Rethinking the financial experience
LAB
Financial products have traditionally been built around specific activities.
One app for trading, another for payments, another for managing money, and several more for everything in between.
But that's not how people actually interact with money.
Someone might discover an investment through a friend, research it on social media, move funds from another platform, make a trade and track everything somewhere else. The activity is connected. The products rarely are.
As financial habits evolve, expectations change too. People want products that make moving between activities easier and adapt to how they actually use them.
We think the next generation of financial products will be built around this idea.
At LAB, it's shaping how we think about what we're building and where we want to take it.
From a single-purpose product to a connected experience
When we started building LAB, trading was the obvious starting point. But a great trading experience doesn't have to stop at execution.
The way people discover opportunities, make decisions, interact with others and manage their finances is increasingly interconnected. Products need to reflect that.
In June 2026, we introduced social discovery features that let users see what their friends are trading, track wallets and follow other traders.
We've also added more ways to participate in the ecosystem. Rewards Seasons bring competition and shared incentives into the experience, while our referral programme gives referrers 25% rewards and invitees 10% off.
Through these initiatives, we're making the people using LAB part of its growth, not just its audience.
The product has to keep evolving
Building a financial product today means constantly adapting to changing user expectations, new technologies and emerging opportunities.
Standing still isn't an option.
That's why we're expanding LAB beyond trading into a broader range of financial activities.
Tokenized stocks bring traditional financial assets into the experience. LAB AI Summary helps users get context faster. MoonPay and Google Pay on Android make funding accounts easier, while integrations involving Robinhood Chain and Arc expand our reach across ecosystems.
We've also brought LAB to Android in May and iOS in June 2026, making the experience accessible wherever users are.
The new lab.pro website reflects this direction.
We're moving beyond the idea of LAB as simply a trading terminal and working towards a financial platform that brings different activities and services into one connected experience.
The goal isn't just to offer more features. It's to make them work better together.
Building around people, not just transactions
Financial products are becoming more social.
People discover opportunities through others, share experiences, follow people they trust and bring their communities into the products they use.
We want LAB to reflect that behaviour.
Social discovery, wallet tracking, shared seasons and referrals give users more ways to interact with the ecosystem beyond individual transactions.
That thinking also shapes how we build.
Through beta programmes and direct community feedback, users get opportunities to test products early and influence what we develop next.
We don't believe products should be built in isolation and handed to users once they're finished. The people using them every day often know exactly where the experience can improve.
Listening and adapting is part of building something that lasts.
Aligning product growth with ecosystem growth
As LAB expands, we also want the growth of the product and its ecosystem to reinforce one another.
That's reflected in how we've approached $LAB.
Staking offers longer-term participation incentives through 25%, 30% and 35% lockup boosts, while app activity contributes to the broader rewards ecosystem.
Our buyback mechanism creates another connection between platform performance and token economics. The public Buyback Portal gives the community visibility into this activity.
The idea is simple: the product, its users and its ecosystem should grow together.
The bigger picture
The boundaries between trading, payments, investing and everyday financial activity are becoming less rigid.
Financial products need to catch up.
At LAB, we're building with that reality in mind: constantly experimenting, expanding into new areas and rethinking what a financial experience can look like.
We don't want to be limited by what LAB was when we started building it.
We want to keep building the product people need next, instead of the one they use today.
Now go bring your people.