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Hedge fund strategies. On-chain. For everyone.
Neutral Trade is where anyone can allocate to the systematic strategies that professional trading firms run, and where trading firms raise on-chain capital without building a fund.
For decades, these strategies sat behind a $1M minimum, a fund subscription, and a quarterly redemption window. Neutral Trade replaces that with a stablecoin deposit into an audited smart contract. You keep on-chain proof of your position, fees settle automatically, and most vaults redeem every week.
Our team combines experience from Goldman Sachs and a top-three global hedge fund with deep expertise in DeFi protocol mechanics.
Neutral Trade is a platform of Neutral Strategy Vaults. Each vault connects depositor capital to one strategy, run by Neutral Trade or by an independent trading firm (a curator) that has passed our Curator Selection review.
- You deposit a stablecoin, in most vaults USDC on Solana, and receive vault shares. Neutral Autopilot also supports USDC on Ethereum through Accountable Vaults.
- The trading firm trades. It has execution permissions only. It cannot withdraw your funds.
- The vault does the accounting. Share price, per-wallet high-water marks, and fees are recorded on-chain.
- You redeem on the vault's published schedule.
Start with Autopilot if you want one managed position. Select individual strategies if you want to build your own mix.
| Category | What it means | Risk profile | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neutral Autopilot | One deposit, allocated across Neutral Trade's live strategies and rebalanced for you. | Low - Moderate | neutral-autopilot.md |
| Market Neutral | Strategies that aim to earn from funding, spreads, and arbitrage, not from market direction. | Low - Moderate | market-neutral |
| Directional | Systematic strategies that take positions from quantitative signals. They carry some correlation to the market. | Moderate - High | directional |
| RWA | Strategies that trade regulated traditional markets, funded with USDC. | Moderate | rwa |
| NT Earn | A USDC lending optimizer across Solana money markets. No fees. | Conservative | nt-earn.md |
| Neutral Tokenize | Coming soon. Hold a vault position as a token in your own wallet. | Follows the vault | overview.md |
Every strategy can lose money. Read the Risk Overview before you deposit.
| Topic | Traditional access | Neutral Trade |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Often $100K to $1M | 100 USDC on most strategy vaults |
| Onboarding | Fund subscription or an account on every venue | A wallet and one deposit transaction |
| Redemption | Monthly or quarterly, with 30 to 90 days notice | Weekly or twice weekly on most vaults |
| Fees | Invoiced, on NAV that the manager calculates | Charged by the vault program. On a direct vault position, against your own high-water mark |
| Custody | You trust the manager | Movements restricted to pre-approved addresses. Four independent audits |
See How They Work, Vault Protections, and Security.
Trading firms keep the strategy. Neutral Trade runs everything else: 9 integrated venues with custody through Ceffu, Copper and Fordefi MPC, collateral transfers between venues, daily NAV, per-wallet fee accounting and reporting.
| Infrastructure for Trading Firms | See the infrastructure Neutral Trade runs for trading firms. | infrastructure-for-trading-firms.md |
| Curator Onboarding | Learn what it takes to partner with Neutral Trade, and how to get started. | curator-onboarding.md |
Distribution partners can integrate all 12 current strategy vaults and earn up to 50% of the 1% management fee through the live Builders Code Rebate. The Developers section covers the REST API, the TypeScript SDK, and the program IDL.
Institutional and strategic backers
| Backer | Backer | Backer |
|---|---|---|
| Solana Labs | YZi Labs | DRW Labs |
| Skyland Ventures | BlackPine | Monke Ventures |
Angels from IMC Trading, Cubist, Paper Ventures, Phantom, Kamino, Jupiter, Pyth, Sanctum, and more.
Trusted by quant and DeFi researchers: DeFi Dad, DeFi Maestro, Kel xyz, Solar, Joe Takayama, and Wrong User.
- Kamino: NT USDC Max Yield