Services
Clearstar makes onchain yield viable at institutional scale. We curate and operate strategies, advise allocators and protocols on the risk beneath them, and help teams design the economics and growth behind their products — from first assessment to live, monitored execution.
Curation, deployment & distribution
We don't just evaluate strategies — we operate them. Curated exposure, deployed onchain, and distributed to the partners who allocate into it.
- Vault curationStrategy selection and ongoing, risk-managed curation that disqualifies ungovernable systems early, so capital only scales into infrastructure with enforceable boundaries.
- DeploymentCapital deployed onchain through controlled execution, with the engineering and oversight to run each strategy as a live, monitored system.
- DistributionStandard interfaces and credible venues that turn vetted exposure into repeatable allocation for partners bringing capital or distribution.
- Supporting researchEvery curated strategy is backed by the same diligence and ongoing coverage we publish — so allocators can see the reasoning, not just the result.
Risk advisory for protocols & allocators
We advise protocols and allocators on the risk beneath their exposure — a qualitative-first diligence framework, live onchain monitoring, and concrete hardening recommendations, with the documented research to back every call.
- Qualitative-first due diligenceEnd-to-end review of governance, admin permissions, contract architecture, oracle assumptions, and dependency risk — mapping how a system behaves and where it breaks before anyone models returns.
- Real-time onchain monitoringContinuous supervision of collateral health, oracle integrity, and liquidity conditions, with alerts that escalate into simulations and protective action.
- Protocol hardeningWe flag the gaps a structural review surfaces and recommend the guardrails, controlled execution paths, and emergency responses that close them.
- Published research & coverageScored, tiered diligence reports and ongoing market coverage, produced before capital is committed. Read our published research.
Economic design & go-to-market
Beyond risk, we help teams get the fundamentals right — the economics that make a token sustainable, and the growth motion that gets it adopted.
- Tokenomics & economic designIncentive structures, emissions, and value-capture mechanics designed to align participants and hold up under real market conditions — not just at launch.
- Go-to-market & growthPositioning, distribution, and growth strategy that turn a sound protocol into an adopted one, built on how onchain users and allocators actually behave.
How we work
We separate assessment from implementation on purpose. Most failures in DeFi come from treating them as the same problem.
Assess
Map governance, permissions, architecture, dependencies, and operational maturity to find failure modes no optimization can offset.
Construct
Model returns and design strategies inside the constraints defined by assessment — never outside them.
Engineer
Build guardrails, monitoring, and emergency responses around every approved opportunity before it goes live.
Operate
Supervise continuously in real time, turning risk management from a one-time check into an active operating discipline.
Bring capital or distribution. We handle the complexity.
Tell us what you're evaluating and we'll show you how Clearstar approaches the risk.