Congratulations to @vault_st on launching the CARRY vault, and thank you for trusting us with the infrastructure behind its delta-neutral strategies.
CARRY includes delta-neutral strategies that add to its yield.
Our infrastructure partner for these is @arkisxyz.
Here's how the gold trade inside CARRY works:
Long: XAUT, levered on @Aave on CEXs
Short: gold futures on @Bybit_Official and @Hyperliquid, via Arkis DMA subaccounts
Why Arkis: better trading fees through their VIP tiers, and an off-exchange setup that reduces our counterparty risk with the exchanges.
Arkis has completed its SOC 2 Type I examination.
SOC 2 is the standard institutional clients and their due-diligence teams use to assess the security controls of a service provider.
The report confirms that the controls protecting Arkis systems and client data are designed to meet the AICPA Trust Services Criteria.
Arkis team is attending @token2049 in Singapore from 5 to 9 October. Our co-founders @serjxyz and @proskurinalex will be there to discuss prime brokerage for digital assets.
Please reach out if you would like to arrange a meeting.
The fourth piece in our CTO's series on how Arkis approaches risk.
This one covers operator access - how we provision it through the @island_io Enterprise Browser.
I am continuing my series on how @arkisxyz approaches risk. This one covers the part that code cannot reach.
An operator at Arkis still has to open a master account, rotate an API key, or maintain a withdrawal address book, and all of it happens in a browser.
So we looked for a secure enterprise browser that already had the controls we needed, and found it in @island_io. Every session now runs through it, and our operators never handle venue passwords.
arkis.xyz/blog/how-arkis-gov…
Arkis has deployed @island_io Enterprise Browser across every account our operators touch at centralized exchanges. It holds the credentials, sets which venues each operator can reach, and records each session.
@island_io joins @spearbit and @CopperHQ among our partners: smart contract verification, off-exchange settlement, and now operator access. Full announcement: arkis.xyz/blog/arkis-secures…
Arkis admits the staked position to a margin account that spans CeFi, DeFi and TradFi, so it earns and supports credit across every venue a client trades.
Staking on Arkis runs through @P2Pvalidator. Read the full case study below.
.@arkisxyz integrated P2P.org’s staking infrastructure into its platform, allowing institutions to use staked assets as trading collateral without unstaking them first.
Validator operations, credit and risk management, and asset custody remain separated across distinct parties.
Full case study 👇
p2p.org/success-story/arkis-…
Why Arkis keeps client collateral off-exchange, from our CTO.
Today’s hack at Bitget shows why @arkisxyz built its venue access on off-exchange settlement. Arkis clients trade on Bitget through @CopperHQ’s ClearLoop, so collateral stays in Copper’s custody and the exchange never holds it. This is one layer of our broader security framework which governs how client assets are held, allocated and monitored across every venue.
arkis.xyz/blog/how-arkis-gov…
Today we are launching Arkis Concourse: one onboarding to more than 20 OTC derivatives desks. A single request reaches every desk at once, and the quotes come back together.
Those desks quote forwards, options and total return swaps, on crypto majors, altcoins and equities, including pre-IPO stock.
Price discovery can run across the whole panel, or with each desk directly through privacy-protected chats. Anonymity holds on both sides: each desk sees only the request, and the user sees only the terms that come back.
Resulting positions can sit inside the portfolio Arkis already margins, so they offset against the rest of the book rather than tying up collateral of their own.
Read the new case study from @P2Pvalidator on how we integrated staking at Arkis.
Staked assets can be posted as collateral without unstaking first, so the position keeps earning protocol rewards while it supports credit.
Arkis team is attending @avax summit in New York on September 16 and 17.
Our co-founders @serjxyz and @proskurinalex will be there to discuss prime brokerage for digital assets, please reach out if you would like to arrange a meeting.
Arkis integrated ClearLoop, @CopperHQ collateral mobility network for institutional digital asset markets.
Now a fund borrowing from Arkis can hold the collateral behind its exchange trading in one pool custodied at Copper.
Read more: arkis.xyz/blog/arkis-integra…
Arkis clients can now stake supported assets through @P2Pvalidator and use the staked position as collateral on Arkis.
@parshakov2603, VP of Strategic Solutions at @P2Pvalidator, joined our recent webinar to talk about the infrastructure that underpins staking on Arkis: multi-cloud, geo-redundant validators, SOC 2 certification, and zero slashing incidents.
Watch the video below for the full walkthrough.
Arkis is partnering with @P2Pvalidator to bring staking onto the platform, so funds trading on the platform can put staked assets to work as collateral. Our CPO @proskurinalex explains how it works below. Full announcement: arkis.xyz/blog/introducing-s…
Our Arkis Alpha webinar is happening on August 10, and we've got an exciting new guest - Artemiy Parshakov, VP of Strategic Solutions at @P2Pvalidator joins @proskurinalex and @EdgeCapitalMgmt team to talk about how staking fits into the trades Arkis Alpha finds. Register here: luma.com/xvado4jx
A 4% funding spread can yield 5x with Arkis leverage behind it. Join us on August 10th, we will showing exactly how you can find and size these trades with Arkis Alpha: luma.com/xvado4jx. Our CPO @proskurinalex will demo the tool and Roman Kozaev from @EdgeCapitalMgmt will join to share how his team uses it.
Our CTO @akopnin breaks down in detail how the governance board we built with @sparkfinance verifies every Arkis release.
We keep building at @arkisxyz to make sure both what we release and how we release it can be verified. We started with attestation, built with @spearbit. Now we've established a governance board with @sparkfinance , responsible for enforcing that record before any release ships.
Here are the layers we built into that enforcement process: Kyverno rejects unattested images before they can run, an MPC wallet separates the team that builds a release from the team that can approve it and the governance board executes verification on their own infrastructure, recomputing the release identifier and checking every implementation hash against the attestation before signing.
None of these layers share a failure mode: compromise one, including us, and the next still catches it, so a single break-in is never enough. This is the security institutions lending into Arkis get - protection for their capital that no single point of failure can break.
arkis.xyz/blog/how-we-enforc…
Security at Arkis is getting harder to bypass. Today, we are launching an institutional governance board with @sparkfinance. Every Arkis' smart contract now requires the board's multisig approval before it can be deployed or upgraded. For the funds lending through Arkis, this reduces counterparty risk: the controls are enforced onchain and can be examined directly in due diligence.
arkis.xyz/blog/arkis-establi…
