Onboarding as an Institution (Multi-User/Multi-Wallet Accounts)
Want to use Definitive at your Fund or institution? Definitive can set up a bespoke trading vault with multi-user permissioning and/or sub-accounts linked to different wallets.
TL;DR
Onboarding to Definitive is easy and new accounts can be set up within 24 hours. Simply email sales@definitive.fi with your organization's name, an email address to activate the account, and your wallet address.
Introduction
Definitive is attuned to the specific needs of Liquid Token Funds, Hedge Funds, and other institutional organizations. There are multiple ways our platform supports your needs:
Segregation of Assets: Each client on the Definitive platform trades through a segregated trading vault, ensuring assets are not commingled with other clients or with Definitive's own assets. When clients onboard to Definitive, a bespoke trading vault is minted and whitelisted to the client's wallet address. The client's wallet is the owner of the trading vault and the only entity authorized to make deposits and withdrawals. In practice, this means:
Unlike other DEX platforms where clients interact with the same router contract, Definitive's clients interact through their own bespoke contracts.
In the case of another client's contract or wallet being compromised, or in the case that Definitive itself is comprised, client assets are protected.
Multi-User Access - Allow multiple people within your organization to access your Definitive account with Read-Only, Trading or Full Access. Give service providers Read-Only access for independent oversight.
Multi-Trader Orgs via Sub-Accounts - Set up one or more sub-accounts (portfolios) within your Definitive account. Each sub-account can be whitelisted to a different wallet address, effectively ring-fencing each trader in your org to the trade limits within their assigned wallet.
Enhanced Privacy with Additional Proxy Addresses - When funds trade on Definitive, they do not trade through a client's wallet address. Instead, assets deposited to Definitive trade through a set of proxy addresses ("Definitive Performer Addresses"). Definitive Performer Addresses have pre-defined roles to execute client trade intents. To further enhance privacy, additional proxy addresses can be created on behalf of a client's trading vault.
Getting Started
To initiate institutional account setup, email sales@definitive.fi and include the following information in your email:
Organization Name
Email Addresses of primary account owner (an onboarding email with instructions to change your account password will be sent to this email when your account is ready)
Primary wallet address to be whitelisted to the trading vault (we support Fireblocks, Fordefi, Safe and a number of other institutional-grade self-custody wallets in addition to any EOA wallet)
Chains you'd like to trade on - We currently support Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum Optimism, Avalanche, Polygon and Blast (If there is a chain we do not yet support that your organization needs, you can note it in your email).
Optionally, you can also include the following information if relevant:
Sub-Accounts/Sub-Portfolios needed and their names. If you would like to associate sub-accounts with a different wallet, please indicate that as well and provide the relevant wallet address.
Additional user emails that can access your account and their associated permission level (Read-Only, Trading, Full Admin)
If you require additional proxy addresses, please indicate
Next Steps
Sit tight and we will get your account set up for you (typically within 24 hours). When your account is set up, we'll notify you via email. Please ensure you change the password on the account.
You will receive an onboarding email to the email address provided.
Please ensure you change the password on the account.
Connect your Wallet to Definitive. We support a range of MPC, institutional-grade, and EOA wallets.
For Fireblocks users, whatever method you use to interact with Uniswap will work with Definitive, but we recommend setting your Fireblocks wallet up on Rabby, which tends to be more reliable than Wallet Connect.
After you’ve connected your wallet, the first thing you’ll need to do is Deposit tokens into the trading vault in order to place trades.
What's Happening Behind the Scenes
We set up a dedicated trading vault (onchain contract) for complete fund segregation of your assets vs. other clients. This trading vault is whitelisted to the wallet address you provide to us.
Only your wallet can withdraw assets and initiate trading sessions (once initiated, trading sessions last ~24 hrs). Once the trading session is initiated, you can place as many trade orders as you want across any asset without having to sign for each tx.
Trading Vault Address
To locate your trading vault address to whitelist in your wallet, go to the Configuration tab under the chart. Your trading vault address will appear after you make your first deposit into the trading vault:
Fees:
For institutional traders, fees can be discounted depending on volume thresholds. Reach out to us for more details.
Post-Trade Reporting:
Please refer to our Product page on Post-Trade Reporting (PTR) for details: https://docs.definitive.fi/platform/products/advanced-trading/post-trade-report
Optional Pre-Trade Compliance:
Please refer to our Product page on Pre-Trade Compliance for details: https://docs.definitive.fi/platform/products/advanced-trading/pre-trade-compliance
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