(“KR1” or the “Company”)
Investment Update: Interlay
Interlay is currently building out its flagship product ‘interBTC’, a fully collateralized one-to-one Bitcoin-backed asset that enables interoperability between multiple blockchain ecosystems while fully preserving Bitcoin’s censorship-resistant nature. At its core, interBTC leverages the concept of trustless and efficient cross-chain exchanges using cryptocurrency-backed assets introduced in previous research published by the Interlay team. interBTC will launch as a parachain on Polkadot and, once launched, can be utilised on Ethereum, Cosmos, Kusama and other networks in a seamless way through Polkadot’s interoperability technology.
The contributed DOT will be time-locked on the Polkadot blockchain for 96 weeks and will be returned to the Company following the completion of the respective Interlay parachain lease. Following the successful Interlay parachain auction bid, KR1 is going to receive a to-be-determined amount of INTR tokens over a time period of 96 weeks in return for supporting the Interlay crowdloan campaign.
This method of token distribution involves no direct investment of capital, instead, it is an indirect investment with the opportunity costs being the inaccessibility of the locked DOT funds as well as foregoing any staking yields on the contributed DOT for the time period.
The Company is also pleased to announce its participation in Interlay Ltd.’s Pre-Series A funding round, investing a further
“We are delighted to continue supporting Interlay, along with its sister project Kintsugi, to allow the most liquid crypto asset in the world, Bitcoin, to be bridged into the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems.”
The Directors of
--ENDS--
For further information please contact:
KR1 PLC +44 (0)1624 630 630George McDonaugh Keld van Schreven Peterhouse Capital Limited (AQSE Corporate Adviser) +44 (0)20 7469 0930Mark Anwyl FTI Consulting LLP (PR Adviser) +44 (0)7711 387 085Ed Berry KR1@fticonsulting.comLaura Ewart
About
