We're publishing the Kaia Technical Roadmap today.
Every upgrade and partnership ahead of us is building toward this picture. Onchain finance. Stablecoin orchestration. The infrastructure layer where institutional capital settles, not just experiments.
Why now?
Regulation is catching up, stablecoins have crossed from crypto-native experiment into mainstream payment flows, and institutions stopped asking whether to touch this. They're asking how. That's what Kaia is building toward, and pushing forward.
The roadmap is a direction, not a final blueprint. It will shift as research lands and as the community pushes back. We're putting it in the open so builders can see where the road goes and help us refine it.
The roadmap is built on three pillars:
1. Permissionless Kaia: Open up participation, tokenomics, and governance of the Kaia ecosystem so it stays fair, sustainable and accessible as it grows.
2. KaiaBFT: A performance and reliability upgrade of the network, designed to move stablecoins and tokenized assets at scale with settlement institutions can plan around.
3. Institutional-grade Infrastructure for Onchain Finance: The technical foundation that onchain financial services actually need when building on Kaia with real choices on sovereignty, compliance, privacy, and agentic optimization.
All three point to the same goal: making Kaia the base infrastructure for onchain finance.
Over the coming weeks, we'll deep-dive into each pillar. Each article will cover not just what we're building, but how the industry approaches these challenges today and the reasoning behind Kaia's approach.
Follow along. Build on Kaia.
Part 5 of our Kaia Technical Roadmap Deep Dive: Scalable Kaia.
Scalability may sound like an old topic. But as institutional adoption and mass-market use cases move closer, high throughput is becoming practical again.
Kaia has already proven 4,000+ TPS. With KaiaBFT, the next step is making that number by 10,000+ TPS
Full deep dive ↓
Part 4 of our Kaia Technical Roadmap Deep Dive: Auditable Kaia.
Institutional adoption needs more than low fees and fast blocks. It needs compliance that adapts to local rules, and privacy that can still be audited.
Key take: Kaia brings programmable compliance and auditable privacy to a public settlement layer.
Full deep dive ↓
The official X account for Kaia Investment Partners (@kaia_ip) is live.
As our institutional investment arm, they are driving sustainable capital into the ecosystem.
Follow their account for direct updates on their upcoming funding announcements and ecosystem growth.
If you’re building AI agents that need to get paid, payments shouldn’t be the bottleneck.
@unifi_x Pay Direct gives developers a direct path to global stablecoin payments.
This is the kind of infra agentic commerce needs.
Builders should get early access now.
Unifi Pay Direct Early Access is officially open! 🚀
"Have you ever been rejected during PG (Payment Gateway) screening when trying to integrate a payment system? 🙋♂️"
Now, integrate global payments in an 'average of 10 minutes' without corporate or business registration and complex screening processes! Users can pay conveniently using social login and the LINE app, while builders receive settlements without the burden of fees!
🔥 Special benefits exclusive to Unifi Pay Direct Early Access
✅0% Payment Fee (only a 1% protocol fee)
✅ Integration within an average of 10 minutes and 1-second settlement
✅ Support for global payments in Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand
✅ Up to 5% annual interest on deposited settlement funds
Special benefits available only during Early Access!
👉 Check it out right now: https://t.co/o3WcyV7I2p
#Unifi #UnifiPay
Part 3 of our Kaia Technical Roadmap Deep Dive: Sovereign Kaia.
Institutions want their own chains. But most sovereign chains come with inherent issues: ecosystem silos and liquidity fragmentation.
Key take: Kaia gives institutions sovereignty without ecosystem isolation.
Run a sovereign chain that still settles on Kaia L1, or build directly on L1, which already has everything you need. Full deep dive ↓
SuperEarn has officially launched its bug bounty program on @HackenProof
We're committed to making SuperEarn's security and reliability rock-solid, and we'd love the white-hat community to put us to the test.
[New bug bounty] Earn up to $30,000 with @SuperEarnX
You will be rewarded based on these tiers:
Critical: $5,000 - $30,000
High: $2,000 - $10,000
Medium: $300 - $2,000
Low: $100 - $500
Start the #bugbounty hunt right now!
Part 2 of our Kaia Technical Roadmap Deep Dive: Agentic Kaia.
AI agents are unbanked. They can act, but they can't pay, prove identity, or settle work on their own. The agent-native economy needs new rails.
ERC-8004, x402, ERC-8183 are converging on that. Identity, payments, commerce.
Key take: Kaia adopts the shared stack, and builds our infra for regional stablecoins and messenger-native distribution.
Full deep dive ↓
BREAKING: South Korea's largest bank, KB Kookmin, successfully pilots KRW stablecoin integration for offline payments and global remittances on @KaiaChain. 🇰🇷
🦋 @Morpho is now live on @KaiaChain.
Bringing you more ways to put your assets to work on Kaia.
This is how we scale the foundation for stablecoins, RWAs and onchain finance across Asia.
The roadmap we shared made our direction explicit: institutional-grade onchain finance.
This new landing is another step along that path.
We'll keep building this way.
Kicking off our Kaia Technical Roadmap Deep Dive series with Part 1: Permissionless Kaia.
"Permissionless" doesn't mean what it used to. As institutional capital moves onchain, major chains are taking different approaches to validator participation, governance, and tokenomics.
Some restrict entry for accountability. Others stay open to preserve public-infra credibility.
Our take: public financial infrastructure must be permissionless. But permissionless can't become another word for irresponsibility.
So here's our approach: Accountable Permissionlessness.
It means:
- Open participation.
- Separate roles.
- Measure performance through the system.
Institutional-grade doesn't mean closing the validator set. It requires opening more precisely.
Full deep dive ↓
Scaling DeFi to 250M+ users requires an uncompromising data layer.
Welcome to the Kaia ecosystem, @redstone_defi.
Their high-performance oracle infrastructure will securely power the foundation for stablecoins, RWAs and onchain finance across Asia.