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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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About Kernel Ventures

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.

What Kernel Ventures offers

  • 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 works with

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

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

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