Next Finance Tech Co., Ltd.（Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Representative Directors: Soichiro Tokuriki and Shinya Tsuchida) is pleased to announce its partnership with Kiln, a global leader in the staking service provider (SSP) sector, headquartered in Paris, France, led by CEO Laszlo Szabo. This partnership is set to revolutionize our digital asset management business and deliver enhanced value to our customers.

Next Finance Tech has been advancing as a research institute in blockchain and decentralized finance, analyzing various protocols and collaborating with universities both domestically and internationally. Through our partnership with Kiln, we aim to further expand our staking by leveraging their extensive expertise and large-scale infrastructure. (List of our research reports: https://research.ledefi.co.jp/)

We also offer a cryptocurrency asset management service called "Fuelco," which utilizes staking known for their very low risk (no use of DeFi protocols and free from smart contract risks).

Accessing this safe staking operation requires high-level expertise and skills, but our service makes staking possible without such specialized knowledge.

Kiln is the leading enterprise-grade staking platform, enabling institutional customers to stake assets, and to whitelabel staking functionality into their offering. Their staking platform is API-first and enables fully automated validators, rewards, and data and commission management. With over $7 billion crypto assets being programmatically staked, Kiln has a particularly strong track record on Ethereum as they run about 5% of the network; this includes 43,000+ active validators with 0 slashing events.

Kiln's website: https://www.kiln.fi/

To use our staking service "Fuelco," visit here: https://fuelco.jp/

"We are thrilled to collaborate with Next Finance Tech to expand their staking offering. This partnership enables simple and safe staking operations for Next Finance Tech customers to benefit from staking rewards." - Laszlo Szabo, Kiln CEO and co-founder

"In Japan, the use cases for cryptocurrency are quite limited. On the other hand, owning cryptocurrency means having the right to participate in the decentralized operation of the blockchain that issues it and to earn rewards from it. We have been committed to research and development to create a safe environment where more people can enjoy these opportunities. Through this partnership with the well-established Kiln, by integrating our expertise and infrastructure, we are confident that our mission can be implemented more securely.”

Next Finance Tech Co., Ltd. is a company that operates a financial product development, a research business and a management system development on decentralized finance based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of blockchain and protocols as a research institute for decentralized finance.