Most countries' financial markets are smaller than a single US corporation, too small to absorb a big shock on their own.
@arjunsethi says DeFi's real promise is one global liquidity pool, where the whole world absorbs the risk so people everywhere can grow their assets.
most companies are still talking about ai agents. ours closed 5,908 tasks in the last 20 days. here's what's actually running inside and soon to be outside @Payward..
inside:
- sep 10 we opened team agents to everyone. 82 requests approved in the first two days
- 13 agents became 136 by sep 29. 106 live in team channels, 30 more in setup, working alongside 2,212 people in 152 teams
- names like kyc chad, prop clanker, mithrandata and shaggy
- nearly half of those 5,908 tasks started on their own, on schedules and triggers our teams set up. you shouldn't have to tell an agent to get started, you hire them
- busiest ones: our consumer growth agent with 2,118 tasks in 30 days, our regulatory reporting agent with 1,114
- every team agent can write its own upgrades. it writes the code and opens the merge request, a human decides whether it goes in. the agent makes itself better, we still decide what ships
- team agents alone: 6.9B tokens, 160K model calls so far
- agents are starting to use computers: sign into a tool in a cloud browser, replay a recorded workflow, finish the job. in testing now
- 1,276 of us signed up for a personal agent, 1,136 have logged in, 242+ have put one on a schedule
- a dev platform ai team of 3 shipped coding agents, general agents, an llm gateway and company search in under four months
- coding agents: 16,000+ sandboxes since may, 2,900+ merged MRs
- general agents: 85,000+ conversations
- our dev platform went from 40 agents on 10 teams in june to 240 on 40
outside:
- you can trade just by chatting with kraken's ai in the US app on @krakenfx. those trades grew 17x from early august to mid september as we opened it up. still early, people are using it
- one september week: 22,000 conversations, 2.2B tokens, a typical reply in about 1.4 seconds, about 7 cents a conversation. nobody wants their trading app to stop and think.....
- last december a personalized market brief cost 40 cents a user to generate. two weeks later it was under 3 cents
- the ai side panel is rolling out on @krakenpro. describe a strategy in plain english and backtest it against 180 days. 1,269 backtests in the first month. try the idea before you put money behind it
- trade by chat in telegram, whatsapp, imessage soon..
- or bring your own agent. the open source kraken cli has 170+ commands, 59 agent skills, mcp and paper trading built in. let your agent prove it on paper before it touches real money
next up: agents that remember you, reach out first, and work in the chat apps you already use. breaking news in seconds, load tested at 40,000 live connections. the model should disappear. it should feel like talking to someone who knows you, markets and money..
everything we build for ourselves, we're building for our customers. the agents that run payward are becoming the agents that work for our customers.
agents, not features. this is the slowest it will ever be..
soon we'll have an army, millions of agents we hire, and they hire, and the same self direct behavior we will enable for our customers for free.
we ship, not announce.
Payward's co-CEO @arjunsethi sat down with @willcanny99 of @CoinDesk to unpack the architecture of Payward: shared financial infrastructure spanning trading, banking, asset management and services for other businesses.
5M people already wear one.
Now for the first time ever, Kraken Pro users can submit interest in the $OURAx IPO via xStocks.
Same price, same moment as institutions. No new account. No transfer.
Trade it straight from Kraken Pro if allocated👇
https://t.co/NEisIzZLXY
🥊 BREAKOUT TRADING FIGHT 🥊
@CryptoEdgeOff and @krakenfx pulled the sharpest traders in the game to France for an all-out showdown.
4 traders. $100K each. 1 hour. 1 winner.
It delivered.
Season 2 is loading. 🏴☠️
The next frontier of tokenization is private markets.
Payward Services is building the infrastructure to bring the same onchain utility behind xStocks to private assets, opening new possibilities across private credit, venture capital, reinsurance and more.
New in the Kraken app: Kraken's AI
Research the market.
Check your portfolio.
Find out what your idle cash could be doing.
Ask it anything 👇
https://t.co/n7CFXy1dvW
Currently, available in the US. More regions coming soon.
the @Nasdaq + @Payward partnership just went into overdrive
tokenized equities are a thing and the upgrade to the world's financial infrastructure is real.
Much more to come.
https://t.co/Jg3kJaDH43
A major step forward for xStocks and tokenized equities.
@Nasdaq and @Payward are advancing Nasdaq Equity Tokens and the infrastructure designed to connect them with the xStocks ecosystem.
Bringing global, always-on markets closer.
Nasdaq is advancing its tokenized equities strategy by agreeing to invest $100M in @Payward, the parent company of @krakenfx.
Nasdaq Ventures’ agreement to invest in Payward deepens the collaboration between the companies.
Here's what it means: 🧵
$SHEINx is now live, tokenized by xStocks.
The fashion giant debuted today on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at a $26.5B valuation.
Trading onchain starts at 9.30 AM HKT.