Your Thesis Deserves Better Leverage.

StrikeSimple pitch deck · 2026

[ 02 ] Who We Are

Meet the Team.

Nina Yang

Nina Yang

CEO
  • Product Lead@ Sorella Labs
  • Frontend Lead@ Berachain
  • Frontend Lead@ Aperture Finance

CS, M.Eng @ McMaster University

Crypto-native founder with zero-to-one execution experience.

Eleanor Lee

Eleanor Lee

CTO
  • Independent Investor
  • Derivative Analyst@ Royal Bank of Canada
  • Marketing Consultant@ Unique Plastics · @ Chang Du Books

Math, B.Com @ McGill University

Derivatives strategist with TradFi experience.

[ 03 ] Insight

Traders Want Leverage, Not Necessarily Perps.

[ 04 ] What We Build

A Perps Replacement Based on Option Strategies.

Up Wing
Call
Up Range
Bull spread
Underlying Anchor
Covered call
Down Wing
Put
Down Range
Bear spread
Cash Anchor
Cash-secured put
[ 05 ] The Problem

Perps Suck, and We All Know It.

10/10: BTC fell 10.5% in half an hour on news of a 100% China tariff, with $19B liquidated. $1,000 on a 10× long perp was liquidated at 21:20 and ended at $0; $1,000 in a call fell to $292 at the low, then rebounded to $638. Illustrative.

Liquidation

One wick closes the trade. On 10/10, BTC fell 10.5% in half an hour and $19B of positions were liquidated.

What a year of funding cost a 10× long on Hyperliquid perps in 2025, charged on the whole $100,000 position held on $10,000 of margin: BTC 106% of the margin, ETH 85%, SOL 53%, HYPE 220%.

Unpredictable Funding

A holding cost nobody can forecast. In 2025, a year of funding on a 10× BTC long took 106% of its margin on Hyperliquid.

Fake Leverage

The leverage you see on perps is not real leverage. Hold enough margin to survive a normal week, and BTC's leverage comes down to 7.7×.

[ 06 ] The Problem

Options Suck to Use, and We All Know It.

Built Only for Institutional Traders

Strikes, expiries, Greeks and implied volatility. The option chain assumes a trading desk, so traders who just want leverage go back to perps.

Liquidity Spread Thin

Every strike and expiry is its own order book. Spread that thin, on-chain liquidity means wide spreads and size that is hard to fill.

[ 07 ] Solution

Better Leverage.

The leverage comes from the option inside each position. Nothing is borrowed, so three things change.

No Debt, No Liquidation

Every position is paid in full when you open it. There is no loan to recall and no liquidation price, so a wick can't end the trade before expiry.

No Funding, No Unpredictable Holding Risk

You pay once, up front. No recurring funding and no margin calls, so the cost of holding is known on day one.

Real Leverage, Safely Bigger Than Perps

Convexity raises your leverage when you're right and scales it down when you're wrong. Ranges list near 100× with nothing to liquidate.

Leverage, both ways: our leverage starts at 50.0×, level with perps; a day after BTC rises 1σ, 2σ or 3σ it is 57.5×, 80.0× and 117×, and after it falls as much it is 46.3×, 35.0× and 16.3×, while perps stay at 50.0×. Sample data from one product.
[ 08 ] Solution

Simplified Options.

Traders keep the decisions they already know. We handle the options.

Familiar Experience, Brand-New Product

Pick a market, a direction and a leverage, the way you would on a perp. The engine builds the option strategy behind it.

Golden Gates and Smart Indicators

Gates check each trade before it opens. Indicators then track attention, realized leverage, theta burn and breakeven, so the trade stays stress-free from entry to exit.

Centralized Liquidity

A curated set of strategies instead of the whole chain, so liquidity pools in one place and poor contracts are filtered out.

Position status for a BTC up wing opened 3 days ago at 12.0× leverage, each indicator rated by urgency: suggested holding period 1–2 weeks (calm), attention score 20/100 (calm), realized leverage 8.4× (watch), leverage efficiency 20/100 (act soon), theta burn −1.8% a day (watch), +3.1% to breakeven (calm). Illustrative numbers.
[ 09 ] Demo

Get Your Leverage in a Few Clicks.

Pick your market, direction and desired exposure. Our proprietary engine finds the best strategy that expresses your thesis within your risk bounds.

demo.strikesimple.com
StrikeSimple app. My positions: a CRCL range at 42.7× leverage, an NVDA wing at 13.6× and an AAPL range at 3.8×. Available strategies: short AAPL and S&P 500 ranges from 99.5× down to 88.1× leverage, with filters for the underlying, direction, leverage and holding period.
[ 10 ] Mission

A Comprehensive Trading Life Cycle

We’re building tools for the whole trading journey, so every idea can become a considered trade and every trade can inform the next.

[ 11 ] How It Works

Architecture.

[ 12 ] Business Model

How StrikeSimple Makes Money.

Primary

Collateral Carry

Retain a disclosed share of eligible collateral yield while preserving the assets needed for settlement.

Secondary
  • Payment for Order Flow (PFOF)
  • Maker and Taker Trading Fees
  • Vault or Managed-Strategy Fees
[ 13 ] TAM

Two Established Markets, One Product Gap.

$6.7T Top 10 perp DEX volume

On-chain traders already use directional leverage.

$1.35T Deribit options turnover

Options already support substantial trading activity.

StrikeSimple targets the gap in accessible option-based trading.

[ 14 ] Go-to-Market

Start Where Leverage Hurts Most.

Win the traders perps cost the most, convert them with the product itself, then widen both sides of the market.

  1. Acquire

    The Wedge

    Direct 1:1 outreach to active perp DEX traders who are bleeding capital to funding rates and liquidations.

  2. Convert

    Product-Led Conversion

    Airdrop short-dated, out-of-the-money strategy assets as risk-free trials that drive registration, education and retention without marketing spend.

  3. Expand

    Organic Growth & Expansion

    Keep shipping products for on-chain leverage seekers, one trading style at a time.

    Delta · directionVega · volatilityTheta · time decayMacro theses
  4. Supply

    Supply-Side Expansion

    Onboard capital providers to deepen liquidity and expand institutional adoption.

    Market makersVault curatorsCrypto funds
[ 15 ] Product Roadmap

From Internal Alpha to GA.

[ 16 ] The Ask

Raising a $2M Pre-Seed.

$2MRaise
$20MPost-money valuation cap
SAFEInstrument

It takes StrikeSimple from Internal Alpha through Private Alpha and Private Beta, to Seed readiness in 2027.

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