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Interest Rate Swap Protocol Kairos Completes $2.4 Million Seed Round, Led by 6th Man Ventures

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On March 25, Kairos Labs—the team behind an interest rate swap protocol—announced it has closed a $2.4 million seed funding round. The round was led by 6th Man Ventures, with participation from Lattice, Advancit Capital, and Compa Capital. Concurrently, Kairos released its technical whitepaper and launched a permissionless, non-custodial interest rate swap protocol built for EVM-compatible blockchains. The protocol is set to go live on Ethereum mainnet and Base in the coming weeks. The tool enables users to create interest rate swap markets, hedge between fixed and floating rates, and strengthen DeFi’s critical infrastructure. Currently, DeFi lending tops $40 billion in scale but remains largely floating-rate, with a gap in robust interest rate risk management tools. Kairos noted the protocol will serve as core infrastructure for on-chain fixed-income systems, accelerating the adoption of traditional financial products like bonds and structured credit in DeFi.
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