# Kii

> Powering the next generation of digital economies

Kii is a blockchain infrastructure company focused on financial services for emerging markets. It provides cross-border payments, foreign exchange, and real-world asset tokenization tools for businesses and individuals.

Kii is a blockchain infrastructure company building financial services for emerging markets, with a focus on Latin America. It provides an onchain foreign exchange layer that connects global stablecoin liquidity with locally denominated stablecoins, enabling cross-border payments, remittances, trade settlement, and currency swaps. The company targets businesses, institutional clients, and individuals who need cost-effective alternatives to traditional cross-border financial systems.

The platform addresses liquidity gaps that traditional financial infrastructure leaves unaddressed in emerging economies, particularly for business-to-business transactions and non-dollar currency pairs. It operates through a hybrid matching engine that sources onchain liquidity across multiple blockchain ecosystems while using centralized pricing to hedge and rebalance positions, allowing continuous market access even outside conventional trading hours. Its underlying network runs on a Byzantine fault tolerant consensus mechanism built with a modular blockchain framework, combining compatibility with smart contract standards and multi-chain connectivity.

Kii's offerings include a hybrid exchange for foreign exchange trading and settlement, a real-world asset tokenization protocol for compliant issuance of tokenized assets, and payment infrastructure supporting fiat on and off ramps. Additional modules support merchant payments and credit tied to onchain transaction history. The ecosystem is used by businesses, institutional clients, and individual users seeking cross-border payment and settlement services across emerging markets.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Payments
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2021-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/kii

## Products

- [KiiChain](https://thegrid.id/profiles/kii): KiiChain is a layer 1 blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK with EVM compatibility, designed as a settlement layer for stablecoins and real-world assets in emerging markets. It combines Cosmos-based consensus with an EVM execution module so Ethereum smart contracts can deploy unchanged, while inter-blockchain communication and custom modules connect it to a wide range of other networks. The chain underpins onchain foreign-exchange orchestration, real-world-asset tokenization, and payment settlement used by other Kii products and third-party applications built on it. (L1, Open Beta)
- [KiiChain Pay](https://thegrid.id/profiles/kii): KiiChain Pay is a hybrid centralized-decentralized exchange and payments platform for onchain foreign-exchange trading and cross-border settlement, formerly operated as KIIEX. It sources liquidity across multiple blockchain ecosystems while using a centralized pricing engine to hedge and rebalance positions, enabling continuous FX swaps and instant cross-border payment finality using local stablecoins. Users and businesses access the platform through a hosted account or developer APIs to execute swaps, payments, and fiat conversions without relying on traditional banking rails. The platform also provides on and off ramps for converting between fiat currencies and onchain balances. (Centralised Exchange, Live, Main Product)
- [Kiidex](https://thegrid.id/profiles/kii): Kiidex is a decentralized exchange built as a fork of a concentrated-liquidity automated market maker, deployed on KiiChain. It allows users to swap tokens and provide liquidity directly from self-custodied wallets, with liquidity providers able to select price ranges where their capital is active and choose among multiple fee tiers. Liquidity positions are represented as non-fungible tokens, distinguishing it from simpler constant-product decentralized exchanges. (Decentralised Exchange, Open Beta)

## Assets

- [KII (KII)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/kii): KII is the native token of KiiChain, a blockchain built for emerging market finance. It is used to pay transaction fees, secure the network through proof-of-stake staking, and vote on governance proposals, while also functioning as the utility token on KIIEX and Kiidex. KII is bridged via Hyperlane to several other blockchains, extending its use beyond its home chain. (Native)

## Links

- [Main](https://www.kiiglobal.io)
- [Documentation](https://docs.kiiglobal.io)
- [Blog](https://blog.kiiglobal.io)
- [Whitepaper](https://docs.kiiglobal.io/docs/learn/kiichain/whitepaper)
- [Privacy policy](https://www.kiiglobal.io/privacy-policy)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/KiiChainio)
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/kiichain)
- [Facebook](https://facebook.com/Kiichainglobal)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/kiiglobal)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/kiiglobal)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/kiichainofficial)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@kiichain_)
- [Medium](https://kiichain.medium.com)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@kiiexchange)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/kiiexchange)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/KiiChain)

## Legal

This data is provided under two licensing models.

Model 1 - open data. The open data core is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) — a copyleft/share-alike license allowing free use, modification, and sharing for any purpose. Attribution is required: include "Powered by The Grid" linking to https://thegrid.id wherever the data is used. Derivative databases must be shared under ODbL terms. Trademarks, logos, and brand names (marked "Special TPIP") are not covered by the ODbL. For ML/AI use: training datasets that substantially extract ODbL data are Derivative Databases and must be shared under ODbL if publicly used; models must be attributed in documentation.

Model 2 - commercial licenses. The Grid Data Service (TGDS) is also available as a commercial license. See [Web Services Terms](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/web-services-terms) for commercial use that is not covered by the open data service.

The following applies to both licensing models.
- All data is provided AS IS with no guarantees of accuracy.
- The Grid does not provide investment, legal, or tax advice, and
- a project's presence in The Grid's data does not imply endorsement.


- [Data Licensing & Disclaimers](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/data-licensing-and-disclaimers): Licensing models and disclaimers
- [Open Data (ODbL)](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/open-data): Open Database License terms and scope for The Grid's open data service.
- [Attribution Guidelines](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/open-data-attribution-guidelines): How to attribute The Grid's data when using the open data service.
- [Web Services Terms](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/web-services-terms): commercial Terms for using data services.
- [All Legal Documents](https://about.thegrid.id/legal): Full index of terms, policies, and disclosures

## Optional

- [TGS Field Descriptions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-field-descriptions.md): Schema field definitions for The Grid's data model
- [TGS JSON Structure](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-json-structure.md): Data model structure and relationships
- [Product Type Definitions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-definitions.md): Definitions for each product type
- [Product Type Classification](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-classification.md): Guide for classifying products into types
- [Grid MCP Guide](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/grid-search/skills/grid-query/references/grid-mcp-guide.md): How to query The Grid programmatically via MCP