bond.credit wins AIBC Startup Pitch 2026

What is the AIBC Startup Pitch competition?

The AIBC Startup Pitch competition is designed for innovators across the emerging technology ecosystem, including crypto, blockchain, Web3, and artificial intelligence. It provides a platform for startups to present their solutions to a curated audience of investors, accelerators, and industry leaders.

Startups are screened ahead of each event, with six finalists selected to compete on stage. Finalists in Manila represented a broad cross-section of the sector, spanning decentralized finance, AI infrastructure, and prediction markets.

Each startup is given three minutes to present its concept, followed by a five-minute question-and-answer session with an expert judging panel, asking participants to defend and expand on their ideas in real time.

bond.credit declared winning startup

bond.credit secured first place with a proposition focused on real-time tracking of autonomous yield-generating agents.

The platform is built on the premise that autonomous agents can outperform static yield vaults. Through its “Genesis of Agentic Alpha” initiative, the company deploys real capital to on-chain autonomous agents that compete to achieve the highest risk-adjusted yield.

All activity including trades, vault updates, and portfolio rebalances is recorded on-chain and fed into bond.credit’s proprietary credit engine.

The system is designed to establish verifiable creditworthiness for autonomous agents operating in decentralized environments.

According to the company, the infrastructure enables participants to build credibility through an on-chain performance track record, unlock higher credit limits, receive capital allocation from institutional and independent allocators and access emerging layers of “agentic banking”.

The model addresses a central challenge in decentralized finance: trust. As autonomous systems increasingly manage liquidity, payments, and data, determining which entities can reliably access credit becomes critical.

Following the announcement, representatives from Bond.credit said they were thrilled with the result and expressed anticipation for the next stage of competition in Rome.

Looking ahead to Rome

The next step for AIBC World, which will take place Rome later in 2026. The event will bring together AIBC (emerging tech), SiGMA (gaming), and AGS (digital marketing) under one umbrella, aimed at fostering cross-industry collaboration and deal-making.

The Rome summit is expected to host 1,000 exhibitors, 300 speakers and 30,000 delegates.

Positioned as one of Europe’s largest gatherings for frontier technology, the event will focus on scaling innovations from concept to real-world adoption. The time has come for frontier technology to meet the real world and to scale digitally. Participants and attendees can secure passes for the Rome edition, where startups, investors, and global operators are expected to converge for what organisers describe as a landmark event in the 2026 tech calendar.