Open Finance Lab Announces FinAi Contest, Starter Kit Release & Call for Participation

Dear Purdue Community,

I hope this email finds you well. We are excited to announce a thrilling opportunity for all machine learning and finance enthusiasts at FinAI Contest 2025 @ IEEE CSCloud 2025!

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 FinAI Contest 2025 encourages the development of open FinAgents based on the frameworks FinRL and FinGPT.

🚀 FinAI Contest 2025 Challenges:
Task 1: FinRL-DeepSeek for Crypto Trading – Develop crypto trading agents by integrating LLM-engineered signals in FinRL, using financial news and market data.
Task 2: FinGPT Agents in Real Life – Fine-tune LLMs and develop financial agents for financial analytics, tackling CFA exams and XBRL analytics, and outperforming BloombergGPT.
Task 3: FinRL-DeFi – Develop reinforcement learning agents that act as liquidity providers (LPs) in Decentralized Finance for liquidity provisioning.

🎯 Contest Website: https://open-finance-lab.github.io/FinAI_Contest_2025/
📢 Team Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeJ8HsQpgFTrVoz1eSPteeZBe59KP5VbeX9qDwfArUy17TMQ/viewform?usp=header 
📦Starter Kit: https://github.com/Open-Finance-Lab/FinAI_Contest_2025 

📅 Important dates:
● Paper Submission Deadline: Aug 1, 2025
● Paper Notification: Sept 1, 2025
● Solution Submission Deadline: Sept 15, 2025
● Paper Camera Ready Deadline: Oct 1, 2025

🏆 All participating teams will receive official contest certificates and have the chance to publish a 3-page short paper. Winners will be invited to attend the conference and have the opportunity to present their work and poster at the IEEE CSCloud 2025. We welcome participants from all backgrounds and fields to join. Come to our challenge, bring brilliant ideas, and make your mark on the FinAI Contest 2025!