Strategy Lab: Build and Backtest Score-Weighted Crypto Portfolios

Strategy Lab is where signals become portfolios. Prismetric already turns messy public data into a live score for every technology and crypto asset; the Lab is the machinery that turns those scores into an actual book — a thematic portfolio sized by conviction, traded by rules, backtested on real prices and marked to live market data. It closes the gap between "the data says something" and "here is the position."

Why it exists

Most people who see a good signal never act on it systematically. They read a dashboard, form an opinion, and either trade on feel or do nothing. Strategy Lab replaces that with a repeatable rule: the same signal applied to every name, every rebalance, with position sizes and buy/sell triggers you defined in advance. The edge becomes measurable and reproducible instead of a series of good calls you cannot repeat.

Thematic universes

Every strategy starts from a theme — a curated universe of names that belong together, like DeFi blue chips, a high-beta momentum basket, or an AI-and-compute group. The theme defines the opportunity set; the score decides what you actually hold within it. You are choosing a thesis, and letting the data allocate inside it.

Score-driven, not hand-picked

Inside a theme, the Lab sizes positions from the live score using the weighting scheme you pick — score-weighted, top-N, or equal-weight above a threshold — and rotates the book as scores move, using entry and exit thresholds with built-in hysteresis so it does not churn. No hand-tuned weights, no discretionary timing: the signal drives the allocation. (New to these mechanics? The step-by-step build guide walks through every choice.)

Backtested on real prices

A strategy you cannot test is a guess. The Lab runs your exact configuration over historical prices and reports the metrics that matter — return, Sharpe, Sortino, max drawdown, volatility — against an equal-weight benchmark, so you can see whether the signal actually paid or just tracked the market. This is the discipline of honest backtesting: point-in-time signals, real prices, risk-adjusted results.

Live NAV and a leaderboard

Once you start a book it is marked to live fair value in real time, building a genuine since-inception return curve from the live market feed — not a frozen backtest. Every book on a theme lands on that theme's leaderboard, so your take on "DeFi blue chips" competes with everyone else's on the same universe. Public profiles let the best books be seen. It turns strategy-building into something you learn from by comparison, not in isolation.

From paper to real capital

Books begin on paper — live-marked, fully tracked, zero capital at risk. When one earns your trust, it can go live on Hyperliquid and trade the same rules with real money. The path is deliberate: build, backtest, paper-trade, then — only if you choose — live.

Start building

Open the Strategy Lab and turn a signal you believe in into a book you can test. If you are new, start with how to build your first crypto strategy, or step back and read how alternative-data strategies are built.