Watch the video of this keynote speech on Gamma Prime’s YouTube channel:
Keynote speech with Evan Szu (Co-Founder and CEO at Gamma Prime)
In this talk, Evan Szu breaks down the real secret to superior investing: optimizing returns vs. risk through diversification and uncorrelated assets. Learn how blending hedge funds across crypto and traditional markets can drastically improve your Sharpe ratio — and why ten altcoins or stocks aren’t real diversification.
Explore how Gamma Prime provides access to over 100+ institutional-grade investment opportunities, from basis trades, staking, and liquidity provisioning to reinsurance, litigation finance, and forex strategies — all through a single platform.
Whether you’re a trader, investor, or fund, find out how you can join the Gamma Prime ecosystem and earn alpha through collaboration, referrals, or direct investment.
Evan Szu (Gamma Prime)
I’m going to show you how to invest three times better. I’ll give myself three minutes to do this.
Most people obsess about returns. It’s not about returns. If you want three times the S&P 500, you can do that right now—just lever up with futures. When the stock market goes up 5%, your account goes up 15%. When it drops 20%, your account drops 60%. So it’s not about returns—it’s about returns versus risk. And risk is the easiest part of the equation to modify.
Here’s how you get 3x better.
This is one hedge fund on our platform. The annualized return is about 22%, but it’s volatile—you’d need a vomit bag to hold it. Blend it with two other funds, and it gets smoother. Blend it with six, even smoother. After ten, the drawdown was only 0.65% during the tariff tantrum, while the overall return stayed around 22%.
The Sharpe ratio of that portfolio is 3.7, compared to 0.8 for the single fund—literally 3x better.
But there’s a catch. To get that result, those ten assets must be uncorrelated. They can’t all move together. Ten altcoins won’t work—they move as one. Even a diversified stock portfolio—Pfizer, Apple, McDonald’s—looks diverse until a market crash hits. Then everything falls together.
To truly diversify, you need unique, uncorrelated assets. Most hedge funds play with stocks, bonds, and government debt. Even Bitcoin behaves like a risk asset.
At Gamma Prime, we focus on the other side. We provide over a hundred diversified investment options—both crypto and non-crypto.
You can participate in basis trades, staking, liquidity provisioning, or long-short strategies. Many investors don’t realize you can secure a blockchain and get paid for it, or fund leverage in perpetuals.
Beyond crypto, we have StatArb like Citadel, reinsurance as Warren Buffett loves, and litigation finance—earning up to 18% funding lawsuits where the courts have already ruled. We also offer forex strategies, including one run by one of the best traders in the world, Hafizat from Malaysia.
This type of access is hard to find. I’ve been a trader for 32 years, and that’s why we built Gamma Prime—to make it accessible. It costs investors nothing. We earn on the fund side while giving you the tools and research to choose confidently.
We’re essentially a marketplace for unusual, diversified investments. If you know how to do basis trading or staking, great—you’ve got two out of ten. We’ll provide the other eight.
Gamma Prime currently hosts 108 funds with $3.2B in assets. We’re technically a Web3 RWA tokenization platform—but with real revenue.
We also organize major events—like this one, the biggest at Token 2049, and others in Dubai and Cannes. All are free, designed to connect you with alpha.
Our team includes PhDs from Stanford, TradFi veterans, and Web3 experts. You’ll see many of us around—come talk to us about how to get involved.
You can:
Invest directly in hedge funds through the platform—it’s free and non-custodial.
Refer people and earn from it—we share most of our revenue with our partners.
Provide alpha if you’re a trader or fund.
Collaborate as a VC or GP—many do both.
Help us build—we work with those who want to grow the ecosystem.
Most of our partners wear multiple hats. So come find us, talk to us, and see where you fit in.
Thank you.
