Trading Strategy Blog

Read our insights into onchain trading. We cover trading and investing in blockchains, decentralised finance (DeFi), decentralised exchanges (DEXes), automated trading strategies and web3.

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Episode #7: YieldNest Finance

Listen to our latest episode featuring YieldNest and learn how supercharged vault architecture is bringing real-world yield on-chain while raising the bar for DeFi security. In this episode, Nertila from Trading Strategy discusses with Deo and Dan from YieldNest. YieldNest is a DeFi protocol built as an on-chain alternative to traditional crypto funds, now grown to nine-figure TVL. Its site highlights the MAX vault architecture — a supercharged ERC-4626 standard designed for duration assets and

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Episode #6: Xerberus

Listen to our latest episode featuring Xerberus and learn why aligned, transparent risk ratings may be the missing piece for a safer, more trustworthy DeFi ecosystem. In this episode, Nertila from Trading Strategy discusses with Simon Peters from Xerberus. Xerberus is a DeFi risk rating protocol built to make crypto investing safer through transparency and value alignment with investors. It describes itself as an independent, investor-governed risk rating protocol for DeFi vaults. * View  Xer

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Episode #5: AlphaGrowth

Listen to our latest episode featuring AlphaGrowth and learn why vaults and structured products are the most likely path to DeFi mass adoption. In this episode, Nertila from Trading Strategy discusses with Kyril from AlphaGrowth. AlphaGrowth is a DeFi growth and execution firm supporting ecosystems, DAOs, investors, and protocols. It describes itself as a gateway to DeFi alpha, combining partners, systems, and institutional-grade execution. Its site highlights growth work for DeFi ecosystems an

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Podcast #4: EthStrategy

Listen to our latest episode featuring EthStrategy and learn how their protocol turns ETH's volatility into yield for bondholders, the risks involved, and emerging trends in crypto capital allocation like vault curation In this episode, Nertila from Trading Strategy discusses with Clouted from EthStrategy. ETH Strategy is a DeFi treasury protocol that offers leveraged ETH exposure without risk of liquidation or volatility decay. It operates as Ethereum's first autonomous treasury protocol, desi

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Podcast #3: Taler Finance

Listen to our latest episode featuring Taler Finance and learn how the most forward-thinking asset managers are leveraging neutral, permissioned vault infrastructure to build compliant and automated strategies. In this episode, Nertila from Trading Strategy discusses with Joel from Taler Finance. Taler Finance is a vault infrastructure for curated on-chain yield. It provides the smart contract framework that teams use to deploy, operate, and integrate non-custodial, curator-managed vaults. *

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Podcast #2: Ember protocol

Listen to our podcast with Ember and learn how the biggest markets are efficiently priced, and the real alpha in DeFi hides in the dark corners — obscure chains, assets, and strategies that most allocators never look at.

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Podcast #1: TAU Labs

Listen to our podcast with TAU Labs and learn how the strongest vault teams are deliberately choosing smaller, faster-growing infrastructure platforms instead of competing on the already crowded ones dominated by the biggest players.

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Announcing Pro DeFi vault data availability

Billions of dollars sit inside onchain vaults across multiple blockchains. Until now, anyone trying to compare those vaults side by side had to scrape protocol pages, normalise inconsistent fee structures, and rebuild risk metrics from raw events. Investment decisions in this market deserve better inputs than that. That is why we built the Trading Strategy DeFi vault datasets, now available with a Pro subscription tier. * The free tier: web dashboard remains free and covers thousands of vault

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Announcing Master Vault strategy

In this blog post, we describe the Master Vault, a vault-of-vaults automated trading strategy. Master Vault is a DeFi vault that trades a portfolio of other vaults.

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Cryptocurrency trading strategy: Buying all-time high tokens

Cryptocurrencies are good for momentum-based trading. Small-cap tokens, in particular, have volatile, short lives. We present a profitable trading strategy by constructing a portfolio of tokens based on their all-time high prices. The strategy is available for you to use in a DeFi vault.

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Trading memecoins

Memecoins and onchain trading, how big is it? We specifically look at Ethereum-ecosystem memecoins, how they came to be and how much there is to trade.