Strategy
Seven mandates, built on the same premise.
Digital asset markets are structurally inefficient. Wesvel’s strategies are designed to capture those inefficiencies systematically, with defined risk parameters applied at the position level.
Each Wesvel mandate targets a distinct source of return. What they share is a common discipline: risk is sized before capital is deployed, exposure is monitored continuously, and every position is held in segregated institutional custody.
We do not disclose signal logic, venue configuration, or execution parameters. What follows describes what each strategy does and what can go wrong.
01
Market Neutral
Market-neutral strategies hold offsetting positions designed to cancel directional price exposure. What remains is the spread (funding, basis, or relative value), which can be harvested regardless of whether the market rises or falls.
A subset of the neutral book is constructed to benefit from the magnitude of price movement rather than its direction, providing a return stream that is complementary to the carry book.
Components
- Funding rate capture
- Cross-venue dislocation
- Volatility-based neutral
- Collateral efficiency
- Systematic execution
02
DeFi & Yield
Decentralized finance generates real yield from real economic activity: trading fees, borrowing demand, and network security. Most of that yield is priced for participants operating without institutional risk management.
Wesvel applies institutional controls to capture it, protocol diligence before any capital is deployed, conservative health-factor buffers on any leveraged position, and exposure limits set per protocol and per chain.
Components
- Lending markets
- Structured looping
- Stablecoin yield
- Liquidity pool farming
- Restaking
- Protocol diligence
03
Derivatives
Wesvel uses perpetual and dated futures for three purposes: to hedge directional exposure in spot holdings, to harvest funding and basis, and to express relative-value views across venues, terms, and assets.
Positions held for yield-generating purposes carry price exposure that may be unwanted. Short futures can neutralize that exposure while the underlying position continues to generate yield.
Components
- Spot hedging
- Basis & carry
- Relative value
04
Early-Stage Access
A portion of Wesvel's mandate is allocated to emerging protocols and networks accessed before general availability, private rounds, strategic allocations, and structured positions sourced through relationships built over years of operating in this market.
Illiquid and locked positions are held in side pockets, valued under a written policy reviewed by the fund's auditor, and are subject to performance fees only upon realization.
Components
- Sourcing
- Diligence
- Valuation & side pockets
05
Spot Trading
Spot markets for digital assets are split across dozens of centralized exchanges, decentralized venues, and OTC desks that do not share an order book. The same asset trades at different prices, in different depth, at the same moment.
Wesvel treats that fragmentation as the opportunity: cross-venue arbitrage from pre-positioned inventory, smart order routing measured against arrival price, and bilateral block execution with diligenced liquidity providers, with everything above the working float swept to segregated custody.
Components
- Cross-venue arbitrage
- Smart order routing
- OTC block execution
- Decentralized venues
- Inventory & settlement
06
Perpetuals
Perpetual futures have no expiry. A periodic funding payment between longs and shorts keeps the contract tethered to spot, a price for leverage set continuously by crowd demand, and the primary thing this mandate trades.
Funding is captured against a custodied spot leg, traded as a differential between venues, or traded against the implied rate in dated futures. Distance to liquidation is managed continuously, and insurance fund depth and auto-deleveraging rules are part of venue diligence.
Components
- Funding capture
- Cross-venue funding differentials
- Perpetual vs. dated basis
- Liquidation management
- Collateral efficiency
07
Event Contracts
An event contract pays a fixed amount if a defined outcome occurs and nothing if it does not. Its price is the market's probability estimate. Wesvel trades those probabilities where they are mispriced across venues, and uses them to hedge discrete event risk elsewhere in the book.
Activity is restricted to outcomes with an objective, publicly verifiable resolution source, and to venues, regulated designated contract markets or on-chain prediction markets, that counsel has cleared for the fund. Exposure per event, venue, and resolution source is capped.
Components
- Probability pricing
- Cross-venue relative value
- Portfolio event hedging
- Resolution risk review
- Position limits