Gelato offers smart wallet and rollup infrastructure, letting developers launch gasless onboarding and custom chains from one SDK.

Gelato was founded by Hilmar Maximilian Orth.

Who are Gelato's investors?

Gelato's investors include Bloccelerate VC, BootNode, D1 Ventures, Hack VC, IDEO CoLab Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Metastable, Nascent.

Gelato

8 known investors

Gelato provides smart wallet and rollup infrastructure, enabling developers to launch gasless onboarding, smart wallets, and custom rollups through a single SDK. The platform serves blockchain developers and projects building decentralized applications.

Also known as Gelato · Gelato Network

Cloud Computing Crypto & Web3 Developer Tools

Founders & leadership

Hilmar Maximilian OrthinFounder

Investors · 8

Bloccelerate VCSeattle

BootNode

D1 VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $1Mvia Tamara Frankel · inferred

Hack VCPalo Alto · $3M

IDEO CoLab VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $10M

IOSG VenturesHong Kong · $10K – $100K

MetastableNew York City · $3M – $30M

NascentSan Francisco

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Gelato is a Web3 infrastructure provider that combines smart wallet tooling and rollup deployment in a single platform. Its product set includes a paymaster and bundler service that lets applications sponsor gas or allow users to pay fees in any token, with support for the ERC-4337 and EIP-7702 account abstraction standards across more than 100 chains, and a rollup offering covering Based, ZK and custom rollup architectures. A separate product, Turbo, is also listed alongside these.

The platform is positioned as a single integration point, with one API, one dashboard and consolidated billing for managing onchain application infrastructure. Gelato markets a path from testnet to mainnet deployment within days for teams launching their own chains, and distributes access via API keys and developer documentation.

Business model

Gelato sells infrastructure services to application and chain builders, consolidating paymaster/bundler and rollup products under a single integration with one bill, one dashboard and one API.

Traction

The company reports more than 1 billion transactions processed, 4.5 million or more daily transactions, support for over 100 chains and more than $600M in total value secured. Its Kraken Ink deployment is cited as having over 2.5 million EOAs, more than $100M TVL and over 70 million transactions.

Latest developments

Gelato announced an $11M raise and the launch of Ink, a rollup built for Kraken, which is described as live and among the more performant rollups in operation.

▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market

Market position

Gelato positions itself as a combined smart wallet and rollup infrastructure platform rather than a point solution, emphasizing breadth of chain support and consolidated tooling.

Gelato bundles gasless transaction infrastructure and custom chain deployment in one platform and SDK, rather than requiring separate vendors, and covers Based, ZK and custom rollup types.

Technology

Gelato's stack covers account abstraction infrastructure — a paymaster and bundler supporting ERC-4337 and EIP-7702 for gas sponsorship and paying fees in arbitrary tokens across 100+ chains — and rollup infrastructure supporting Based rollups, ZK rollups and custom chain configurations, exposed through a single SDK and API.

Go-to-market

Self-serve developer motion: prospective users obtain an API key and consult documentation and GitHub repositories, starting on a testnet before moving to mainnet. Gelato also pursues direct partnerships with larger platforms, as with Kraken's Ink chain.

Blockchain developers and teams building decentralized applications, as well as established crypto platforms launching their own rollups.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported

Chains supportedJan 2025100 chains

Daily transactionsJan 20254,500,000 transactions/day

Ink rollup EOAsJan 20252,500,000

Ink rollup transactionsJan 202570,000,000 transactions

Ink rollup TVLJan 2025$100M

Total value securedJan 2025$600M

Transactions processed (cumulative)Jan 20251,000,000,000 transactions

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 2

launches, deals, and filings

Jan 2025

Gelato raises $11M

$11M source ↗

Jan 2025

Kraken launches Ink chain built with Gelato

Kraken partnered with Gelato to launch Ink, a rollup that went from testnet to over $100M TVL and is described as live and highly performant.

source ↗

Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

▸Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

Gelato Web3 automationgelato.network · web

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Gelato do?: Gelato offers smart wallet and rollup infrastructure, letting developers launch gasless onboarding and custom chains from one SDK.
Who founded Gelato?: Gelato was founded by Hilmar Maximilian Orth.
Who are Gelato's investors?: Gelato's investors include Bloccelerate VC, BootNode, D1 Ventures, Hack VC, IDEO CoLab Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Metastable, Nascent.