As we kick off 2026, we’re taking a moment to look back on what was an incredible year for Kiln. 2025 was marked by strong growth, meaningful milestones, and a huge collective effort across the team. Throughout 2025, our values consistently guided us: trust and transparency, technical excellence, a meritocracy of ideas, and putting people first.
Trust & Transparency
In 2025, we crossed an exciting threshold: more than $18 billion in assets staked through Kiln, marking a 38.7% year-over-year increase and setting a new all-time high. On the DeFi side, Kiln DeFi reached over $500 million in total value locked, a sign that onchain adoption continues to grow steadily. Our community also expanded, with more than 39,000 new users joining Kiln DeFi in 2025 alone.
Technical Excellence
Kiln maintained its position as the #1 independent ETH staking provider in the world, and our reliability held strong, with zero Ethereum validators slashed throughout the year. On Solana, Kiln validators delivered 4.7% higher rewards than the network average, showing the tangible results of our ongoing performance optimization. We also renewed our SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, a reaffirmation of our commitment to security, transparency, and operational rigor.
Meritocracy of Ideas
2025 was also a year of bold thinking. We announced Railnet, a new protocol that sets the direction for what’s next at Kiln. Alongside that, we launched Kiln Ventures, an initiative designed to help grow dApps and protocol ecosystems through strategic support and resources.
People First
None of this would have been possible without the people behind it. In 2025, 28 new Kilners joined the team, bringing us to a total of 110. We also gathered for three company-wide offsites, connecting across teams, time zones, and backgrounds, reinforcing the culture that powers everything we do.
We’re filled with gratitude, for our customers, partners, community, and the entire Kiln team. 2025 was a big one, and we’re stepping into 2026 with energy, optimism, and a shared sense of purpose.
Happy New Year from all of us at Kiln!
About Kiln
Kiln is the leading staking and digital asset rewards management platform, enabling institutional customers to earn rewards on their digital assets, or to whitelabel earning functionality into their products. Kiln runs validators on all major PoS blockchains, with over $11 billion in crypto assets being programmatically staked and running over 5% of the Ethereum network on a multi-client, multi-cloud, and multi-region infrastructure. Kiln also provides a validator-agnostic suite of products for fully automated deployment of validators and reporting and commission management, enabling custodians, wallets, and exchanges to streamline staking or DeFi operations across providers. Kiln is SOC2 Type 2 certified.
