# De¹

> De¹ is an AI and DeFi infrastructure platform that combines real-market execution with privacy-preserving training to build a financial world model.

- Canonical URL: https://iq.wiki/wiki/de
- Categories: Projects & Protocols
- Tags: DeFi, AIInfrastructure
- Created: 2026-11-05T12:41:27.662Z
- Last updated: 2026-11-05T12:41:27.662Z
- Source: IQ.wiki — the world's largest blockchain and crypto encyclopedia (https://iq.wiki)

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**De¹** is a financial-intelligence platform established in 2020 that combines artificial-intelligence training with real-market execution. It is building an on-chain “Financial World Model” intended to connect market simulation with live execution, using actual fills rather than simulated outcomes as the basis for its market data and training signals.[\[1\]](#cite-id-mrm4hyv8x)​[\[2\]](#cite-id-7qogovlncb)​

The platform reports $40.75 billion in lifetime processed volume and 3.1 million total contributed users.[\[2\]](#cite-id-7qogovlncb)​

## History and Backing

​[RootData](https://iq.wiki/wiki/rootdata) lists De¹ as established in 2020 and identifies YZi Labs as an investor.[\[1\]](#cite-id-mrm4hyv8x) In its September 4, 2026 article, De¹ described itself as backed by YZi Lab, Amber Group, and Multicoin.[\[3\]](#cite-id-b9l0t4i5dl) [\[4\]](#cite-id-7MBkIZC6ZPoxHWrs) 

## Design & Architecture

De¹ describes its system as a financial “physics engine” that brings together five components: an execution engine, a verifiable off-chain trajectory based on signed execution, a data layer that turns real fills into reward labels, privacy-preserving training intended to prevent strategy leakage, and a live financial world model for agents.[\[2\]](#cite-id-7qogovlncb)​

The execution engine routes trading intent across on-chain and dark liquidity. The platform describes its execution layer as using reinforcement-learning-based execution and unified liquidity, while its world model is intended to represent on-chain market microstructures in a high-fidelity environment.[\[2\]](#cite-id-7qogovlncb)​[\[3\]](#cite-id-b9l0t4i5dl)​

De¹ says finalized trades supply the model with signals derived from live executions, including executable price, route, liquidity conditions, [slippage](https://iq.wiki/wiki/slippage), and market impact. It attributes each signal to the trader’s account and records the contribution in a “Signal Passport,” which it presents as verifiable evidence of the contribution and a claim to a share of what that contribution helps train.[\[3\]](#cite-id-b9l0t4i5dl)​

The platform frames trading as both execution and data contribution: real fills supply labels and market signals that can inform the model across different market conditions and trading approaches. De¹ has described privacy-preserving federated-learning frameworks as part of its training infrastructure, alongside a data flywheel based on live capital flows.[\[2\]](#cite-id-7qogovlncb)​[\[3\]](#cite-id-b9l0t4i5dl)​

## Applications

De¹ presents its model as applicable beyond trading. Its stated use cases include tokenized assets as programmable environments; [stablecoin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/stablecoin) corridors for cross-border money movement with live liquidity feedback; lending markets that learn from repayment, [liquidation](https://iq.wiki/wiki/liquidation), and stress; insurance claims workflows involving verifiable evidence, payout, and recovery; and programmable disbursement systems for aid, subsidies, stipends, and public-benefit flows.[\[2\]](#cite-id-7qogovlncb)​

## Execution and Ecosystem

In a September 4, 2026 article, De¹ said its execution layer connected more than 1,000 liquidity sources across more than 40 chains, including [Robinhood Chain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/robinhood-chain). It described the system as assessing live liquidity, [slippage](https://iq.wiki/wiki/slippage), price impact, and fill quality when selecting routes.[\[3\]](#cite-id-b9l0t4i5dl)​

The article described Stock Tokens as routing assets and gave a [WETH](https://iq.wiki/wiki/weth-wrapped-eth)-to-AI order as an example of a multi-hop route through USDG and NVDA pools. It also said routes could cross Uniswap V3 and V4 pools and launchpad [bonding curves](https://iq.wiki/wiki/bonding-curve). At the time of the article, De¹ named PONS, AI, and CASHCAT among the assets routed through the platform and said it supported more than 40 Stock Tokens, including MSTR, NVDA, SPY, and QQQ.[\[3\]](#cite-id-b9l0t4i5dl)​

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