AI Leadership 8
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Buy OAILEAD8Why this basket exists
What the construction is trying to capture, who it is built for, and how it is meant to be sized inside a wider allocation.
Pure AI-buildout thesis expressed cross-asset. NVIDIA + Microsoft + Broadcom for the chip and software stack. Applied Materials and Arista for the data-center picks-and-shovels. ETH for the on-chain compute primitive. SOL for high-throughput inference settlement. Gold as the only non-AI hedge. Backtested Sharpe 1.07 over 729 days with the drift-25 rebalance rule (which beat quarterly here), total return +68.6%, max drawdown -36%. Higher drawdown than the other Diversified because of the thematic concentration.
- Diversified family · Growth risk tier
- Rule-based, divisor-method NAV
No committee note is published for this basket yet. The text above is its catalogue description; the framing beside it is derived from the mandate and the risk tier.
8 holdings, drawn to scale
Each tile's area is its weight in the basket, so the picture and the table below it are the same data read two ways.
| Holding | Share | Weight | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01NVDAon | 22% | ||
| 02MSFTon | 15% | ||
| 03AVGOon | 12% | ||
| 04ETH | 12% | ||
| 05AMATon | 10% | ||
| 06ANETon | 10% | ||
| 07SOL | 10% | ||
| 08GLDon | 9% | ||
| Total | 100% |
Why each name earned its seat
Research notes per constituent: the case for the asset, the regime that suits it, and the risk the seat carries.
- NVDAon22%Core anchor
NVIDIA is the single largest contributor to risk-adjusted returns in the equity universe over the 2-year backtest window. Designs the GPUs that train every frontier model.
Performs in AI-capex-up regimes. Sensitive to hyperscaler demand-softening signals and to China-export-control news.
valuation extensionChina export-control exposure - MSFTon15%Core anchor
Microsoft is the dominant enterprise-software franchise and the largest beneficiary of the AI-software margin pool through Azure and the OpenAI partnership.
Performs in enterprise-AI narrative phases. Defensive in flight-to-quality regimes. Sensitive to cloud-margin compression news.
AI-capex margin compression - AVGOon12%Core anchor
Broadcom is the second-largest US chip franchise by market cap and the dominant custom-ASIC vendor for hyperscaler workloads.
Performs in AI-capex cycles and hyperscaler ASIC ramps. Sensitive to VMware-integration noise and enterprise-software cycle softness.
VMware integration risk - ETH12%Core anchor
Ethereum is the only smart-contract platform with the TVL, developer mindshare, and settlement depth to count as core infrastructure.
Outperforms BTC in DeFi cycles and L2 adoption waves. Lags when narratives shift to alt-L1s or when L2 fragmentation eats into mainnet fee capture.
fee-revenue regime risk - AMATon10%Infrastructure
Applied Materials is the largest semiconductor-equipment maker by revenue. Provides the deposition and etch equipment for leading-edge logic and DRAM.
Performs in capex-cycle ups. Sensitive to fab-capex deferrals and China-export-control headlines.
capex-cycle exposure
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- ANETon10%Infrastructure
Arista Networks is the dominant data-center networking vendor for hyperscalers. AI-cluster networking demand drives multi-year revenue growth.
Performs in hyperscaler-capex cycles. Sensitive to hyperscaler-spending-pause headlines.
hyperscaler concentration - SOL10%Growth
Solana is the highest-throughput smart-contract platform in production and the credible challenger to Ethereum at the application layer.
Highest beta of the L1 majors. Outperforms in retail-led risk-on phases. Drawdowns sharper than BTC in flight-to-quality regimes.
historical outagesvalidator concentration - GLDon9%Hedge
SPDR Gold Shares is the largest gold ETF and the cleanest tokenized expression of an institutional gold position.
Performs in flight-to-quality, inflation-up, and dollar-weakness or central-bank-buying cycles.
correlation dilution if duration sells off
What the numbers say
Simulated on historical constituent prices. A Sharpe is only published once the measured window clears 90 days, and drawdowns keep their sign.
Every figure above is simulated on historical constituent prices for a basket that has not traded. It describes how the rules would have behaved, not how they will behave. OAILEAD8 is part of a public preview.
Max expected loss over the horizon · 95% confidence · historical distribution. There is a 5% chance the actual loss is larger.
| Window | Return | Sharpe | vs BTC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full window | +662.1% | 1.70 | +1.35 |
| 1 year | +38.5% | 1.64 | +2.47 |
| 6 months | +4.1% | 0.36 | +1.04 |
| 3 months | +12.5% | Not graded | · |
Returns are simulated over each window. A Sharpe is published only once that window clears 90 days, so the shorter rows read Not graded and carry no comparison with bitcoin. Short windows flatter and punish at random; read the full window first and treat the rest as texture.
What could go wrong
Priced off this basket's own weights rather than off a generic disclaimer, so every figure below can be checked against the table above.
Higher beta than the broad market. Drawdowns of 40 to 60% during risk-off regimes are within historical range. Size accordingly.
- Top-name weightLow
NVDAon is the largest position at 22%. Capped by methodology but still drives index direction.
- Short price historyHigh
NVDAon, MSFTon, AVGOon and 3 more have under a year of usable history. Backtest metrics carry wider error bars.
- Routing dependenceMedium
Routes through Dinari (stocks) and Backed Finance (ETFs). Settles on the EVM rail. KYC at the OLTA layer, not available in the US today.
| Scenario | Loss on net asset value |
|---|---|
| NVDAon loses half its valueLargest holding, 22.0% of the basket | −11.0%Mechanical |
| The three largest holdings fall 30%NVDAon, MSFTon, AVGOon · 49.0% of the basket together | −14.7%Mechanical |
| The deepest simulated fall repeatsDeepest peak to trough in the measured window | −36.4%Recorded |
| A bad month, one in twenty95% historical value at risk over 30 days | −14.3%Measured |
The mechanical rows hold every other holding still, which is the optimistic case. This basket measured −0.03 correlation to bitcoin over its window, which is loose enough that the holdings can move apart. Even so, a shock rarely lands on one name alone. Read the figures as a floor on the damage, never a ceiling.
The research behind the construction
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ConvictionSelective thematic allocation. Size it as a sleeve, not as a core position.
The desk carries the live net asset value, the chart and the order panel. Funds in this public preview are simulated, so an order here moves a simulated balance and settles nothing. The EVM settlement rail opens with mainnet in the first half of 2027.