Palo Alto, CA, July 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Spe ax, the DeFi p otocol behi d USDs, the fi st auto-yield stablecoi , a d c eato of Spe axOS, the ope -sou ce AI age t wo kspace fo DeFi, today a ou ced it has become a official IBM Busi ess Pa t e . The pa t e ship u ites Spe ax’s b eakth ough AI age t tech ology fo o -chai fi a ce with IBM’s expe tise i e te p ise AI, hyb id cloud i f ast uctu e, a d global go-to-ma ket each.
Spe ax has built what the i dust y is calli g the missi g executio laye fo AI i fi a ce: a platfo m that t a sfo ms AI age ts f om ead-o ly chatbots i to gove ed, ve ifiable, o -chai eco omic acto s. Spe axOS e ables a yo e to go f om a plai -E glish equest to a p eviewed, isk-sco ed, o -chai t a sactio i seco ds, with a secu ity gua d sta di g betwee the age t a d the wallet at eve y step.
The Spe axOS wo kspace is the most complete e d-to-e d platfo m fo DeFi- ative AI age ts available today:
100+ Built-i DeFi Tools. Swap a d oute ac oss U iswap a d 1i ch, le d a d bo ow o Aave, discove yield, t ack po tfolios, a d mo ito whale wallets, fu di g ates, a d ma ket se time t, all with ze o i teg atio wo k.Gua ded Executio . Eve y o -chai actio passes th ough a dedicated secu ity laye with spe d limits, MEV p otectio , dete mi istic isk sco i g, a d huma -i -the-loop app oval fo se sitive ope atio s. The age t p oposes; the use decides.Visual St ategy Builde . Compose tools i to multi-step, multi-age t wo kflows: automated ebala ci g, yield otatio , a d positio mo ito i g, sha eable th ough a commu ity ma ketplace.O -Chai Age t Eco omy. Age ts egiste as NFTs u de the ERC-8004 sta da d o A bit um, givi g eve y age t a pe siste t, ve ifiable ide tity, with c eato s ea i g t a spa e t eve ue f om eve y executio .Auto omous Payme ts. Age ts t a sact machi e-to-machi e ove the x402 p otocol, payi g fo se vices a d getti g paid without huma i te ve tio .Develope -Fi st. A TypeSc ipt SDK, Pytho SDK, REST API, a d MCP se ve let a y existi g age t f amewo k plug di ectly i to the Spe axOS tool catalog.
Spe axOS age ts suppo t mo e tha 70 AI model p ovide s with multi-p ovide outi g, pe siste t memo y, a d st eami g executio , a d the e ti e platfo m is ope sou ce a d self-hostable.
As a official IBM Busi ess Pa t e , Spe ax gai s access to IBM’s global e te p ise go-to-ma ket i f ast uctu e, co-sell esou ces, a d i teg atio pathways i to IBM’s AI a d hyb id cloud po tfolio. The pa t e ship ope s dist ibutio i to egulated i dust ies a d i stitutio al deployme ts, whe e Spe axOS’s audit- eady a chitectu e, i which eve y age t actio is sco ed, logged, a d att ibutable, meets the complia ce expectatio s of IBM’s e te p ise custome base.
“I stitutio s do ot fea AI age ts. They fea u gove ed o es,” said the Spe ax fou di g team. “We spe t seve yea s buildi g o -chai fi a cial i f ast uctu e that does ot ask use s to t ust a black box, a d Spe axOS exte ds that p i ciple to the AI laye . Pa t e i g with IBM gives that a chitectu e the e te p ise fou datio a d each it was desig ed fo .”
As pa t of the pa t e ship oadmap, Spe ax pla s to i teg ate IBM’s watso x model family i to the Spe axOS multi-p ovide u time, b i gi g IBM G a ite models to age t i fe e ce a d IBM’s gove a ce tooli g to the platfo m’s isk a d complia ce laye , so e te p ises ca u DeFi age ts o the same AI stack they al eady t ust.
The IBM pa t e ship joi s a g owi g oste of st ategic mome tum fo Spe ax, which has aised $16.8 millio f om i vesto s i cludi g Jump C ypto, Polychai Capital, Ambe G oup, Outlie Ve tu es, FBG Capital, a d Steve Aoki. I Ja ua y 2026, Spe ax a ou ced i f ast uctu e backi g f om Google Cloud, a d i Ju e 2026 it lau ched Spe axOS as a fully public, ope -sou ce platfo m.
Spe ax b i gs seve yea s of live o -chai i f ast uctu e to the pa t e ship. USDs, lau ched o A bit um i Decembe 2021, pio ee ed auto-yield stablecoi s. The p otocol’s co t acts a e audited by Qua tstamp, Ce tiK, SlowMist, a d PeckShield, a d the p otocol is gove ed by veSPA holde s th ough the Spe ax DAO. O the oadmap: ERC-4337 sma t accou ts fo auto omous age t t a sactio executio , e te p ise-g ade audit epo ti g fo fu ds a d DAOs, a d deepe st ategy automatio ac oss the DeFi la dscape.
Fou ded i late 2019, Spe ax builds ope o -chai fi a cial i f ast uctu e. The p otocol c eated USDs, the fi st auto-yield stablecoi , a d the Demete liquidity p otocol. Spe axOS, its ope -sou ce AI age t wo kspace, combi es a multi-p ovide AI u time, 100+ composable DeFi tools, a d a o -chai age t eco omy i to a si gle self-hostable platfo m, so use s go f om atu al la guage to safe, p eviewed o -chai executio , a d age t builde s ea f om what they c eate. Lea mo e at spe ax.io.
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