Sperax, the DeFi protocol behind USD, the first auto-yield stablecoin and creator of SperaxOS, the open source AI agent workspace for DeFi, announced today that it has become an official IBM business partner. The partnership combines Sperax’s revolutionary AI agent technology for blockchain finance with IBM’s expertise in enterprise AI, hybrid cloud infrastructure and global market reach.
Redefining what AI agents can do with money
Sperax has built what the industry calls the missing execution layer for AI in finance: a platform that transforms AI agents from read-only chatbots to governed, verifiable economic actors on-chain. SperaxOS allows anyone to go from a plain English request to a previewed, risk-scored on-chain transaction in seconds, with a security guard standing between the agent and the wallet every step of the way.
The SperaxOS workspace is the most complete end-to-end platform for DeFi native AI agents available today:
- 100+ built-in DeFi tools.Swap and route between Uniswap and 1inch, lend and borrow on Aave, discover yield, track portfolios, and monitor whale wallets, funding rates, and market sentiment, all without any integration work.
- Monitored execution.Every chain action goes through a dedicated security layer with spending limits, MEV protection, deterministic risk scoring, and human approval for sensitive operations. The agent suggests; it’s the user who decides.
- Visual strategy generator.Compose the tools into multi-step, multi-agent workflows: automated rebalancing, yield rotation and position monitoring, shareable via a community marketplace.
- Chain agent economics.Agents register as NFTs under the ERC-8004 standard on Arbitrum, giving each agent a persistent and verifiable identity, with creators earning transparent revenue with each run.
- Self-payments.Agents conduct machine-to-machine transactions via the x402 protocol, paying for services and getting paid without human intervention.
- Developer first.A TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API, and MCP Server allow any existing agent framework to connect directly to the SperaxOS tools catalog.
SperaxOS agents support over 70 AI model providers with multi-vendor routing, persistent memory, and streaming execution, and the entire platform is open source and self-hosting.
A partnership designed for enterprise scale
As an official IBM Business Partner, Sperax has access to IBM’s global enterprise go-to-market infrastructure, resource co-selling, and integration pathways across IBM’s AI and hybrid cloud portfolio. The partnership opens distribution to regulated industries and institutional deployments, where SperaxOS’s audit-ready architecture, in which every agent action is noted, recorded and assignable, meets the compliance expectations of IBM’s enterprise customer base.
“Institutions do not fear AI agents. They fear the ungoverned,” said the Sperax founding team. “We’ve spent seven years building an on-chain financial infrastructure that doesn’t ask users to trust a black box, and SperaxOS extends that principle to the AI layer. Partnering with IBM gives this architecture the enterprise foundation and reach for which it was designed.”
As part of the partnership’s roadmap, Sperax plans to integrate IBM’s Watsonx family of models into the SperaxOS multi-vendor runtime environment, bringing IBM Granite models to agent inference and IBM’s governance tools to the risk and compliance layer of the platform, so enterprises can run DeFi agents on the same AI stack they already trust.
Dynamism across the industry
The IBM partnership joins a growing list of strategic pushes for Sperax, which has raised $16.8 million from investors including Jump Crypto, Polychain Capital, Amber Group, Outlier Ventures, FBG Capital and Steve Aoki. In January 2026, Sperax announced support for its infrastructure by Google Cloud, and in June 2026 launched SperaxOS as a fully public open source platform.
Sperax brings seven years of active on-chain infrastructure to the partnership. USD, launched on Arbitrum in December 2021, pioneered auto-yield stablecoins. The protocol’s contracts are audited by Quantstamp, CertiK, SlowMist, and PeckShield, and the protocol is governed by veSPA holders through the Sperax DAO. On the roadmap: ERC-4337 smart accounts for autonomous agent transaction execution, enterprise-grade audit reporting for funds and DAOs, and deeper strategy automation across the DeFi landscape.
About Sperax
Founded in late 2019, Sperax is building an open on-chain financial infrastructure. The protocol created USD, the first auto-yielding stablecoin and the Demeter liquidity protocol. SperaxOS, its open source AI agent workspace, combines a multi-vendor AI execution environment, 100+ composable DeFi tools, and on-chain agent economics into a single self-hosted platform, so users move from natural language to secure, previewed on-chain execution, and agent builders earn from what they build. Learn more at sperax.io.
About IBM
IBM is a leading global provider of hybrid cloud and AI and consulting expertise. IBM helps clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs, and gain competitive advantage in their industries. Learn more at IBM.com.
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