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Introducing Onchain Model Portfolios

By Miguel KudryCalendar iconPublished: 07/11/2025

Traditional model portfolios gave advisors efficient diversification but always required either full custody or a complex patchwork of accounts. Our new Onchain Model Portfolios remove that trade-off and supercharge their capabilities leveraging onchain rails and Decentralized Finance protocols. Every asset is held entirely onchain and under individual client custody, while L1 handles all transaction execution. Managers pick the asset allocation, set the weights, and let us handle the rest.

Transaction Signing

How it all works

1. Portfolio Construction: Assemble a model portfolio that blends

  • Long-only token sleeves: BTC, ETH, SOL, etc.
  • Yield-bearing DeFi vault: Morpho, Aave, real-world-asset pools, etc.
  • Actively managed strategies: Market-neutral funds, private-credit tokens, momentum sleeves. Each sleeve sits in the wallet, tracked as separate positions, yet the entire mix rolls up into a single model mandate you control.

2. Permissioning & Smart-Contract Discretion: As soon as you publish or pick a model, L1 spins up a dedicated Safe-powered, smart-contract wallet for every subscriber. Investors grant that wallet—and only that wallet—permission to execute transactions strictly within the mandate defined, with rules enforced at the smart-contract level. L1 also offers on-premise infrastructure solutions for managers to fully control the signing of transactions queued up by L1's rebalancing engine.

3. Self-Rebalancing in One Click: Adjust weights in your dashboard, click Update, and L1’s rebalancing engine automatically queues the required trades across every investor wallet. Each transaction settles onchain in real time and feeds straight back into your performance dashboard.

4. Seamless Funding & On-Ramp: For every new subscription, L1 opens a U.S. bank account in the investor’s name with its own routing and account number. Incoming wires or ACH deposits are auto-converted to USDC and deployed into the model instantly. Clients can also fund in-kind—transferring USDC or tokens from an external wallet—and the engine allocates them according to your target weights.

Design the model, set the rules, and let the system do the heavy lifting—so you can focus on generating alpha, not running ops.

Terminal Logs

Why this matters

  • Discretionary yet non-custodial: Clients sign a single permissioning transaction that grants L1 the power to execute trades inside a dedicated smart-contract wallet. Assets never leave the client-owned Safe, so control and transparency stay with the investor.
  • Allocate to any onchain asset or strategy: Tokens, LP positions, staking or looping vaults, permissioned hedge-fund contracts, even bespoke DeFi strategies―if it lives onchain it can live inside a model. This includes crypto-native assets as well as the growing number of traditional asset classes (RWAs) being tokenized.
  • End-to-end automation by L1: Rebalancing schedules, performance calculations, trade execution, gas fee optimization, and synchronizing every subscriber to target weights are all handled by L1. Portfolio managers press “Rebalance”, L1 does the rest.

From plain-vanilla to multi-strategy in one wrapper

Build a simple, long-only token portfolio or a sophisticated fund-of-funds that mixes yield farming, delta-neutral basis trades, and long-short DeFi hedge-fund mandates. Because each strategy is just another onchain position, combining them is as easy as assigning weights.

Transparency, control, and speed your clients can see

Every action is strictly executed onchain. Clients can watch allocations update live, withdraw at any time, and verify that L1 never steps outside the mandate they approved since everything is enforced at the smart-contract level.

Ready to launch your first onchain model?

From the Strategy builder, pick your assets or strategies, set your weights, and publish. We will spin up the wallets, handle the wires, and execute every rebalance while you focus on delivering investment insight instead of back-office ops.

Finally, discretionary management with non-custodial peace of mind.

Get the blueprint – it's time to go onchain

Blueprint

Click here to download our white paper on Onchain Model Portfolios.

Miguel Kudry

Miguel Kudry

Miguel is the CEO and co-founder of L1, the operating system for onchain wealth and asset management. Miguel has been building and investing in crypto since 2016.