Blockaid Partners with Kaia to Secure Its Onchain Ecosystem

Executive Summary

Kaia is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain built to bring onchain finance to consumer scale across Asia. Born from the ecosystems of Kakao and LINE, Kaia connects builders to an audience of 250 million users across Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, and beyond. That distribution, paired with growing momentum from banks and stablecoin issuers building on the network, has placed Kaia at the center of Asia's push to bring finance onchain.

The Kaia Foundation has partnered with Blockaid to secure the network and the activity running on it. Onchain Monitoring is live across Kaia's environment, delivering continuous detection and automated response against exploits, anomalous fund movement, and emerging threats across contracts, wallets, and bridges. At the transaction layer, scanning is live on the Kaia network, giving wallets and apps across the ecosystem the ability to simulate and validate every transaction in real time before it is signed, so threats are caught before users' funds move.

A chain built for consumer-scale finance needs security that operates at the speed of the value moving across it. This partnership secures the Kaia network, the builders deploying on it, and the apps they operate.

The Partnership: Securing the Kaia Ecosystem

Kaia's environment spans a Layer 1 network, a bridge layer connecting it to the broader onchain economy, and a growing ecosystem of consumer applications. Blockaid's integration covers that environment end to end, from the governance contracts, treasury wallets, and bridge infrastructure at the core of the network to projects operating across its ecosystem, all monitored in real time.

With Onchain Monitoring live, coverage spans the full monitoring lifecycle:

• Monitor: Continuously watch smart contracts, treasury wallets, and the bridge layer connecting Kaia to the broader onchain economy, including the third-party contracts and counterparties the ecosystem touches.
• Detect: Identify exploits, anomalous fund flows, suspicious function calls, and behavior that falls outside expected bounds, surfacing it in real time rather than after funds have moved.
• Investigate: Drill into incidents with the full context behind each alert, shortening the path from detection to resolution.
• Respond: Route detections into automated workflows, from instant alerts to configurable onchain response actions, so teams can act the moment something fires.

Protection extends beyond infrastructure to the transaction layer itself. Transaction scanning is live on Kaia, validating every transaction against Blockaid's threat intelligence before it is signed, so malicious approvals, drainer contracts, and fraudulent counterparties are caught before funds move. For an ecosystem built on bringing everyday consumers onchain, that pre-signature layer protects the people transacting, in addition to the infrastructure they transact on.

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Chain Support: Full Coverage for the Kaia Network

Blockaid's Chain Support for Kaia extends to any team whose platform, users, or assets touch the network. That coverage runs across the Blockaid platform:

• Onchain Monitoring: The full monitor suite runs on Kaia, from sampling monitors through advanced and exploit-specific detection, along with Response Wallet workflows that automate onchain response actions. Teams operating on Kaia can monitor, detect, and respond with the same rigor they apply on any other supported chain.
• End User Protection: Transaction Scanning, Token Scanning, dApp Scanning, and Address Scanning are all supported on Kaia. Wallets and dApps building in the ecosystem can surface risk to their users before a transaction is signed, a token is trusted, or a site is connected to.
• Crypto Fraud Prevention: Fraud pattern detection identifies both first-party and third-party fraud vectors on Kaia, catching malicious intent as patterns emerge rather than after funds are gone.

Beyond Kaia, Blockaid supports 55+ blockchain ecosystems, with coverage spanning wallets, exchanges, protocols, and chain infrastructure. That reach gives Blockaid a complete view of onchain activity, so threats are detected the moment they surface, on any chain.

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Looking Ahead: Securing the Chain Where Stablecoins Become Capital

Kaia describes itself as the foundation where stablecoins become capital, and the momentum behind that positioning is real. KB Kookmin, South Korea's largest bank, completed a proof-of-concept on Kaia covering KRW stablecoin issuance, offline payments, and cross-border remittances, while JPYC––Japan's regulated yen stablecoin––launched on the network, scaling to become the largest chain by circulating supply with over 2bn JPYC hosted. As stablecoin activity on Kaia scales, the value moving across the chain grows with it, and value has always drawn those who try to extract it.

What makes Kaia's position distinctive also shapes its security surface. Distribution through Unifi on LINE means the people transacting on Kaia include everyday consumers, reached through the apps they already use. Securing that environment means protecting the infrastructure the chain runs on and the transactions its users sign, both at once, at the speed those transactions happen. This is the foundation of Blockaid's View on Security, that onchain security has to operate at the speed of the blockchain itself, across the full stack of signals. Partnering with the Kaia Foundation puts that model to work on a chain built to carry Asia's onchain economy.

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About Blockaid

Blockaid is the onchain security platform trusted by the largest companies operating in Web3. Built by veterans of elite intelligence and cybersecurity units, Blockaid provides end-to-end protection for financial institutions, protocols, and end users, combining direct wallet and dApp integrations with real-time monitoring, detection, and response across smart contracts, infrastructure, and externally owned accounts. Since 2025, Blockaid scanned over 6.3 billion transactions and blocked 585 million attacks. Blockaid is the security infrastructure behind Coinbase, MetaMask, Uniswap, Safe, and dozens of the most widely used platforms in the industry.

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