What is Orion?
Orion Finance is a permissionless portfolio management protocol designed to optimize onchain capital efficiency while minimizing costs and duplication of efforts for users. It enables anyone to create, manage, and invest in structured portfolios through modular, yield-bearing vaults.
At its core, Orion is building a next-generation permissionless infrastructure that democratizes access to advanced portfolio strategies and lowers the barrier to entry for managers to participate in a marketplace of indexes and actively managed DeFi products.
We are building Millennium. On-chain.
Why Does Orion Exist?
DeFi is powerful, yet fragmented and riddled with inefficiencies. Traditional vaults are gas-intensive and the barrier to entry for new managers is steep, requiring expertise in both DeFi and Asset Management.
Orion aims to bridge this gap by providing an on-chain and off-chain infrastructure that allows for:
- Efficiency – Transactions bundling1, batching2 and peer-to-peer netting3 to reduce costs.
- Permissionlessness – Anyone can create and manage portfolios, without gatekeepers.
- Customization – Vaults can be tailored with different risk/reward profiles.
Orion is not just another DeFi vault protocol. It’s infrastructure — a foundational layer for asset managers, treasury managers, and users seeking better onchain portfolio management.
Key Features
Financial Machine Learning
Orion defines and integrates Financial Machine Learning primitives into the protocol, enabling data-driven decision-making for both active and passive strategies. By providing institutional-grade quant infrastructure for on-chain asset management, we lower entry barriers for portfolio managers.
Confidential EVM Smart Contracts
Orion integrates advancements in cryptography (e.g. fhEVM) to power private vault strategies and encrypted performance tracking; protecting manager alpha and user privacy, while maintaining verifiable onchain outcomes.
Bundling, Batching and Netting
Orion bundles multidimensional rebalancing orders into a single transaction to reduce costs, batches transactions across multiple vaults to democratize gas fees. Finally, peer-to-peer bartering further optimizes execution, minimizing unnecessary gas fees.
This leads to a scalable tokenomics, not only with respect to Total Value Locked, but also with respect to the number of users and active products.
Permissionless Vaults
Vaults are ERC-4626-compliant and extend beyond single-asset yield strategies, supporting multi-asset rebalancing with automated execution.