Kik (Kin)

Kik (Kin) refers to the Kin cryptocurrency created by Kik Interactive, the messaging company, as a blockchain-based digital currency for use inside consumer applications. Kin originally launched on a fork of the Stellar network and later migrated to Solana, shipping first-party developer SDKs (JavaScript/Node and Python) under the kinecosystem GitHub organization and a developer program at developer.kin.org. The Kin project is now defunct: the developer surface no longer resolves, every kinecosystem repository is archived, the published SDKs are deprecated, and Kik itself was acquired by MediaLab AI Inc. This profile was surfaced as a portfolio company of Pantera Capital and is retained as a historical record of a wound-down crypto developer surface.

Kik (Kin) is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and SDKs.

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scored 2026-07-21 · rubric v0.4
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Composite quality — 8.2/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · 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 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: kik-kin
name: Kik (Kin)
description: 'Kik (Kin) refers to the Kin cryptocurrency created by Kik Interactive, the messaging company, as a blockchain-based
  digital currency for use inside consumer applications. Kin originally launched on a fork of the Stellar network and later
  migrated to Solana, shipping first-party developer SDKs (JavaScript/Node and Python) under the kinecosystem GitHub organization
  and a developer program at developer.kin.org. The Kin project is now defunct: the developer surface no longer resolves,
  every kinecosystem repository is archived, the published SDKs are deprecated, and Kik itself was acquired by MediaLab AI
  Inc. This profile was surfaced as a portfolio company of Pantera Capital and is retained as a historical record of a wound-down
  crypto developer surface.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kik-kin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- pantera-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Crypto
- Cryptocurrency
- Blockchain
- SDKs
- Messaging
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kik.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/kinecosystem
- type: Packages
  url: packages/kik-kin-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/kik-kin-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kik-kin-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence