Freeport - Intelligent DeFi Investment Platform

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.