# Hourglass

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/hourglass/  
**Website:** https://hourglass.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 10.1 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (2)

- **Hourglass Domain Security** — TLSv1.3
- **Hourglass Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Tags

Company, DeFi, Blockchain, Ethereum, Tokenization, Yield, Marketplace, Smart Contracts, Web3

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/hourglass/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.