Hourglass

Hourglass is a DeFi protocol and time-bound token (TBT) infrastructure that invented a primitive for tokenizing staked, locked, or time-committed on-chain assets, letting holders trade their place in a lock-up queue for early liquidity. Its products include an RFQ marketplace built on OpenSea's Seaport for trading time-bound tokens, non-custodial on-chain vaults (including the Pre-iUSDT stable vault and the sunset Hourglass Boost product), and institutional-grade yield infrastructure that bridges on-chain DeFi capital with traditional capital markets. TBTs are semi-fungible ERC-1155 tokens issued by Hourglass custodian smart contracts on Ethereum. Launch partners included Lido, Frax, and Convex. Founded in 2022 and backed by a $4.2M seed round led by Electric Capital, with Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, and others participating.

Hourglass is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defi, Blockchain, Ethereum, and Tokenization.

Hourglass’ developer surface includes documentation and 10 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

13.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyDefiBlockchainEthereumTokenizationYieldMarketplaceSmart ContractsWeb3

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 13.6/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hourglass
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  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/hourglass.png
name: Hourglass
description: Hourglass is a DeFi protocol and time-bound token (TBT) infrastructure that invented a primitive for tokenizing
  staked, locked, or time-committed on-chain assets, letting holders trade their place in a lock-up queue for early liquidity.
  Its products include an RFQ marketplace built on OpenSea's Seaport for trading time-bound tokens, non-custodial on-chain
  vaults (including the Pre-iUSDT stable vault and the sunset Hourglass Boost product), and institutional-grade yield infrastructure
  that bridges on-chain DeFi capital with traditional capital markets. TBTs are semi-fungible ERC-1155 tokens issued by Hourglass
  custodian smart contracts on Ethereum. Launch partners included Lido, Frax, and Convex. Founded in 2022 and backed by a
  $4.2M seed round led by Electric Capital, with Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, and others participating.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hourglass/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- electric-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Defi
- Blockchain
- Ethereum
- Tokenization
- Yield
- Marketplace
- Smart Contracts
- Web3
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://hourglass.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.hourglass.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.hourglass.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/pitch-foundation
- type: Security
  url: https://docs.hourglass.com/security/immunefi-bug-bounty
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/hourglass-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/hourglass-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hourglass-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/hourglass-well-known.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hourglass-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/hourglass-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Hourglass

Kin Score

Security Posture 2

Hourglass Domain Security

Hourglass Vulnerability Disclosure

Resources