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/