Singapore-headquartered Startale Ventures has announced an undisclosed strategic investment and ecosystem partnership with Kyo Finance, a next-generation full-stack, vote-escrowed decentralised exchange (veDEX) infrastructure.
Kyo Finance will leverage the capital and partnership to create the “first fully vertically integrated liquidity infrastructure for the Superchain”. It will continue to utilise Startale’s Account Abstraction infrastructure and Startale Nodes to enable gasless transactions, demonstrating the practical value and interoperability of Startale’s technology stack across its portfolio companies. This positions Kyo Finance to unify fragmented liquidity across Superchain networks, optimise capital flows, and establish a new standard for how DeFi infrastructure should operate in a multi-chain future.
Sota Watanabe, CEO of Startale Group, said: “Together, we will tackle some of the most pressing issues in today’s DeFi sector, starting with uniting fractured liquidity and enabling a truly multi-chain ecosystem”.
Kyo Finance is a native veDEX built on the Soneium network, designed to deliver a “seamless, user-first” DeFi experience. It combines Automated Market Maker (AMM) functionality, real-time governance, and simplified ve-tokenomics. Unlike traditional epoch-based DEXes, Kyo offers intuitive one-click batch transactions, real-time vote weighting, and a fully fungible vote token, eliminating the need for complex NFTs or time-based locking systems.
Kai, CEO of Kyo Finance, noted, “With over 50 chains launching within the Superchain, Kyo addresses critical liquidity fragmentation through a fully vertically integrated stack.”
The company claims to have achieved over US$55 million in peak Total Value Locked (TVL) and more than US$530 million in cumulative trading volume since its launch on 14 January, alongside the debut of the Soneium Mainnet.
Kyo Finance was also selected as the winner of the Soneium Spark Incubation Programme from dozens of applicants, receiving both financial backing and deep technical alignment with Soneium’s long-term growth strategy.
The DeFi landscape is experiencing a dramatic shift, with over fifty per cent of trading volumes now routed through aggregators or embedded swap interfaces. Kyo Finance aims to address critical liquidity fragmentation through a fully vertically integrated stack.
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