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Fund / Signal update · 22 August 2026 · vnext-2026-07-24

Weekly workflow proof for Messy-managed micro test funds on Base: Guru Lotus books base04, base05, and base06, plus Lagoon books lg-base01 and lg-base02. Screening prepares evidence; the Chair decides; the system records the resolution; only then can execution mutate the book. Macro and narrative below are the postures those sessions used, not a live market refresh at publish time.

Custody / provider

This week's public micro books use two Base custody adapters. base04, base05, and base06 sit on Guru Lotus vaults. Messy's engine runs research, council decisioning, and trade construction; capital on those books sits in Guru's vault contracts. On the Guru books, the trading key can trade but cannot withdraw, a limit enforced by the vault contracts, not our software. lg-base01 and lg-base02 sit on Lagoon vaults for custody and share accounting. Provider-side contract failure is venue risk on either adapter. Keys live in Turnkey; our backend never holds key material.

For the blast-radius map (engine vs custody vs token), see Custody Broke. The Engine Didn’t..

This week at a glance

  • 31 council sessions across 5 micro funds — 20 executed, 2 holds.
  • Week regime path: Risk-off (R-) all week — Effective macro regime is R- with fresh coverage and 80% confidence.
  • Narrative tape (session-frozen): Across 16 active narrative(s), 30d momentum vs TOTAL3ES ranges from SocialFi at +36.6pp to Gaming (GameFi) at -14.2pp.
  • base04 NAV $49.29 (+23.2% 7d, 3 exec / 2 hold).
  • base06 NAV $28.4 (+19.4% 7d, 5 exec / 0 hold).
  • TIBBIR led aggregate screens this week — a candidate signal, not an automatic trade.

Across the councils

  • Chairs called out rank/aggregate divergence to reconfirm before further sizing increases. (base05, lg-base01; 2 funds).

What's new in the app

  • Fund pages in the app now include full council minutes. Open any fund and tap Council to read what the portfolio committee debated, what the Chair decided, and whether trades were executed. How the AI investment council works →
  • Two Guru Lotus verification books closed this week (base01 and base02). Two Lagoon books joined this public suite: lg-base01 and lg-base02. Guru Lotus workflow books still on the page are base04, base05, and base06. Screens still stop at ideas: council and execution decide size, venue, and fills.

Week regime · what the councils used

Regime path

Risk-off (R-) all week

Wed R- session
Thu R- exec
Fri R- exec
Sat R- exec

Sampled from lg-base01 sessions across the week

Closing macro brief

Risk-off (R-) · as of 2026-08-22

Effective macro regime is R- with fresh coverage and 80% confidence.

Narrative momentum

Across 16 active narrative(s), 30d momentum vs TOTAL3ES ranges from SocialFi at +36.6pp to Gaming (GameFi) at -14.2pp.

Micro funds · week scan

Fund NAV 7d Sessions Exec Hold
base04 $49.29 +23.2% 5 3 2 Council
base05 $53.24 +14.0% 5 5 0 Council
base06 $28.4 +19.4% 7 5 0 Council
lg-base01 $53.77 +12.2% 9 3 0 Council
lg-base02 $56.2 n/a 5 4 0 Council

base04 — council & book

Closing session · executed reconciled · 22 August 2026

The rebalance executed and reconciled, trimming crash, toby, and cocoro and adding to taboshi within a ratified posture move that raised cash to about 25.6% and cut high beta to about 37% while holding base steady; realized post-execution weights are not yet available.

Week strip: Mon exec · Wed hold · Thu hold · Fri exec · Sat exec · 5 sessions

Open Council minutes →

Mon exec
Wed hold
Thu hold
Fri exec
Sat exec

Week net · Cash 30.2% → 25.6% · Base 39.2% → 37.4% · High-beta 30.6% → 37%

Wed hold 100% of beta book value sits in narratives with negative 30d momentum vs TOTAL3ES; this is context already priced into the locked flat high-beta posture, not a fresh signal to act on.

Closing session

Cash 24.7% → 25.6% · Base 37.4% · High-beta 37.9% → 37%

Recommendation was projected onto the regime-band convergence step by validation.

  • PM recommendations disagree on which single holding should absorb the -0.9% high-beta trim (crash, toby, or cocoro), each argued from single-session rank/score drift rather than thesis invalidation; the Chair…
  • Any trim sized to satisfy only the -0.9% posture delta is small relative to per-token minimum ticket and round-trip cost; oversizing a trim beyond the mandated amount to chase a reshuffle is not supported by…
  • COCORO and DIME remain absent from the latest fresh screening run; this is being treated as single-session divergence per the shared guardrail, but persistence into a second session would elevate the case for…
Current book
Cash 30.3% · Base 37.5% · High-beta 32.3%
CASH (USDC) 30.3% BASE (WETH) 37.5% TABOSHI 19.1% DIME 7.4% TOBY 2.1% COCORO 1.9% CRASH 1.8%

Top aggregate candidates — 7-day lookback , as of 22 August 2026

#1 TABOSHI Appeared in 7/7 source run(s) with avg rank 1.29, best rank 1, recency score 37.06.
#2 TOBY Appeared in 6/7 source run(s) with avg rank 3.50, best rank 2, recency score 20.57.
#3 CRASH Appeared in 5/7 source run(s) with avg rank 4.20, best rank 1, recency score 20.99.

base05 — council & book

Closing session · executed reconciled · 22 August 2026

The rebalance executed and reconciled, exiting taboshi on coverage-death grounds, adding a new blocktronics position, and increasing UP (The Upsider AI), while the fund posture moved to roughly 28% cash, 39% base, and 33% high beta from about 27/40/33; realized post-execution weights are not yet available.

Week strip: Mon exec · Wed exec · Thu exec · Fri exec · Sat exec · 5 sessions

Open Council minutes →

Mon exec
Wed exec
Thu exec
Fri exec
Sat exec

Week net · Cash 27.4% → 28.1% · Base 34.9% → 39% · High-beta 37.7% → 32.9%

Wed exec High-beta bucket sits 13pp above its regime ceiling; the ratified posture already mandates the reduction path proposed by all PM seats — no residual policy risk beyond executing it this session.

Closing session

Cash 26.9% → 28.1% · Base 40.4% → 39% · High-beta 32.7% → 32.9%

Recommendation was projected onto the regime-band convergence step by validation.

  • Sell-fundable capacity ($17.71) is thin against two proposed new entries plus minimum ticket sizing; sizing should be conservative.
  • Links carries an elevated 95bps exit cost versus near-zero for other holdings; factor into any future exit planning.
  • Blocktronics' fall from aggregate rank 2 to 7 needs confirmation over several more sessions before it is trusted as sustained strength rather than fading momentum.
Current book
Cash 28.6% · Base 39.3% · High-beta 32.1%
CASH (USDC) 28.6% BASE (WETH) 39.3% UP 15.4% LINKS 6.1% BLOCKTRONICS 4.7% UP 4.5% $PRO 1.4%

Top aggregate candidates — 7-day lookback , as of 22 August 2026

#1 UP Appeared in 6/7 source run(s) with avg rank 3.67, best rank 1, recency score 18.01.
#2 UP Appeared in 6/7 source run(s) with avg rank 4.33, best rank 2, recency score 16.71.
#3 NEMESIS Appeared in 4/7 source run(s) with avg rank 1.75, best rank 1, recency score 27.01.

base06 — council & book

Closing session · executed reconciled · 22 August 2026

The rebalance executed and reconciled, mutating the fund's book.

Week strip: Mon exec · Wed exec · Thu exec · Fri exec · Sat exec · 7 sessions

Open Council minutes →

Mon exec
Wed exec ×2
Thu exec
Fri exec
Sat exec ×2

Week net · Cash 30.8% → 28.5% · Base 38.2% → 38.5% · High-beta 30.9% → 33%

Wed exec Acu is fresh-only relative to its screening history: 3/7 aggregate appearances, aggregate rank 9 despite fresh rank 3 — pedigree is thin and should be sized cautiously, not treated as high-conviction.

Closing session

Cash 30.2% → 28.5% · Base 38.5% · High-beta 31.3% → 33%

Recommendation was projected onto the regime-band convergence step by validation.

  • Beta increase to 33% should route via the cash reserve per ratified posture; any sell-funded incumbent trim to fund the same increase must decompose into sell_beta→reserve and reserve→buy_beta legs, never a…
  • spx shows a sharp fresh(1) vs aggregate(8) rank divergence with only 3/7 aggregate appearances — treat as thin, momentum-timing evidence rather than a confirmed multi-session pick.
  • Tibbir at 10.8% NAV is the fund's largest position; further add-on concentration into it is not supported by this session's proposals and would need explicit justification.
Current book
Cash 28.7% · Base 38.4% · High-beta 32.9%
CASH (USDC) 28.7% BASE (WETH) 38.4% ETHFI 5.6% ZRO 5.6% VVV 5.5% LINK 5.5% SPX 5.4% TIBBIR 5.4%

Top aggregate candidates — 7-day lookback , as of 22 August 2026

#1 TIBBIR Appeared in 7/7 source run(s) with avg rank 1.14, best rank 1, recency score 37.85.
#2 ETHFI Appeared in 7/7 source run(s) with avg rank 3.71, best rank 2, recency score 25.22.
#3 LINK Appeared in 7/7 source run(s) with avg rank 4.57, best rank 3, recency score 22.28.

lg-base01 — council & book

Closing session · executed reconciled · 22 August 2026

The council's rebalance executed and reconciled, actually mutating the fund's holdings.

Week strip: Tue session · Wed session · Thu exec · Fri exec · Sat exec · 9 sessions

Open Council minutes →

Tue session
Wed session ×2
Thu exec ×2
Fri exec ×2
Sat exec ×2

Thu exec Effective regime score (~28) is materially more risk-off than the observed raw score (~52) due to a high-confidence adverse news overlay; size new entries conservatively given this divergence even though…

Closing session

Cash 53.7% → 38.7% · Base 25.4% → 32% · High-beta 20.9% → 29.3%

Recommendation was projected onto the regime-band convergence step by validation.

  • NEMESIS is 9.8% of NAV, the fund's largest position, with fresh rank 2 vs aggregate rank 8 — a one-session divergence, not yet a sustained deterioration, but a real concentration item into a beta-expanding…
  • ALTT is down -15.5% unrealized / -10.0% 24h with ATR% and distance-to-180d-high both rising — thesis not yet invalidated but the adverse move is real and should size any hold or trim decision carefully.
  • UP exit cost is 229 bps and volume is thin ($862 24h) — any future reduction here will pay a real liquidity premium.
Current book
Cash 38.8% · Base 31.9% · High-beta 29.3%
CASH (USDC) 38.8% BASE (WETH) 31.9% NEMESIS 9.9% TOBY 4.8% LINK 4.7% UP 4.1% ETHFI 4.0% ALTT 1.0% TIBBIR 0.7%

Top aggregate candidates — 7-day lookback , as of 22 August 2026

#1 TIBBIR Appeared in 7/7 source run(s) with avg rank 4.57, best rank 2, recency score 22.28.
#2 ALTT Appeared in 5/7 source run(s) with avg rank 2.40, best rank 1, recency score 30.43.
#3 TOBY Appeared in 5/7 source run(s) with avg rank 3.80, best rank 1, recency score 14.64.

lg-base02 — council & book

Closing session · executed reconciled · 22 August 2026

The rebalance executed and reconciled, exiting ACU, adding a small NEMESIS position, increasing ALTT, and trimming UP, while the fund's ratified posture moved toward about 39% base, 28% cash, and 33% high beta; realized post-execution weights are not yet confirmed.

Week strip: Wed exec · Thu exec · Fri exec · Sat exec · 5 sessions

Open Council minutes →

Wed exec
Thu exec
Fri exec ×2
Sat exec

Week net · Cash 100% → 28% · Base 0% → 39% · High-beta 0% → 33%

Thu exec Beta book breadth is being expanded materially in one session (up to 9-10 names) to absorb a 15pp posture move; execution cost of spreading small tickets across thin-liquidity names should be monitored.

Closing session

Cash 28.3% → 28% · Base 40.3% → 39% · High-beta 31.4% → 33%

Recommendation was projected onto the regime-band convergence step by validation.

  • Nemesis and zro are fresh-only candidates with no aggregate screening history; size any addition small until durability is confirmed across sessions.
  • Up's exit cost of 224bps is the highest in the book; any further reduction there should account for this executable friction, not just screening divergence.
  • Tibbir shows a fresh-rank-8-vs-aggregate-rank-1 single-session divergence; this is noise under the patience doctrine and does not warrant action this session.
Current book
Cash 28.3% · Base 39% · High-beta 32.8%
CASH (USDC) 28.3% BASE (WETH) 39.0% ALTT 8.1% TOBY 5.6% NEMESIS 4.2% LINK 4.0% ETHFI 3.9% CBBTC 3.9% TIBBIR 2.0% UP 1.0% ACU 0.0%

Top aggregate candidates — 7-day lookback , as of 22 August 2026

#1 TIBBIR Appeared in 7/7 source run(s) with avg rank 4.71, best rank 2, recency score 21.65.
#2 ALTT Appeared in 5/7 source run(s) with avg rank 2.60, best rank 1, recency score 29.80.
#3 TOBY Appeared in 5/7 source run(s) with avg rank 4.20, best rank 1, recency score 13.38.

Aggregate signal

✅ Aggregate signal
TIBBIR
Ribbita by Virtuals
Appeared in 7/7 daily runs across base06 and lg-base01 and lg-base02 over the 7-day lookback. Appeared in 7/7 source run(s) with avg rank 1.14, best rank 1, recency score 37.85.

What this teaches the future Fund Agent

1
Macro gates exposure. Use the session-frozen regime the council actually saw (this week: Risk-off (R-)) — not a later live refresh.
2
Daily screen ≠ automatic trade. Aggregate leaders inform the slate; they do not bypass Chair decision or execution gates.
3
Chair decides, system records. Seats analyze and propose; the Chair adjudicates; minutes and execution receipts stay public on each fund’s Council tab.

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