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Kernel Ventures

Blockchain-focused venture firm backing founders in open finance, privacy, layer 2 and community-run projects

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TrustList summary

Kernel Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on blockchain and digital assets. Its founding team comes from several parts of the Chinese crypto scene, including a Huobi joint venture and the 8BTC community, and it is based within that ecosystem.

Products and services

Venture investment: backs founders working on open finance, privacy computing, layer 2, non-fungible tokens and decentralised organisations.
Tokenomics advice: helps improve a project's economic model through research, analysis and simulation.
Ecosystem introductions: connects projects with chains and partner investors from its wider portfolio.
Exchange listing help: assists with listing on major exchanges.
Marketing and community: uses its media partners to support project marketing and community building.

Who it serves

Early blockchain projects, with support on ecosystems such as Near, Avalanche, Solana, Algorand and others named on its site.

Key facts

Networks: member of the Polkadot, Polygon, LongHash DeFi and Mirana venture networks
Team background: Huobi joint venture and 8BTC
Region: China's blockchain ecosystem

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Kernel Ventures is ranked on 1 TrustList ranking at #22.

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Investor · 1 ranking

#22of 35
Crypto investors
Of the 35 here, 11 also cover blockchain and 8 also cover artificial intelligence; 3 also work in New York City and 2 also work in San Francisco.
Behind Janus Capital Group, ahead of King River Capital.

As of 2026-10-31. Organic ranks only; sponsored placements are never ranks. How TrustList ranks