Visualized Strategies Meet Verifiable Execution

June 25, 2025

Visualized Strategies Meet Verifiable Execution

Sherpa continues to push the boundaries of non-custodial DeFi interaction — combining CEX-like convenience, trust-minimized infrastructure, and highly configurable trading functionality.

In this release, we're unveiling a major milestone: significantly upgraded strategy enforcement via Merkle-based validation, an intuitive visual overlay within the strategy builder, and one-click gasless multi-asset swapping — all powered by smart accounts designed for complete self-custody.

It's a concrete step toward our mission: making onchain trade orchestration accessible, powerful, and secure.



Verifiable Onchain Execution

Sherpa now supports cryptographically verifiable, programmatic order execution via Merkle tree proofs — enabling secure, gas-efficient enforcement of user-defined trading logic. We call this our Onchain Enforcement Mechanism (OEM).

When constructing a strategy, users submit a cryptographic commitment onchain in the form of a Merkle root. This commitment anchors the full strategy and allows individual orders to be executed later through lightweight proofs.

This unlocks:

  • Trustless execution of multi-step strategies
  • Gas-optimized commitments to many orders at once
  • Offchain planning and privacy, with onchain validation
  • A robust foundation for integrating Chainlink Functions and price feeds — enabling trust-minimized trading triggered by offchain signals and market data

Under the hood, Sherpa ensures every executed order in your strategy is verifiably linked to your original intent. Each individual trade is validated as part of your committed plan — preventing unauthorized changes or tampering. You can even update or cancel strategies transparently through Merkle-based mechanisms, so your intent stays flexible while remaining enforceable.

Whether executing a stop-loss during market volatility or deploying a long-term DCA ladder, every trade remains self-custodied, verifiable, and aligned with your original plan.



Intent-Based Sherpa Swaps

We've launched Sherpa Swaps — frictionless token trading with no gas fees and no approvals.

Through Sherpa (smart) Account sponsorship, users can now:

  • Swap from multiple tokens in a single transaction (e.g. cbETH + rETH + stETH → ETH)
  • Swap assets into any destination: your connected EOA, sherpa account, or external address of choice

Just express your intent — Sherpa handles resolution, routing, and execution behind the scenes. No custody compromises. No MEV risk. No hidden intermediaries.



Chart-Integrated Strategy Visualization

Sherpa can embed strategy orders directly into the builder's chart component — adding a crucial visual layer to planning and refinement.

Users can:

  • Easily plot DCA entries across price and time
  • Set visual stop-losses and take-profits
  • Interactively adjust strategy conditions with full visual feedback
  • Preview execution scenarios before submitting any transaction

This transforms strategy design into an intuitive, feedback-rich experience. Whether you're setting reactive price bands or shaping long-term positions, Sherpa gives you unmatched clarity and control.



Engineered for Data-Driven Automation with Chainlink

Sherpa's Onchain Enforcement Mechanism isn't just about today's execution — it architecturally enables a future of decentralized, automated strategy activation.

By anchoring strategy logic onchain with cryptographic proof, Sherpa is uniquely positioned to leverage Chainlink's decentralized infrastructure — allowing trades to be triggered by offchain market data or real-world events.

As part of the Chainlink BUILD program, we're actively building toward:

  • Strategy triggers driven by real-time or offchain market conditions
  • Execution logic backed by verifiable Chainlink oracle data
  • Secure automation powered by Chainlink Functions and DONs — removing dependency on centralized logic

This is the foundation for truly autonomous, intent-based trading — where user-signed strategies react to market conditions with full transparency and no trust assumptions.

Sherpa's intent-to-execution vision is coming into focus: verifiable strategies that trigger from trusted data, enforce securely onchain, and never leave your control.



Strategic Simplicity, Powerfully Yours

With Sherpa, you keep your keys. Strategies stay auditable. Execution logic remains permissionless, modular, and upgradeable.

No trading desk. No scripts. Just transparent, programmable, intent-based trading — built for those who want to define their own edge.