- A collaboration with Perpetuals provides students and scholars in over 50 nations with entry to a professional-grade AI system and one of the most extensive private retail trading datasets available.
(SeaPRwire) – POTSDAM, Germany, April 21, 2026 — The German University of Digital Science (German UDS), recognized as Europe’s inaugural fully digital, state-accredited university, announced today a strategic licensing deal with Perpetuals.com Ltd (Nasdaq: PDC). This agreement facilitates the incorporation of the firm’s proprietary BayesShield AI predictive intelligence software into the university’s digital learning environment and research facilities.
Under the terms of the partnership, German UDS will implement BayesShield AI across its Research Centers for Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Digital Transformations. Faculty and students will utilize BayesShield’s probabilistic models—which have been trained on over 1 million unique user histories and 11.7 billion retail trades—to examine actual trading behaviors, study retail investor trends, and create advanced risk management systems.
The university’s six specialized research hubs will also function as practical R&D settings to further refine BayesShield’s machine learning capabilities, with findings intended for publication in academic journals.
German UDS holds full recognition from the Brandenburg Ministry of Science (MWFK), is supported by the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat), and is accredited by the German Accreditation Council (DAR) via ASIIN. As Europe’s first fully digital, state-authorized institution, it provides German-accredited degrees to a global student population.
“Most academic institutions teach AI concepts using textbook data. By integrating BayesShield AI, we allow our faculty and students to train using 11.7 billion trades sourced from a live, regulated market,” stated Prof. Dr. Mike Friedrichsen, co-founder of German UDS. “German UDS was founded on the belief that students everywhere deserve the same access to applied data and research that they will encounter in their professional lives, and this partnership with Perpetuals furthers that goal.”
Unlike rival platforms that depend on public market feeds or simulated data, BayesShield evaluates more than 200 variables per trade to determine win/loss probability in real time prior to execution. During a pilot phase in February 2026, BayesShield demonstrated the capacity to filter out 92% of losing retail trades in digital asset perpetual futures when backtested against a full year of historical retail trading data.
“German UDS offers a global research network that will rigorously test BayesShield across the fields of financial regulation, cybersecurity, and AI,” noted Patrick Gruhn, CEO of Perpetuals. “Having graduate students and world-class researchers engage with the platform in an academic context validates the underlying science and improves the product. It is a rare alignment of intellectual and commercial value.”
About Perpetuals.com Ltd
Perpetuals.com Ltd (NASDAQ: PDC) is a fintech firm focused on creating prediction markets and AI-driven trading tools, with operations spanning Asia, Europe, and the United States. Its objective is to mitigate risk by providing retail participants with efficient, secure, and intuitive trading solutions across various asset classes.
The company’s flagship trading platform, Kronos X, integrates sophisticated data analysis and AI. This technology is trained on billions of trades, tracks market movements in real time, detects patterns for risk and trading assessments, and offers multi-asset support with blockchain-based self-clearing settlement. The firm’s licensed European Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) and the Kronos X platform operate in full accordance with DORA, MiCA, MiFID II, and EMIR regulations.
About German University of Digital Science
The German University of Digital Science (German UDS) is a fully accredited, state-recognized digital university located in Potsdam, Germany. Following a positive recommendation from the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat), it received recognition from the Brandenburg Ministry of Science (MWFK) in February 2025. With all programs accredited by the German Accreditation Council (DAR) through ASIIN, German UDS is the first university in Europe designed to be 100% digital, providing German-accredited MBA, Master’s, and Micro-Degree programs online to students worldwide. The university maintains six research centers dedicated to Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformations, Quantitative Finance and Digital Markets, Educational Technologies, and Extended Reality.
For additional details, visit german-uds.de.
Forward-Looking Statements: This release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the anticipated advantages of this licensing agreement. Terms such as “will,” “expect,” “projected,” “positions,” “anticipated,” “advancing,” and similar language identify forward-looking statements, though not all such statements include these terms. These statements represent the current perspectives of the parties regarding future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes to differ significantly, including market conditions, the successful deployment of the technology, the ability to achieve the partnership’s goals, and other risks outlined in Perpetuals’s SEC filings. These statements are based on various estimates and assumptions that, while viewed as reasonable by the parties, are inherently subject to significant social, political, competitive, economic, and business uncertainties. If any of these risks materialize or if the underlying assumptions prove inaccurate, actual results may differ materially from those projected. Readers are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and should not place undue reliance on them due to their inherent uncertainty. These statements are current as of the date of this release, and the parties assume no obligation to update them, except as required by law.
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