KAIO (Real-World Asset Tokenization)
Industry
Real-World Asset Tokenization
Focus
Token Treasury, Stablecoin Operations, Policy-Driven Governance
Suba Naganathan
VP of Marketing
Key outcome KAIO gained using Utila
A Policy-Governed Token Treasury That Carried KAIO Safely Through Its TGE
KAIO adopted Utila as its first wallet infrastructure provider to handle stablecoin payments and investor funding, then relied on the platform for the highest-stakes moment in its lifecycle so far: custodying its full supply of one billion KAIO tokens - currently valued at approximately $300 million - and executing a community claim at its token generation event without a single incident.
About KAIO
A Technology Platform Bringing Institutional Funds Onchain
KAIO is building open infrastructure for tokenizing real-world assets, connecting traditional financial products with onchain rails. Working alongside fund managers, the company tokenizes blue-chip institutional funds and makes them accessible to crypto-native investors, with compliance rules enforced natively onchain rather than maintained in offchain databases.
Incubated by Laser Digital, the digital asset arm of Nomura, the company operated as Libre Capital before rebranding to KAIO in 2025. Its platform hosts tokenized funds from BlackRock, Brevan Howard, Hamilton Lane, and Laser Digital, with approximately $100 million in TVL across eight to ten blockchain networks.
KAIO works across the full tokenization value chain, partnering with asset managers on the issuance side, exchanges and other distributors on the access side, and DeFi protocols across the broader ecosystem.
The challenge KAIO was facing
Stablecoin Operations and a High-Stakes Token Launch with No Wallet Infrastructure in Place
KAIO's wallet infrastructure needs initially emerged from its corporate operations. The company needed to pay a growing set of providers in stablecoins and receive investor funding in stablecoins, and it had no effective means to do either.
With entities across multiple jurisdictions and a deliberately lean team, KAIO needed a single platform it could govern centrally rather than a patchwork of providers maintained for occasional use.
The requirements then escalated sharply. KAIO's token generation event meant the company would custody its entire token supply and execute a community claim - distributing allocations to early participants through a third-party claim contract.
Community claims are a known point of vulnerability in digital asset processing: a single misconfigured transfer or compromised signer can put the full supply at risk. KAIO needed wallet segregation, granular transfer policies capable of keeping a nine-figure supply immobile by default, and a signing process its whole quorum could execute under pressure.
The solution we delivered for KAIO
Segregated Vaults, Granular Policies, and a Claim Process Executed in a Single Signing Session
KAIO selected Utila as its first wallet infrastructure provider following a referral from its sister company Twinstake, an existing Utila customer, and an evaluation that included Fireblocks. With a more favourable pricing structure and the positive experience from KAIO’s trusted peer, Utila emerged as the winner.
Token supply custody through the vesting period
Following its mint, KAIO allocated its full supply of one billion KAIO tokens - currently valued at approximately $300 million - into Utila vaults, where the supply remains in custody through a one-year vesting lock-up. During this period, deny-by-default policies keep the supply immobile, with movement permitted only through explicit policy exceptions.
Policy-driven governance for the TGE claim
For the community claim, KAIO configured policies so that only the portions designated for claiming could move into the claim provider's contract, keeping the remaining supply locked behind its standard treasury controls. The full signer quorum then executed the transfers in a single fifteen-minute session. The claim proceeded without incident.
Compliance tooling
KAIO connected its Chainalysis subscription to Utila, adding transaction screening to its operational stack.
Responsive support at critical moments
When a test transaction with a third-party token distribution tool kept failing, Utila's support team responded instantly over live chat, reviewed the relevant transaction data, and traced the failure to the external tool's sixty-second signing window. KAIO resolved the issue with the third party directly.
High impact results KAIO experienced
A Clean TGE and an Infrastructure Layer That Matches How a Lean Team Operates
At the moment of highest exposure, KAIO completed the community claim without an incident, breach, or failed transfer. A marketing lead with six years in the industry observed the process first-hand and said it ran as smoothly as any claim he had seen, with the full signing operation completed in just 15 minutes.
The relationship also extends well beyond the launch itself. KAIO's token supply remains in Utila custody throughout its one-year vesting period, governed by deny-by-default policies - an ongoing custody commitment measured in hundreds of millions of dollars rather than a one-off integration for a single event.
Beyond the TGE, KAIO's finance team describes the platform as working exactly as expected, with an architecture flexible enough to accommodate its multi-entity structure and a support team that responds the moment issues arise.
For a lean team managing operations across jurisdictions, consolidating custody, payments, and policy governance in one platform removed the overhead of maintaining multiple provider relationships.
The software works exactly as expected, and whenever an issue comes up, the support team is right there. Architecture-wise, the platform is flexible enough for how we operate across entities.
- Katya Shavrina, Head of Operations and Chief of Staff, KAIO
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