Curators (Strategy Managers)
Professional Traders, Hedge Funds and Quant Teams
Curators are sophisticated parties who want to create and manage their own vaults on Neutral Trade's infrastructure. This track is for those who have their own trading strategies and want to attract external capital.
Revenue Model for Curators
Performance Fee
A percentage of the yield generated by the vault, aligning the curator's revenue with the vault's success.
Dependent on the strategy performance and capacity
Curator Responsibilities
Curators act as the chief risk officer and strategist for their vault. Their responsibilities include defining the investment thesis and risk parameters for the vault, managing capital allocation across approved strategies and venues, monitoring vault performance and making adjustments as needed, providing transparency and regular reporting to depositors, and ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations and best practices.
Key Advantages for Curators
Curators benefit from Neutral Trade's battle-tested infrastructure, institutional-grade custody through Copper and Ceffu, and access to a global pool of capital. The platform handles all the complexities of on-chain operations, high watermark calculations, and charging fees at a per user level fairly and autonomously, allowing curators to focus on what they do best: generating alpha.
Supported Exchanges:
Binance
OKX
Bybit
Gate
Kucoin
Bitget
Hyperliquid
Lighter
Drift
Why Should a Trading Team Partner with Neutral Trade?
Competitive Economics
Performance fees are structured competitively based on strategy returns and risk-adjusted metrics, with transparent monthly / quarterly settlements. Profit-sharing terms are contractually defined and benchmarked against leading prop firms and hedge funds—no ambiguity, no netting risk across different teams' P&L.
Institutional Infrastructure Without the Overhead
Neutral Trade provides access to prime exchange relationships with favorable fee tiers across major crypto spot and derivatives venues. Our off-exchange settlement framework covers the majority of assets, significantly reducing counterparty credit exposure. You get institutional-grade infrastructure without building it yourself.
Focus Purely on Alpha Generation
We handle operations, compliance, investor relations, administration, and reporting. No fundraising meetings, no administrative burden—just trading. Our support extends to technical onboarding including sub-account setup, API integration, and transfer management.
Full IP Protection
Your strategies remain yours. All code stays exclusively in your environment or under your control. Neutral Trade contractually commits to never replicate or reverse-engineer your approach.
Operational Independence
Partner teams operate as independent entities with full flexibility over location, jurisdiction, and team composition. No exclusivity requirements—you're free to manage outside capital. No restrictive non-competes. If market conditions shift or a strategy needs evolution, we work with you to adapt rather than cutting ties.
Seamless Execution and Margin Management
Neutral Trade’s proprietary Margin Management System can rebalance capital between exchanges and counterparties mentioned above automatically, triggered by a single API call.
Who Should Partner with Neutral Trade?
Performance Track Record
We look for strategies targeting 20%+ net annual returns. Teams may use derivatives or leverage to amplify performance, though higher drawdown profiles may affect relative capital allocation sizing.
Risk-Adjusted Returns
Target Sharpe ratio of 1.5 or above. We may consider slightly lower Sharpe for genuinely unique, uncorrelated strategies that add diversification value to the portfolio.
Market Neutral or Low Directional Bias
Strict market neutrality isn't required, but persistent long or short bias is generally not a fit. We prioritize strategies with low correlation to broad crypto market movements.
Systematic Execution
All signal generation and trade execution must be systematic and data-driven. Discretionary or screen-based trading approaches are outside our scope.
Daily or Higher Frequency
Higher-frequency strategies generate statistically significant sample sizes faster, enabling quicker validation and capital scaling.
Capacity Considerations
We prefer higher-capacity strategies, but will fund smaller-capacity approaches if they offer genuine decorrelation from existing vaults.
Uncorrelated and Niche
The less correlated to our existing strategies, the better. Teams operating in niche areas often receive larger allocations precisely because of their diversification value.
Enterprise-Minded Teams
We're looking for teams building long-term enterprise value in their own firms—retaining ownership of code, track records, and intellectual property.
If you're a systematic trading team generating consistent alpha in digital assets, Neutral Trade provides the capital, infrastructure, and operational support to realize your strategy's full potential.
How to Get Started
Apply: Message the team on Telegram or email [email protected], including your track record and proposed strategy.
Due Diligence: Our team will review your application and conduct due diligence.
Onboarding: Once approved, we'll onboard you to our platform and provide training on our tools.
Vault Deployment: Deploy your vault and start attracting capital.
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