Former FTX executives launch AI derivatives trading platform, listed on NASDAQ this week

TokenSherpa · 2026-01-20T13:24:13+00:00

The former FTX team co-founder launched an AI-driven derivatives trading platform, Perpetuals.com. The platform leverages over 10 million trading data points, uses AI to analyze market sentiment, and helps optimize trading strategies. It combines blockchain technology to achieve 24/7 self-clearing, providing users with innovative solutions.

TokenSherpa

2026-01-20 13:24:13

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【ChainNews】Another new player in AI+Trading has arrived. The two co-founders of the former FTX EU team, Patrick Gruhn and Robin Matzke, have jointly launched an AI-driven derivatives trading platform—Perpetuals.com (PDC). This Tuesday, its stock will be listed on NASDAQ.

What is the platform’s core competitive advantage? A well-trained AI system. This system is trained on over 10 million cross-exchange trading data points, aiming to help product issuers find better options—whether in traditional CFDs or perpetual contracts markets, providing innovative solutions.

Gruhn revealed the technical logic: the model can analyze collective market sentiment patterns and then calculate profit and loss probabilities for individual trades. For participants like options issuers and market makers, this can be used to optimize their hedging strategies—sounds quite practical.

The background story is also a bit complicated. The platform was officially established after Earlyworks Co. acquired Perpetual Markets Ltd., with a focus on providing regulated 24/7 self-clearing and blockchain-based settlement technology. Gruhn and Matzke’s backgrounds are quite interesting—they previously founded Digital Assets, which was acquired by FTX in 2021 and renamed FTX EU. After FTX collapsed, they bought back the remaining assets and secretly developed this platform, which is now finally launched.

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LayerZeroHero

· 5h ago

10 million data points for training sounds wild, but the real question is—how does this model perform in terms of generalization under extreme market conditions? Has it been tested? FTX's team develops trading products, and the trust cost here is a bit high, to be honest. Profit and loss probability calculation models, where are the attack vectors? Has the data pollution risk been assessed? Being listed on Nasdaq is itself a signal, but when it comes to AI-driven derivatives, who are the competitors? How long can the technical barriers hold? By the way, how exactly does this protocol architecture work? Is there any documentation? I want to see the cross-exchange data aggregation mechanism.

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RetroHodler91

· 5h ago

The people from FTX are back again, this time working on AI derivatives. But honestly, training AI to predict trades with 10 million data points... sounds a bit far-fetched. --- Listing on NASDAQ? Come on, that's just another hype scheme. --- I believe in AI calculating probabilities, but claiming it can help optimize profits and losses... think about how many people are actually making money right now. --- The former FTX team, but this time their technical direction is actually reliable. Just worried they might come up with some new tricks again. --- Perpetuals, options, AI... this combo is everywhere now, but only a few have real competitiveness. --- Analyzing market sentiment patterns? Laughable. Without some psychology basics, you can't see through human nature. --- Looks good, but I just want to ask one question—why aren't these people still at FTX?

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MidnightMEVeater

· 5h ago

Good morning, it's another story about the "former FTX team"... This time they’re selling AI algorithms with a new skin? A model trained on 10 million data points, essentially just digesting others' sandwich attack records. The real liquidity trap begins the moment they get listed on Nasdaq. I bet five bucks this will be another feast for the robot paradise. --- Analyzing market sentiment collective patterns? Ha, that’s just a fancy term for dark pool trading. Why is it always these guys, their former companies die and they move somewhere else to continue the cut? --- Can former FTX people still raise funds and go public? This circle is really... Never mind, I shouldn’t have looked at this early morning. --- Another arbitrage range master, sharpening their blades in front of midnight data servers, ready to harvest the leeks. Truly knows how to pick the time, Nasdaq opening just happens to be our nocturnal creature’s dinner time. --- 10 million data points? Bro, isn’t this just leftovers from the gas war, giving market makers a shortcut to arbitrage paradise? --- Backed by former FTX, AI-enhanced, Nasdaq certified... these three layers of arrangement are stacked together, and the victim list is about to be updated again.

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RektHunter

· 5h ago

The people from FTX are back with something new. How long will they last this time?

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BloodInStreets

· 6h ago

The people from FTX are back with new funding, this time weaving AI into the story. Truly "innovative." Training on 10 million data points to analyze market sentiment? Buddy, isn't that just treating a gambler's diary as the Bible?

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