Powering Builders: Get to know PGA’s first cohort
At Pocket Network, we’re committed to supporting the next generation of innovators. That’s why we launched the Pocket Network Accelerator Program—a highly competitive initiative designed to help promising teams scale their projects with decentralized infrastructure.
From hundreds of applications, only six teams were selected for our first cohort! Each team is receiving $25,000 in funding alongside mentorship, technical support, and access to our ecosystem to fuel their growth.
In this series, we’ll introduce each of the participating teams, sharing their vision, challenges, and how they’re leveraging Pocket Network to push the boundaries of the new internet.
Next up: Vistia! 🚀
Who are the core members of your team, and what are their roles?
Thien Phung, Founder & Project Lead
Luke, Technical Lead
Loc, Backend Developer
Lee, Front end Developer
Barov & Chi, Marketing & Partnership Management
How did your team come together?
With years of experience in crypto trading and community management, Thien envisioned an
AI-driven trading agent that could detect promising opportunities and execute strategies
autonomously. In 2022, we assembled the team and successfully navigated the bear market by
bootstrapping with self-funded investments and hackathon rewards.
Describe your project in one sentence.
Vistia is an AI-powered platform for managing trading bots, enabling new and casual traders to
automate technical analysis and execute trades with optimal prices.
What problem is your project solving? How did you identify this as something you wanted to solve?
Trading can be overwhelming due to the vast amount of data, and human decision-making is often influenced by emotions. Vistia addresses this by developing AI-powered trading bots fueled by decentralized data signals.
Leveraging Shannon, we’re building social gateways to extract insights from decentralized social platforms like Farcaster, combining real-time market intelligence with both technical analysis and social sentiment for a well-rounded trading experience .
What is your long-term vision for the project?
To become the go-to AI-powered trading assistant in Web3, helping both individual traders and institutions make data driven decisions seamlessly.
What inspired you to build on Pocket Network?
Decentralized infra is the backbone of open finance. Pocket’s commitment to open data aligns perfectly with our mission to make trading more transparent and accessible.
What stage is your project currently in (idea, prototype, MVP, production)?
We’ve built our MVP, but we’re still fine-tuning before onboarding our first users.
What is your biggest growth milestone for the next six months?
-Onboard our first users.
-Validate our AI agent’s performance.
-Expand partnerships with DeFi wallets and trading platforms.
How will success be measured at the end of this accelerator program?
-Having active users trading with our AI.
-Demonstrating that our AI can consistently generate profitable signals.
-Securing additional funding to scale.
How does your project leverage Pocket Network’s infrastructure?
POKT provides reliable and decentralized access to on-chain data, which is critical for our AI models. Instead of relying on centralized APIs, we use POKT to ensure open and censorship-resistant data access.
What are your biggest technical challenges right now?
-Training our AI agent with high-quality data.
-Optimizing real-time data processing without sacrificing speed.
-Seamless integration with trading platforms.
What existing competitors or alternatives exist in your space?
Traditional analytics platforms like TradingView and Glassnode provide insights but lack automated trading capabilities. On the other hand, existing trading bots like DEXX.ai and BananaGun rely on user-defined inputs, offering little transparency into the data analysis behind their decisions. Moreover, these bots do not adapt or learn from past trades, making them less effective in the constantly shifting crypto market.
How does your project differentiate itself from competitors?
Vistia stands out from competitors in three key ways:
- AI-Driven Adaptive Trading – Unlike most trading bots that follow fixed rules, Vistia’s AI continuously learns from past trades and adapts to market shifts, improving its decision-making over time.
- Decentralized & Transparent Data Sources – We leverage Pocket Network for censorship-resistant on-chain data and integrate Shannon to incorporate decentralized social signals (e.g., Farcaster), giving traders a broader and unbiased market perspective.
- Comprehensive Trading Intelligence – Vistia combines technical analysis, real-time market data, and social sentiment into one unified platform, providing traders with a more holistic and automated trading experience.
What kind of support or mentorship would be most valuable to your team?
We’d greatly appreciate mentorship on scaling AI-driven projects, Web3 go-to-market strategies, strategic partnerships, and fundraising support.
How can the Pocket community support you?
-Try our AI assistant and give feedback!
-Help us connect with traders & builders in the space.
-Share ideas on how we can make the most of POKT’s infra.
If funding/manpower was a non factor, what features would you like to add to your
project?
-A fully autonomous trading AI that executes trades across multiple blockchains.
-A decentralized AI marketplace where traders can train and sell their own trading
models.
-Direct wallet integration for seamless, trustless trading execution
If your team had to be represented by a fictional character, who would it be and
why?
Sherlock Holmes – always analyzing data, spotting patterns, and solving mysteries (but in our case, it’s trading opportunities).
Where can people connect with the Vistia team?
X LinkedIn Telegram Mini App Mobile App (Android)