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The blockchain landscape is rapidly evolving, and Kava continues advancing its journey toward greater network maturity. In a recent community AMA, Kava’s Developer Relations lead Raghu addressed key questions about the network’s strategic initiatives to enhance institutional readiness and expand capabilities. Here’s what the community learned about Kava’s future direction.

The Vision: Adding Without Subtracting
One of the primary concerns from the community centered on the future of existing protocols like Kava Lend, Kava Swap, and Kava Mint. The message was clear: these protocols remain fundamental to the Kava ecosystem. The transition to a mature network isn’t about replacing what works — it’s about adding new capabilities.

“Moving to a mature network is an additive lens that we are adding,” Raghu, Developer Relations Lead explained. “We are adding rails for AI, RWAs (Real World Assets), and institutional use alongside existing DeFi — not trying to replace it.”

While incentive structures may evolve based on usage patterns and value generation, there are no plans to phase out any existing protocols. This balanced approach ensures that current users and builders maintain their foundation while the network expands its capabilities.

Technical Priorities: Building for Tomorrow
Kava’s technical roadmap focuses on three core pillars that will define its mature network infrastructure:

1. Enhanced Interoperability
As a unique Cosmos and EVM-compatible chain, Kava is doubling down on its cross-chain advantages. The team is strengthening the bridges between these ecosystems, enabling seamless interaction between Cosmos-native applications and Ethereum-based tools.
2. Infrastructure Reliability
The foundation for institutional adoption requires rock-solid infrastructure. Kava is investing heavily in:

High-performance RPC nodes
Advanced indexing solutions
Optimized node operations
Predictable chain performance
3. Developer Experience Excellence
Recognizing that builders are the lifeblood of any blockchain ecosystem, Kava prioritizes:

Clear, comprehensive documentation
Consistent development tooling
Streamlined processes that reduce friction
Familiar standards that lower the learning curve
term ecosystem health. While specific details await future announcements, the direction is clear: incentive structures will mature alongside the network, focusing on sustainable adoption and supporting projects that grow with the ecosystem.

Token Economics and Community Governance
Addressing community concerns about token supply, the team clarified that any changes — including potential burns — would require ecosystem governance approval. This commitment to decentralized decision-making extends to all major network decisions, reinforcing that the mature network framework enhances rather than replaces community governance.
Looking Forward: A Balanced Evolution
Kava’s transition to a mature network represents a thoughtful balance between innovation and stability. By maintaining existing DeFi protocols while adding institutional-grade infrastructure, the network positions itself to capture opportunities in emerging sectors like AI and RWAs without abandoning its core community.
The approach reflects a broader trend in blockchain evolution: successful networks must serve both crypto-native users and traditional institutions. Kava’s strategy — combining Cosmos interoperability, EVM compatibility, professional custody, and decentralized governance — creates a unique value proposition in an increasingly competitive landscape.

Key Takeaways
Existing protocols remain core: Kava Lend, Swap, and Mint continue with evolving incentives
Technical focus on fundamentals: Interoperability, reliability, and developer experience drive the roadmap
Professional custody enhances capability: Foundation stewardship enables institutional partnerships while maintaining decentralization
Governance remains community-driven: All major decisions require on-chain voting
Additive approach: New capabilities for AI and RWAs complement existing DeFi infrastructure
As the blockchain industry matures, Kava’s evolution demonstrates how networks can adapt to meet institutional requirements without sacrificing the principles that made them successful. This balanced approach — technical excellence, professional operations, and community governance — positions Kava to thrive in the next phase of blockchain adoption.

The Kava community will continue hosting bi-weekly AMAs to discuss the network’s evolution and gather community feedback. Stay tuned for future sessions as Kava builds toward a more mature, inclusive blockchain ecosystem.
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Firm is one of world’s biggest crypto investors and is considering converting to an external-facing fund,
The $10bn investment firm of Changpeng Zhao, co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance who in 2023 pleaded guilty to a US criminal charge, is considering opening up to external investors in future.
YZi Labs, known as Binance Labs until a rebranding in January, is one of the biggest Crypto investors in the world. It manages the money of billionaire Zhao, known as CZ, and a small number of early Binance executives including co-founder Yi He, who is also Zhao’s longtime partner.
Having taken in about $300mn in external investment in 2022 before later returning some of it, the firm — which invests in crypto start-ups as well as biotech and artificial intelligence — is open to the possibility of converting into an investment fund.
Ella Zhang, head of YZi Labs, told the Financial Times: “There’s always a lot of external investors interested and we will eventually consider turning it into an external-facing fund. We just think it’s not there yet.”
In AI and biotech we’re still early, we’re forming our team,” said Zhang, who is based in San Francisco. “When we have that expertise, we have the confidence level, we’ll open up for external investors.” She added it would be “a huge responsibility”.
If YZi decides to take in US investors in the future, it would attract much greater scrutiny from regulators.
Zhao co-founded Binance in 2017 and it has grown to become the world’s largest crypto exchange, giving him a fortune of more than $80bn thanks to his majority stake, according to Forbes.
In 2023 he pleaded guilty to a US criminal charge of failure to protect against money laundering. Binance pleaded guilty to a breach of anti-money laundering regulations and international financial sanctions and agreed to pay more than $4.3bn in penalties. The US Treasury department said the exchange failed to report “well over 100,000 suspicious transactions” linked to child sexual abuse, the narcotics trade and terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and Isis.
Zhao resigned from Binance and spent four months in jail last year. Having served his term, he is seeking a pardon from US President Donald Trump.
In a sign of US regulators’ more crypto-friendly approach under Trump, Zhang said the Securities and Exchange Commission regulator had sought a “private demo showcase” of some of the companies backed by YZi Labs, after the SEC chair was unable to attend its demo day at the New York Stock Exchange last month.
Zhang said crypto entrepreneurs who fled the US under former president Joe Biden’s administration are returning to Silicon Valley “because of the whole administration’s attitude [in] wanting to promote the US as a crypto capital.
“Paul Atkins and other commissioners, they are very open minded,” she said.
Zhang — who joined Binance in 2018 and founded Binance Labs, its investing arm, before YZi Labs was spun out — said deploying $10bn, and potentially more, in crypto was difficult.
“CZ said to me ‘your challenge is to deploy.’ It’s just so hard to find so many good enough assets to meet our criteria,” she said.
Zhao no longer runs Binance, having been barred from being involved in its management, but he remains its largest shareholder and an advocate, while he also heavily promotes BNB, the native token of the blockchain developed by Binance.
Zhang declined to name the investors who put money in three years ago, but said the firm later “partially returned” the funds, adding “the reason we returned is because the funds we were managing were massive.
She added: “The demand is very high, a lot of external [investors] want to invest alongside us. For the majority of the projects we invest in we’re not in a rush . . . to exit . . . it’s hard to deliver what they expect.”
YZi Labs recently invested in several so-called crypto treasury firms, which use a public company to raise money in order to buy tokens. It is backing a $1bn deal involving former executives of Chinese bitcoin miner Bitmain, and in July led a $500mn fundraise to turn a Nasdaq-listed vape maker into a BNB treasury company.
Zhang said YZi Labs had received pitches “from over 50 teams” wanting to load up on tokens amid this summer’s fundraising craze. Digital asset investments comprise about 70 per cent of the firm’s investments, but interest in AI and robotics is increasing.
“CZ’s vision is that robotics will help human beings to do things and their transactions will be [done] through crypto wallets,” she said.
The 12-person team takes a “super long-term” approach, Zhang added. “We’re not like other VCs [venture capital] calculating multiples . . . on an annual basis.”
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