Hawksight

Hawksight is a Singapore-headquartered decentralized finance company operating on the Solana blockchain. It launched as a "DeFi super-app" intended to simplify onboarding into DeFi, letting users deposit USD stablecoins (from a $10 minimum) and allocate into vaults running profit-optimized strategies that seek returns from both asset appreciation and yield. The platform is non-custodial, routes through Solana decentralized exchanges including Serum, Raydium and Synthetify, and reports internal and external audits plus a dedicated insurance fund intended to cover losses from attacks.

Alongside automated vaults, Hawksight distributes AI-generated trading signals and social signals produced by an engine described as covering more than 200 technical indicators, delivered through web platforms, email, Telegram and Discord chatbots, and an API. Its product set is listed as a Strategies Dashboard for exploring and managing Solana yield strategies, an LP Simulator for modelling liquidity-provision scenarios, the $HAWK token, and DDH NFT staking. Later descriptions position the company as a yield optimizer and aggregator focused on concentrated liquidity management and self-custodial automated market making, with analytics under the HawkFi name and support for Meteora pools.

The legal entity is recorded as Hawksight Global Pte. Ltd, founded in 2021 by Bradian Muliadi and Lorenzo Ampil. Note that several sources circulate conflicting or conflated information: one aggregator profile mixes Hawksight with a London-based security risk-management SaaS firm and with an unrelated Indian electronic-security company, Hawksight Technologies.

Founding story

Sources state Hawksight was founded in 2021 by Bradian Muliadi and Lorenzo Ampil. Ampil, the CTO, is described as a former Uber data scientist who subsequently worked in AI consultancy and built AI software for global financial institutions. Muliadi is described as having co-founded several social analytics startups, one acquired by a publicly listed Southeast Asian conglomerate and another scaled to profitability in more than 50 countries. One profile inconsistently lists Ampil as sole founder.

Business model

Hawksight operates a consumer-facing DeFi application: users deposit stablecoins into non-custodial vaults and strategies on Solana, and the platform provides automation, analytics and signal distribution around those positions. A native token, $HAWK, functions as the ecosystem base currency used for staking rewards, discounts, access to premium features, incentives for depositors and strategy creators, and decentralized governance; NFT holders receive boosted yields and access to HawkDAO.

Sources do not specify fee schedules. Described monetization-adjacent mechanics include low platform fees on DEX-routed vault activity, premium feature access gated by $HAWK staking, and a HawkDAO revenue stream from crowdsourced strategies intended to benefit NFT holders and the DAO treasury.

Traction

As of April 2022, the company reported broadcasting trading and social signals to more than 1.4 million people and institutions and a team of over 15 people spread across Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, India and the United States. One database records annual revenue of about $334,000 with roughly $1 million negative net profit and EBITDA as of 30 April 2023, and lists current headcount at 1-10.

Latest developments

Recent third-party descriptions characterize Hawksight as a Solana yield optimizer and aggregator offering concentrated liquidity management, self-custodial automated market making, an LP simulator, $HAWK staking, DDH NFT staking and raffles, and support for Meteora pools. No new funding, acquisition or shutdown events are reported in the sources.