As a CFA-certified quant analyst who built models for Coinbase Europe’s APAC markets, I’ve watched Kaia quietly become the most efficient EVM chain on earth—not through hype, but through cold engineering. With 1-second finality, native USDT, and 196M LINE users embedded in its fabric, Kaia isn’t chasing DeFi dreams. It’s executing them. This is not blockchain innovation. It’s infrastructure colonization.