en.Wedoany.com Reported - Waton Financial Limited (NASDAQ: WTF) announced the launch of MoTA Alpha, a major upgrade to its flagship AI investment platform, the "Manager of Trading Agents" (MoTA). First unveiled in a closed beta in May 2026, MoTA now introduces the Agent Talents Market—a creator ecosystem for third-party AI trading agents—alongside a redesigned multi-agent collaboration workflow and a comprehensively revamped user experience.
MoTA Alpha builds an AI-native investment team workbench on top of the beta version. The platform enables professional investors and portfolio managers to assemble, manage, and oversee teams of specialized AI agents within structured, auditable workflows covering research, analysis, risk, and execution functions, with each stage requiring human review and final sign-off.
This release includes three major upgrades. The Agent Talents Market is an open marketplace where third-party developers can create, publish, and rank AI trading agents. Users can subscribe to or deploy agents built by independent creators, with all agents running on Waton's infrastructure. The internal logic of the agents is controlled by the creators, while Waton provides the platform layer and execution environment. Enhanced multi-agent collaboration rebuilds the task orchestration layer, improving inter-agent communication, role assignment, and decision audit trails, forming workflows that mimic the dynamics of a real investment team. Each agent operates within its authorized scope, escalates to human supervisors when necessary, and maintains complete, reviewable logs. The redesigned interface increases information density and operational speed for professional workflows while retaining MoTA's distinctive 8-bit pixel art visual style.
MoTA Alpha represents the clearest manifestation of Waton's transformation from a financial infrastructure provider to an AI-native product company. Since its Nasdaq listing in April 2025, Waton has positioned itself as the world's first publicly traded AI agent holding company. However, its revenue base remains rooted in traditional securities brokerage and Broker Cloud SaaS solutions for Hong Kong institutional clients. MoTA Alpha changes this landscape, making AI a tangible, independently monetizable product line. The company is restructuring around a dual-engine model of "brokerage infrastructure + AI applications."
According to Waton's unaudited financial results for the first half of fiscal year 2026 (the six months ended September 30, 2025), total revenue increased 106.3% year-over-year to $6.1 million, with brokerage and commission revenue rising 223.1% to $4.17 million. Cash and segregated cash stood at $29.88 million, with total assets of $68.98 million. The company reported research and development expenses as a separate line item for the first time ($0.39 million in the first half of fiscal 2026), alongside significant stock-based compensation related to AI product development.
Tony Zhou, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Waton Financial, stated that the Alpha version of MoTA marks the company's evolution from a financial technology service provider to an infrastructure and product company in the AI era. The company is not building a chatbot for trading, but rather a platform for professional investors to manage teams of AI agents, each with a clear role, clear accountability, and human oversight. The Agent Talents Market further transforms MoTA from a product into an ecosystem.
Following the Alpha release, Waton expects to open the beta version of MoTA to the public in the third quarter of 2026. The platform currently supports the Hong Kong and U.S. stock markets, with digital asset coverage already on the product roadmap. MoTA is available as a standalone application at m.mota.ai and is integrated with Waton's existing brokerage and TradingWTF infrastructure.
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