SimpleSwap, the self-custodial multi-source swaps aggregator, today announced a partnership with Kuvi.ai, the platform building the strategic layer for agentic finance. SimpleSwap’s wallet-to-wallet routing now enables execution in Kuvi’s intent-driven environment, opening the programmable strategy to the broader crypto asset universe.
What is agentic finance?
Agentic finance is an emerging category of blockchain systems in which autonomous software agents (not button-clicking humans) interpret market signals, set financial goals, and execute trades on behalf of a user. If DeFi made finance programmable, agentic AI in finance makes the strategy itself programmable: a user expresses their intention in natural language (“rebalance my portfolio towards stablecoins when volatility increases”), and a crypto-AI agent translates this intention into concrete on-chain actions.
The Kuvi-SimpleSwap partnership is built exactly around this split. Kuvi captures the intention and the reasons behind it. SimpleSwap clears the swap. Together, they bridge the gap between deciding what to do and actually doing it, without the user ever giving up custody of their assets.
Resolve the execution gap
In decentralized finance, a strategy is only as good as its execution. Traditionally, acting on market signals meant manual swaps, fragmented liquidity or trusted custodial platforms: all of which eroded a trader’s advantage. This is the bottleneck that all AI crypto trading bots and conventional automated crypto trading stacks have been running into for years: smart logic, flimsy plumbing.
By integrating SimpleSwap, Kuvi eliminates these obstacles. When a user sets an intention, such as rebalancing a portfolio based on volatility or a change in liquidity, SimpleSwap’s infrastructure handles the routing behind the scenes. Funds are transferred directly from the user’s wallet to the destination wallet, requiring no platform balances or manual comparison of providers.
Intentions and transactions in crypto
It is important to be specific about the change that this partnership represents. A transaction is a low-level instruction: “exchange exactly X of token A for token B on this site, now.” An intention is a higher-level goal: “get me the best result that satisfies these constraints.” The distinction is important because intentions survive partial fills, route changes, and liquidity shifting in a way that raw transactions cannot.
Cryptographic intentions are what Kuvi users actually express. SimpleSwap is what turns these intentions into clean trades across 20+ CEX and DEX liquidity sources without requiring the user to pre-fund a custodial balance.
How SimpleSwap strengthens the Kuvi ecosystem
SimpleSwap provides the high-performance “engine room” required for autonomous and agent workflows:
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Unmatched breadth: Access to over 3.2 million trading pairs across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Sui and long-tail altcoins.
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Institutional Accuracy: For automated flows, SimpleSwap offers 99.998% estimation accuracy, ensuring strategies execute exactly as expected.
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Self-custody architecture: Each trade is a time-limited wallet-to-wallet transaction, perfectly aligned with Kuvi’s self-custody philosophy.
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Deep Liquidity: Aggregated sources efficiently manage large-scale transactions, reducing price impact even for high-volume strategies.
Can you automate crypto trading without giving up custody?
Yes. And that’s the whole point of designing this integration. Most AI crypto trading robot setups require depositing funds into an exchange or custodial wallet before strategies can be executed. SimpleSwap’s architecture reverses this assumption. Each exchange is wallet-to-wallet and time-limited, meaning a crypto-AI agent running on Kuvi can execute a rebalance without the user ever surrendering their keys.
“Self-custody users expect layers of execution that do not require them to cede control. With Kuvi, our routing across 2,800+ assets and 20+ CEX/DEX liquidity sources connects directly to their strategic, wallet-to-wallet layer, without any platform balances to manage between transactions,” said Stefan Lauer, Head of Infrastructure at SimpleSwap.
What is the SimpleSwap API for?
The SimpleSwap API, a production cryptocurrency exchange API used in over 6,000 partner products, is the routing engine behind wallet-to-wallet exchanges on CEX and DEX aggregate liquidity. For teams relying on agentic AI for finance, this removes the most painful part of integration: assembling a dozen sites, managing pre-funded balances, and sourcing quotes. A unique crypto exchange API integration provides the scale, precision, and self-custody flow that Kuvi’s agentic strategies need.
The future of agentic finance
This integration reinforces the industry’s trend of separating strategy (capturing intent) from execution (clearing the swap). SimpleSwap, which already powers over 6,000 partners including Exodus and Tangem, now provides the core liquidity that enables Kuvi’s programmable strategies.
Bitcoin gave us decentralized money. Ethereum has made finance programmable. Kuvi makes strategy programmable,” said Dylan Dewdney, co-founder and CEO of Kuvi.ai. “Extending our execution layer with SimpleSwap brings us closer to a world where anyone can express and execute complex financial intentions seamlessly.”
About SimpleSwap
SimpleSwap is a self-custodial, multi-source exchange aggregator for people who want direct wallet-to-wallet crypto trading with more privacy and control, helping them avoid manually comparing providers and routes by pooling liquidity between well-known CEX and DEX sources. Operating since 2018, it covers over 20 liquidity sources and over 2,800 assets, with funds moving between the wallets you own. Today, more than 6,000 partner products run on the SimpleSwap infrastructure, including leading self-custody wallets such as Exodus and Tangem.
About Kuvi.ai
Kuvi.ai is a pioneer in agentic finance, a new class of intelligent, intent-driven systems that unify on-chain trading, portfolio management, and automation. Built on the world’s first Agent Financial Operating System (AFOS), Kuvi enables users to manage and grow their wealth through natural language interaction, modular agentic frameworks, and cross-chain execution. Kuvi.ai recently acquired Altura, expanding its mission to bring agentic automation to every corner of the blockchain economy.
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