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Valour, the crypto ETP issuer owned by DeFi Technologies, has launched its first crypto hedge fund, using AI models from Swiss manager Neuronomics AG to decide how much to hold in each digital asset. Open only to professional and qualified investors, the Smart Crypto Fund SP marks Valour’s first move beyond the 100-plus exchange-traded products that built its business.
The new fund is aimed at professional and qualified investors and will use proprietary AI models to adjust portfolio allocations as market conditions change. Valour said the strategy is designed to avoid maintaining a fixed allocation to a single cryptocurrency or static basket of assets.
The launch represents a new direction for Valour, which has built its digital-asset business primarily around exchange-traded products, or ETPs. The company says it now offers more than 100 digital-asset ETPs globally.
Smart Crypto Fund SP is the first crypto hedge fund established under Valour Funds SPC, a Cayman Islands company registered with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.
The new business combines Valour’s institutional fund infrastructure with Neuronomics’ systematic investment capabilities. DeFi Technologies holds a minority stake in Neuronomics, according to the announcement.
Johan Wattenström, CEO and chairman of DeFi Technologies, said the launch represents an expansion of Valour’s investment platform.
“With the Smart Crypto Fund, we are expanding Valour’s investment offering beyond exchange traded products and into actively managed hedge fund strategies,” — Johan Wattenström, CEO and Chairman, DeFi Technologies.
The fund will not simply track the performance of Bitcoin, Ethereum or another individual cryptocurrency. Instead, its strategy will regularly reassess a selection of liquid digital assets and determine how much capital should be allocated to each position.
According to the company, the approach is designed to give the crypto hedge fund flexibility to increase exposure when its models identify more favorable conditions and reduce exposure when risk indicators deteriorate.
The strategy also operates within predefined risk budgets, individual-asset limits, concentration controls and restrictions on overall market exposure.
The core of the crypto hedge fund strategy is Neuronomics’ proprietary AI ensemble, which consists of complementary models designed to analyze market information.
The models examine price, volume and other market data across short- and medium-term time horizons. Their stated purpose is to distinguish potentially useful market signals from noise while assessing expected returns, risk and prevailing market conditions.
Those assessments are then used to determine position sizes across the fund’s portfolio.
Neuronomics said the system is also designed to respond to changing market conditions rather than maintain constant exposure. Trading instructions will be executed through algorithms selected according to factors including market liquidity and expected transaction costs.
“Digital asset markets generate enormous volumes of rapidly changing information, but the challenge is determining which signals matter, over what horizon and under which market conditions,” — Dr. Michael Kometer, Founder and CEO, Neuronomics AG.
Kometer said the firm’s AI system is intended to convert its forecasts into portfolio decisions while controlling the amount of risk taken.
“Our proprietary AI ensemble helps separate signal from noise and translates forecasts into disciplined portfolio decisions. It guides what we hold, how much risk we take and when we reduce exposure,” — Dr. Michael Kometer, Founder and CEO, Neuronomics AG.
The company’s description of the crypto hedge fund does not guarantee returns. Instead, it describes a systematic strategy intended to manage volatility and downside exposure in a market characterized by rapidly changing prices and varying liquidity.
The Smart Crypto Fund SP structure brings together Valour’s digital-asset infrastructure and Neuronomics’ investment-management capabilities with external providers handling functions including fund administration, custody, banking, execution and auditing.
Valour said the structure separates investment management, administration, custody and execution, creating an operational framework for the crypto hedge fund.
The move follows Valour’s expansion of its broader digital-asset investment platform. The company has previously focused heavily on ETPs that provide access to cryptocurrencies and other digital assets through traditional market infrastructure.
In January 2026, Valour announced UK regulatory approval for selected Bitcoin and Ethereum staking ETPs and began offering those products to UK retail investors through the London Stock Exchange.
A year earlier, the company had expanded its ETP lineup on European exchanges, reaching 99 listed products in September 2025.
The new crypto hedge fund therefore adds an actively managed component to a business that has primarily provided exchange-traded exposure to digital assets.
For investors eligible to participate, the Smart Crypto Fund SP is positioned as a different type of product from Valour’s listed ETPs. Rather than providing exposure through a publicly traded security tracking an underlying asset or strategy, the fund is designed to make active portfolio decisions based on Neuronomics’ models.
The launch gives Valour a new route into actively managed digital-asset investment products as the company seeks to broaden its institutional offering.
DeFi Technologies said Valour Funds SPC was established specifically to provide professionally managed investment strategies focused on digital assets and related opportunities. Smart Crypto Fund SP is the first fund established under the structure.
Neuronomics, meanwhile, describes itself as a Swiss portfolio manager focused on applying artificial intelligence, quantitative finance and computational neuroscience to digital-asset investment management.
The crypto hedge fund will rely on the firm’s market forecasts to determine portfolio allocations while operating within defined risk controls.
Valour’s expansion into actively managed products also follows a broader effort by DeFi Technologies to develop institutional investment vehicles beyond listed ETPs. In March, the company said it was developing products including actively managed certificates, hedge-fund structures and fund-of-funds strategies as part of Valour’s wider institutional expansion.
The launch does not establish that the AI strategy will outperform passive digital-asset investments. Its stated objective is instead to use systematic analysis to determine when and how much exposure the fund should take.
Valour said Smart Crypto Fund SP is intended for professional and qualified investors, meaning access is not presented as a general retail investment product.
The crypto hedge fund launch consequently marks a shift in Valour’s product strategy: from primarily offering exchange-traded access to digital assets toward managing investment strategies directly within a dedicated fund structure.
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