Walt, the app formerly known as Wallet in Telegram, wants to hand some of the trading keys to AI. The platform is rolling out a feature that lets users connect AI agents, including Mira from The Open Platform, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Anthropic’s Claude, to manage perpetual futures positions.
How the AI agents will work
Walt unveiled the feature on October 20, 2026. Connected agents can track live prices, review a user’s open positions, and carry out trades based on parameters the user sets.
AI agents are confined to a dedicated trading account, and users decide whether to put money in it.
Order execution is disabled by default. Agents can analyze and suggest, but they only act once a user turns that capability on.
Users can also disconnect an agent whenever they want.
The three supported agents come from different corners of the tech world. ChatGPT and Claude are general-purpose assistants from OpenAI and Anthropic, while Mira comes from The Open Platform, the team associated with the TON ecosystem that grew up alongside Telegram.
What’s actually being traded
The products these agents will handle are perpetual futures, often called perps. A perp is a futures contract with no expiry date, letting traders bet on an asset’s price going up or down without owning the asset itself.
Walt’s perps venue offers more than 50 markets. Trading runs 24/7, and USDT, the Tether stablecoin, serves as the default settlement currency.
Leverage goes as high as 50x. Put simply, a trader can control a position worth 50 times their deposit, which means every price swing hits 50 times harder in either direction.
From wallet to trading app
The AI push follows a rebrand. Wallet in Telegram became Walt on September 28, 2026, a name change meant to reflect a product that had grown well past storing coins.
The platform now spans trading, tokenized assets, and other financial products.
Distribution is Walt’s obvious advantage. Its user base has been reported at anywhere from tens of millions to more than 150 million, depending on the count, and those users already live inside a messaging app they open many times a day.
Walt is not alone in the AI trading race. Robinhood has also announced AI-powered features, a sign that automated trading tools are becoming a standard ambition across both crypto and traditional retail brokerages.
What this means for traders and the market
General-purpose chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude were not built specifically as trading engines. How well they interpret user parameters, react to sudden volatility, and avoid costly misreads will shape whether this feature builds trust or burns it.
For the TON ecosystem, including Mira alongside OpenAI and Anthropic offers notable exposure. It places a homegrown agent in the same lineup as two of the most recognized AI products in the world, which could help it gain users who might otherwise default to the bigger names.
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