A next-generation DeFi Execution Engine that brings institutional-grade risk-adjusted strategies onchain.

Why Makina?

Decentralized Finance is revolutionizing the financial landscape, unlocking new, diverse, investment opportunities for users to earn yield and manage capital onchain. As the industry evolves, sophisticated and highly profitable investment strategies are emerging, bringing institutional-grade returns to DeFi.

However, as navigating onchain capital allocation grows more complex and risky, it requires infrastructure that is flexible, future-proof, and secure—a singular execution engine with a broad set of features to simplify, improve, and optimize the execution of onchain strategies.

Makina provides infrastructure for risk-adjusted, high-performance yielding strategies through automated execution, cross-chain liquidity access, and real-time risk controls. By optimizing capital allocation and automating complex strategies, operators and AI Agents can leverage Makina’s execution engine to dynamically manage portfolios, adjust risk exposure, and efficiently deploy capital across chains and protocols—without the inefficiencies of manual execution or fragmented DeFi markets.

With Makina, anyone with a wallet can access tokenized strategies effortlessly, without requiring deep technical expertise or constant portfolio monitoring, benefiting from real-time yield optimization and built-in risk management—all while maintaining full custody and control.

How Does Makina Work?

Makina is designed to make it simple for users to access sophisticated DeFi strategies without actively managing execution.

1. Deposit Funds

   Users deposit assets into a Machine, a strategy-specific vault. Each Machine follows a predefined strategy with built-in risk management. In return, users receive Machine Tokens, which represent their share in the vault.

2. Automated Strategy Execution

   Once funds are deposited, Makina’s Operators, expert strategists or AI-driven agents, deploy assets across DeFi protocols to optimize yield. Execution is automated and constrained by strict risk controls.

3. Cross-Chain Operations

   Makina seamlessly bridges assets across different blockchains through Calibers, enabling access to the best opportunities while maintaining real-time accounting and security.

4. Monitor Performance

   Users can track portfolio performance, earnings, and risk exposure through a transparent dashboard, with revenue accruing continuously.

5. Withdraw Anytime

   Users can redeem their Machine Tokens for their share of the vault’s assets at any time, receiving their initial deposit plus any accrued yield, minus fees.

Example Strategies Powered by Makina

Makina’s execution engine is designed to support a wide range of institutional-grade investment strategies. Included are examples of strategies that could be deployed by Operators on Makina, unlocking new opportunities in DeFi:

• Large-Scale Yield Farming – Capture yield across multiple DeFi protocols, including decentralized exchanges (DEXes), lending platforms, and staking mechanisms, optimizing returns through strategic allocation and automated compounding.

• Delta-Neutral Yield Farming – Capture funding rate arbitrage across lending protocols and perpetual markets to generate returns.

• Liquidity Provisioning with Dynamic Hedging – Deploy capital into AMMs and lending markets while utilizing automated hedging mechanisms to minimize impermanent loss.

• Cross-Chain Leveraged Arbitrage – Efficiently allocate assets across multiple EVM-compatible chains to exploit discrepancies in lending rates, yield opportunities, or token prices.

• Systematic Long-Short Strategies – Utilize onchain derivatives and automated shorting mechanisms to generate risk-adjusted returns across market cycles.

• Volatility Harvesting & Options Selling – Implement volatility-selling strategies such as covered calls and cash-secured puts to generate yield from onchain options markets.

How Makina is Different

Makina pioneers a fundamentally new approach—a unified execution engine designed for institutional-grade strategies.

DeFi today is plagued by fragmentation, inefficiencies, and opaque risk management. Many protocols optimize yield but fail to provide secure, scalable, and composable execution. Makina is purpose-built to fill the need.

1. Makina’s execution model ensures infinite composability. Unlike siloed platforms, it integrates with any DeFi protocol across EVM chains, allowing seamless capital movement and strategy execution.

2. Risk management is a core feature of the protocol. At the smart contract level, Makina enforces pre-approved Instructions and dynamic exposure caps, preventing reckless allocation and providing a transparent, challengeable risk management system.

3. Makina’s execution model introduces a novel atomic execution mechanism that enables the instant unwind of positions in cases of emergency or increased risk, ensuring capital remains secure and responsive to market conditions.

4. Makina breaks down cross-chain barriers. Instead of being restricted to one ecosystem, users can maximize returns across Ethereum L1, L2s, and other EVM chains.

5. Makina allows for protocol Native Risk Underwriting, giving more risk-tolerant allocators an opportunity to earn higher yields by underwriting the exposure risks of the strategies. This adds another layer of risk mitigation, making Makina’s high-yielding assets prime collateral and pairing tokens.

6. Immediate protocol revenue from day one. Makina is built with a sustainable fee model from launch, ensuring ongoing value accrual to the ecosystem and its participants.

Makina is not just another DeFi strategy vault - it is the infrastructure that enables the next generation of onchain investment strategies.

What’s Next?

Makina is set to launch with flagship strategies that leverage its superior execution engine. As we continue developing, we’ll dive deeper into the protocol’s architecture, governance, $MAK tokenomics, and future roadmap in upcoming blog posts.

The future of onchain strategies is here—efficient, secure, and risk-optimized. Welcome to Makina.

Get Started & Follow Along

• Website: makina.finance

• Twitter: x.com/makinafi

• Discord: discord.gg/makinafi

• Telegram Announcement: t.me/makinafinance