{"id":94762,"title":"Freeport - Intelligent DeFi Investment Platform","tagline":"Earn yield on crypto and build portfolios with AI + human expertise. 🤖🚀","body":"Hey YC! 👋\n\nWe’re Lihong \u0026 Bryan, former quant trader and developer, and we are building Freeport Markets (https://freeportmarkets.com) to make DeFi investing more accessible for all. \n\n**TL;DR:** Freeport helps you build a **diversified crypto portfolio** across quality assets, and access the most trusted and l**ucrative opportunities in DeFi** on one page, with one click.\n\n**_Ask_**_:_ Try [freeportmarkets.com](http://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\n\n### **❌ Problem**\n\nMost investors’ crypto portfolios suffer from the follow issues: \n\n* **Leaving Yield on the Table:** Easy and safe 4-8% extra returns a year from staking / conservatively lending crypto assets that they already own.\n* **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?)\n* **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.\n\n**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.\n\n**💰Our Solution** \n\n* **Unify DeFi in One Place:** Freeport integrates trusted protocols on one page.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94762\u0026key=user_uploads/2929506/f7aad792-d924-4859-aaeb-f992dfb18b5d)\n\n* **Signal Over Noise:** We separate **treasure from trash** with a rigorous screening framework (see below) so nothing you buy here is a scam / rugpull.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94762\u0026key=user_uploads/2929506/8cdbb09d-c8b3-4aef-98e1-e483ac16a014)\n\n* **Yield on Resting Assets:** Put idle holdings to work in battle‑tested \u0026 audited opportunities with transparent sources of return.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94762\u0026key=user_uploads/2929506/d4c8feb7-9589-48ab-9e8b-a5708f1d0899)\n\n* **Real Diversification:** Allocate across chains, sectors, and risk factors in a single, simple flow using a framework supported by rigorous statistical inference (see below)\n\n \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94762\u0026key=user_uploads/2929506/936963cf-a58a-48f1-8d6b-611da05e7433)\n\n* **No Management Fees + Lowest Trading Costs:** We find the best possible path to route your order to minimize slippage and MEV (see below).\n\n🏦**Our Mission**\n\nBring 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.\n\n**⛵Chart Your Course With Freeport** \n\n* Freeport is made for all long-term investors who want durable yield, smartly diversified portfolios, and explainable risk that drives compounding returns. \n* Get started today at [**freeportmarkets.com**](http://freeportmarkets.com), share us with friends who may be interested, and let us know about bugs / feature requests that you may have! \n* Reach us at [lihong.wang@freeportmarkets.com](mailto:lihong.wang@freeportmarkets.com) \u0026 [bryan.reed@freeportmarkets.com](mailto:bryan.reed@freeportmarkets.com).\n\n \n\n### **⚙️Appendix: How It Works**\n\n* [**Research-Backed Curation**](https://www.freeportmarkets.com/reference/Investable%20Universe%20Methodology.pdf)**:** To ensure that tokens that we support are legitimate, we operate inside only the top 250 by market cap and screen for real tradability. \n* [**Economic Diversification**](https://www.freeportmarkets.com/reference/Digital%20Asset%20Taxonomy.pdf)**:** We classify assets by their orthogonal drivers of returns: Settlement (execution/scaling vs. monetary), Infrastructure \u0026 Interoperability, DeFi/CeFi, Culture \u0026 Entertainment, DePIN \u0026 Resources, plus Stablecoins \u0026 RWA. \n* [**Factor Tilts**](https://www.freeportmarkets.com/reference/Quantitative%20Framework.pdf)**:** We track seven factors, market, size, value, momentum, growth, downside beta, liquidity, and prioritize momentum (best out-of-sample), with value \u0026 growth as corroborating signals; low-to-moderate correlations improve diversification.\n\nWe 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**](http://freeportmarkets.com)**.**","slug":"OeQ-freeport-intelligent-defi-investment-platform","created_at":"2025-10-20T14:16:38.770Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T03:15:03.918Z","total_vote_count":139,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OeQ-freeport-intelligent-defi-investment-platform","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=94762\u0026key=user_uploads/2929506/cdd3b579-b88e-4f8f-bcf2-4daf7333d582","company":{"id":30981,"name":"Freeport Markets","slug":"freeport-markets","url":"https://www.freeportmarkets.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7785e7f2104cbe8c0fd7a9462d42a9b03d5aeb86.png","batch":"Fall 2025","industry":"Fintech","tags":["Fintech","Crypto / Web3","Investing","Consumer Finance","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30981"}}