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Cork Protocol
United States
- New York
- 23/01/2026
- Seed
- $5,500,000
Cork introduces a new primitive for tokenized risk, serving as a programmable risk layer for onchain assets such as vault tokens, yield-bearing stablecoins, liquid (re)staking tokens, and RWAs.
Cork’s core primitive enables asset managers and issuers to spin up custom swap markets that enhance redemption liquidity, risk transparency, and market confidence for their onchain assets.
Backed by a16z crypto, OrangeDAO & Steakhouse Financial, Cork is building the risk infrastructure needed to bring institutional capital into onchain credit markets.
- Industry Financial Services
- Website https://www.cork.tech/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/corkprotocol/
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Robert SchmittFounder
Portugal -
Lisbon, Lisbon
Building Cork - tokenizing risk. The future of credit markets is onchain, we are building the risk management infrastructure to support it's growth, starting with risk hedges for stablecoins and liquid staking tokens.
Previously launched Toucan Protocol, which in its first year achieved:
-Largest source of demand for voluntary carbon credits in 2021
-Over 50%+ of trading volume in the voluntary market (4b$+)
-90% market share of on-chain carbon, tokenizing over 100m$ of real world assets
Across my startups, have helped raise 35m$+ across 7+ rounds including angels, VCs, grants, token sale, equity crowdfunding and IPO, as well as been covered in 100+ news publications incl. Forbes, Al jazeera and Nikkei
Outside of work I enjoy endurance sports (eg did a full distance Ironman)
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