Chris Messina

Minara - Research, plan, and invest in one chat

Minara helps you move from market insight to investment action with confidence, in one chat. Start with a question or a hunch. Minara gathers real-time context and does the heavy lifting to separate the wheat from the chaff, so you can decide your next play. When you’re ready, invest directly by executing on-chain trades in chat. As you develop your investment chops, build powerful workflows to automate monitoring, reports, and rule-based strategies, so you can act quickly and decisively.

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Chris Messina

Minara's approach of turning financial hunches into well-researched buys (or alternative strategies if your hunch isn't supported) — all within one integrated context — is super savvy.

The design is approachable and refined, and the tools are robust and insightful.

Until Charles Schwab modernizes its web platform, I'll be sure to pass my investment theses by Minara before taking the leap.

Frank Li

@chrismessina Thank you so much, Chris. We really appreciate you hunting us and the thoughtful comment.

What you described is exactly the behavior we aim for. Also the Schwab line made us smile. We are excited for you to run your next investment thesis through Minara before you take the leap!

Mykyta Semenov 🇺🇦🇳🇱

I tested it. In the areas I was interested in, I know more than the AI :) If you increase the number of sources in RAG, the answers will be much more accurate. It would also be great to improve typo handling (I made a one-character typo and it gave a random answer). But overall, I really liked it! And the response is generated very quickly. Very cool!

Frank Li

@mykyta_semenov_ Thanks for testing it and for this great feedback! We’re actively expanding the data sources we ground answers on and improving how we rank what’s most relevant, so the output holds up better when you already know the topic well. And the one-character typo leading to a random answer is on us. We should be more typo-tolerant and ask a quick “did you mean…” instead of guessing.

Seonghun Kim

It's exactly what i imagine with AI. You made this real!
Did you connect it with MCP of exchanges to invest within chat?

Frank Li

@highlightyourproduct Glad you like it, Seonghun. I hope you can give it a try and let us know how it goes.

Now we have a large number of Korean users in our communities, and you could search about Minara in some popular Korean forums!

Back to the question: we don’t position it as “plugged into exchange MCP”, although we connect it with MCP of other tools for sources and others tools. Execution in chat is done through our built-in integrations, and users still explicitly confirm any action before it runs.

Kate Ramakaieva

congrats @frank_li13 @amberjolie @rexlian
are there any risk disclosures and guardrails when executing trades in chat?

Amber Wang

Hi Kate, thanks for asking! Yes, Minara always discloses risk and plans out for different possible scenarios. When executing trades Minara also always sets up take-profit and stop-loss and applies trailling stop-loss as the market condition changes.

Looking forward to your feedback!

krystal wuu

Risk honesty matters to me. I like that Minara seems designed to surface counterpoints, especially when crypto narratives are one-sided.

Frank Li

@krystal_wuu That's a good point. Yes many users prioritize on risk when they make decisions. In crypto or digital finance, the “one-sided narrative” is often the real risk.

We try to make risk honesty a first-class part of the output: actively surfacing counterpoints, calling out what’s uncertain, and stating what would invalidate the thesis: Minara is not just reinforcing the bullish case.

The goal is to help you make a decision with eyes open, not to sell a story.

Ryan Thill

@Lowes — “research → plan → on-chain execute in chat” is awesome, but at scale the hard problem is safety: bad quotes/MEV, slippage, and non-idempotent retries that double-send trades.

Best-practice: pre-trade simulation + risk policy engine (allowlists, max slippage, spend caps), protected RPC/private tx where possible, and full audit trails per action.

Open Q: what’s your key/custody model (MPC vs user-signed), and do workflows support backtesting + deterministic replay of the exact data used for a decision?

Frank Li

@ryan_thill Hey Ryan. Really appreciate your in-depth comment. You’re pointing out the real safety failure.

On chat → on-chain swaps/trades today, we keep execution conservative: users can place limit orders (so you’re not forced into a drifting fill), and we’re transparent about the fee components you’ll see on-chain (network fee, and where applicable bridge + DEX service fees). We don’t claim a Revolut-style rate-lock window yet, and we’re actively evaluating the “minimum safe v1” you described: pre-trade simulation, and explicit risk policies. But those are pretty good ideas!


Key/custody model: Minara uses a custodial + Account Abstraction (AA) hybrid wallet (auto-created on signup; no external wallet required). Keys are managed in our custody infrastructure; users can deposit/withdraw.


Workflows: monitoring/automation is live; backtesting + deterministic replay of the exact data snapshot is not something we can promise today. But we iterate fast and you may be able to do that in the future.


Hopefully I answer some of your questions.

Fanyifan@Qingdao

I like that Minara reduces friction at the moment people hesitate. Having the plan and the action in the same place helps close the loop.

Frank Li

@fanyifanzaiqingdaoThat “hesitation moment” is exactly what we’re designing around. People often need to switch to another app to do both analysis a on-chain execution.

But Minara is an all-in-one chat assistant that lets you execute your investment decisions on digital assets easily.

We try to keep the plan and the next action tightly linked, so you don’t lose context by jumping between tools. It also makes it easier to review what you did later and refine your rules over time. It’s one of the core loops we’re most focused on getting right.

Aleksandar Blazhev

Congrats on the launch team! Congrats @frank_li13

I like the focus on turning user intent into actionable execution.

Looking forward to future iterations.

Frank Li

@byalexai Thanks so much, Alex. We really appreciate the support 🙏

Also, thank you for mentioning our core loop: turning intent into a clear plan with good reasoning, and the next investment action on digital assets. We’re excited to keep iterating in the future, and bring more useful features to users.

If you ever have any things you’d love to see improved in future iterations, I’d genuinely value your take.

Rabii Luena
Congrats team on the launch🥂🎉
Frank Li

@rbluena Thank you, Rabii! Appreciate the support 🥂

If you end up trying Minara, we’d love to hear more feedback from you.

Abdul Rehman

The fact that you can research, plan, and execute without jumping between 5 tabs is fire. My browser thanks you.

Frank Li

@abod_rehman 😂 love that, that's what Minara is built for. Say you welcome to your browser :)