On July 13, 2026, AURAM Inc. presented at the Demo Day of "AUTON - Agentic Economy Accelerator Program -" and took third place among the 11 teams on stage. We presented our approach of combining AI and DeFi to make collateralized finance work for movable assets, and we are publishing the full pitch video.
Thank you for your continued support of AURAM Inc. We are pleased to report that we took third place among the 11 teams at the Demo Day of the accelerator program AUTON, held on July 13, 2026.
AUTON is an accelerator program focused on the fusion of AI and on-chain finance (DeFi). Over the two months since our selection in May 2026, we developed and demonstrated our product with the support of the program's mentors, and the Demo Day was the culmination of that work.
▶ Related: "Selected for the AUTON Accelerator Program" (May 17, 2026)
The full pitch video (with bilingual slides) is now public:
What we presented: AI x DeFi makes movable assets bankable
In Japan, real estate has a public registry, which is why banks can lend against it. Movable assets such as gold bars have no equivalent, so even assets of unquestionable value could not be used as collateral. AURAM addresses this with a Movable-Asset Digital Ledger combined with Article 184 of the Japanese Civil Code (transfer of possession by instruction): possession moves, title and liens are recorded and verified, and the bar itself never leaves the vault.
Connecting real-world assets to a blockchain, however, runs into what is known as the oracle problem: Is the asset real? Can third parties verify the records? Is the reference price correct? The core of our Demo Day pitch was how we cross this gap with AI, and turn the result into working finance with DeFi.
AI handles verification and monitoring. At registration and audit, AI-OCR reads the engravings on each bar and matches them against the ledger, verifying that the asset exists and is the same one recorded. In operation, an autonomous AI agent monitors multiple gold price sources around the clock, automatically halts trading when it detects an anomaly, analyzes the cause, and autonomously resumes once conditions normalize.
DeFi handles execution. Smart contracts run the full lending cycle, from collateralization to borrowing, repayment, and release, 24/7 and without manual operations. Gold trades around the clock globally, so collateral management that protects lenders is only possible with automated enforcement that has no business hours.
AI for verification and monitoring; the chain for records and enforcement. Only with both in place can lending against movable assets meet the credit standards of financial institutions. That was the central message of our pitch.
What we shipped during the program
To show this as working software rather than a concept, we published two proofs of concept during the two-month program.
Trade PoC (announced June 29): transferring ownership of gold bars without moving them from the vault
▶ News ［PR TIMES］
Lending PoC (announced July 6): DeFi on-chain lending backed by gold RWA tokens, including the AI agent that detects and blocks anomalous price data
▶ News ［PR TIMES］
Everything we built can be tried in a browser on our public demo:
On taking third place
Comment from Kazuhiro Fukuda, Founder and CEO:
Looking ahead
Starting with gold, AURAM will expand the types of assets and the regions we serve. Together with financial institutions, custody providers, and business partners, we will build the infrastructure that records, transfers, and verifies ownership and security interests in real assets, without moving the assets themselves. We are working toward our service launch in April 2027.
Thank you for your continued support of AURAM Inc.
"I am deeply grateful to the AUTON mentors, the judges, the organizers, and the fellow founders who ran alongside us. All 11 teams on stage are working at the frontier of AI and on-chain finance, and I am honestly delighted that we earned third place among them. At the same time, I take the gap to the top teams as pointing to what we must show next: the scale of this opportunity beyond Japan. This time we focused on launching our service in Japan, but this challenge does not stop there.
What we are working on is making assets that have value but sit idle usable, without their owners having to give them up. In these two months, we turned that idea into a working demonstration powered by the combination of AI and DeFi. Gold is only the starting point. From here, we will extend the trusted ledger for real assets to other movable assets, and to the world."