Founder & CEO, MIZAN — the cryptographic verification rail systematic finance was missing.
The world's first cryptographic verification standard for quant strategies. Every honest-backtest check — walk-forward Sharpe, drawdown, lookahead audit, point-in-time data integrity — runs inside a RISC Zero zkVM and emits a 219KB STARK receipt anyone can re-verify in under 10 minutes.
The strategy stays hidden. The proof is public. Math is the only authority.
Engine status: LIVE in production
Lines of Rust: 5,400+ (shipped before raising)
Proof size: 219 KB STARK (constant)
Verify time: 21 ms cryptographic / <10 min full audit
Conditions pinned: 8 / 8 (image ID, receipt, journal,
data root, gate policy, verdict,
strategy concealment, digest)
First credential: ISSUED (BTC Trend 4H · Sharpe 1.65)
Retractions filed: 40+ (root cause on each)
External backing: Dr. Anish Mohammed
(ZK cryptographer · ex-CTO Panther Protocol
· reviewed Ethereum's foundational papers)
→ reviewed engine, angel-invested
Bonds have Moody's. Companies have audit. Identity has KYC. But $23 trillion sits in alternative investments where the manager grades their own homework — performance numbers come from a backtest the manager built themselves. AI made fabricating one trivial, and spotting a real one impossible.
MIZAN ends that. Math, not handshake.
Three years of treating integrity as engineering, not branding. 50+ strategies tested · 3 kept · 40+ publicly retracted with root cause on every one — including one validated by deploying real capital to confirm a backtest was lying.
A firm that publishes its own failures is the only firm whose passing credentials mean something.
🟢 Engine live · First credential issued · Raising $1.5M seed at $30M pre · mizan.market
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Most quant edge is fake. We prove the few that aren't.