Grvt (GRVT) - Self-Custodial Earn, Trade and Invest Platform

Your Money Spends Most of Its Life Waiting#

Think about where your capital actually sits right now. Some of it is parked on an exchange earning nothing while you wait for a setup. Some of it is locked inside a yield product that will not let go for months. Some of it is in a brokerage account that closes at 4pm and does not know your crypto exists. Three accounts, three custodians, three separate silos, and the same dollar can only ever do one job at a time. Traditional finance built it this way, and most crypto platforms simply copied the layout. Meanwhile the products that actually compound wealth, the institutional funds and structured credit strategies, sit behind six and seven figure minimums and accreditation checks that quietly tell you that you are not invited.

One Balance That Earns, Invests, and Trades at the Same Time#

Grvt collapses all of it into a single self-custodial balance. Every dollar you deposit starts earning a base yield the moment it lands, with no opt-in and no lockup. That same dollar is simultaneously available as collateral to trade crypto, equities, and commodities, and it can be allocated into institutional-grade investment products starting from one dollar with no accreditation requirement. Nothing needs to be unwound, moved, or converted between products. Built by a founding team out of Goldman Sachs, Meta, and DBS, running on a purpose-built ZK Layer 2 with proofs settled to Ethereum, and audited by Spearbit DAO and NCC Group, Grvt is what happens when Wall Street infrastructure discipline meets on-chain self-custody. Here is exactly how it works and what the GRVT token does inside it.

What is Grvt coin?#

What does Grvt do?#

💰 Earn by Default: Every deposit into Grvt begins accruing a base yield the instant it arrives, with no staking screen, no opt-in toggle, and no lockup period. The yield is drawn from a blend of traditional and on-chain sources including US Treasury rate exposure, battle-tested DeFi lending markets such as Aave, and tokenized money market funds. There is no idle balance on the platform, because idle capital is treated as a design flaw rather than a user choice.

📊 Trade Across Crypto, Equities, and Commodities: Grvt runs spot trading and perpetual futures across a market list that stretches far beyond crypto. Traders can take positions on major tokens, on global equities including Samsung, SK Hynix, Hyundai, Nvidia, Apple, SpaceX, and OpenAI, and on commodities such as gold and silver, all from one account and all available around the clock without brokerage hours or market holidays.

🏦 Institutional Investing From One Dollar: The Invest vertical opens curated, institutional-grade products with no minimums and no accreditation gate. Offerings include the Grvt Liquidity Provider vault, a managed market-making strategy run alongside an institutional market-making partner, and curated real-world asset bundles built on products from established asset managers, including a bundle backed by a BlackRock AAA-rated CLO ETF. These are the kinds of products a private bank normally reserves for clients holding seven-figure balances.

🔗 Composable Collateral Across Every Product: This is the mechanic that ties the whole platform together. A position held in Earn or Invest can serve as trading margin without being sold, redeemed, or unwound. A tokenized money market fund can back a leveraged trade and go straight back to earning yield the moment the trade is closed. Capital never has to be liquidated in one place in order to be useful in another.

🔐 Genuine Self-Custody Throughout: Assets live in smart contracts and move only when a key that the user alone controls signs the transaction. Grvt cannot forge trades, invent balances, or move user funds on its own initiative, and withdrawals can only be routed to addresses the user has pre-approved. Even if the platform halted trading entirely, the funds would remain under the user’s control.

🕶️ Private Execution on ZK Rails: Grvt runs on a custom Layer 2 built with the ZKsync ZK Stack in Validium mode. Validity proofs settle to Ethereum mainnet so the state is mathematically verifiable by anyone, while individual order and position data stays off the public chain. Traders get centralized-exchange execution quality without broadcasting their positions, strategy, or liquidation levels to every bot scanning the mempool.

📈 RWA Vault AMM for On-Demand Liquidity: The real-world asset vault holds a curated basket of tokenized products and runs an automated market maker that continuously quotes both a buy and a sell price for each one. Depositors collect the underlying fund yield plus the spread the AMM captures, while anyone wanting to enter or exit gets a venue that is available on demand rather than on a monthly redemption cycle.

🎟️ Membership Utility for the GRVT Token: GRVT is the membership key across every vertical of the platform. Holding or staking it unlocks reduced platform fees on savings products, lower trading fees, improved margin efficiency, advanced trading tools, and access to a broader range of curated investment products. Supply is hard-capped at one billion tokens on Ethereum with no minting authority and no programmatic emission.

Who are behind Grvt?#

Hong Gyu Yea - Co-Founder and CEO

• Spent close to a decade as a trader at Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong
• Rose to Executive Director at Goldman Sachs before leaving to build Grvt
• Studied business at Yonsei University in Seoul
• Left a rising Wall Street career in the immediate aftermath of the FTX collapse, on the thesis that centralized counterparties are single points of systemic failure
• Has publicly framed the mission as building the Goldman Sachs of on-chain finance, bringing institutional-quality products to people who were never allowed access to them

Aaron Ong - Co-Founder and CTO

• Served as tech lead on two data privacy frameworks at Meta
• Previously engineered at Cronos Labs and Sea
• Graduated from Yale-NUS College in Singapore
• Brings the privacy engineering background directly into Grvt’s ZK architecture, where confidential trade execution is a core product requirement rather than an add-on

Matthew Quek - Co-Founder and COO

• Led the Blockchain and Payments team at DBS Bank in Singapore, exploring blockchain integration inside a major traditional financial institution
• Served as project manager for Singapore’s National Digital Identity Project at GovTech Singapore
• Previously worked at Harvest Capital Partners and served in the Singapore Armed Forces
• Holds a degree in Political Science and Computer Science from Columbia University
• Regularly represents Grvt in public discussions on privacy, security, and on-chain wealth infrastructure

Why This Team Inspires Confidence#

Wall Street Execution Pedigree: A CEO who spent nearly ten years trading at Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs, reaching Executive Director, understands market microstructure, risk systems, and institutional compliance from the inside. That is a materially different starting point from a team learning derivatives risk management on the job, and it shows in the decision to launch the hardest vertical, perpetual futures, first and build the easier products on top of that foundation.

Big Tech Privacy Engineering: Transaction confidentiality on a public ledger is one of the genuinely difficult problems in the space. Having a CTO who led data privacy frameworks at Meta means the ZK Validium architecture was designed by someone who has shipped privacy infrastructure at a scale most crypto teams never encounter.

Institutional Grade Backing: Grvt has raised roughly $34M in total, including a $19M Series A co-led by ZKsync and Further Ventures, an Abu Dhabi based capital markets infrastructure firm backed by sovereign wealth, with EigenCloud and 500 Global also participating. ZKsync and EigenCloud are not passive check writers here, they are infrastructure partners whose own technology Grvt is built on, which aligns their incentives directly with the platform’s success.

Regulation Treated as a Foundation: Grvt secured a licence under Bermuda’s Class M framework, positioning itself as a licensed and regulated on-chain exchange rather than an offshore venue hoping regulators stay busy elsewhere. The team has been explicit that compliance should be the base layer for DeFi, not something bolted on after the fact, and has been in active discussions with regulators across Asia, Europe, and North America.

Independent Security Verification: Smart contract code, custody logic, and settlement mechanics have been reviewed by Spearbit DAO, while infrastructure security has been independently penetration tested by NCC Group. Both are firms that audit to institutional standards rather than crypto-native ones, which matters for a platform asking users to hold serious capital on it.

Demonstrated Traction Before the Token: Grvt shipped mainnet and built real usage before the token existed. The platform has processed hundreds of billions of dollars in cumulative trading volume, serves well over one hundred thousand traders, has attracted hundreds of millions in deposits, and reports that roughly two thirds of its traders return every single week. It also runs a market list of well over 150 markets with substantial open interest, all fully non-custodial.

Deep Market Maker Support: Liquidity is backed by a roster of sixteen leading market makers including Galaxy Trading Asia, Amber Group, Flow Traders, Selini Capital, and QCP. Institutional liquidity partners of that calibre do not commit to venues they have not diligenced thoroughly.

What to Know Before You Buy Grvt#

1. Hard-Capped Supply With No Inflation

The total supply is fixed at one billion GRVT with no minting authority and no programmatic emission schedule. Whatever exists is all that will ever exist. For anyone who has watched a position quietly diluted by continuous token emissions, a genuinely fixed cap removes an entire category of downside pressure from the equation.

2. A Real Business Sits Behind the Token

GRVT is not a token in search of a product. It is the membership layer of a platform that was already processing serious volume, holding substantial deposits, and generating fee revenue before the token launched. The utility is immediate and concrete: lower trading fees, reduced platform fees on savings, better margin efficiency, and access to a wider set of investment products.

3. Long Lockups on Team and Investor Allocations

Both the team and investor allocations received zero tokens at launch, followed by a twelve month cliff and then a thirty six month vesting schedule. That structure keeps the people building the platform economically committed for years rather than positioned to exit early, and it removes a large block of supply from near-term circulating pressure.

4. Broad Exchange Access From Day One

GRVT launched simultaneously across an unusually wide roster of venues including Binance Alpha, MEXC, Bybit, KuCoin, Bitget, OKX, LBank, and Coinbase deposits, plus on-chain liquidity on both Ethereum and BSC. That breadth means deep liquidity, tight spreads, and easy entry and exit regardless of which platform you already use.

5. Direct Exposure to the RWA Narrative

Tokenized real-world assets are one of the fastest growing segments in crypto, with major asset managers including BlackRock, Apollo, Franklin Templeton, and State Street issuing products directly on-chain. Grvt is positioned as the consumer storefront that connects that institutional supply to ordinary users, and it already offers RWA bundles, equity perpetuals across dozens of global names, and partnerships with infrastructure providers including Plume and Centrifuge.

6. Utility That Compounds With Every Integration

Grvt is designed as an aggregation layer rather than a standalone application. Every new yield source, investment product, or tokenized asset that gets integrated widens the product surface that GRVT membership unlocks. The token’s utility grows automatically as the platform grows, without requiring any change to the token itself.

7. Self-Custody as the Default Setting

Users never hand over their assets to hold a position on Grvt. Funds sit in smart contracts, withdrawals require a signature from a key only the user holds, and withdrawals can only go to addresses the user has approved in advance. For anyone who lived through the exchange collapses of recent years, that structural guarantee is worth a great deal on its own.

How to buy Grvt?#

Grvt is listed on Binance Alpha, which means you can purchase GRVT directly on Binance without touching a decentralized exchange. Binance is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world by trading volume, and its Alpha section is a curated showcase for early stage projects that have passed Binance’s screening process, so tokens listed there benefit from deep liquidity and a large ready audience of buyers from the first day of trading. If you already hold an account, buying GRVT there takes only a few taps.

Buy Grvt on Binance

GRVT is also listed on MEXC, which is a solid alternative if you prefer a different exchange or want to compare pricing across platforms. Trading pairs are quoted against stablecoins, so it helps to have some USDT or USDC ready in your account before you place the order. MEXC is known for listing new tokens quickly and keeping trading fees low, which makes it a comfortable entry point for early stage assets.

Buy Grvt on MEXC

If you would rather buy on-chain, GRVT trades on GMGN across both of its chains. For the Ethereum version, move your ETH from a central exchange such as Binance into your GMGN Ethereum wallet and swap it for Grvt. For the BSC version, move your BNB from a central exchange such as Binance into your GMGN BSC wallet and swap it for Grvt. Make sure you are sending the correct gas token to the matching wallet, since Ethereum swaps require ETH for gas and BSC swaps require BNB.

Buy Grvt on GMGN (Ethereum)

Buy Grvt on GMGN (BSC)

GMGN is one of the most efficient on-chain trading terminals available, built for traders who want speed and precision. It routes your swap for the best available price automatically, shows real-time charts, holder distribution, and liquidity data on a single screen, and includes built-in protections against common on-chain risks. Because everything happens directly from your own wallet, you keep custody of your tokens throughout the entire process, which pairs naturally with the self-custodial philosophy that Grvt itself is built on.