Guru P2P

.: A Smarter Exit Flow for Gurus

One of the trickiest parts of managing capital on-chain isn’t finding entries — it’s managing exits.

When a Guru wants to close or rebalance a position, doing it directly on the open market can cause unnecessary noise. A large on-chain sell can spook investors, trigger copycat trades, and damage both reputation and performance.

This pain point was identified during our Beta phase, and a way to trade fund tokens P2P is intended to alleviate it.

.: How It Works

Private Guru Orders

Gurus can create private, shareable order links when they want to offload or rebalance a position. These links can be sent to specific buyers — trusted investors, OTC partners, projects, or other Gurus.

The orders are not listed publicly, allowing the Gurus to trade fund tokens back to ETH without causing a scene.

Public User Orders

Users can post public buy orders on the platform that only Gurus can fill. The public P2P page is essentially where Gurus can “go shopping” for opportunities to offload tokens, being offered up from regular users or other Gurus.

.: Why This Approach

In short, a custom solution was needed due to the unique nature of the Guru platform.

When placing a P2P trade as a Guru, it is important that the tokens never actually leave the fund, so that users within the fund can withdraw freely. If tokens were to leave the fund in a pending P2P order, this would block and interfere with discretionary user withdrawals - and currently, most P2P platforms usually have a 2-step process for trade execution.

In our implementation, when the Guru puts up a P2P order, the tokens remain in the fund and are given a spending approval for a trade to take place. When the order is filled, the swap happens immediately, so there is never any time spent with tokens in limbo.

This solution allows us to introduce P2P for our Gurus while retaining the integrity of the system and continuing to allow at-will user withdrawals.

.: The Benefits

For Gurus:

• Exit positions without price impact or slippage.
• Keep transitions private but verifiable on-chain.
• Match with buyers or sellers directly — whether public or in your network.
• Protect reputation with clean execution. By the time anyone sees that tokens were sold, it was already done so without any impact on the chart.

For Users/Buyers:

• Get access to discounted token opportunities from platform Gurus.
• Offload tokens to Gurus without price impact or slippage.
• Receive better entry prices
• The ability to see all settlements on-chain for full transparency.

.: Guardrails & Integrity

In order to prevent abuse, we impose a +/- 10% difference maximum from market price. This ensures that all sales are close enough to what is being offered on DEX.

.: Security & Audits

Security is non-negotiable — especially when new transaction layers are introduced.

Before rolling out the P2P system, we conducted a full audit of the new contracts and integration logic with Halborn, a trusted independent security partner.

See the audit Here.

.: Closing Thoughts

The idea of adding P2P on Guru came directly from user request — real Gurus trying to operate smoothly in an unpredictable market, and sharing with us what would make their experience better. By giving them a quieter way to manage exits and rotations, we help give them more tools to manage their funds.

We’re not trying to build the next big P2P marketplace - surely there are already experts in those areas such as our friends at M87. We are however solving a very specific use case tailored to our platform, for our users.

More to come.