Rails is a fully regulated crypto derivatives & trading infrastructure company. The platform serves as the compliant backend that fintechs, brokerages, and institutions plug into to offer crypto derivatives, without building it themselves. It provides the regulatory foundation, the execution layer, and the liquidity all through a single integration. The platform is built on three pillars: 1) Regulatory Compliance: Rails, a fully regulated company (CIMA-registered, NFA-pending), is KYC/KYB compliant. 2) Institutional-Grade Execution: Hybrid architecture delivers sub-millisecond trade execution through a centralized order matching engine, while on-chain custody keeps user funds decentralized. 3)Trader Education: The Rails Play platform is where traders can learn how to trade crypto perpetuals and earn a funded account through low-fee evaluations. In Q2 2026, Rails will be deploying institutional-grade vaults on the Stellar blockchain to provide the deep liquidity necessary to scale with institutional adoption. Options Trading is also on the product roadmap for Q2 to expand our product suite. Rails has raised over $20 Million in total, including a $14 Million raise in 2025, and is backed by investors such as Kraken, Slow Ventures, and CMCC Global. About the Rails token RAILS serves as the utility and coordination mechanism for the Rails ecosystem. It’s design which employs the following mechanisms which align real platform usage with long-term ecosystem sustainability: - Fee Discounts: Token holders receive tiered reductions on trading fees and settlement costs across Rails and integrated partner platforms. Discount tiers scale with holdings, providing material savings for active traders. - Rails Play Benefits: Token holders access discounted evaluation purchases and enhanced rewards on Rails Play, the platform's trader education and development system. - Priority Access: Early access to new product launches, partner integrations, and platform features
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A story from our own operations. A client wanted to test the payment rails before sending the full amount. Smart move, natural. They sent a mere 10 USDC against a 10,000 USDC invoice. Our old system noted an incoming payment, matched it to the invoice, and marked the entire thing PAID. Ten dollars
17 years in, I think we are still early for payments and facing tons of uphill battles because Bitcoin is challenging the core of fiat currencies. The best thing to do is to build Bitcoin into payment rails as an option and develop new rails to support Bitcoin over time. Other than a few exceptions,
Giving agents financial rails changes everything. What we’ve been building across Holoworld and HoloLaunch is about to make a lot more sense.
This week, I'm releasing a 1-hour 45-minute conversation with @raagulanpathy - founder and CEO at @kastxyz. Rags is blunt about why everyone is suddenly building a neobank: crypto hasn't delivered much value to anyone, and the fintech layer on top of the rails is the biggest addressable market of o
ExpandZK × @prom_io 🤝 ZK meets the economic layer for autonomous AI agents. PROM brings programmable, machine-scale payments. ExpandZK brings trustless authentication and verifiable agent interactions. Together, we’re building the rails for a trusted machine economy. https://t.co/jlggC0WV9r
washington is weighing curbs on chinese ai models after kimi K3, and the headline hands decentralized gpu tokens like IO and AKT nothing to price: K3's serving footprint does not fit their rails, so fade any compute-narrative pop. what's on the table • entity list pressure, federal procurement limi
While everyone talks about models, at Quake, AI we will focus on the rails. The world will need new infra for what’s coming. Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure.
“Then wait for competitors with weaker controls to run into regulatory or operational problems, and acquire the users who churn from those platforms. L If you had no big growth but spent your $$ on building all those rails - what $$ do you have to acquire the churned users? Sitting by the river t
Hey @chamath , I have a serious question (not being facetious) . Soon there will be billions of agents transacting with each other. They will be country/law/currency agnostic. . What currency and what rails will they use to transact trustlessly ? What will govern the contracts? Where will they