InterLink Chairman KV says Private Mainnet rolls out this week with zero token sales, AML-gated entry, and five years of self-funded runway secured.
The engineers were already being mobilized. According to KV, Chairman of InterLink, on X, all engineers and researchers at the ITL Foundation will begin deploying each module of the core infrastructure for Private Mainnet starting this week. No specific date stamped on it. Just this week.
The announcement landed with very little fanfare for something that has been building for over two years. InterLink started as a free mining application. What it has grown into is harder to categorize quickly.
They Funded It Themselves. Every Single Month.
In a lengthy address posted on X, KV (@kv_interlink) wrote that co-founders have self-funded operations from the start. No venture capital. No over-the-counter sales to treasury partners. Google Adsense revenue, he noted, does not even cover a fifth of monthly operating costs. The ads were never really about money.
The ads filter bots. That was the point. Google Adsense, according to KV, is one of the better anti-bot systems available and InterLink has been using it specifically for that.
InterLink has enough funding to run for at least five more years without selling a single token, per the chairman’s own accounting. That kind of runway is not common. The team of nearly 100 engineers and researchers kept building through it.
KV was pointed about what the Foundation will not do during Private Mainnet. No Foundation-owned tokens sold on the market. The core team will not hold tokens during the phase. Even after Open Mainnet, those allocations stay locked for years. He did not put a number on the years.
Every Token Entering Mainnet Gets AML-Checked. Everyone.
Compliance is not just a footnote here. KV stated that all tokens entering Private Mainnet must pass AML checks before they get in. The verification process has drawn complaints, specifically from users who feel the wait is too long.
That friction is intentional. The goal, as KV framed it, is to build something that billion-dollar banking and fintech firms will trust. The more compliant the real-world asset ecosystem becomes, the bigger the doors it can open with institutional partners.
Verification priority is tied to what InterLink calls ACS and HCS metrics. Validators will join during Private Mainnet, which KV said will speed the process considerably. He was clear that everyone gets access eventually.
He did not define what ACS and HCS stand for publicly. Left that open.
The ITL token is required for gas fees, validator staking, business tokens, and payments within the network. InterLink is also building infrastructure for stablecoin payments and, down the line, token payments for flights, hotels, and SIM cards. The tokenized RWA market that InterLink is targeting has grown considerably over the past year.
On the technology side, KV listed quantum-resistant infrastructure built to the highest NIST standards. A blockchain targeting payments and real-world assets with extremely low finality delay. A transaction-backed digital asset protocol that would be the first in the world to let businesses tokenize using native tokens. InterLink Labs is filing patents on that one.
The Foundation is registered in Hong Kong. InterLink Labs is a legal U.S. company. KV noted that false information about the project creates real legal exposure, without elaborating on what specifically prompted the warning.
He also flagged that former ambassadors, removed from their roles, have been spreading what he described as inaccurate information. He issued a direct warning to users about projects using vague community narratives to reference InterLink. Said he would not be responsible for any outside activity.
The target KV has been building toward is one billion users owning digital assets through InterLink. The Private Mainnet is the first real move toward that. Engineers are deploying modules.
