Strategy Oversight

●Draft

Status: Draft
Version: 0.1.0
Last Updated: 2026-05-16
Owner: Axodus Treasury

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Purpose

Strategy oversight defines how Treasury researches, tests, approves, limits, pauses, or prohibits financial strategies.

Scope

This document covers treasury trading, liquidity support, DeFi and DaaS, staking or yield, market making, arbitrage, hedging, derivatives, debentures, and ETF-oriented DaaS concepts. It does not claim any regulated ETF status, active debenture product, active derivative product, or guaranteed yield.

Strategy Categories

• Treasury trading for internal strategies under limits.
• Liquidity support when approved by governance and policy.
• DeFi and DaaS strategy allocation or productized financial infrastructure.
• Staking or yield only after protocol risk review.
• Market making when approved and monitored.
• Arbitrage under execution, liquidity, and counterparty controls.
• Hedging to reduce specific exposure when approved.
• Derivatives only with governance, risk, and compliance review.
• Debenture-like structures only after legal, governance, and policy review.
• ETF DaaS as an ETF-oriented design direction, not a regulated ETF claim.

Strategy Statuses

Strategies may be classified as Research, Watchlist, Paper or Simulated, Limited Pilot, Approved, Paused, Deprecated, or Prohibited.

Strategy Review Fields

Reviews should capture strategy category, objective, assets, platforms or protocols, expected risk, expected liquidity, capital required, maximum allocation, exit conditions, smart contract risk, counterparty risk, governance requirement, reporting frequency, reviewer, decision, and status.

Prohibited or Restricted Patterns

Treasury should restrict unbounded leverage, large allocations to unaudited high-risk contracts, opaque counterparties, strategies without exit plans, strategies without reporting, guaranteed-yield language, personal-benefit allocation, and any strategy that bypasses governance or policy.

Pause Conditions

Pause conditions include drawdown limit breach, protocol incident, exchange or counterparty issue, governance review request, security risk, liquidity deterioration, market regime change, reporting gap, or strategy behavior outside policy.

Risk Considerations

Strategies can lose capital and may introduce market, liquidity, leverage, counterparty, smart contract, operational, and governance risk.