Wintermute to Invest $1B in AI and HFT Over Next Five Years

Wintermute allocates $1B for AI/HFT expansion, targeting >50% non-crypto revenue by 2027 via retained earnings, leveraging new US broker-dealer status.

Woofun AI reports that Wintermute intends to deploy approximately $1 billion across the next five years toward AI infrastructure and high-frequency trading systems. The firm plans to finance this expansion through retained earnings, aiming to elevate non-cryptocurrency revenue contributions to more than 50% by the end of 2027. Current non-crypto services generate roughly 10% of total revenue, while average daily trading volume stands at $10 billion, a decline from $15 billion last year. The capital allocation will support hash rate, storage, networking, and data center infrastructure to enable quantitative strategies dependent on large datasets and continuous model training. Wintermute has already entered ETFs, real-world asset perpetual futures, and prediction markets. Its U.S. subsidiary recently completed broker-dealer registration, permitting proprietary stock and option trading and participation in exchange-traded products.