In the perception of countless users, this round of bull market has presented an unprecedented appearance. Making money has become more difficult than ever before. In the past, as long as you hit on a narrative, such as DeFi, NFT, public chains, or chain games, you had the chance to ride the coattails of sector rotations and achieve wealth leaps. But now, even though the market continues to throw out new narratives, from Meme, AI+Crypto, RWA to modularization, ZK, Restaking, and various labels, the truly successful projects are few and far between. The era of blindly buying and sectors rising together seems to have ended.
As the market begins to weed out the weak, and as emotional cycles become restrained rather than frenzied, narratives and good news seem powerless, the opportunities that can truly deliver wealth effects become extremely scarce.
Changes in investment rhythms have also profoundly affected community ecology.
In this cycle, where screening for quality assets is far more difficult than before, various coin selection KOLs have emerged like mushrooms after rain, overwhelming recommendations and airdrop guides have turned information into noise. However, among them are experienced and trustworthy analysts, as well as brokers who exploit retail investors. For ordinary investors, discerning truth from falsehood and judging motives from the cluttered information often consumes more energy than making investment decisions themselves.
So, is there a way to no longer rely on rhetoric but instead use data and historical performance to speak? Is there a tool that enables retail investors to act like institutions—strategically, comparably, and boldly participate?
On July 16, 2025, Grvt, the world's first licensed on-chain derivatives exchange, officially launched 'Grvt Strategies,' the world's first compliant on-chain peer-to-peer (P2P) investment strategy mall.
Grvt has identified the most core issue in the current market: retail investors lack strategic entry points, cannot discern the authenticity of information, and do not have the ability to track the real trading capabilities of traders. What Grvt Strategies aims to solve is to turn professional trading strategies into an open market that is clearly priced and accessible to everyone using a 'transparent, verifiable, and reusable' approach.
As Grvt co-founder Hong Yea said, 'Wealth growth should be as simple as sending a message or hailing a ride.' This is not just a slogan but a logic of action to combat market opacity and lower barriers for retail investors.
If the past bull market was a gamble on luck, then now is the time to use strategies to combat uncertainty and replace KOL noise with systematic understanding. Grvt Strategies is the first step in this transformation.
Low threshold and transparency, investment strategies are as simple as online shopping.
Grvt Strategies discards the complex dashboards commonly found in traditional finance and DeFi. What users see is not the dazzling APY, TVL, and Vaults of traditional DeFi platforms, but a clear, intuitive, and structured list of strategies. Each strategy has a concise introduction, historical returns, risk control models, and other information. Users can filter strategies of interest based on strategy type, expected annual return, maximum drawdown, asset classes, and other criteria.
In traditional finance, most quality investment products and structured strategies are only open to institutional investors or high-net-worth individuals. Moreover, these products are often hidden within layers of nested structures, making it difficult for retail investors to access truly quality strategies.
Unlike traditional finance and some DeFi, Grvt Strategies is entirely based on blockchain technology and automatically manages fund flows through smart contracts. All trading logic and operational rules are publicly available on-chain, and anyone can examine them. Users can see not only the historical performance of strategies but also how funds are specifically invested, how trades are executed, and when dividends are distributed, without needing to trust any intermediaries. More importantly, it adopts a non-custodial model where users' funds are controlled by their own wallets and will never be misappropriated by the platform or strategy managers.
Neither the extremely high threshold of traditional investment systems nor the many inadequately supported DeFi vaults can meet the needs of ordinary retail investors. In this market gap, Grvt Strategies has proposed a solution, aggregating professional-level strategies and launching a strategy mall to make zero-threshold investment possible.
Of course, Grvt Strategies was not hastily launched but has been planned for a long time. The first batch includes six deeply involved strategy managers, who are strong, diverse in style, and possess extensive market experience and practical results, with backgrounds spanning traditional finance and quantitative trading. This includes Ampersan, founded by former top global market makers Optiver, with trading volumes exceeding $400 billion, and the AI crypto quantitative platform b-cube.ai, operated by a team regulated by VASP. It also includes Cambridge University mathematics PhD Meerkat and practical traders who ranked high in profitability on both Binance and Bybit.
Not copy trading, but simultaneous trading.
Compared to traditional copy trading models, Grvt Strategies can ensure that retail investors trade in sync with strategy managers.
Common copy trading models suffer from time lag and price slippage issues. After a lead trader buys in, follow-on retail investors often have to wait a certain period before seeing that trade in their accounts. Once the price fluctuates dramatically, the assets may have already risen or fallen by the time retail investors execute their trades, leading to increased buying costs or missed opportunities. This delay of seconds or even tens of seconds can be particularly fatal in high-frequency trading and volatile markets, and repeated occurrences can significantly diminish the returns from following trades.
Due to the lag characteristic of copy trading, many well-known KOLs even use this to offload assets or take advantage of retail losses. KOLs use large accounts to trigger buy-ins from followers, and then sell off through different accounts in large quantities. Users seem to have 'followed the strategy,' but in reality, they become 'liquidity takers.'
Grvt Strategies discards the purely copy trading model; investors do not lag behind in copying strategies but directly participate in the same trading strategy, with all operations synchronized via on-chain smart contracts, eliminating extra delays and slippage. In other words, your funds operate together with the strategy manager's funds in the contract, with buying and selling prices being completely consistent, enjoying exactly the same investment returns.
In addition, traditional copy trading functions tend to lean towards single trading strategies and do not sufficiently support high-frequency or quantitative strategies. Strategies such as arbitrage and market making, which require order execution at the millisecond level, often cannot be responded to in time by copy trading systems. Grvt Strategies allows strategy managers to fully automate complex trading strategies on-chain, including quantitative algorithms, high-frequency arbitrage, and hedging trades. Retail investors only need to connect to the strategy contract without needing to copy each trade individually.
In short: traditional copy trading is 'I follow after you buy,' while Grvt Strategies is 'We buy together.'
Innovation and compliance, P2P investment debut.
In the development of financial technology, P2P was once regarded as one of the most disruptive models. P2P changed the role of financial intermediaries, allowing ordinary users to directly participate in the financial transaction process, bringing profound changes in terms of cost, efficiency, accessibility, and more.
However, after years of development, P2P has remained confined to the lending field. Whether in Web2 or Web3, it focuses on the time value of money, that is, reaching an agreement on interest rates between borrowers and lenders to facilitate capital circulation.
A more imaginative model that truly connects fund owners with strategy executors directly, sharing both profits and risks in a P2P investment form, has yet to appear.
Until now, the launch of Grvt Strategies has introduced the P2P model into the investment field for the first time. This is not only a breakthrough in technology but also a comprehensive innovation in model and compliance systems. On Grvt Strategies, investors can browse strategies like shopping, freely choose to sign one-on-one smart contracts with strategy managers, and funds automatically participate in the execution process of corresponding strategies. More importantly, as a chain-based derivatives trading platform holding multiple financial licenses, all strategy products from Grvt are designed and operated within a compliance framework, providing users with unprecedented trust guarantees.
Grvt Strategies can achieve such innovations thanks to advanced on-chain technology and a strict compliance system, with its core logic built on the transparency of smart contracts and blockchain. The platform is based on high-performance Layer 2 scaling solutions like ZKsync, ensuring efficient, low-cost operations with cross-chain scalability.
Grvt itself, as a licensed derivatives trading platform, is at the forefront of compliance in the industry. Each strategy product in its strategy mall must pass KYC, AML, historical performance audits, and risk model tests. Strategy managers must clearly present their trading philosophy, asset distribution methods, and risk control measures, and accept continuous supervision from Grvt's internal risk control team. User assets are not held in custody by the platform but are directly controlled by contracts, ensuring no one can misappropriate them.
In addition, the Grvt platform has also integrated fiat deposit channels, allowing users to directly purchase stablecoins through bank transfers or credit cards, without needing to register additional crypto wallets or switch between multiple platforms, truly achieving a smooth transition from Web2 to Web3.
The future of finance is a collaborative on-chain network where everyone can have professional strategies and participate. If past DeFi was more like a financial experiment, Grvt Strategies is becoming a wealth entry point for everyone.
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