GrandCroix, a Miami-based next-generation mining company for decentralized AI networks, announces a strategic collaboration with Ambient Network, to launch the first native decentralized exchange (DEX) for the Ambient ecosystem in Q2 2026.
The platform will ship with a full DeFi stack from day one – including an automated market maker (AMM), cross-chain bridging, and built-in liquidity tools – designed specifically for Ambient.xyz.
Ambient is an SVM-enabled L1 PoW that will serve as a cornerstone of the agentic economy, unleashing Asimov-ian intelligence on-chain. It is 10 times more efficient than existing cryptographic AI systems and features:
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Fully verified inference with <0.1% overhead but high security on a huge smart model (600b+ parameters) and its fine tuning
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10x better training performance than existing approaches
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Extremely high miner utilization thanks to single-model optimization for inference and validation
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A non-blocking proof of work consensus that highlights economic competition around core network activities (inference, development, training) while maintaining an extraordinary TPS.
Participants who earn Ambient token rewards have no native trading venue, limited cross-chain access, and no way to provide liquidity or earn yield within the ecosystem they help build.
To address these three gaps, GrandCroix is building a vertically integrated DeFi platform – not just an exchange interface – designed for the specific needs of DePIN participants. Built on
Ambient and scheduled to be put into service in the second quarter of 2026, the platform will be launched with:
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AMM Swap Engine – Optimized for $AMB and major trading pairs (SOL, USDC, USDT), with support for concentrated liquidity positions.
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Native Cross-Chain Bridge – Built-in bridge enabling $AMB transfers between Solana and EVM-enabled chains (Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum) on day one, with no third-party bridge required.
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Liquidity Positioning Dashboard: Tools for liquidity providers to set price bands, monitor performance, and manage positions. Designed to be accessible to sensor operators, not just experienced DeFi users.
Rather than bringing together fragmented third-party tools, the platform provides a unified on-chain experience tailored to the people actually participating in the network.
This timing reflects a structural shift: as DePIN ecosystems evolve beyond hardware deployment toward data monetization and token utility, they need native financial infrastructure to support their growth. Without it, value leaks to centralized intermediaries and friction between chains discourages participation. Institutional backing of Ambient by a16z crypto and Delphi Ventures indicates that the network is ready for this layer.
“Every blockchain needs a financial layer to allow builders to build on it and support its growth,” said Nour De Vos, founder and CEO of GrandCroix. “Our collaboration with Ambient aims to create this missing layer – so that participants can not only provide data, but actively participate in the economic growth of the ecosystem by creating applications.”
Liquidity strategy
GrandCroix will generate initial liquidity from its own treasury and mining operations, providing trading depth from day one on base pairs. Ambient will also provide additional liquidity to the funded Dex and support early liquidity growth.
Roadmap
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Q2 2026 – AMM, Bridge and LP dashboards live on Solana mainnet
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Q3 2026 – Additional Bridge Chains, Limit Orders and Programmatic Trading APIs
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Q4 2026 – Launching community governance with on-chain voting for fee settings and new pair lists
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About GrandCroix
GrandCroix is a decentralized AI and DeFi infrastructure company headquartered in Miami, Florida and a division of NDV Group. The company operates at the intersection of decentralized computing and decentralized finance, building critical infrastructure for emerging blockchain ecosystems. GrandCroix’s operations span active mining on major decentralized networks – including Bittensor, NousResearch, Gonka AI, Ambient Network and Psy Protocol – large-scale GPU infrastructure management and the development of native DeFi products.
About the ambient network
Ambient aims to fill the gaps just described by building a fundamental pillar of the agentic economy: an AI-secured blockchain ten times more efficient than legacy systems with built-in privacy and censorship resistance that runs a single, huge, high-performance, auditable and transparent model (and its adjustments) at low latency by leveraging large-scale on-chain distributed computing to provide human capabilities to on-chain and cross-chain applications.
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