Elfa AI has launched Iris, a real-time intelligence stack that turns live news, markets and social signals into structured, actionable context for AI agents and traders.

Beyond the data layer, Iris is also a runtime for autonomous finance agents, handling sandboxing, persistent memory, triggers, guardrails and hosting, so teams can go from an API key to a production agent quickly. It pairs with the Elfa app's "Ask Elfa" chat and in-app trading.

Elfa says Iris covers 300K+ sources and 100K+ markets at sub-two-minute latency. Access is metered per request in USDC via the x402 standard on Base, Arbitrum, Polygon or Avalanche, and Elfa AI has no token.