Katana is designed with the support of its local token Kat to provide an optimized Defi experience, providing excellent liquidity in solutions like Morpho (Lending), Sushi (Spot Dex) and Vertex (Permanent DEX).
Katana, derived from five different production sources, introduced a new Defi paradigm for adventurers, whales and institutions, as well as strategic partners such as Conduit, Chainlink and Blockworks.
May 28, 2025 – The nonprofit Katana Foundation, dedicated to building the best Defi experience for all types of users, announced the launch of Katana’s Private Mainnet, a blockchain tailored for decentralized financing designed to increase asset productivity with consistent higher yields and greater liquidity.
Unlike the typical fragmented Defi landscape, Katana concentrates liquidity in selected schemes, generating overall powers self-sustaining systems for long-term growth from all available sources. Starting today, the preprocessing is live, giving users the opportunity to participate in Kat early. The public mainnet is expected to be launched in June.
Katana was developed with early support from GSR and Polygon Labs, joining the site with several key partners:
- Conduit is a leading aggregation platform that manages TVL for over $4 billion in hosting chains.
- ChainLink is the most widely adopted decentralized oracle network that powers DEFI operations using a safe and reliable data feed.
- Blockworks is a major crypto media and data company that contributes ecosystem content and in-depth analysis.
A complete and optimized bias experience for everyone
Katana is created in all user profiles. In a world where Defi users dominate chain chain activity, Katana enables them to get higher returns and interact with Defi building blocks in a highly optimized yield-driven environment.
Designed for users seeking profit opportunities, Katana unlocks potential asset value through a unified ecosystem, which makes each token work harder, stronger and more consistently rewards than other platforms.
Considering the construction of the organization
As the Defi space matures, the interest of institutions will continue to grow. However, there are structural challenges: fragmented liquidity and ongoing value leakage hinder efficiency. Katana solves these problems by ensuring deep, concentrated liquidity, minimizing slips and stabilizing borrowing and loan rates.
Titan in the industry
- GSR will provide liquidity management and cross-chain support while incubating new DEFI protocols through its venture capital department.
- Polygon Labs played a key role during Katana’s early development, providing technical guidance and strategic guidance as part of its Agglayer Breakout program.
“We are honored to be able to collaborate on Katana. Our involvement reflects GSR’s growing commitment to incubating and recommending the Defi ecosystem,” said Jakob Palmstierna, president of GSR.
“In addition to providing funding, we can help build an accessible and sustainable platform. Katana allows us to apply market expertise to activate actual output and centralized liquidity.”
Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs, added: “Defi users should receive networks that prioritize sustainable liquidity and reliable returns. Katana turns ineffective efficiency into advantages, providing a fertile and beneficial environment for both builders and users.”
Security architecture powered by ZK technology
Katana is built on a custom stack CDK-Opgeth built on an OP stack, connected to Agglayer, and improves security with zero-knowledge (ZK) proof (ZK) proof. This allows developers to use familiar tools while users benefit from fast confirmation and encryption guarantees.
The proof of ZK is generated by Chartinct’s SP1, a production-grade ZKVM using Polygon’s Polonky3 proof system. The network operates with the support of a catheter, leveraging its powerful G2 Sequencer.
Mobility-first ecosystem
Katana concentrates liquidity in a group of curated leading DEFI protocols to provide users with:
- Improve capital efficiency
- Sliding significantly
- More favorable prices
Core protocols in the Katana ecosystem include:
- Used to optimize the form of loans and borrowing
- Sushi conducts in-depth spot liquidity and transaction summary
- The culmination of permanent trading of capital efficiency
Outside this foundation, hundreds or even thousands of new applications can be built, all benefiting from existing depths of liquidity.
In assets with similar functions such as Stablecoins, btc and ETH, liquidity is also consolidated:
- Agora issues AUSD, the native stablecoin of the network
- LBTC’s LOMBARD, liquid content version of BTC
- Ether.fi for Weeth, a wrap-around Eth variant that provides accumulation and re-reward
- BITVAULT for money for institutional-level BTC support
To allow non-local blue chip capital asset transactions such as XRP, SOL, or SUI, Universal will bridge them into Katana and pin them in Katana. This way users can trade these assets in the Katana ecosystem and get higher returns than local chains while executing strategies such as looping, arbitrage and generating farming.
Sustainable yields are higher, designed for performance
Katana aims to meet the toughest challenges using five performance-centric pillars:
1. Vaulted bridge
Bridged assets (ETH, WBTC, USDC, USDT) earn income from Ethereum and are complicated again on Katana.
Everyone won.
2. Internet fee
Fees and a portion of application revenue are reinvested back into the ecosystem to inspire users and deepen liquidity and capital growth.
Everyone won.
3. AUSD Income
With the support of organizations like Vaneck and State Street, AUSD shares its benefits with the network instead of hoarding them like traditional Stablecoins.
Everyone won.
4. Core application emissions
The core application specializes in its local token to reward users, increasing yields and increasing loyalty.
Everyone won.
5. Kate Emissions
Kat holders will manage how emissions are distributed in the Defi pool, thus enabling long-term incentives with actual use.
Everyone won.
Participating in the scalability of drives
- The more bridge assets, the higher the output.
- The more AUSDs you store, the more rewards you will get from the user.
- The more sequence activity, the more rewards.
Katana grows with users. It is designed to expand sustainably and keep liquidity stable over time. Chain’s revenue and protocol revenue are constantly reinvested in the ecosystem, thus reducing reliance on short-term incentives.
The model establishes long-term stability and acts as a shock absorber during volatility times. The core application does not run in isolation, but rather has made a positive contribution to Katana’s overall resilience.
Everyone won.
Active, effective TVL that drives value
On Katana, TVL will never be idle. All assets are actively deployed into loan, transaction and earnings strategies to maximize capital efficiency and generate returns for applications and users.
Unlike chains that chase inactive capital inflation indicators, Katana makes each token productive. Apps benefit from this economic activity and use it to reinvest in improving the user experience.
Everyone won.
KAT: Ownership, incentives and harmonious growth
Katana Foundation also launched its original token, Kat, designed to align users with web development.
Building on the voting (VE) model, users can receive KAT via Lootbox Rewards after pre-proxy ETH, USDC, USDT or WBTC. After a maximum lockdown of 9 months (or faster unlocked by the foundation), holders can convert their tokens to Vekat, thus gaining voting rights on emission allocations.
KAT is more than just governance, it directs emissions to the liquidity that productive TVL and deeper chains possess, thus enhancing the long-term value creation of short-term speculation.
Private mainnet is now available
Katana’s private mainnet is formally living. Developers and early users can now begin exploring their basic applications.
Visit katana.network to get started.
