TDIRECTION ASSET MANAGEMENT

Jaehyung Lee serves as CEO and leads the firm's investment direction. Lee built TDIRECTION around a quantitative trading core complemented by direct venture investments in blockchain infrastructure. The investment team combines traditional finance quantitative analysts with traders who have operated in crypto markets since the early 2010s.

The firm leverages its regulated status in South Korea to access deal flow that offshore crypto funds cannot reach — particularly in Korean blockchain gaming studios and Web3 infrastructure projects. Its venture arm maintains deep ties to Southeast Asian developer communities and Korean exchange ecosystems, providing early visibility into projects before they reach global funding rounds.

TDIRECTION is registered with South Korea's Financial Services Commission, making it one of the first regulated crypto asset managers in Asia. This licensing matters because most institutional allocators face compliance constraints that prevent committing to unregulated crypto vehicles. The Korean regulatory wrapper provides a pathway for institutions that want digital asset exposure without the jurisdictional risk of offshore fund structures.

TDIRECTION Ventures focuses on seed to Series A blockchain startups, with a geographic emphasis on South Korea and Southeast Asia. The firm has deployed across layer-1 protocol equity, DeFi applications, and Web3 gaming infrastructure. Its 2022 metaverse-focused fund further narrowed the mandate toward NFT-enabled gaming studios and virtual-world infrastructure projects.

TDIRECTION operates on both sides. The asset management arm runs systematic long/short strategies in liquid digital assets — the core business. Separately, TDIRECTION Ventures takes direct equity stakes in early-stage blockchain companies. This dual structure provides exposure to both liquid crypto markets and private blockchain infrastructure.

Most crypto hedge funds are domiciled in offshore jurisdictions like the Cayman Islands or British Virgin Islands, operating outside formal regulatory frameworks. TDIRECTION is a domestic South Korean registered asset manager with explicit regulatory approval to manage digital assets. This structure appeals to Korean institutional investors and family offices that face mandate restrictions against offshore crypto vehicles.

The firm has not publicly disclosed exclusion lists. However, its investment activity concentrates on protocol-layer infrastructure, DeFi, Web3 gaming, and NFTs — sectors where South Korean developer talent and consumer adoption are globally competitive. Traditional enterprise SaaS and hardware-intensive sectors do not appear in disclosed allocations.