Artemis enabling onchain retail funds

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Jon Ma, CEO of Artemis, on building 24/7 AI agents for trading & investing

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Retail investors could also invest in funds on the Artemis platform using Hyperliquid vaults or some other new primitive.
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This points to Artemis moving from a research tool into an asset gathering layer. Hyperliquid vaults are a concrete example because they already let one trader run pooled capital while outside users deposit USDC, track PnL, drawdowns, and trade history, and share in gains while the vault leader takes a profit share. Artemis would add the missing top of funnel, the thesis, the track record, and the investor discovery layer that turns a trading primitive into a retail fund marketplace.

  • Hyperliquid vaults already behave like lightweight onchain funds. Anyone can deposit, leaders must keep at least 5% of the vault, user vaults have a 1 day lockup, and depositors can inspect open positions and historical performance before allocating. That makes vaults a ready made wrapper for creator led strategies.
  • The bigger Artemis idea is that research becomes distribution. The platform is being built around publishing theses, models, and verified track records across tokens, public equities, private companies, and prediction markets, with the broker or exchange underneath acting as execution plumbing rather than the main user experience.
  • This is different from older social investing products like Commonstock, which centered on feeds of disclosed trades. The Artemis concept depends on a stronger primitive, linking capital to a concrete investment memo and a live portfolio, so an allocator can see both the argument and the results before committing money.

The next step is a stack where publishing research, building an agent, and raising capital collapse into one workflow. If that model works, investing platforms will look less like broker apps with watchlists and more like marketplaces where independent managers win assets by showing repeatable judgment, with onchain vaults serving as the first low friction fund wrapper.