Hedgehog Protocol

When network congestion hits, you don’t have to pause shipping. Open Hedgehog Protocol, connect your wallet, and choose the chain or rollup whose fee volatility you want to control. Pick a product—perpetuals, dated futures, options, or swaps—priced from on-chain block demand indices. Use a preset to cap your effective cost for a time window or craft your own: set target spend per transaction or total budget, choose collateral (USDC/ETH), adjust leverage, and submit a market or limit order. The dashboard tracks coverage, realized/unrealized PnL in both tokens and USD, and your blended effective fee. Close, scale, or roll the position with one click. Example: launching an NFT drop? Take a congestion-long position ahead of the mint so gains offset higher execution costs during peak traffic.

If you manage operations or a DAO treasury, automate cost control with policy-based hedging. Link one or more spending addresses, define expected transaction counts, budget caps, and a confidence interval. The bot opens, sizes, and rolls positions as utilization moves outside your band. Schedule weekly rolls, add alerts for drawdown and margin thresholds, and export a GAAP-ready ledger with tags by team or project. Before go-live, run a backtest using historical block data to preview likely fee bands. Scenario: a rebalancing strategy needs to keep per-execution fees below a target; Auto-Hedge scales up protection when mempool pressure rises and winds down during quiet periods. more