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How Kairos Secures Its Oracles

Vince DePalma·August 4, 2026

An interest rate swap is a bet on a number, so the number is the attack surface. Here is how the three oracle families that price Kairos markets — reference rate, base rate, and risk premium — are built to fail closed rather than fail wrong.

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The Missing Primitive Interest Rate Swaps and the Future of Onchain Credit

Vince DePalma·April 28, 2026

Fixed-rate, long-duration credit is the largest category of credit in the world. It has essentially no onchain presence. Not because the protocols can't support it, but because lenders have no way to hedge interest rate risk. That's the missing primitive.

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Kairos Raises $2.4M to Bring the $500T Swap Market Onchain

Vince DePalma·March 25, 2026

Kairos Labs announces a $2.4M seed round led by 6th Man Ventures and publishes its technical whitepaper for a permissionless interest rate swap protocol on Ethereum and Base.

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