SQHWYD CEO Alistair Kaelen: As On-Chain Volume Breaks $10 Trillion, Cognitive Finance Will Supersede High-Frequency Gaming

December 09, 2025 at 06:22 AM EST

TRM Labs Data Shows Global Volume Surged 56%; Orion AI Engine Designed to Break the “Cognitive Bottleneck” and Information Asymmetry for Traders

Alistair Kaelen, Founder and CEO of SQHWYD GLOBAL Ltd. and former Senior Strategist at Renaissance Technologies, addressed an industry closed-door session today, pointing directly to the next paradigm shift in quantitative finance.

Kaelen noted that according to the latest report from blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs, global crypto asset on-chain volume breached $10.6 Trillion in 2024, a 56% year-over-year increase. Facing this exponential flood of data, traditional human analysis and even linear quantitative models have hit a ceiling. “When researching stochastic processes at MIT, we dealt with finite variables; today, a single sentiment shift on social media can trigger non-Gaussian distribution volatility across the market,” Kaelen stated .

In response, SQHWYD has launched the Orion AI Engine, which is not merely a trading tool but a user’s “Financial Co-pilot.” The engine utilizes NLP technology to parse global unstructured data (such as Twitter sentiment and news flows) in real-time, transforming the “analysis paralysis” caused by information overload into executable Alpha. Kaelen further elaborated on the core definition of “Cognitive Finance”: a system must possess “Context-Aware Intelligence,” capable of understanding a user’s risk appetite and subtle shifts in the market environment, rather than simply mechanically executing instructions .

Kaelen emphasized that as the marginal utility of speed competition in High-Frequency Trading (HFT) diminishes, the core competitive advantage of the future lies in a deep cognitive understanding of market intent. “In the past, the advantage lay in the speed of fiber optics; in the future, it lies in the wisdom of compute. We are reconstructing market logic through Cognitive Finance, enabling algorithms to be not just executors, but thinkers,” he concluded. This shift will allow individual investors to possess “information processing rights” equivalent to institutional quant funds for the first time, fundamentally addressing market inefficiencies.

About SQHWYD

SQHWYD GLOBAL Ltd. is a US-registered global Cognitive Finance Ecosystem dedicated to reshaping the digital asset trading experience through artificial intelligence. Founded by former Renaissance Technologies strategist Alistair Kaelen, the platform is anchored by three pillars: the Orion AI Engine, the Unity Layer, and the Dynamic Asset Matrix. SQHWYD aims to eliminate the barriers between CeFi and DeFi, providing users with secure, intelligent, and personalized financial services.