Why MakeBanc?

Distribution and infrastructure without setting up fund-level infrastructure. You bring the strategy and the investor relationships; MakeBanc is the shared infrastructure both sides plug into.

You accidentally became an operations team:

You set out to do one thing: turn capital into returns, using your edge.

That's the business. Or at least, that's what you thought it was. Then everything else arrived, and one by one everything adjacent to the strategy itself became your job:

Most strategy managers aren't overwhelmed by markets. They're overwhelmed by everything standing between them and the market.

Every strategy business secretly becomes an infrastructure business. MakeBanc is that infrastructure: it takes the highlighted work off your plate so you can get back to the only three boxes that were ever the point.

What you get:

Trade-only API access to a sub-account at an institutional-grade custodian. Capital (crypto or fiat) flows in through ERC-7540 vaults you don't need to deploy. NAV is calculated by the platform's oracle. Performance fees crystallise automatically. Statements go to your allocators on your behalf. You focus on the strategy.

You don't become an employee. You don't delegate IP. You don't give up performance attribution. You operate independently, on infrastructure that handles everything except returns.

What you don't get:

Fund administration in the regulated sense. No audit, regulatory filings, or investor reporting beyond on-chain reporting.

Marketing on your behalf. The platform displays your strategy alongside others by objective rules. It doesn't promote yours over theirs.

Capital allocation decisions. Investors choose. The platform shows them the strategies you have invited them to. They decide what to do next.

A regulated brokerage relationship. The platform does not execute trades on your behalf or act as a broker-dealer. Your trading runs through Binance, with you as trade authority on the SMA.

The core relationship:

Three legal facts that affect everything below.

You are independent. Not an agent, employee, or representative of MakeBanc. The strategy is yours. The IP is yours. The performance attribution is yours.

The payment processing fee is for technology infrastructure. It is not a placement fee, distribution fee, or advisory commission. The legal characterization of the fee and any licensing implications are addressed in the Infrastructure Agreement and supporting legal opinions.

These distinctions matter. They shape the agreement structure and the boundaries both sides respect. Detail in the Infrastructure Agreement.

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The traditional path:

Stand up a fund. Cayman or BVI master-feeder. Fund administrator. Auditor. Lawyers for the offering docs. Prime broker. Compliance officer. Investor onboarding desk. Quarterly reports. Annual audits.

Fixed cost: hundreds of thousands per year before a dollar is allocated. At $50m AUT, workable. At $5m, uneconomic.

The path from "I have a strategy that works" to "I am running it for external capital" is gated by AUT.

The MakeBanc path:

One connection.

You get an SMA sub-account at an institutional-grade custodian connected to Binance with trade-only API access. The vault contract handles allocator capital. The platform handles NAV, performance fees, reporting, and on-chain settlement.

No fund formation. No fund administrator. No allocator onboarding desk. No quarterly investor letter.

The payment processing fee on your earned fees is the cost. The rate depends on your tier, which depends on the total AUT you run through the platform (see The Tier Program). For most managers, this is meaningfully cheaper than running an equivalent fund structure.

What this changes:

Who can run a strategy for external capital.

A manager who needed $50m to make a fund economic can now operate at $1m, $5m, or $10m with the same operational foundation. The platform doesn't lower the bar for who should be running money; you still need a real strategy, real risk management, real track record.

It lowers the bar for how to operate.

What stays the same:

What's yours	What it means
Your strategy IP	The trading logic is yours. The platform has no access to your signals, models, or risk methodology.
Your performance attribution	Gains are attributed to you. The platform displays performance under your name, with appropriate disclaimers.
Your independence	You are not selected, vetted, recommended, or endorsed by the platform. You can be on multiple platforms, and run an independent fund alongside.
The risk that strategies fail	The platform reduces operational risk (technology, custody, execution) but not strategy risk. A poorly-performing strategy loses money for allocators, who can redeem.

What the platform genuinely solves:

Three things that slow asset managers down disproportionately.

Allocator onboarding friction. Traditional funds spend significant time onboarding individual allocators. KYC, subscription docs, wires. The platform handles all of this. By the time an investor sees your strategy, they're KYC'd and funded.

Reporting overhead. The platform produces daily reports, monthly statements with performance fee calculations, and NAV history. You don't produce any of this.

Compliance footprint. The platform absorbs the regulatory perimeter around the technology layer. You operate within the terms you agreed. Your own regulatory obligations in your home jurisdiction remain yours to manage.

What this is, in very simple terms:

Infrastructure that lowers the operational cost of running an open strategy.
Not a fund-in-a-box.
Not a guarantee of allocator interest.
Not a substitute for a strategy that works.

If you have a strategy with a defensible track record and want a low-friction path to external capital, the platform was built for you.

If you're pre-track-record or running an unproven strategy, the platform isn't designed for that. Running disciplined risk management and securing your own credentials assume a professional manager.

Start with the onboarding documentation.