Etesia Research is building institutional-grade portfolio construction infrastructure for digital assets. Our platform enables users to access systematic investment frameworks through non-custodial tokenized vaults, bringing diversification, risk management, and quantitative portfolio construction on-chain. We believe the next phase of DeFi will be defined not by access to more assets, but by better tools for allocating capital across them.
Etesia builds institutional-grade systematic trading strategies and delivers them through non-custodial, tokenized vaults. We bring the tools used by traditional systematic hedge funds, uncorrelated strategies, disciplined risk control, and portfolio construction, to anyone who can hold a wallet. The vaults are non-custodial by design: the blockchain holds the assets and Etesia never takes custody of investor capital. Our flagship is a trend-following CTA: a systematic strategy with a fifty-year record in traditional markets (the model run for decades by AHL, Winton, Aspect, Man and Campbell), here applied to crypto perpetuals and tokenized real-world assets. It trades ten sectors, three of them tokenized RWA (Metals, Energy, Equity Indices), and is structurally uncorrelated to the rest of an onchain book: -0.22 correlation to BTC, -0.39 to the S&P 500. That makes it a genuine diversifier rather than one more directional bet. Backtest figures are 35.3% net annual return, 1.41 Sharpe at 25% volatility, 9.3% max drawdown, 3.79 Calmar. The strategy has been live on Hyperliquid since 27 May 2026, tracking its backtest within a few basis points per day. For Arbitrum, we packaged this strategy as Etesia GMX, a tokenized vault that lets anyone deposit USDC and own a share of the strategy. It is an asynchronous ERC-7540 vault (ERC-4626 compatible), non-custodial, with all trading executed onchain on GMX v2. The vault prices itself from the GMX oracle, so the NAV holders see is the onchain price, not our estimate. Fees are 20% performance, no management fee. Live product: https://gmx.etesiar.com/
We took the strategy from a single-venue deployment to a live, public, Arbitrum-native product: Launched Etesia GMX on Arbitrum mainnet. Vault 0x7f6c…d5a2, Trader 0xee94…2b6A, Arbitrum One (chain 42161). Real USDC deposits, real share tokens, real onchain positions. Integrated GMX v2 as the execution venue. The strategy opens and manages perpetual positions directly on GMX; the live positions table (market, side, size, net value) reads straight from GMX. Onchain NAV from the GMX oracle. Share price and NAV derive from onchain oracle prices, so valuation is verifiable rather than manager-reported. Async ERC-7540 vault, ERC-4626 compatible, non-custodial. Built on a fork of the Lagoon stack. Deposits and redemptions settle onchain; the manager never holds investor assets. Shipped the live front end at https://gmx.etesiar.com/ with the full flow: connect wallet on Arbitrum One, approve USDC, confirm, receive share tokens, and redeem back to USDC. For the first time, anyone on Arbitrum can deposit USDC and own a share of a hedge-fund-grade systematic strategy, not only institutions. The GMX vault is newly live, so its onchain history is still thin; the realized live track record sits on our Hyperliquid deployment (live since 27 May 2026, tracking its backtest within a few basis points per day). The 1.41 Sharpe at 25% volatility figures are backtest and target, not yet realized live on the GMX vault.
Self-financed. The company and the strategy are funded by the founders, and every strategy goes live with the principals' own capital before any client allocation. We are not currently raising. What we are looking for is strategic partnership: ecosystem support, distribution, and integration relationships across the Arbitrum and GMX stack that help us scale the vault and bring more uncorrelated strategies onto the same Arbitrum-native rails.
