HONG KONG, Oct. 09, 2025 — Waton Financial Limited (NASDAQ: WTF) (“Waton” or the “Company”), a firm specializing in securities brokerage and financial technology services, today announced the introduction of its proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) agent core, DePearl™. Conceived as the cornerstone of Waton’s AI-centric financial ecosystem, DePearl facilitates the creation, training, and monetization of autonomous AI traders on blockchain. This technology signifies a major advancement in Waton’s strategy to bridge traditional finance with digital assets, thereby enabling the company to bolster its standing amidst the AI-driven transformation in global markets.
Drawing inspiration from the “pearls” concept in HBO’s Westworld, DePearl is engineered to encapsulate the “soul” of an AI trader—referred to as a “DeTrader”—within a secure, blockchain-based framework. Each DePearl can alternate between active AI trading and learning modes, empowering users to develop, educate, and customize their own AI traders based on their individual experience and strategies. Built with encryption, digital signatures, and transferability, DePearl functions as a verifiable, tradable digital asset that can be stored, re-trained, and exchanged across Waton’s ecosystem, introducing a novel form of financial intelligence that synthesizes human insight with machine precision.
“DePearl signifies the next evolution of intelligent finance,” stated Kai Zhou, Chairman of Waton Financial Limited. “The concept was inspired by Westworld, where a host’s digital consciousness, including its memories and personality, can be stored within a pearl. Similarly, each DePearl holds the identity and capabilities of its AI trader, enabling it to learn, evolve, and operate autonomously. With our proprietary AI agent technology, stablecoin framework, and digital asset reserve, Waton is constructing an ecosystem that connects traditional markets with Web3 infrastructure, aiming to offer clients secure, institutional-grade access to the burgeoning world of digital assets.”
The debut of DePearl establishes the groundwork for Waton’s broader AI-native financial ecosystem, which is designed to integrate artificial intelligence, blockchain infrastructure, and digital asset management. Within this ecosystem, the Company intends to collaborate with a range of stablecoins to facilitate secure transactions and settlements across DePearl-based products, and to establish an AI-blockchain based reserve to provide liquidity, collateralization, and yield stability. Together, these elements are anticipated to foster a seamless flow between traditional financial systems and the emerging AI trading economy, thereby creating new avenues for scalability, transparency, and value generation.
Through DePearl, Waton endeavors to redefine the intersection of artificial intelligence and finance, with the goal of transforming trading from a human-led process into an AI-native ecosystem where knowledge, data, and performance can be owned and exchanged as digital assets. Waton is pursuing a new standard for AI-enabled financial infrastructure that merges the transparency of blockchain with the intelligence of autonomous agents. DePearl is not merely a product launch; it represents the subsequent phase of Waton’s evolution towards building a sustainable, scalable ecosystem that can empower investors, institutions, and developers alike.
About Waton Financial Limited
Waton Financial Limited is a holding company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, conducting its primary operations through its wholly-owned subsidiaries in Hong Kong. Waton provides comprehensive financial services, including securities brokerage, asset management, and software licensing, to both retail and institutional investors. Driven by technology and a customer-centric philosophy, Waton is committed to delivering innovative and reliable financial solutions.
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