Crypto.com和OKX前员工Diana Pires联合创立BYTEX代理式交易基础设施

BYTEX appoints Diana Pires as co-founder to accelerate enterprise-level deployment of open source AI transaction infrastructure

BYTEX, a next-generation proxy transaction infrastructure company built by Singapore Technology Group, announced the appointment of Diana Pires as co-founder. As BYTEX moves its open source software to broader enterprise deployments, Pires will be responsible for leading the company's business organization, institutional partnerships and market strategy.

The appointment comes as BYTEX expands its AI, proxy and automated transaction infrastructure layers, starting with digital assets and extending to any market segment. Pires will be responsible for transforming the company's technology into commercial business, building a distribution network for institutional customer segments, and driving expansion into new markets. Her joining marks a career transition from a mature global platform to an early-stage infrastructure company. BYTEX pointed out that the open source model was a core factor in her decision: Institutional customers are increasingly cautious about outsourcing critical processes to such systems because of the inability to review closed third-party systems.

Rich industry experience and academic background

Pires has more than seven years of experience in digital assets and financial technology, with the vast majority of his time working in the commercial sector of large global platforms. From 2019 to 2022, she served as vice president at Crypto.com, responsible for institutional sales, mainly for corporate cooperation coverage for professional and institutional trading customers. Prior to that, from 2018 to 2019, she served as Senior Vice President (AVP) at OKX. Over the three years from 2022 to 2025, she has provided consulting and consulting services to multiple companies in the industry.

In terms of educational background, Pires holds a bachelor's degree with honours in English literature from Brunel University in London and a master's degree in blockchain and digital currency from the University of Nicosia (currently on suspension). She is an international guest speaker at industry events such as TOKEN2049, Consensus, and the Digital Assets Summit in New York, covering topics such as institutional adoption, governance frameworks for autonomous systems, and women's role in AI technology and financial technology leadership.

The value Pires brings to BYTEX is that she understands how large platforms sell products to institutional customers, guide customers, and keep customers sticky. For early infrastructure companies, this is often a topic that requires a deep understanding through practice.

Open source is the key to earning institutional trust

"Currently, it is difficult for closed infrastructure to gain market recognition. Companies want to review software involved in their critical processes, and open source is the only honest answer. For me, this is the decisive factor. BYTEX has spent two years building the engine, which is critical-institutional infrastructure cannot be built overnight." Pires said.

BYTEX's technical architecture consists of two parts:

• Core: An open source event-driven transaction engine based on the Apache-2.0 protocol. In this engine, policies are represented as ordinary documents and run in a deterministic manner. This means that the same document remains consistent in backtesting, mock trading, and real execution, without the need to rewrite the code.
• Studio: A visualization layer above the core that allows users to build and test strategies from the canvas instead of writing code.

The so-called proxy infrastructure, in layman terms, allows AI agents to act within the system while ensuring that their behavior is traceable throughout the process: define their operating scope through permissions, set insurmountable hard limits, and record every decision. Exchange keys are stored in files that Studio has never accessed, and risk controls that cover exposures, positions, and execution limits are part of the engine rather than setting options attached to it.

The rapid rise of AI agent systems in financial services

此次人事任命发生在金融服务领域向代理式系统快速转型的背景下。剑桥另类金融研究中心（Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance）2026年发布的研究显示，52%的受访金融服务从业者已积极采用代理式AI，其中23%已进入更成熟的规模化或转型阶段。另有81%的受访者预计，到2030年代理式AI将取得实质性突破，使其成为该类别中最清晰的增长前沿。

“目前的采用速度超过了支持其所需的工具发展速度，而BYTEX正是填补这一差距的存在。”Pires补充道，“下一阶段的任务是证明，开源基础可以在不要求客户交出系统控制权的前提下，满足机构标准。今年决定其代理基础设施的组织，实际上是在为未来十年做出选择。”

作为联合创始人，Pires的职责涵盖商业组织、合作伙伴关系与分销，以及公司进入新市场和客户细分领域的推进工作。这一切都服务于一个明确的目标：构建一个统一的基础设施层，以支持所有AI智能体、交易策略及全球市场。