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About DSRV
DSRV is a South Korean blockchain infrastructure company whose core business is operating validator nodes, providing transaction validation and block production services for multiple blockchain networks. It also offers enterprise-grade solutions including node APIs (RPC), staking services, Web3 wallets (WaaS), and digital asset custody.
The market pain point is that traditional financial institutions or enterprises wanting to enter on-chain businesses face high costs and technical complexity in building their own nodes and wallet infrastructure, along with security and compliance risks. DSRV's value lies in packaging these underlying capabilities into "ready-to-use" services, allowing clients to access blockchain networks without building in-house teams, while ensuring asset security through cold wallet storage, multi-party computation (MPC) key management, and real-time monitoring. Its core competitiveness stems from node operation experience across over 70 chains and vertical integration from underlying nodes to upper-layer applications (wallets, custody).
In the past six months (March to September 2026), DSRV signed a staking infrastructure agreement with SBI VC Trade, an exchange under Japan's SBI Group, to support its staking service operations—marking its official expansion into the Japanese market. Additionally, NH Investment & Securities published a report highlighting DSRV's leading position in the global validator market and its complete business structure from node operations to wallet services, predicting it will become a major beneficiary of on-chain financial infrastructure.
DSRV's core progress in the past six months centered on institutional-grade infrastructure and emerging market expansion. In July, DSRV partnered with Japan's licensed exchange SBI VC Trade to provide staking infrastructure, marking its formal entry into Japan's regulated market and validating its operational stability and compliance capabilities. Concurrently, DSRV launched Portal, an institutional-grade on-chain financial platform integrating custody, staking, stablecoin payments, and tokenization services, designed to lower the barrier for financial institutions entering Web3. It is currently conducting proof-of-concepts with multiple payment companies and point operators. In Africa, DSRV completed a blockchain pilot for agricultural subsidies involving approximately 1,000 participants in Madagascar, earning recognition from the World Bank and the local government, with plans to expand to approximately 95,000 beneficiaries in Ethiopia in H2, leveraging the country's national digital identity platform to build on-chain financial services.
Future development priorities: First, deepen the Japanese market, leveraging the SBI partnership to acquire more licensed institutional clients. Second, position Portal as the standard entry point for Asian institutions adopting on-chain finance, focusing on banking, securities, and RWA tokenization scenarios. Third, expand inclusive finance projects in Africa, exploring a replicable "digital infrastructure + ODA" model.
Jiyun Kim (CEO, Co-founder): LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiyun-kim/, Twitter: https://x.com/dsrvlabs_jiyun. Previously Staff Software Engineer at Samsung Electronics and System Software Engineer at Telechips.
Jongkwang Kim (VP of Engineering, Co-founder): LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jongkwang/, Twitter: https://x.com/jongkwang. Previously Principal Web Engineer and CTO/Founder of JongKwang Inc., with 16+ years in full-stack development.