Smart Strategies
Palantir for Onchain Finance
Seth Hallem
Armen Ter-Avetisyan
Andrew Flesch
Hi, we are Seth, Andy and Armen, the founders of Smart Strategies.
Overview
Before an institution can earn a dollar of on-chain yield, it spends about $3M and a year on managing custody, key management, smart contracts, risk, and 24/7 monitoring. Smart Strategies gives funds, treasuries, and family offices the tools to deploy strategies with automated risk controls working around the clock.
Ask: Intros to seed VCs and to on-chain investors with $1M+ looking to earn yield.
The problem
On-chain protocols lost at least $1.3 billion across the first eight months of 2026. Most institutions stay out. The ones who don’t spend $3M and twelve months to stand up a digital asset strategy team, still carry the risk that caused those losses.
Our solution
Smart Strategies is an operating system for programmable finance at institutional scale. Strategies are composed in minutes through the interface with a risk rating for every on-chain market. Risk controls sit at the position and portfolio level, so you can measure and manage common exposures. Using continuous monitoring across every venue, live strategies can act on their own. Strategies are rebalanced to optimize yield and exit during an emergency.
Design onchain strategies
Compare all on-chain markets by risk rating and compose your portfolio.
Simulate your yield
Model how a strategy behaves against real market conditions before deploying the capital.
Rebalance automatically
Every venue watched around the clock, with positions adjusting to target allocations on their own.
Vision
Every institution that wants on-chain yield has to build its own infrastructure and security operation first, which is why most stick to spot markets. When every treasury, hedge fund, and family office runs on Smart Strategies, those dormant reserves become the working capital of the on-chain economy.
Team
Seth (CEO): 25+ years in cybersecurity. Former CEO of Certora, a leading crypto security firm, and previously founded Coverity, which Synopsys acquired for $375M. BS in Computer Science, Stanford.
Andy (CRO): 25+ years selling enterprise infrastructure, through IPOs and exits at Citrix, VMware, Riverbed, Coverity, and Whiptail. Built the TradFi program at Certora. BS, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
Armen (CPO): Drove over half of Certora’s revenue, built market-making and MEV bots, and advised a DeFi yield fund. BS in Math and Data Science, UC Irvine.
