In the perception of countless users, this bull market has taken on an unprecedented appearance. Making money has become extraordinarily difficult. In the past, simply betting on a narrative such as DeFi, Non-Fungible Token, public chains, or chain games could potentially ride the wave of sector rotation and achieve a wealth leap. However, now, despite the market continuously introducing new narratives, from meme, AI+Crypto, RWA to modularization, ZK, reStaking, and other labels emerging endlessly, truly breakout projects are extremely rare. The era of blind buying and sector-wide rallies seems to have ended.
As the market begins to eliminate the weak and the emotional cycle becomes restrained rather than frenzied, narratives and positive news seem powerless, and opportunities that can truly realize wealth effects have become extremely scarce.
The change in investment rhythm has also profoundly affected the community ecosystem.
In this cycle where screening quality assets is far more difficult than before, various coin selection KOLs have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, with overwhelming recommendations and airdrop guides turning information into noise. However, among these are experienced, trustworthy analysts, as well as brokers who harvest retail investors. For ordinary investors, distinguishing truth from falsehood and understanding motivations from complex information often requires more mental effort than making investment decisions.
So, is there a way that no longer relies on rhetoric but instead speaks directly through data and historical performance? Is there a tool that allows retail investors to invest like institutions - with strategy, comparability, and confidence?
On July 16, 2025, the world's first licensed on-chain derivatives exchange Grvt officially launched "Grvt Strategies", the world's first compliant peer-to-peer (P2P) investment strategy marketplace.
Grvt saw the core issue in the current market: retail investors lack strategy entry points, cannot discern information authenticity, and lack the ability to track traders' actual trading capabilities. Grvt Strategies aims to solve this by transforming professional trading strategies into an open market that is transparent, verifiable, reusable, and priced clearly for everyone.
As Grvt co-founder Hong Yea said, "Wealth growth should be as simple as sending a message or calling a taxi." This is not just a slogan, but a logical action to combat market opacity and lower barriers for retail investors.
If past bull markets were a celebration of luck, now is the time to combat uncertainty with strategy and replace KOL noise with systematic understanding. And Grvt Strategies is the first step in this transformation.
Low Threshold and Transparency: Investment Strategies as Simple as Online Shopping
Grvt Strategies abandons the complex dashboards common in traditional finance and DeFi. Users see not the dazzling APY, TVL, and Vault 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 like selecting products, choosing based on strategy type, expected annual return, maximum drawdown, and investment asset categories.
In traditional finance, most high-quality investment products and structured strategies are only open to institutional investors or high-net-worth individuals. Moreover, such products are often hidden within nested structures, making it difficult for retail investors to access truly excellent strategies.
Unlike traditional finance and some DeFi platforms, Grvt Strategies is entirely blockchain-based and manages fund flows automatically through smart contracts. All trading logic and operational rules are publicly available on-chain, allowing anyone to review. Users can not only see the strategy's historical performance but also track exactly how funds are invested, traded, and when dividends are distributed, without trusting any intermediary. More importantly, it uses a non-custodial model where users' funds are controlled by their own wallets and can never be misappropriated by the platform or strategy managers.
Whether it's the extremely high-threshold traditional investment system or the many DeFi vaults with incomplete supporting infrastructure, they cannot meet the needs of ordinary retail investors. In this market gap, Grvt Strategies offers a solution by aggregating professional-level strategies and launching a strategy marketplace, making zero-threshold investment possible.
Of course, Grvt Strategies is not a hasty launch but a long-planned endeavor. The first batch includes 6 strategy managers with deep market experience and diverse backgrounds spanning traditional finance and quantitative trading. These include Ampersan, founded by former top global market maker Optiver members with over $40 billion in trading volume, and b-cube.ai, a VASP-regulated AI crypto quantitative platform. There's also Meerkat, a Cambridge University mathematics PhD, and traders who ranked on the profitability lists of Binance and Bybit.
Not Copy Trading, But Simultaneous Trading
Unlike traditional copy trading, Grvt Strategies ensures that retail investors trade simultaneously with strategy managers.
Common copy trading models suffer from time lag and price slippage issues. After a lead trader buys, following retail investors often need to wait before seeing the trade in their own accounts. During significant price fluctuations, by the time retail investors trade, the asset might have already risen or fallen, increasing buying costs or missing opportunities. These delays of seconds or even tens of seconds are especially fatal in high-frequency and volatile markets, potentially significantly reducing copy trading returns.
Due to copy trading's delayed nature, many famous KOLs even use this to offload assets or harm followers. KOLs might use a main account to trigger follower buying, then sell massively through different accounts. Users seem to "follow the strategy" but actually become "liquidity bagholders".
Grvt Strategies eliminates pure copy trading. Investors don't tardily replicate strategies but directly participate in the same trade strategy, with all operations synchronously executed through on-chain smart contracts, avoiding additional delays and slippage. In other words, your funds operate in the contract alongside the strategy manager's, with exactly matching buy and sell prices, enjoying identical investment returns.
Additionally, traditional copy trading tends to support single trading strategies poorly, especially for high-frequency or quantitative strategies. Strategies like arbitrage or market-making that require millisecond-level order placement often can't be timely replicated. Grvt Strategies allows strategy managers to execute complex trading strategies on-chain, including quantitative algorithms, high-frequency arbitrage, and hedging trades. Retail investors simply need to connect to the strategy contract without copying each trade.
In short: Traditional Copy Trading is "Wait for me to buy, then you follow", Grvt Strategies is "Let's buy together".
Innovation and Compliance: P2P Investment Debut
In financial technology's development, P2P was once considered one of the most disruptive models. P2P changed financial intermediaries' roles, allowing ordinary users to directly participate in financial transaction processes, bringing profound changes in cost, efficiency, and accessibility.
However, P2P has been limited to lending for years, focusing on capital time value in both Web2 and Web3, with borrowers and lenders agreeing on interest rates to facilitate capital circulation.
A more imaginative model - a true P2P investment form directly connecting fund owners with strategy executors, sharing returns and risks - had yet to emerge.
Until now, Grvt Strategies' launch first introduces the P2P model to the investment field. This is not just a technical breakthrough but a comprehensive innovation in model and compliance systems. On Grvt Strategies, investors can browse strategies like shopping, freely choosing to sign a one-to-one smart contract with strategy managers, with funds automatically participating in the corresponding strategy's execution process. More critically, as a multi-jurisdictional licensed on-chain derivatives trading platform, all Grvt strategy products are designed and operated within a compliant framework, providing users with unprecedented trust guarantees.
Grvt Strategies can achieve such innovation, which is inseparable from advanced on-chain technology and a strict compliance system, with its core logic built on the transparency of smart contracts and blockchain. The platform's underlying infrastructure is based on high-performance Layer 2 expansion solutions like ZKsync, ensuring efficient and low-cost operations with cross-chain expansion capabilities.
As a licensed derivatives trading platform, Grvt is at the forefront of compliance. Each strategy product in its strategy marketplace must pass KYC, AML, historical performance review, and risk model testing. Strategy managers must clearly demonstrate their trading philosophy, asset allocation method, and risk control measures, and are subject to continuous supervision by Grvt's internal risk control team. User assets are not custodied by the platform but directly controlled by the contract, ensuring that no one can misappropriate them.
Additionally, the Grvt platform provides fiat currency deposit channels, allowing users to directly purchase stablecoins through bank transfers or credit cards. Retail investors do not need to register additional crypto wallets or navigate multiple platforms, truly achieving a seamless transition from Web2 to Web3.
The future of finance is an on-chain collaborative network where everyone can own professional strategies. If past DeFi was more like a financial experiment, Grvt Strategies is becoming a wealth entry point for everyone.
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