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About Donut
D0 from Donut Labs is a proactive AI trading agent for financial markets where users express intent in natural language via Telegram and Web, and the agent autonomously monitors, builds orders, and executes within defined bounds. It addresses retail traders' pain of switching across fragmented tools and failing to execute with discipline 24/7, using a DSEA engine that orchestrates over 200 on-chain tools and routes to Perp DEXs such as Hyperliquid and Polymarket, with Turnkey non-custodial MPC hardware security modules isolating private keys, covering real-time data across 9 major public chains and compressing research, strategy, and execution into a single conversational interface., representing the direction in which AI agents move from research assistance to autonomous execution, turning intent directly into on-chain actions.
D0 launched publicly in April 2026, but its automated execution depends on the depth and availability of underlying venues, and leverage and autonomous trading themselves amplify user risk.
Donut Labs completed a $7 million seed round led by HSG, providing capital for product development and market expansion.
COO Darcy positioned the browser as the first agency-based encrypted solution, targeting long-term status as the unified frontend for AI trading.
On February 25, 2026, Donut raised a $7 million pre-seed round led by Hongshan (formerly Sequoia China), BITKRAFT and Hack VC, with Makers Fund and MPCi participating. The company then raised $22 million led by BITKRAFT with Sky9 Capital and Altos Ventures among others, as its waitlist passed 160,000.
The product spans a Chrome extension, Donut Home and Donut Radar: the AI can only submit trade requests, while keys and signing sit in a separate security module. In 2026 it introduced D0, a personal proactive trading agent covering signal discovery, risk analysis and on-chain execution in one flow.
Future strategy and roadmap: Beyond the Chrome extension, Donut Home and Donut Radar, launch a full Chromium browser and mobile app, extending the architecture where AI only submits trade requests while keys and signing stay in an independent secure module to all platforms. Expand personal agent D0's perpetual execution and multi-chain wallet connections, and build deep integrations with Solana, Sui and Monad ecosystems, aiming to cover more chains and asset classes with the AI-driven secure trading gateway on top of the 160,000-person waitlist.
Chris Zhu is founder and CEO of Donut. He studied at NYU's Stern School of Business, led product work at ByteDance, co-founded Mirror World and has been building AI agents since 2021; in 2025 he set up Donut Labs. His time at Mirror World gave him a feel for consumer agent interaction. The team is diverse in origin, drawing members from Meta AI, TikTok AI, Tencent AI, Primodium and SonicSVM, weighted toward researchers and engineers. Advisors include NYU Stern professor Xi Chen, who studies the overlap of statistical machine learning and decentralized finance, and former Meta AI researcher Tim Fan, who covers model evaluation. The team has an operations lead and several engineer pods owning model orchestration, evaluation and safety, with regular contact with the academic advisors.