HONG KONG, Oct. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Waton Financial Limited (NASDAQ: WTF) (“Waton” or the “Company”), a financial brokerage and fintech services provider, today announced the launch of its artificial intelligence (AI) agent, DePearl™. Developed as a foundation for Waton’s AI financial ecosystem, DePearl enables the creation, training and monetization of independent AI traders on the blockchain. This technology represents a major step in Watton’s strategy to connect traditional finance with digital assets, enabling the company to strengthen its position amid the AI-led transformation in global markets.
Inspired by the “pearl” concept in HBO’s Westworld, DePearl is designed to encapsulate the “soul” of an AI trader – known as a “DeTrader” – within a secure, blockchain-based framework. Each DePearl can move between active trading and learning modes using the AI, enabling users to create, train and customize their own AI traders based on their individual experiences and strategies. Built with cryptography, digital signatures and portability, DePearl acts as a verifiable and tradable digital asset that can be stored, retrained and exchanged across the Waton ecosystem – offering a new form of financial intelligence that combines human vision with machine precision.
“DePearl represents the next evolution of smart finance,” said Kai Zhou, Chairman of Waton Financial Limited. “The concept is inspired by Westworld, where a host’s digital consciousness, including their memories and personality, can be stored inside a pearl. Likewise, each DePearl carries the identity and ability of its own AI trader, enabling it to learn, evolve, and operate independently. Through our proprietary AI agent technology, stablecoin framework, and digital asset reserve, Waton is building an ecosystem Connects traditional markets to Web3 infrastructure – seeks to provide clients with secure, institutional-grade access to the emerging world of digital assets.
DePearl’s launch represents the foundation of Waton’s broader AI-driven financial ecosystem, which is designed to integrate AI, blockchain infrastructure and digital asset management. Within this ecosystem, the company plans to partner with an array of stablecoins to facilitate secure transactions and settlements via DePearl-based products and create an AI-based reserve to provide liquidity, collateral and return stability. Together, these elements are expected to facilitate seamless flow between traditional financial systems and the emerging AI-based trading economy – creating new opportunities for scalability, transparency, and value creation.
Through DePearl, Waton seeks to redefine the intersection between AI and finance – in order to transform commerce from a human-driven process to a native AI ecosystem where knowledge, data, and performance can be owned and exchanged as digital assets. Waton seeks to pursue a new standard for AI-powered financial infrastructure that merges the transparency of blockchain with the intelligence of autonomous agents. DePearl isn’t just launching a product; It represents the next stage of Waton’s evolution towards building a sustainable and scalable ecosystem that can empower investors, institutions and developers alike.
About Watton Financial Limited
Waton Financial Limited is a holding company registered in the British Virgin Islands, and conducts its business primarily through its wholly-owned subsidiaries in Hong Kong. Waton provides comprehensive financial services, including securities brokerage, asset management, and software licensing to individual and institutional investors. Driven by technology and a customer-focused philosophy, Waton is committed to providing innovative and reliable financial solutions.
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