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About De¹
De1 is DeFi and AI infrastructure in the BNB Chain ecosystem built around the idea of a financial world model, using cross-chain liquidity, prices and execution results as training data so a model learns market state and outputs execution strategies. It claims a unified execution layer connecting more than forty chains and over a thousand liquidity sources, offering routing and decision interfaces to developers, traders and agents.
It addresses execution quality under fragmented liquidity, where the same trade gets very different prices and slippage across venues and manual comparison cannot cover them. Delegating execution to a model should in theory respond faster. Verification is the dispute: claimed daily trading signals worth hundreds of millions of dollars and their returns rest on the project's own accounting, and the technical documentation lacks a full methodology. The model was released in August 2026 as the project entered the BNB Chain ecosystem, and the product remains early.
On August 28, 2026, De¹ announced an investment from YZi Labs, with the amount undisclosed. The project said it would enter the BNB Chain ecosystem and planned to reveal how users can participate in the Financial World Model and the contributor ownership framework.
On October 19, 2026, De¹ launched Tokenized Asset World on BNB Chain, the first domain world under its Financial World Model, covering RWA trading, collateralization, lending, liquidation, and agent activities.
Between August and September 2026, De¹ partnered with Babylon Labs to explore native BTC DeFi execution based on Babylon's trust-minimized Bitcoin vaults and BitVM3 fraud proofs.
As of October 31, 2026, De¹'s website showed cumulative processed volume of $40.75B, 24-hour volume of $40.7M, 3.1M total contributing users, and over 200 institutional clients.
De¹ launched the Financial World Model on August 3, 2026, uniting live capital execution with continuous high-fidelity learning in a single closed loop so that AI agents and human traders can train and optimize inside on-chain markets using real capital flows. The system has integrated core infrastructure capabilities from OpenOcean to strengthen live liquidity access and connects a unified execution layer spanning 40+ chains and 1,000+ liquidity sources. De¹ also secured investment from YZi Labs in 2026 to advance its BNB Chain footprint.
Future strategy and roadmap: On future strategy, De¹ aims to establish the Financial World Model as a foundational intelligence layer for AI-native finance. Vertically it will specialize across high-frequency trading, perpetual futures, prediction markets, RWA assets and claims; horizontally it will keep absorbing OpenOcean liquidity and deepening BNB Chain integration. A live-execution data flywheel is intended to continuously improve execution quality and market understanding, upgrading on-chain finance from isolated execution tools into an adaptive, self-improving intelligence layer.
Leo Syue — Co-founder & CEO; founded DEX aggregator OpenOcean in 2019, later rebranded as De¹ to build a Financial World Model at the intersection of AI and DeFi.
Cindy Ng — Co-founder; oversees product and operations.
De¹ received investment from YZi Labs in August 2026.