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Quantitative crypto hedge fund opens latest fund to investors

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

B. G., Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:

Strix Leviathan is opening a new market-neutral fund to investors after gathering a seven-month track record during extremely volatile crypto markets following the collapse of FTX in November.

The Seattle-based quantitative manager was founded in 2018 and specialises in trading digital assets.

Launched in July 2022, the Aurora Fund generates yield from the many opportunities in the decentralised finance (DeFi) space and targets 20-30% annualised returns. As of February 28th, the Fund returned 1% MTD, 3.5% YTD and 8.6% ITD.

Decentralised finance is a new financial paradigm that leverages distributed ledger technologies to offer services such as lending, investing, or exchanging crypto assets without relying on a traditional centralized intermediary.

The Aurora Fund interacts directly with DeFi applications including decentralised exchanges and lending/borrowing platforms built on top of blue chip EVM-compatible Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum and Optimism.

The Fund takes a quantitative, systematic approach, leveraging the extensive technology, infrastructure and risk......................

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