Oryon
Portfolio indexActive · Seed · 2023
ActiveEmerging primitives

Renegade

CategoryDark pool · DeFi
HeadquartersSan Francisco
FoundersChris Bender, Joey Kraut
— Overview

Renegade is the first on-chain dark pool with genuinely private order flow, using multi-party computation (MPC) to match buyers and sellers without revealing individual orders on-chain. The design solves a specific institutional pain point: high-frequency front-running of large trades on transparent DEXs.

The mainnet went live in Q3 2025 with $180M in early institutional flow across 24 supported assets. Three major crypto market makers are now permanent liquidity providers, and integration with Anchorage custody is in staged rollout.

The design assumes that institutional liquidity requires privacy at settlement, and that the on-chain venue that provides it wins durable flow. Early metrics support the thesis — repeat institutional volume is compounding month-over-month.

— By the numbers
$180M
Volume
3
Market makers
24
Assets
2022
Founded
— Investment
Round
Seed 2023
Our role
Lead
Check size
$3.5M
Co-investors
Dragonfly · Robot Ventures · Naval Ravikant
Board seat
Rob Hadick
— Our thesis

The first onchain dark pool with genuinely private order flow. We wrote the seed check on the thesis that institutional liquidity requires privacy at settlement.

— Team
CB

Chris Bender

CEO & Co-Founder
JK

Joey Kraut

CTO & Co-Founder
AK

Andrew Kirillov

Head of Engineering
DP

Dylan Paiton

Head of Research
— Timeline
  1. 2022Founded by Chris Bender and Joey Kraut
  2. Q1 2023Oryon leads seed
  3. Q1 2025Testnet with MPC matching
  4. Q3 2025Mainnet with $180M initial flow
— Latest update

Mainnet live with $180M in early institutional flow. Integrations with three major market makers.

— In the press

Renegade solves a real institutional problem the transparent DEX architecture created.

Delphi Digital, 2025