEarn: Laguna introduced SuperEarn, the Kaia-incubated protocol which allows users to earn up to 8.8% APY on their USDT cashback. SuperEarn is built on Kaia’s infrastructure, utilizing Morpho and Gauntlet vaults. This activates idle stablecoin balances for everyday consumers. Users generate steady, passive returns on their shopping rewards automatically without needing to actively manage their funds.

Spoon Finance: Delivering an impressive 22.74% average yield on over $200,000 in USDT deposits during its recently closed Phase 1, Spoon Finance is a hybrid DeFi platform on the Kaia network. It minimizes risk through automated hedging, allowing users to earn "triple farming" rewards (USDT interest + altcoins + Spoon points) from a single stablecoin deposit. Official launch coming soon.

Bitazza: We expanded our hyperlocal, compliant ecosystem by integrating USDT on Kaia with Bitazza, Thailand’s premier regulated digital asset gateway. This taps into the country's massive retail crypto adoption and further cements Kaia's strategy of executing on a compliant, regional level.

GRVT: This integration marks a major expansion of Kaia’s footprint in the perpetual futures market. Building on the foundation of existing perps platforms, GRVT enables seamless USDT deposits and significantly strengthens our presence in one of the industry's most widely used DeFi categories.

These integrations provide faster, cheaper stablecoin settlements for users in highly active markets, reducing the friction of entering and exiting the Kaia ecosystem.

QuackAI: QuackAI integrated with Kaia to bring programmable capital to the agent economy.

AI agents require stablecoin-native environments to execute autonomous transactions. Kaia’s instant finality and low fees provide the ideal settlement layer for these automated workflows. Through the deployment of the Q402 gasless standard, QuackAI ensures that AI agents can execute these onchain transactions seamlessly without the friction of manual gas management.

Oobit: KAIA holders can now send KAIA directly to their bank accounts instantly using Oobit. This frictionless integration requires zero swaps and processes in seconds via SEPA, ACH, or Faster Payments.

Unifi (by LINE NEXT): LINE NEXT launched Unifi, a stablecoin wallet operating on the Kaia network. Unifi allows users to deposit USDT and earn a baseline yield of 4% with no lock-up periods with flexible deposit limits, and anytime withdrawals. To drive early adoption, Unifi initiated an ongoing promotional campaign in March offering up to 8% base interest on USDT deposits.

Unifi provides a highly accessible, consumer-facing gateway into the Kaia ecosystem. By aggregating Kaia's underlying infrastructure and the SuperEarn yield mechanism, it lowers the barrier to entry for everyday users to manage stablecoins, setting the foundation for future wallet capabilities like global merchant payments and chat-based transfers.

5. User Campaigns & Exchange Partnerships

To accelerate the use of Kaia as a transport layer for stablecoins in Asia, we ran targeted incentive campaigns with major regional exchanges.

Coins.ph (Philippines): We partnered with Coins.ph for two major USDT deposit campaigns: our Love Across Borders Valentine's Promo in February, and March Deposit Madness. Rewarding users who transfer USDT via the Kaia network encourages a shift away from expensive legacy networks and demonstrates Kaia's speed and cost-efficiency directly to retail users.

Bitkub (Thailand): We launched an educational and deposit campaign with Bitkub, rewarding users who completed basic cryptocurrency training and transferred USDT via the Kaia chain. This campaign drove onchain volume while prioritizing user education, ensuring new participants understand how to safely navigate the network.

Bithumb (South Korea): We maintained our partnership with Bithumb, recently extending the zero-fee USDT withdrawal campaign through March 15, 2026. This ongoing initiative provided our users with the fastest and cheapest rails to move stablecoins between Korea and global exchanges.

Looking Ahead

Every integration finalized in Q1 2026 serves a distinct role in scaling the Kaia network. Together, these partnerships upgrade our underlying data infrastructure, improve liquidity routing, introduce real-world yield mechanics, and drive broader distribution.

As we move into Q2, we will continue focusing on sustainable blockspace demand, driving liquidity inflows, optimizing asset interoperability, and building the rails where global commerce and Web3 converge.