Today, TrueNorth AI integrated Ondo Perps to their agentic brokerage platform. TrueNorth agents and AI system can scan markets, identify setups, and watch perp positions around the clock. By integrating Ondo Perps, they can do it on a platform with 24/7 markets, deep liquidity, institutional-grade execution, and tokenized real-world assets as collateral. While this is a key unlock for the agentic brokerage platform, it’s also part of a larger trend.
Across the industry, brokerages, exchanges, and startups are racing to put AI agents to work in markets. Citizens’ Head of Fintech research Devin Ryan estimates agentic finance could lift transaction volumes at least tenfold. By the end of next year, Ryan forecasts that the majority of trades on some platforms will be placed by agents.
What Is Agentic Finance?
Agentic AI doesn't wait for approval at every step. Give it a goal, tools, and a budget, and it acts. It monitors markets while you sleep, rebalances as conditions change, and executes the strategy you set. These aren't tools that assist human decisions, they are agents that make decisions and can execute trades on behalf of people.
AI Needs an Execution Layer
Agents don't keep banking hours. Agents reason at machine speed yet still wait on intermediaries, cutoff times, and next-day settlement when interacting with traditional finance rails. What they need are rails that operative 24/7/365 and operate at the speed of machines.
The recently launched Ondo Network, the execution layer Ondo Perps, meets these requirements. It provides a permissionless peer-to-peer platform that operates 24/7/365 yet is as fast as centralized exchanges.
However, perhaps most impactful within a growing ecosystem of AI agents, is that the Ondo Network is verifiable like a blockchain. This matters because unlike a person who typically relies on brands and performance records when evaluating a platform or system to trade with, AI agents can review the code itself.
"A person deciding whether to trust a system can lean on reputation, brand, and track record. An agent can too — but it's far better positioned to skip the proxies and check the thing itself: that the code running is the code that's been verified and that the rules were followed. We don’t know how much of financial activity will eventually be driven by agents rather than people, but we’re confident it will grow — and that infrastructure that can be verified rather than trusted is well-suited for that world.” — Introducing the Ondo Network by Ondo Finance.
An Execution Layer for AI Agents
The open question isn't whether agents will trade, but which rails they'll trade on. Agents value markets that never close, execution at machine speed, and infrastructure they can verify rather than trust. With Ondo Perps delivering all these capabilities on a platform with deep liquidity for exposure to the world’s most in-demand assets, more and more AI platforms will leverage the Ondo Network as the execution layer for AI agents.
