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// Vertex Arena

Giving, not selling.

Workspace for founders working with Vertex. Track the deal, talk to the desk, run diligence from your editor. Listings, audits, market making and legal wrappers move around the cheque.

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200+
Portfolio
projects
[ALL TIME]
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$124M+
Founder
capital raised
[2023 to 2025]
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8.4x
Realised
portfolio MOIC
[EXIT MULTIPLE]
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Tier 1-2
Exchange and
MM network
[PARTNERS]
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Copilot · Score

Diligence in your editor.

Run a structured assessment of any project from inside Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP-aware client. Inputs are the project URL plus whatever files are in the current workspace. Output is a 100-point breakdown across team, product, traction, market and tokenomics, with the gaps surfaced in plain language.

vertex_score → in your editorv0.4
> vertex_score("project.url", files=[whitepaper.pdf, deck.pdf])
team 74 · two prior exits, no token launch yet
product 68 · live mainnet, retention curve flattens at week six
traction 59 · revenue real, growth concentrated in three wallets
market 81 · category timing favourable, two credible competitors
tokenomics 52 · vesting cliff cosmetic, treasury policy missing
composite 67 / 100
85+ fast-tracks past manual diligence on engagement.
  • Why it matters

    A scored read in fifteen seconds. Same shape every time. The diligence brief you would have written by hand, written for you and stored to your account.

  • Inputs

    Project URL plus files already open in your editor. Whitepapers, decks, GitHub repos, smart-contract addresses.

  • Output

    JSON for programmatic use, plus a markdown brief routable to Vertex investment relations the moment it reads strong.

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Copilot · Portfolio Match

Find the founder who has already built it.

Forty-seven projects across six programmes share infrastructure, hard-won lessons, and warm intros. Portfolio Match takes a description, runs a semantic match across the live portfolio, and surfaces who you should be talking to before the next decision ships.

DEX · Arbitrum

Camelot

Native concentrated-liquidity AMM on Arbitrum. Treasury and protocol-owned-liquidity playbook applicable to any L2-native venue.

Token allocation pacing across phases

0.91

AI infra

Rivalz Network

AI agents to real-world resources. Dual-chain on Dymension and Arbitrum. 1.8M community, 250M+ testnet transactions.

Cross-chain product launch sequencing

0.86

Wallet infra

Okto Wallet

Chain-abstraction wallet with embedded SDK across 16+ networks. 1M+ wallets, 250K MAU, mainnet live.

Embedded SDK distribution and BD

0.79

Analytics

Insight Genesis

On-chain analytics and market intelligence platform aimed at B2B users. Strong enterprise-pipeline experience.

B2B sales motion in Web3

0.74

Each match comes with a reason. Not a similarity number alone, but the specific overlap. If two portfolio companies have already solved your audit-firm bottleneck, the system says so and points to the person on the other end.

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Copilot · Fund Match

The right cheque, not the loud one.

120+ funds indexed with thesis, recent investments, and direct relationship status. Vertex partners surface first, ranked above the cold list, because cold outreach to a fund that already passed on your category last quarter wastes a month.

FundWhy matchScore
Multicoin CapitalVertex
Solana thesis fund, recent leads at your stage0.74
Pantera CapitalVertex
Direct Vertex relationship, infra mandate active0.71
Polychain CapitalVertex
L1-heavy book, $1B+ AUM, Vertex partner0.69
Framework Ventures
Recent series-A leads in adjacent vertical0.62
Wintermute
Trading desk plus token-warrant vehicle0.58
  • What it does

    Ranks funds against your thesis using embeddings over partner profiles, sectors and recent investment history. Vertex direct partners take priority over the cold list.

  • What you do with it

    Forward the match to the desk and we open the introduction. Decline and the rest of the list stays available for cold outreach.

  • Refresh

    Fund and investment data is refreshed weekly from public sources and partner-direct updates. Stale rankings get the old data flagged.

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Copilot · Hackathons

Distribution that actually compounds.

Live index of hackathons across Solana, EVM, BTC L2s, ZK, AI x crypto. Filter by chain, prize pool, deadline. The ones with strong organisers, the ones whose past winners are now in someone's portfolio, get flagged separately.

Solana · global

Solana Hyperdrive

Prize pool
$5M
Closes
14 days
EVM · in-person

ETHGlobal Cannes

Prize pool
$1.2M
Closes
32 days
BTC L2 · async

Bitcoin Foundry

Prize pool
$800K
Closes
21 days

We track which past winners ended up funded, listed, or acquired. The hackathons with a measured downstream outcome get a higher signal weight in your feed.

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Copilot · Jurisdiction

Pick the wrapper before you pick the wrong one.

Twenty-eight crypto-native jurisdictions covered. Tell the tool what you are building, where the team sits, what kind of raise you are running, what licensed activity you actually need. Get back a ranked routing recommendation with the trade-off you should accept and the alternates you should keep on the bench.

Verdict

ADGM is the strongest match. Cayman is the credible fallback.

Tier 1 LP comfort, English common law, foundation regime tested at scale. Substance overhead is real and the 250K USD minimum capital earns its keep only if you intend to run licensed activity.

DomicileSetupTaxScore
ADGM (UAE)14-28d9%78
Cayman10-21d0%71
Switzerland30-90d11.9%64
Singapore1-5d17%58
BVI5-14d0%52
Hong Kong5-14d16.5%49
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Copilot · Twitter Audit

Read the followers, not the follower count.

Audience-quality scan for any handle. Surface real KOL accounts versus purchased follow-throughs. Detect botnets seeded weeks before a token launch. Spot the cluster of accounts that auto-follow a wallet on first transaction. Founder-side and counterparty-side both useful.

Audience composition

Real62%
Inactive18%
Likely automated12%
Cluster-seeded8%

Notable followers

  • cobie · 850K, real
  • CryptoCobain · 240K, real
  • tarunchitra · 80K, real
  • ZoomerOracle · 12K, cluster-seeded 14 days ago

Verdict

Audience reads as organically built.

Two visible recent purchases (May, June) account for less than 4% of total. The KOL anchor list is consistent with a project at this stage and category.

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Copilot · Code Review

Pre-audit at the speed of a commit.

Drop a Solidity, Rust, or Move file and get the real audit-firm checklist applied. Reentrancy, access control, integer overflow, oracle exposure, MEV surface. The output is the brief you would have built before sending to a paid auditor, in the editor where you write.

src/Vault.sol · 412 lines4 findings
  • highWithdraw missing reentrancy guardVault.sol:218

    External call to recipient happens before state update. Use ReentrancyGuard or follow checks-effects-interactions.

  • mediumOwner-only modifier on rate-setterOracleAdapter.sol:74

    Rate adjustments authorised by single owner key. Production deployments should route through a 2-of-3 multisig or a timelock.

  • lowUnbounded loop in batch functionDistributor.sol:152

    batchClaim iterates over caller-supplied array without a max length. Out-of-gas DoS risk for any contract calling into this.

  • infoNo NatSpec on public interface*

    Adding NatSpec to public functions helps audit firms scope the engagement faster, can shave days off the timeline.

Findings get scoped against the same checklist the audit firms in our network use. If you are a portfolio project, full audit cost is covered through the retained-firm fund.

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Workspace · Messaging

The desk thread, in your sidebar.

Direct messages with the Vertex investment relations team and the rest of the cohort. Add a founder by Arena ID, accept the request, the conversation is live. No separate Slack to maintain. Receipts on the desk side guarantee your raise question does not get buried.

↗ desk · investment relationsonline
You

Sequencing thoughts on the next round. We have term sheets but want to align on timing first.

Vertex desk

Send the two strongest. We open Multicoin and Pantera this week if there's room. Token-warrant or pure SAFE only on this side.

You

Pure SAFE. I'll forward both decks now.

Vertex desk

Got them. Calling the partner Monday. Listing leads ready when you sign.

  • Add by Arena ID

    Every founder gets a five-character Arena ID. Share it on Twitter, in your deck, in a deal email. Recipients add you in the messages panel and the thread opens.

  • Read receipts on the desk side

    When you message investment relations, the desk sees the timestamp. No more wondering if the message landed in the right inbox.

  • Bell + email

    Inbound messages show up in the bell with a preview body. Email backup if you miss the tab.

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Workspace · Cofounder Matching

The other half of your cap table.

Vertex-vetted directory of operators looking for a co-founder seat or a senior contributor role. Filtered by skill set, region, and stage preference. Every profile is manually reviewed before it appears.

JK

EU · approved

Solidity / EVM

Looking for

Technical co-founder

AL

MENA · approved

Growth & community

Looking for

Distribution lead

RS

APAC · approved

Tokenomics & treasury

Looking for

Co-founder, late-prototype

Send a friend request, the thread opens in messages. From there it's a normal conversation. No matching algorithm playing matchmaker. Just a directory you can read end-to-end in fifteen minutes.

Workspace · Hall of Fame

The track record, in your dashboard.

Outcomes from the portfolio, anchored to the people and dates. Scroll to see what crossed the line.

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Listing · Tier 1 CEX, Q3 2024

Camelot

Native concentrated-liquidity DEX on Arbitrum. Listing landed alongside an existing market making relationship that absorbed launch volume without slippage.

02

Round · Series A, Vertex co-led

Rivalz Network

AI agents to real-world resources. Round closed in 11 days against a partner shortlist filtered through fund-match. Two of three checks came from existing portfolio relationships.

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Distribution · 1M wallets, embedded SDK partner

Okto Wallet

Chain-abstraction wallet with embedded SDK across 16 networks. Distribution play through a portfolio-side integration; both teams crossed 1M wallets in the same quarter.

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Acquisition · Strategic, Q1 2025

Insight Genesis

On-chain analytics platform aimed at B2B users. Strategic acquisition by an enterprise data partner six months after seed. Two cofounders rolled forward into the parent.