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Renzo Protocol provides liquid staking and restaking infrastructure along with reserve vaults that deploy capital into delta-neutral, RWA-backed, and basis/carry trade strategies. It offers multichain staking of assets like ezETH, ezBTC, and ezSOL, plus a gated enterprise suite with white-labeled treasury and fund deployment tools for institutions.

Also known as Renzo Protocol

Founders & leadership

LK
Lucas KozinskiFounder

Investors · 13

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$17M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2024–2025

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Renzo Protocol is an onchain financial infrastructure provider organized around three product lines. Its Staking Suite offers liquid staking and restaking with native support for ezETH, ezBTC and ezSOL and other assets, integrated bridging so positions can be moved and staked across chains, operator selection, instant withdrawals, and simultaneous accrual of staking and restaking yields without locking underlying assets.

The Renzo Reserve is a vault framework that deploys capital into risk-managed strategies including RWA-backed vaults, basis trades, carry trades, leveraged strategies and delta-neutral positioning. It is presented as a white-label-ready framework for treasury management and institutional fund deployment, with smart contract-level risk controls, real-time alerts and monitoring, and a privacy mode providing private execution environments for institutional capital. A third product, the Enterprise Suite, is a gated environment for institutions offering advanced oversight, custom configurations and white-labeled solutions. The protocol reports total value locked of roughly $123.6 million.

Business model

Renzo operates onchain protocol products rather than selling software licenses: users deposit assets into liquid staking and restaking positions or into Reserve vaults, and the protocol earns fees on that activity, with cumulative fees earned reported at approximately $82.2 million and buybacks at approximately $2.3 million. A gated Enterprise Suite offers custom configurations and white-labeled solutions to institutional counterparties.

Fee generation from protocol activity across staking, restaking and vault products; the protocol reports cumulative fees earned of about $82.2 million and has conducted buybacks totaling about $2.3 million.

Traction

The company's site reports total value locked of $123.64 million, cumulative fees earned of $82,161,882, and $2.30 million in buybacks.

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

Market position

Renzo describes itself as a destination for liquid staking and restaking across major ecosystem assets, and positions its Reserve vault framework and gated Enterprise Suite toward institutional capital allocators.

Renzo positions its offering around multichain coverage of liquid staking and restaking assets combined with an institutional vault framework: unified staking and restaking rewards without locking underlying assets, single-click cross-chain bridging and staking, operator choice with instant withdrawals, and smart contract-level risk controls with real-time monitoring and an optional private execution mode for sensitive institutional capital.

Technology

Smart contract-based staking and restaking system issuing liquid tokens (ezETH, ezBTC, ezSOL), with integrated cross-chain bridging, operator selection and instant withdrawals; vault infrastructure adds smart contract-level risk controls, transparent real-time alerting and monitoring, and private execution environments.

Go-to-market

Retail and onchain users seeking liquid staking and restaking yield on assets such as ETH, BTC and SOL, and institutions requiring treasury management, fund deployment, private execution and white-labeled configurations.

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

Key figures

latest reported
BuybacksFeb 2026$2.3M
Fees earnedFeb 2026$82.2M
TVLFeb 2026$123.6M

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

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primary sources listed
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Frequently asked questions

What does Renzo do?
Renzo Protocol offers multichain liquid staking and restaking plus institutional vaults deploying capital into onchain strategies.
Who founded Renzo?
Renzo was founded by Lucas Kozinski.
Who are Renzo's investors?
Renzo's investors include Bankless Ventures, BitDAO, Crypto Discover, Edessa Capital, Figment, Galaxy Ventures, IOSG Ventures, L2 Iterative Ventures (L2IV) and 5 more.
How much funding has Renzo raised?
Renzo has disclosed $17M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.