Amber International Q1 2026 Earnings Report

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Amber International Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q1 2026
• Date: 5/28/2026
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Thursday, May 28, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 8:00AM ET

iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides online marketing services in the People's Republic of China and internationally. It offers iAudience, an audience identification solution that allows marketers to search, identify, and customize their targeted audience to generate or enhance brand awareness; iAccess and iActivation, an audience engagement and activation solution tailored for brand awareness-driven and performance-driven campaigns; iExpress, the lite version of iAccess solution for small and medium-sized enterprises; iNsights, an online campaign results monitoring and measurement solution; and iExperience, a content creation solution. The company also provides mobile marketing solutions, which are non-search engine marketing solutions to identify, engage, and activate audience on mobile apps, as well as monitor and measure the results of online marketing activities on such channels; and other solutions that focuses on identifying, engaging, and activating audience on non-mobile app content distribution channels comprising PC banner displays, PC video advertisements, and search engine marketing. In addition, it offers enterprise solutions that help clients collate information from various consumer touchpoints and integrate them into a single data management platform to drive sales and marketing decisions to new retail, online education, real estate, and other sectors. The company sells its solutions by entering into sales contracts with entities or marketing agencies, including marketing campaign contracts. It has a strategic collaboration with Tencent International Business Group to co-develop Smart Retail and Smart Travel SaaS solutions. The company was formerly known as Optimix Media Asia Limited and changed its name to iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited in March 2017. iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong.

Amber International Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Negative Sentiment: Amber International reported Q1 2026 revenue of $10 million, down from $14.5 million a year ago and $16.3 million in Q4 2025, as softer digital asset markets reduced trading and transaction activity.
• Positive Sentiment: The company highlighted the launch of A-MM, its first A-Suite agent-native operating system, and said it has already begun generating revenue with meaningful contribution expected starting in Q2.
• Neutral Sentiment: Management emphasized a broader strategy shift toward an agentic fintech model, positioning Amber as infrastructure for AI-driven finance rather than just a crypto trading platform.
• Positive Sentiment: Internal AI deployment is already reducing costs, with the in-house agent MIA cutting operating expenses in the iClick business and management expecting further margin and efficiency benefits through 2026.
• Positive Sentiment: The company ended Q1 with $36.5 million in cash and no bank debt and continued share repurchases, buying about 2 million ADSs under its $50 million buyback program.

Presentation

[Operator]

Good morning. Welcome to Amber International first quarter 2026 financial results. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Mia, Amber Premium official AgentFi Ambassador. Mia, you may begin.

[AgentFi Ambassador at Amber International]

Good morning, and welcome to Amber International Holding Limited's first quarter 2026 earnings call. I am MIA, Amber Premium's official AgentFi Ambassador, and your moderator today. Before we begin, please note that today's discussion may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of U.S. federal securities laws. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. For a more detailed description of these and other risks and uncertainties, please refer to our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Joining us on today's call are Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO, who will share a first quarter overview, strategic vision, and AI initiatives. Vicky Wang, President, who will focus on our core business updates, client platform performance, and future focuses. Yi Bao, Chief Product Officer, who will update us on our regulatory update and platform evolution.

[AgentFi Ambassador at Amber International]

Josephine Ngai, Chief Financial Officer, who will review our financial results and provide guidance, and Steve Zhang, Head of Capital Markets. Following their remarks, we will open the line for Q&A. With that, let me now turn the call over to Michael Wu, our Chairman of the Board and CEO.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

Thank you, Mia, and thank you all for joining us today. The first quarter of 2026 was another temperate period for the crypto industry, continuing the downtrend we saw in the fourth quarter of 2025. Our total revenue for the quarter was $10 million compared to the $14.5 million in Q1 2025, and the $16.3 million last quarter. Despite the challenging environment, we see this as an opportunity to strengthen our foundation with clients and continuing advancing our strategic priorities. Our focus remains on how we serve our clients more efficiently and how we scale that capability through our agentic fintech capabilities. Through every cycle, what proves durable are Amber's most important assets, our ability to innovate, and our ability to build scalable, future-proof infrastructure. To that point, this quarter marks another step forward in the strategy we have been building towards.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

As part of our broader agentic transformation, we introduced A-Suite as an agent-native operating system that abstracts the complexity of digital asset financial services, enabling them to be automated and operated by AI agents. This is similar to how AWS 2 decades ago abstracted the complexity of servers and enabled a whole generation of web apps to simply build on top. That is where finance is heading as the agentic economy arrives. Our vision is to be the foundational layer beneath it. We're moving from competing at the interface and the distribution layers to providing the rails for the agentic economy itself. This is not an aspiration. It is already on the way. Amber Premium has already proven itself as a strong distribution layer with established institutional relationships, a regulatory licensing footprint, and a demonstrated segment profitability as disclosed in our financial statements.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

Building on that proven foundation, we are now creating the operating core beneath it. The greater efficiency and expanded addressable market unlocked by A-Suite are what will carry us towards the agentic future that I have always envisioned, spoken about, and built toward. This also marks the next step in how we define AMBR, not just as Amber Premium, the crypto platform anymore, but as Amber, a truly emerging agentic fintech. As I mentioned in previous earnings calls, Amber first began as Amber AI. The conviction that crypto and AI would converge to define the future of finance was not a strategy we adopted later, but rather it was a thesis we founded the company upon.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

What you are seeing today, this quarter, across both our business and our innovation, is that this thesis is arriving in practice, and we intend to keep building it deliberately, one proven layer at a time. Building on Amber Premium's proven success, we launched the first of our three flagship agentic fintech operating systems within the A-Suite at the end of March. AMM, which stands for Agentic Market Making, is an agent-native liquidity operating system for token projects and the designated market-making infrastructure. AMM is designed to unify execution workflows, infrastructure, and transparency into a platform that can be orchestrated by agents with customized real-time performance and risk reporting and monitoring. We expect AMM to begin contributing meaningful revenue in Q2, and then to scale from there.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

It is the first of the three A-Suite products we plan to bring to market this year. Yi will elaborate further on A-MM and our A-Suite positioning later. Beyond A-Suite, we are also embedding AI agent capabilities directly into our existing operations across all of our businesses. Within our iClick digital marketing business, we're transitioning toward an agent first and agent-native operating model by integrating MIA, our first in-house AI agent, who is also our host today for the earnings call, into iClick's core workflows, decision-making processes, and service delivery. This goes way beyond just using AI as a tool. We are making autonomous agentic workflows a central driver of how we operate, and that is already improving efficiency and the scalability across the businesses. This is a practical execution of our broader AI agent-driven strategy.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

As we continue building towards this vision, I'm also pleased to announce our Crypto for AI vision. Crypto for AI, or C4AI, as we call it, is our view that crypto will become the financial and economic infrastructure for the agentic economy. To that end, our inaugural C4AI Investor Day, planned for October, will be an important milestone where we'll share our progress and showcase a whole fleet of Amber agents with the market. One final point on capital allocation, because it reflects how we view our own valuation. We continue to repurchase shares opportunistically through Q1, and remain focused on returning capital to our shareholders. Under our $50 million share repurchase program announced in November 2025, we repurchased approximately 2 million ADSs during the period. As of March 31st, 2026, approximately $45.5 million remain available under the program.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

We continue to have significant flexibility for opportunistic repurchases while investing for growth. Ultimately, Q1 reflected a deliberate strategic decision on our part. Our strategy is advancing, and we are using this period to redefine the scope of AMBR and position the company for the next phase of the agentic economy. With that, I will now turn the call over to Yi, our Chief Product Officer, for a deeper look at our product roadmap and the launch of Amber's first agent-native operating system, A-MM.

[Yi Bao, Chief Product Officer at Amber International]

Thank you, Michael. Our platform innovation is a natural continuation of how we have always built and delivered financial products. From the start, Amber Premium operated primarily as a distribution layer, a UI-driven platform focused on user acquisition and onboarding. We are now evolving into a full stack agent-native organization with a particular emphasis on building the service layer underneath that distribution layer. This is a natural next step beyond traditional UI-centric thinking, where products were defined by features, buttons, and screens in apps, and by branches, license, and the relationship managers in finance to an operating system approach. In the agent economy, competition will no longer be about who has a better interface, but who can seamlessly convert client intents into execution, settlements, monitoring, compliance, and reporting through intelligent automated workflows.

[Yi Bao, Chief Product Officer at Amber International]

A truly agent-native operating system can deliver personalized and optimize the service at a scale no standalone platform, manual process, or single-purpose application can match. This quarter, we took a significant step towards with the launch of A-MM, the first flagship component of our A-Suite. A-MM is an agent-native liquidity operation system and designated market-making infrastructure platform. Its core value lies in creating a unified platform layer that abstracts complex execution workflows, operational infrastructure, and transparency requirements into standardized modular components. For token projects, liquidity is critical to price discovery, trading experience, exchange relationships, investor confidence, and ecosystem credibility. Yet, designated market-making has historically been manual, bilateral, and trust-based. A-MM is designed to turn this process into an automated and structured operating workflow.

[Yi Bao, Chief Product Officer at Amber International]

Projects can define key requirements such as targets, values, service duration, spread, uptime, depths, settlement preference, and capital needs, while the platform supports RFQ submission, quote review, order management, contract administration, performance monitoring, and reporting. This gives projects a clear way to express demand and market makers a standardized way to deliver, and Amber a controlled system of record for onboarding KYC documentation, contracts, fees, and service data. This allows us to participate in the token liquidity value chain in a more scalable, infrastructure-driven, and agile way. A-MM is designed with a clear division of labor alongside traditional market makers. It is not a replacement, but an infrastructure layer that enables greater efficiency, transparency, and scalability.

[Yi Bao, Chief Product Officer at Amber International]

In being able to offer different execution models combined with real-time visibility via our performance dashboards, which is soon to be launched, we are already seeing strong early adoption and positive feedback from token projects in our soft launch phase. From a business perspective, A-MM not only strengthens our own execution capabilities, but also creates a scalable revenue architecture. Revenue can come from recurring service and platform fees, value expansion as clients add more centralized or decentralized markets, market maker participation, and potentially premium data and analytics over time. We anticipate A-MM will begin generating meaningful revenue in Q2 and over time to serve as one of the A-Suite operating systems we plan to launch this year. More importantly, A-MM reflects the broader strategic direction of Amber, moving from distribution to service, from interface to infrastructure, and from manual financial workflows to agent-native operating systems.

[Yi Bao, Chief Product Officer at Amber International]

Complementing our product programs, we continue to strengthen our regulatory licensing footprint. We have been granted the VARA license in Dubai and are making steady progress on our virtual asset service provider application in Hong Kong. These efforts reflect our strategic allocation of resources to better serve growing institutional demands, supported by an increasingly visible regulatory framework, including Hong Kong's stablecoin regime and developments such as the U.S. CLOUD Act. A stronger regulatory foundation is essential to building a sustainable, high-quality business in this evolving industry. This combination of technological innovation and regulatory advancements marks the natural continuation of our journey, extending Amber from a distribution layer financial service platform into a fuller picture of agent-native operating systems for agent crypto fintech. Next, I will hand it over to Vicky for a detailed review of our Q1 business performance.

[Vicky Wang, President of Amber Premium at Amber International]

Thank you, Yi. Before deep diving into our AMBR platform business, I would like to first build on Michael and Yi's earlier comments around how we have successfully scaled Amber Premium over the years, and how we believe we are now entering the next phase of scalable growth. As Michael mentioned, Amber Premium has evolved into a highly scalable institutional distribution platform supported by long-standing client relationships, a regulated operating footprint, and demonstrated segment profitability, as reflected in our financial statements. Importantly, what we are building extends well beyond a single initiative. This quarter, we announced A-MM, which, as Michael mentioned earlier, we expect will contribute meaningfully in the coming quarters. More importantly, A-MM represents only the first of the three A-Suite operational cores we plan to introduce this year as we continue building the infrastructure layer for scalable institutional automation.

[Vicky Wang, President of Amber Premium at Amber International]

The same automation and infrastructure capabilities that power our market-making businesses can now be extended across a broader range of institutional financial products and services, creating a more scalable and higher-quality earnings profile over time. Turning back to our core business and Q1 performance. The first quarter of 2026 reflected a familiar market environment across digital assets, including softer trading activity, lower risk appetite, and more selective institutional capital deployment. These broader market conditions were naturally reflected in our quarterly financial performance, particularly within our execution solutions and payment solution businesses. What continues to evolve meaningfully is the expansion of the digital asset opportunity set. We are no longer only seeing institutional interest around core crypto assets. Increasingly, we are seeing demand broaden towards tokenized financial products, on-chain yield strategies, tokenized real-world assets, and a wider range of digitally native financial products.

[Vicky Wang, President of Amber Premium at Amber International]

Alongside the trends, we are also seeing growing client appetite for more sophisticated and tailored structured products. Clients today are increasingly looking for customized yield opportunities, defined downside protection, and structure aligned with their specific risk-return objectives, rather than standardized off-the-shelf solutions. Our ability to offer customized structured products across different underlying assets, tenure, and payout profiles is a direct response to this evolving demand profile. Importantly, we believe this trend supports both deeper client engagement and a higher quality of revenue mix over time. As asset universe expands, we believe distribution becomes increasingly valuable. Institutions are looking not only for access to products, but also for trusted platforms that can help clients access and manage these opportunities within regulated frameworks.

[Vicky Wang, President of Amber Premium at Amber International]

This is where we believe Amber Premium is strategically well-positioned. At the same time, we are seeing increasing demand for financial institutions and platforms seeking embedded digital asset capabilities rather than building these capabilities internally. We believe this creates meaningful long-term B2B2C opportunities for us. Against this backdrop, our primary recurring revenue engine, wealth management solutions, contributed $4.3 million in Q1, accounting for 74.8% of Amber Premium segment revenue. This continues to reflect our intentional shift towards higher margin and more predictable revenue streams. To further strengthen our regulatory positioning, we also took proactive steps this quarter to optimize our client structure and align more closely with evolving regulatory requirements. As part of this process, we streamlined a portion of low-engagement clients' accounts while continuing to deepen relationships with our core institutional and focus client base.

[Vicky Wang, President of Amber Premium at Amber International]

Importantly, this optimization had minimal impact on overall asset on platform, where asset on platform per active client remains stable at $1.2 million. We believe this strengthens the long-term quality of the platform as the industry becomes more institutional. Ultimately, while market cycles may continue to impact short-term activity, we believe the long-term value of this platform lies in our client relationships, regulatory infrastructure, and ability to scale customized financial services through automation. In summary, Amber Premium is increasingly evolving from a client platform into an agent-native institutional layer for execution, coordination, and distribution of digital and tokenized assets. With that, I will hand over to Josephine, our Chief Financial Officer, for our financial results.

[Josephine Ngai, CFO at Amber International]

Thank you, Vicky, and good morning, everyone. I will now review our financial results for the first quarter of 2026 end March 21st and provide our guidance for the second quarter. Throughout my remarks, I will primarily reference the consolidated Amber International entity, providing additional context for the Amber Premium segment where relevant. Revenue for the first quarter was $10 million. This compares to $40.5 million in Q1 of 2025 and $16.3 million in the sequential fourth quarter of 2025. Our Q1 performance was primarily influenced by a materially softer digital assets market environment, which leads to a moderation in transactions volumes across the entire industry. Furthermore, our year-over-year comparisons was impacted by a non-recurring $2.9 million service fee that we recognized in the prior year period. Looking closer at Amber Premium, performance across our core solutions was quite balanced.

[Josephine Ngai, CFO at Amber International]

The wealth management solutions delivered $4.3 million. The execution solutions brought in $0.9 million. Payment solutions delivered $0.6 million, and iClick marketing and enterprise solutions contribute approximately $4.3 million. The gross profits for the quarter came in at $6.8 million, representing a 67.7% margin. This is a step down from the $12.1 million with gross profit and a 74.2% margins we recorded last quarter, reflecting shifts in our product mix as our new products represent a higher share of revenue this quarter. Despite these near-term shifts, we remain firmly focused on driving long-term, high-margin growth across all product lines. Moving down to the operating line, we record an operating loss of $3.2 million for Q1. Our total operating expenses improved to approximately $10 million, down from $11 million in Q4 2025.

[Josephine Ngai, CFO at Amber International]

This reduction highlights our strategic efforts to streamline operational resources alongside early efficiency gains from our internal AI initiatives. I want to highlight an encouraging case here. Within our iClick marketing and enterprise solutions business, we deployed our AI agent, MIA, into the operation. These integrations helped reduce operating costs within that segment meaningfully this quarter alone as we are transitioning the digital marketing business toward an AI-driven operating model. The key takeaway for us is straightforward. AI is not just a forward-looking thesis for us. It is already actively absorbing operating expenses and improving the unit economics of our existing business. We expect this internal AI efficiency to continue compounding throughout 2026 as we extend MIA's capability to additional corporate functions. The net loss from continuing operations was $3.7 million, compared to a net income of $0.8 million last quarter.

[Josephine Ngai, CFO at Amber International]

Adjusted EBITDA for Q1 was a loss of $3.2 million, compared to a positive adjusted EBITDA of $50,000 in Q4 2025. Turning to the balance sheet, our financial positions remain strong and continues to improve. We closed the quarter with $36.5 million in cash and 0 bank debt, giving us a highly resilient foundation. Looking ahead to the second quarter of 2026, we are issuing preliminary revenue guidelines for the Amber Premium segments of between $9 million-$10 million, representing a quarter-over-quarter increase of approximately 58.1%-75.7% from our Q1 2026 Amber Premium segments revenue of $5.7 million. Our guidance currently covers the Amber Premium segments only and does not include revenue from our iClick marketing and enterprise solutions to be consistent with peer risk guidance practice.

[Josephine Ngai, CFO at Amber International]

As we look to the rest of the year, alongside the external growth strategic we have previously outlined, internally, we are also enhancing our financial reporting system to provide transparent insight into our performance and maintaining strong liquidity and balance sheet flexibility in order to support our global expansions and strategic partnerships. We believe that this disciplined approach will create sustainable and long-term value for our shareholders. With that, I will turn the call back to MIA. Thank you.

[AgentFi Ambassador at Amber International]

Thank you, Josephine. That concludes our remarks for today. We will now open the line for Q&A. Operator, please begin.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our first question comes from Brian Dobson with Clear Street. Please proceed.

[Brian Dobson, Analyst at Clear Street]

Yeah, thanks very much. If we could just start with a big picture question. I suppose, two years from now, what do you think the business looks like, and how do you think investors should be contemplating your growth outlook at this point?

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

Thank you, Brian. This is actually a great question because fundamentally, I think starting from this quarter, we want the market, we want the investor to understand Amber International is truly emerging from the platform, Amber Premium, which is by itself a very solid, profitable digital wealth management platform to Amber International, which I define as a crypto-enabled agentic fintech. 2 years from now on what the business should look like, I do think the agent-native operating systems we are launching today, the A-MM and the remaining A-Suite, and the agents that are operating them as of today, they will become a financial infrastructure for a lot more companies. They will hopefully, by that point, become the financial stack for the agentic economy.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

How that will make our revenue model look like, I do think we have proven with our own platforms, with Amber Premium, that a already automated, already agent-native operating system can enable businesses in a scalable way. Two years from now on, I think that scalability point should have been proven by that point. There should be a lot of platforms, other than Amber Premium, a lot of platforms either owned, invested by Amber, or completely unrelated to Amber on an ownership basis, that are operating on this shared stack that we're building today. Yeah. I'm highly confident in the direction we are going. I'm highly confident in delivering or accomplishing that in a two-year framework. I do think the market will gradually understand Amber as an emerging crypto-enabled agentic fintech, as I mentioned.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

Circling back to our Crypto for AI vision, I do think being crypto-enabled as an agentic fintech gives us a unique edge if we look a bit further into the future. I do believe a lot of financial services today will move onto the crypto rail, especially as the agentic economy arrives, as more of the services, more of the operations, more of the economy is done by AI agents rather than humans. Hopefully by that point, market will realize we not only have that vision way ahead of the curve, we are one of the first to actually deliver that vision.

[Brian Dobson, Analyst at Clear Street]

Yeah. Thanks. I suppose just following up on that, do you think that leaning into that aspect of the business makes the overall business model more scalable as you're driving more agent-native systems, kind of similar to more like a software company?

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

There are similarities, I think, to software companies in the sense that, most of the company, as I always mention today, are engineers at the core. Amber International as a core is a technology-driven company. I do think the business model will look different from the software companies or especially the SaaS companies as we understand today. I don't think we are offering just a software, a tool, or an agentic tool even. What we are building, and we are increasingly offering to our own platforms and externally, is really more of an agentic capabilities. Take iClick as example, as we mentioned today. iClick was and maybe at this point still is a digital marketing business.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

What Mia does and what our agentic staff does to iClick is offer the ability to offer the same services or even much better services to their clients with a much more agent-native way. In terms of operation, most of the operations now are being automated. The way the workflow, they are streamlined, it's agent first rather than human first. The ability itself, again, back to scalability point, is highly scalable. A different company or even a company with only similar business or different client base or similar client base can easily render the ability compared to the software example you mentioned, right? Today, if another company uses a software from a software company, they still need to use the tool themselves. They still need to have staff trained to operate with their own workflow using that tool. The agentic services, the agentic abilities we are offering is different.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

It's actually end-to-end. It's actually result-driven. We do think companies will start to get used to paying for the actual results rather than paying for the tools that can hopefully get them the results. I think that's fundamentally different. I think the market will start to realize that. A lot of that understanding, I think, is becoming more talked about among the private investors, among the VC investors. Really in the public market, I do think Amber is one of the first companies that through our results, through our accomplishments this year, hopefully will also educate the public market investors about this new business model.

[Brian Dobson, Analyst at Clear Street]

Yeah, excellent. Thanks very much.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

Thank you.

[Operator]

Our next question is from Emily Wei with Clear Street. Please proceed.

[Emily Wei, Analyst at Symmetry Affluent]

Hello, management. I have two questions. Hello, management. Can you hear me?

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

Yes. Hi, Emily.

[Emily Wei, Analyst at Symmetry Affluent]

Hello. I actually have two questions. First of all, can you help us understand why we are pivoting towards an AI story? Secondly, on A-MM, what has actually been delivered so far, and when do we expect the A-Suite to start making money? Thank you.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

Great questions. This is Michael again. First, I have to correct you. We are not pivoting to AI. First, Amber started as Amber AI. It is actually always been our DNA. Secondly, I have had this conviction, and I really think the company is putting that into reality as we speak, that crypto and AI are convergent. These two technologies well together define what the agentic economy looks like, especially in what I call agentic finance. Also this is already happening, as I mentioned about the MIA inside the iClick example. This is already transforming operating expenses through automation. It is already changing workflows from humans using tools to agents leading towards direct results with humans in the loop. It is already making a financial impact, and I think that is sort of related to your second question, which I will also get to.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

If you look at Amber Premium itself, we really see Amber Premium as the proof case. It is a proof case because it is successful, right? It has a very strong reputation among, I think, the most highly demanding, highly sophisticated, and high valuable client base. It is a profitable business. We are just reviewing within Amber what enables this success of Amber Premium beyond, of course, our great sales team, our great relationship management team, and all the trust our clients putting into us. It's actually this operating layer, which now we are reviewing as A-Suite. It's actually this operating layer and this agent-native operating capability that makes Amber Premium, makes our platform successful, makes us able to deliver a very diverse priority of products and services within crypto.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

The ability to deliver that not only to the highest standard, but deliver that with efficiency, with scalability. I really don't think we're talking about pivot. AI and the crypto has been in Amber's DNA since day one. I do understand why you ask this question or where does this confusion come from. I think over the last year or so, we are a new public company, and throughout most of 2025, people were still trying to understand Amber Premium itself, which again, is our first showcase, our first success. This year, of course, we are all on this call with all the investors, with all the friends, trying to educate the market about the broader Amber, which hopefully, starting from this earnings call, become more clear. To the second of your question about when does A-MM start to contribute revenues? It's actually already started.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

As we mentioned, A-MM was launched at the end of March. It's an agent-native liquidity provision OS, operating systems. As Yi explained about the product, we really abstracted a fairly complex business into a very streamlined protocol. This protocol itself is agent-native, it's agent operable, and it's highly automated. Along with the workflow agents that operate A-MM, they've already been contributing revenue as we speak today. I do think we will start to see these increasingly significant revenue contribution from A-MM and the other A-suites as we launch them from the second quarter onwards.

[Yi Bao, Chief Product Officer at Amber International]

Yep.

[Operator]

Thank you.

[Yi Bao, Chief Product Officer at Amber International]

Thanks so much. I can add some points on Michael. Basically, as Michael has mentioned, the A-MM, actually, it adds extra scalable revenue streams to our future developments. Basically, I just want to make a similar analysis. Once the token projects or market makers onboarded to our Agentic Market Making or the platform, actually, they will be very sticky, and something like a middle to long-term agreement they will sign with us. Basically, the revenue itself will be recurring and scalable as they adding more values or maybe they adding more parameters, or they require more data service from our side. Basically, we do think that this revenue stream will be extremely scalable and start to contributing meaningful revenue from Q2 and onwards. Thank you.

[Operator]

There are no further phone questions. I would like to hand it back over to management for webcast questions.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

Okay. Yeah, we have a few questions on the screen. I will read one of them out first. The question is, how do you expect AI strategy to influence margins, cash flow, balance sheet efficiency over time? Again, I think we touched upon some of that. The AI strategy is already influencing pretty much all of them, on cash flow, on expenses. As we mentioned with iClick example, MIA is already reducing OPEX of the iClick business segment as we speak. In terms of margin, A-MM is another good example. It used to be fairly bespoken kind of a business model of liquidity provision in crypto, in digital assets, into highly streamlined agent operable operating systems. That definitely increases not only the margin on the business, but also, again, how scalable the business can be.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

In terms of balance sheet efficiency, I think that will also show the impact over time, especially as we launch the other two products within A-Suite in the coming months.

[Steve Zhang, Head of Capital Markets at Amber International]

Yeah. Just to add to that point, I think compared to current margins, we do expect, obviously, higher capital efficiency coming out of the agentic AI services, and will have a positive impact on operating margins in the long run. Given that this is a relatively scalable business, the balance sheet efficiency will also start to improve in the coming quarters.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

We also have another question that's from Kelly. The question is, what LLM is being deployed to enable the AI solution for Amber? Are there any proprietary components to your agentic infrastructure? This is very interesting to have a more technical question on this earnings call. In short, the way we build what we call the intelligence layer of our agentic stack is we are very open to use whatever LLM model or whatever intelligence source that's actually helpful, that's productive, that actually enables our business and our clients' businesses to be better. We, of course, have integrated either both the leading private models and the leading open source models. We have also in-house deployed our fine-tuned versions of open source models where it fits both.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

There are, of course, areas within our agentic workflows that are smaller, maybe less intelligent, but cheaper and more customizable open source models are suitable. We have done that. In a way, we have our own fine-tuned smaller models, I guess, in the workflow. Are there proprietary components to the agentic infrastructure? This is also a very interesting question. I think we touched upon the models, the intelligence layer, right? I do think there are companies, there are gigantic AI labs that provide all these intelligence layers, and I don't think it is Amber's position today, at least to compete on that front.

[Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO at Amber International]

I do think in terms of building more vertical agentic services or vertical agentic service stacks, that's where our edge lies, whether specifically in fintech or in financial services, especially digital asset financial services, which I think are actually more complex, but also more digital native form of financial services. There's a lot of harness you need to build. There's a lot of sort of specified datasets that our agents need to be comfortable with or be trained with. The short answer is yes. I do think there are a lot of proprietary components to our agentic infrastructure, even though that on the intelligence layer, we integrate most of the advanced, either private or open source models.

[AgentFi Ambassador at Amber International]

Thank you all for joining us today. This quarter marks a defining moment as we continue to advance our agent-native operating system build-out while maintaining a resilient foundation in a challenging market. We remain fully committed to delivering institutional-grade excellence and long-term value for our shareholders. We sincerely appreciate your continued trust and support, and we look forward to sharing further updates with you in the upcoming quarter. This concludes today's call. Thank you and have a great day.

[Operator]

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Participants

Executives

• Josephine Ngai, CFO
• Michael Wu, Chairman of the Board and CEO
• Steve Zhang, Head of Capital Markets
• Vicky Wang, President of Amber Premium
• Yi Bao, Chief Product Officer
• AgentFi Ambassador

Analysts

• Brian Dobson, Analyst at Clear Street
• Emily Wei, Analyst at Symmetry Affluent