Investing & Trading

Nval profile

NVAL demos pricing infrastructure for illiquid assets, starting with NFTs. Using AI and on-chain data feeds, NVAL produces fair market values for NFTs in near real time — foundational for any financial workflow (lending, borrowing, insuring, trading) on non-fungible assets that have no spot price. NVAL sits as an analytics layer between blockchains (L1s, L2s, cross-chain) and the industries building on top (gaming, sports, trade finance, accounting, lending). Mark (CTO) walks through the REST API documented with OpenAPI: a "try it out" docs UI, a Postman collection, and a CLI all return the same price prediction for a specific NFT (the demo values a Doodle at 3.3 ETH with 96% confidence, sitting between the listed price of 4.2 ETH and the highest offer of 2.8 ETH). A Chrome extension surfaces NVAL prices on OpenSea pages, and the NVAL web app shows floor price, listed price, and price history against actual trade prints. The price-history endpoint returns 52 weekly data points across a year (configurable daily). Feature importance breaks down what drives price — 96% market action for a Doodle, 72% market action + 30% accessory-trait for a CryptoPunk — giving traders a way to understand why NVAL priced an NFT where it did.

Composer profile

Ben Rollert

Ben Rollert, CEO and co-founder of Composer, demos Composer — a trading app that gives retail investors access to systematic investing. Strategies are called "Symphonies" — containers for trading logic and the assets they operate on, much like an ETF is a container for a basket. The demo walks through the strategy library (featured, community, classic), Symphony fact sheets with backtests that actually model slippage and fees (rare in retail products), the visual conditional-logic editor and natural-language descriptions, live editing of conditions and benchmarks, swapping underlying assets, and Composer's fundamental building blocks (weight blocks, assets, filters, conditions) used Lego-style to build recursively nested multi-strategy portfolios like the Dragon Portfolio. Composer supports threshold rebalancing (rebalance only on drift, not calendar) and deploys to real brokerage accounts via Alpaca with fractional market orders.

DriveWealth profile

John Shammas

John, product lead at DriveWealth, demos DriveWealth — the brokerage infrastructure behind Cash App investing in the US, Revolut in Europe, and a long list of wallets across Africa, South America, India, and Southeast Asia. The demo uses a sample banking app with an $845 balance to show how a customer goes from pure checking to buying $50 of Starbucks stock without leaving the app. Because the bank already holds identity data, DriveWealth\'s onboarding only collects brokerage-specific disclosures (SSN confirmation, broker/politician questions) — creating a tax-and-regulator-ready brokerage account in seconds. The account.managementType flag switches between self-directed and managed (robo-advisor) flows on the same API surface. DriveWealth was the first to offer real-time fractional shares: a $50 market order for Starbucks is recalculated against the live price so users never over- or under-spend. Shares are stored to ten decimal places (inspired by crypto UX), enabling pennies-of-Berkshire orders. Live P/L, cost basis, and market value surface in both the partner app and DriveWealth\'s admin portal.