Designing the Next Generation of On-chain Strategies

Clearstar Labs is a Swiss-based firm that blends extensive TradFi experience with deep on-chain expertise dating back to the early days of DeFi. We design and curate institutional-grade strategies across decentralized markets, underpinned by rigorous risk management.

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DeFi Strategy Design
Developing automated, risk-adjusted DeFi yield strategies for institutional capital, leveraging a broad network of partner protocols and builders.

Automation and Risk Management
Strategy automation, live monitoring, institutional-grade risk frameworks, and automated risk mitigation.

Curation and Research
Vault design and advisory services for projects and blockchains. Custom strategy development for treasuries and institutional asset managers.

Crypto Manager Due Diligence
Conducting rigorous due diligence on crypto hedge funds - evaluating strategy design, operational resilience, security, custody, and overall infrastructure integrity.

Our Integrations & Partners
Intro

Intro

Clearstar Labs is a Swiss-based blockchain advisory and infrastructure firm with the mission of bridging the gap between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi).
We specialize in delta-neutral, crypto-based yield strategies, enabling investors to build and manage institutional-grade DeFi portfolios. Our proprietary tools enable robust risk management, analytics, monitoring, and execution.
In addition, Clearstar Labs provides strategic advisory services across investment strategy development and due diligence on external crypto fund managers, empowering clients to run diversified, tailor-made digital asset strategies.
We work in close partnership with a regulated Swiss asset manager managing USD 1 billion in AUM on the development of its digital asset strategy.

Who We Are

Who We are

Our team brings together deep expertise in private equity, hedge funds, market making, investment banking, fund management, computer science, blockchain forensics, and hands-on experience in  on-chain protocol development.
The team members have been building in the blockchain space since 2017, well before DeFi became a mainstream term. At the same time, we bring decades of experience from traditional finance, ensuring our approach to digital assets is grounded in institutional-grade risk management and operational discipline.
We apply over 16 years of experience managing institutional portfolios within a FINMA-regulated framework to our blockchain operations, combining cutting-edge innovation with professional discipline and institutional-grade processes and systems.

Our STory

Our Story

Clearstar Labs was founded out of a deep frustration accumulated over 16 years of operating as institutional asset managers in TradFi. Managing a portfolio of more than 230 companies and USD 1 billion AUM required frequent cross-border capital movements across jurisdictions, currencies, and legal entities.
The reality we faced daily was both inefficient and opaque. Moving funds from one bank account to another routinely took several days. If a bank holiday intervened or a compliance team raised a question, the delay could stretch into weeks without clear visibility. Once funds left the originating account, they often disappeared into a black box of intermediaries (foreign exchange brokers, correspondent banks, clearing houses) whose roles were neither transparent nor the sent assets easy to track.
Meanwhile, each participant in this convoluted chain extracted fees for the privilege of updating ledger entries. What should be a straightforward digital transaction is in reality a slow, costly, and unpredictable process.
The contrast to blockchain-based settlement could not have been starker. We were struck by the ability to execute the same transfer in seconds, with final settlement, full transparency, and at a fraction of the cost, without needing permission from anyone.
It became evident to us that blockchains have the potential to become the new global settlement layer for assets in the future. This insight was the catalyst for founding Clearstar Labs and dedicating ourselves to mastering the underlying blockchain technology.

Our Services

We help professional investors access and manage institutional-grade digital asset portfolios through advanced yield strategy design, robust risk management infrastructure and rigorous manager due diligence.

Yield Strategies

Through our Infrastructure we empower institutional clients to run advanced, delta-neutral DeFi yield portfolios by using strategies such as leveraged looping, concentrated liquidity provisioning while hedging impermanent loss through derivatives including options and futures, carry and arbitrage trades, and more.

Risk Management

We provide proprietary risk management, analytics, monitoring, and execution infrastructure. Our institutional-grade risk framework integrates real-time exploit detection and automated mitigation, comprehensive protocol due diligence, and a robust on-chain infrastructure built in collaboration with industry-leading custody and security providers such as Fordefi and Hypernative.

Manager Due Diligence

As deeply embedded participants in the blockchain ecosystem, we bring hands-on expertise in running secure, scalable on-chain operations. We support investors in conducting rigorous due diligence on crypto-native asset managers, evaluating areas such as strategy design, operational resilience, custody architecture, API and exchange account security, and overall infrastructure integrity.

What Sets us Apart

At Clearstar Labs, we combine institutional-grade risk discipline, meaningful capital commitment, a long-term vision, and purpose-built infrastructure to deliver secure, sustainable, and aligned exposure to digital asset strategies.

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Institutional-Grade Risk Discipline

We bring over 16 years of experience managing large portfolios under a FINMA-regulated framework into the digital asset space. Having backed emerging managers across novel asset classes in the past, we’ve institutionalized the lessons learned into robust, repeatable processes. These principles guide both the risk management of DeFi infrastructure and our evaluation of external managers.

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Skin in the Game

Our team members commit significant capital to the strategies Clearstar Labs supports. This alignment ensures that we are fully incentivized to apply rigorous due diligence, maintain high operational standards, and uphold a disciplined approach to risk management across all engagements.

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Long-Term Focus

Crypto is a rapidly evolving space, where technologies, protocols, and market participants are constantly tested. While the pace of innovation is high, many approaches are short-lived. We focus on sustainable, long-term strategies and work with external managers who share this mindset, those who can adapt, innovate, and execute over time. Our goal is to build enduring value, not chase fleeting trends. As a well-funded and forward-thinking firm, we combine agility with a long-term vision.

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Strategic Partnerships & Infra

While traditional finance benefits from mature tooling, digital asset management still lacks many of the critical systems for risk control, execution, and oversight. We address this by building our own proprietary infrastructure and forming strategic partnerships with best-in-class providers. Our collaborations with custody and security leaders such as Fordefi and Hypernative ensure every strategy we support is not only optimized for returns, but fortified against operational and protocol-level risks.

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