Bankr Launches AI Service to Manage Tokenized Stock Liquidity 24/7

Bankr, an AI agent financial platform, has launched a service that uses artificial intelligence to provide liquidity for tokenized stocks.

Bankr said Sept. 1 that it introduced the tokenized stock liquidity service on Aerodrome, a decentralized exchange built on Coinbase's Base blockchain. Its key feature is an AI agent that manages users' liquidity positions around the clock. The company said it is the first tokenized stock liquidity service that can be used through natural-language commands, allowing individual investors to take part in a role previously dominated by a small group of professional market makers.

Users can buy tokenized stocks supported by Coinbase and deposit them into Aerodrome liquidity pools by entering a simple sentence. When trades occur, liquidity providers receive fees in proportion to the assets they supplied.

Previously, users had to set price ranges themselves and adjust positions frequently as market conditions changed. Under the new service, an AI agent monitors price moves and automatically rebalances concentrated liquidity positions. It continues operating at night and on weekends, when US stock markets are closed.

Users still retain authority to open positions and set key terms. The AI manages positions only within parameters approved in advance by the user.

The service was released alongside Coinbase's rollout of tokenized stocks natively on Base under the B20 standard. Aerodrome is supplying liquidity for major Coinbase tokenized stocks, including Apple and Nvidia.

Aerodrome processed $103 million of trading across four liquidity pools after tokenized stocks launched on Base on Aug. 31, according to Bankr. A Bankr official said the activity demonstrated that 24-hour liquidity pools for tokenized stock trading can function in practice.

Bankr founder 0xDeployer said stock market making had remained a closed domain for the past 30 years. Coinbase and Aerodrome have turned that into a permissionless on-chain market open to anyone, he added. Bankr simply built a service that lets users participate by entering a single sentence.

Coinbase's tokenized stocks are issued against underlying shares held separately by a professional custodian. Trading is available in certain jurisdictions outside the US. Additional eligibility requirements, including identity verification, may apply.

Alex Cutler, chief executive officer of Dromos Labs and a core contributor to Aerodrome, said liquidity providers are the backbone of on-chain liquidity. Lowering barriers to providing liquidity is essential to keeping markets healthy as on-chain finance expands, he added.