Byreal unveils 2026 plan to put perpetual RWA trading and AI-driven liquidity on-chain

Byreal presented a strategic roadmap for 2026 that reorients its decentralized exchange technology toward institutional-grade execution and broader asset coverage. At a Solana-focused developer forum held alongside Consensus, the team outlined three priority tracks: automated liquidity tooling with AI assistance, a protocol-managed automated market maker to stabilise execution, and perpetual futures for tokenized real-world assets. The first track proposes single-asset entry and automated position management to lower technical barriers for liquidity providers, pairing algorithmic rebalancing with yield compounding mechanics. The second track introduces a Prop AMM where the protocol initially supplies liquidity and uses dynamic fee adjustments tied to order-flow quality to enhance price continuity and capital use. The third track aims to enable continuous perpetual markets for assets that traditionally trade off-chain, integrating prediction-market signals as an on-chain oracle layer to inform pricing and risk. Collectively these measures are framed as foundational plumbing for an 'internet capital markets' model that seeks to combine DeFi price discovery with access to external asset classes. The plan signals an explicit pivot from pure crypto-native spot trading toward products that can attract institutional counterparties and on-chain exposure to global inventories of real assets. Technical challenges remain substantial: custody and tokenization standards for RWAs, oracle integrity and latency, regulatory clarity for perpetual contracts tied to off-chain assets, and ensuring AMM resilience under stress. If executed, the roadmap could compress settlement and execution steps that currently fragment tradable liquidity between TradFi and crypto rails, but success depends on tight integration with custody, compliance tooling, and market-making partners. Byreal’s connection with larger exchange infrastructure gives it distributional advantages, yet competing DEXs and L2 solutions are simultaneously pursuing similar execution and RWA ambitions. The initiatives are slated to roll out across 2026, positioning Byreal to test these primitives in live market conditions while the broader ecosystem matures.