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Hey YC! 👋
We’re Lihong & Bryan, former quant trader and developer, and we are building Freeport Markets (https://freeportmarkets.com) to make DeFi investing more accessible for all.
TL;DR: Freeport helps you build a diversified crypto portfolio across quality assets, and access the most trusted and lucrative opportunities in DeFi on one page, with one click.
Ask: Try freeportmarkets.com (on desktop with hot wallet) and give us feedback! Connect us with student orgs or other groups who can help us with distribution. Our ICP are crypto-adjacent folks who keep most of their crypto on Robinhood/Coinbase. Check out our fun promo vid 👇https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWZTB_r_jO4
❌ Problem
Most investors’ crypto portfolios suffer from the follow issues:
- Leaving Yield on the Table: Easy and safe 4-8% extra returns a year from staking / conservatively lending crypto assets that they already own.
- Under-diversified: Portfolios are often just BTC/ETH, which can underperform the crypto market. (No one buys a single stock as a “portfolio”; why a single token?)
- Paying Unnecessary Fees: Coinbase/Robinhood takes a massive cut out of yields, don’t let you lend/borrow at market rates, and have high trading fees.
Net: The best opportunities are in DeFi, but people miss out on common-sense optimization, true diversification, and lower fees, because DeFi is fragmented and confusing.
💰Our Solution
- Unify DeFi in One Place: Freeport integrates trusted protocols on one page.
- Signal Over Noise: We separate treasure from trash with a rigorous screening framework (see below) so nothing you buy here is a scam / rugpull.
- Yield on Resting Assets: Put idle holdings to work in battle‑tested & audited opportunities with transparent sources of return.
- Real Diversification: Allocate across chains, sectors, and risk factors in a single, simple flow using a framework supported by rigorous statistical inference (see below)
- No Management Fees + Lowest Trading Costs: We find the best possible path to route your order to minimize slippage and MEV (see below).
🏦Our Mission
Bring value and science-based “quantamental” investing to crypto, so people view it as the legitimate long-term asset that it is, not a day-trader’s playground. We combine rigorous screening and factor/sector diversification to filter noise and compound value over time.
⛵Chart Your Course With Freeport
- Freeport is made for all long-term investors who want durable yield, smartly diversified portfolios, and explainable risk that drives compounding returns.
- Get started today at freeportmarkets.com, share us with friends who may be interested, and let us know about bugs / feature requests that you may have!
- Reach us at lihong.wang@freeportmarkets.com & bryan.reed@freeportmarkets.com.
⚙️Appendix: How It Works
- Research-Backed Curation: To ensure that tokens that we support are legitimate, we operate inside only the top 250 by market cap and screen for real tradability.
- Economic Diversification: We classify assets by their orthogonal drivers of returns: Settlement (execution/scaling vs. monetary), Infrastructure & Interoperability, DeFi/CeFi, Culture & Entertainment, DePIN & Resources, plus Stablecoins & RWA.
- Factor Tilts: We track seven factors, market, size, value, momentum, growth, downside beta, liquidity, and prioritize momentum (best out-of-sample), with value & growth as corroborating signals; low-to-moderate correlations improve diversification.
We pair a disciplined universe + sector taxonomy with data-driven quantitative factors + human-expertise to construct recommendations and strategies that moves portfolios away from single-asset concentration toward repeatable, explainable, multi-factor returns, at freeportmarkets.com.
What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?
Freeport makes social media tradable by turning the sources you trust into actionable trades.
The core problem is that the earliest market signals now live in human networks and attention flows, not traditional research pipelines. Edge emerges first in Twitter threads, Reddit communities, and other alternative data. In an attention-driven economy, price moves not just on facts, but on what spreads, who amplifies it, and how quickly a narrative captures mindshare. Retail investors feel this most because they lack terminals, coverage, and the bandwidth to monitor dozens of feeds for breaking news, catalysts, and shifts in positioning.
Freeport productizes the situational awareness workflow that professionals do manually. We turn your trusted sources into a tradable feed by detecting breaking signals, measuring what is gaining attention, cross-checking across media, mapping second-order impacts to assets, and producing inspectable trade cards with evidence and context. The goal is not more content. It is a continuously updated view of what matters right now and what it implies.
We are building this because we have lived the gap between trading with full coverage and trading blind. I traded single stock equity derivatives at three major market makers, where analyst coverage, real time news, and a shared view of catalysts and positioning materially improve decisions. In my personal account outside that coverage, it is easy to miss headlines, attention shifts, or key catalysts until price has already moved, and even strong teams cannot monitor everything. My cofounder is deeply technical with experience at Capital One and Huawei, and we are building Freeport to make that level of speed and situational awareness accessible to everyone.
Our thesis is simple. As attention becomes a primary market input, the winners will be those with an AI layer that turns trusted information and real-time attention into timely, explainable decisions. Freeport keeps you situationally aware so you are always up to date and never late.
What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?
If we succeed, the world changes in one main way: anyone can turn an opinion into a precise market position as easily as posting a thought online. Today that translation is slow and gated. You need context, instrument selection, sizing, execution, and risk controls across fragmented venues. Institutions win because they have teams and systems that continuously do this work.
Freeport’s long-term vision is to build the on-chain infrastructure that connects information to execution. We turn continuous information processing from an institutional advantage into shared rails so more people can access sophisticated opportunity sets, move faster from belief to position, and trace exactly why a trade exists back to its source and evidence.
At the macro level, this improves market quality. Prices are an information system meant to compress dispersed knowledge into signals that coordinate capital. When interpretation is bottlenecked, price discovery is thin and discontinuous. If we democratize the signal to decision workflow with transparent provenance, price discovery becomes deeper and more continuous as more participants act earlier with context. The result is better prices, better capital allocation, and a market closer to decentralized coordination through dispersed knowledge.
