Kinto price

K

$K is the native utility and governance token of the Kinto network. It is used for:

• Staking to earn USDC rewards
• Mining rewards for traders, stakers, and referrers
• Governance, including Nio elections and treasury proposals
• Collateralization in lending markets
• Smart wallet utilities, such as recovery, identity, and insurance

The $K token will list at the end of March 2025 with 15% of the supply unlocked at listing. All investors are fully locked until July 1, 2025 and the team is locked until October 2025 with long-term vesting schedules in place.

$K has a total supply of 10 million tokens, with allocations for:

Insiders

• 20% to the team
• 25% to investors

Community

• 20% to the treasury
• 10% for community liquidity events
• 25% for the mining program

Kinto was co-founded by Ramon Recuero, a serial entrepreneur who previously founded Babylon finance and worked at YCombinator, Google and Zynga. Alongside a core team of developers and strategists with experience from projects like OpenZeppelin, Balancer and Babylon Finance.

Kinto’s mission is to build the first exchange designed to meet the requirements of institutional-grade DeFi while empowering individuals through programmable wallets and sybil-resistant infrastructure.

$K will be available for trading on:

• Uniswap (Arbitrum)
• CEXs to be announced

You can also interact with the Kinto protocol directly via its web app: https://kinto.xyz

Kinto enables on-chain institutions and compliant capital to access decentralized infrastructure through a secure and scalable settlement layer. The platform supports trading, lending, staking, and perpetuals from a single unified smart wallet.

Kinto is built to serve both institutional and retail users by offering:

• CEX-level user experience with DeFi security
• Built-in KYC, wallet recovery, and user protection
• Seamless trading across chains with integrated compliance

• Modular Architecture: Integrates Celestia for data availability and Espresso for decentralized sequencing
• Sybil Resistance: Native identity and compliance for secure, transparent on-chain participation
• Smart Wallets: Every user has a programmable wallet with gasless transactions, recovery, and protection
• Mining Program: Up to 33% of the $K supply distributed over 10 years through user-driven campaigns
• Unified Interface: Trade, lend, stake, and govern from a single, seamless interface