According to a recent LinkedIn post from FORDEFI, the company is being featured as the custody infrastructure behind Neutral Trade, an on-chain quantitative strategy marketplace built by experienced hedge fund traders. The post highlights that Neutral Trade reportedly secures $48 million in on-chain quant strategies using Fordefi’s technology.
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The LinkedIn post describes Neutral Trade’s model as running automated strategies through vaults on Solana, with multiple managers executing programmatically via APIs. This setup is portrayed as requiring both low-latency execution and strict controls to prevent vault capital from moving outside predefined parameters.
According to the post, Fordefi provides a DeFi-native MPC custody layer that underpins Neutral Trade’s walled-garden architecture, including segregated manager workspaces with isolated MPC key shares and separate platform governance. The post further notes policy enforcement before each signature, limiting interactions to approved contracts, tokens, and routes, along with pre-sign simulations and quorum approvals for exceptions.
The post suggests this combination allows automated execution without hot wallet exposure and consistent protections as strategies expand across multiple chains. For investors, this customer use case may signal growing institutional demand for specialized custody and policy-enforcement tools in DeFi, potentially strengthening Fordefi’s positioning in infrastructure serving quantitative and institutional trading platforms.