[SecureFinAI Contest 2026] Starter Kit Release and Call for Participation!
Keyi Wang
Dear FinRL Community,
I hope this email finds you well. We are excited to announce a thrilling opportunity for all machine learning and finance enthusiasts at SecureFinAI Contest 2026 @ IEEE IDS 2026!
As AI continues to advance at a fast pace, more FinAI agents are being developed for the finance sector, such as FinRL trading agents, FinGPT agents with multimodal capabilities, and regulatory reporting agents. The SecureFinAI Contest 2026 encourages the development of open FinAgents based on the frameworks FinRL and FinGPT.
🚀 SecureFinAI Contest 2026 Challenges:
Task 1: Adaptive Evaluation and Benchmarking Suite for Financial LLMs and Agents – Focuses on benchmarking Financial LLMs using an adaptive testing pipeline to handle diverse financial reasoning tasks.
Task 2: Reliable Agentic FinSearch – Benchmarks the reliability of financial search agents, specifically focusing on eliminating hallucinations and ensuring numerical precision in financial data retrieval.
Task 3: Prediction Market Arbitrage – Develops trading agents that identify and execute arbitrage opportunities across two prediction markets, Kalshi and Polymarket.
Task 4: AI for Venture Capital (VCBench) – Tests the ability of LLMs to act as Venture Capitalists by predicting the potential success of early-stage startups using the VCBench dataset.
Task 5: Agentic Trading – Focuses on developing models for real-time financial decision making under uncertain conditions, integrating time-varying signals such as prices, newsflow, and asset-specific fundamentals.
🎯 Contest Website: https://open-finance-lab.github.io/SecureFinAI_Contest_2026/
📢 Team Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqjrC3sjjIlYzlWelsbcxTg_5oFsPVaTJcWTLqLueU1dAlhQ/viewform?usp=dialog
📦Starter Kit: https://github.com/Open-Finance-Lab/SecureFinAI_Contest_2026
📅 Important dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: March 10
Solution Submission Deadline: Apr 26, 2026
Winner Notification: May 5, 2026
Winner Announcement: May 9, 2026
🏆 All participating teams will receive official contest certificates. Participants will have the opportunity to present their work at the IEEE IDS 2026. We welcome participants from all backgrounds and fields to join. Come to our challenge, bring brilliant ideas, and make your mark on the SecureFinAI Contest 2026!
If you have any questions or need further information, please feel free to join our discord, WeChat group, or contact us at finrlc...@gmail.com
We look forward to your participation and your brilliant contributions to this event.
Best regards,
SecureFinAI Contest Team