Specimen · not an issued credential
MIZANCredential № 0412 · append-only registryIssued 2027-02-11 · era v13 · gate ALLOCATOR-V1

Allocator view. Everything below is re-derivable by you from the public bundle: no account, no NDA, no call with us. The manager grants nothing and reveals nothing. You are not being asked to believe anyone, including MIZAN. Fictional holder · several fields not yet issuable.

Meridian Systematic · Book I

Issued to Meridian Research LLP · 11 alpha models · 1,284 instruments · strategy sealed
VTR-1 · Level III · BookALLOCATOR-V1Disclosing tierChain · link 14
PASSThe verdict is a lamp, not a door
01 · THE HOLDER’S COMPLETE RECORDthe denominator · opt-in, and permanent once chosenTHIS BUILD
37Credentials ever minted
6Passed the gate
31Refused · published anyway
9New commitments · last 12 months

Every strategy this holder has ever submitted appears above, because the registry is append-only and each entry was anchored to Bitcoin on the day it was made. A holder cannot show you only their winners. This is the denominator allocators have not been able to obtain from a manager, database or administrator.

02 · WHAT WAS PROVENcommitted before evaluation · recomputed in-circuit
ConditionGate requiresResultProven
Sharpe, after costs · book≥ 1.201.44in-circuit
Max drawdown, intrabar-marked≤ 25.0%14.9%in-circuit
Out-of-sample Sharpe≥ 0.501.02in-circuit
Strategies tried before this book (N)declared → proven8,410Merkle leaf count
Breadth · committed instrument count≥ 201,284in-circuit
Research velocity · models turned over / yr≥ 10%18.2%chained ledger
Alpha models in book≥ 511each committed
03 · EXPOSURE & REGIMEthe reject list
Market beta0.06
Momentum / value / carry R²0.04 / 0.02 / 0.05
Vol-premia loading0.03
Worst regime (vol top decile)−2.8%
Short-vol payoff testno convexity sale detected
Declared rule familiescommitted · 0 retail indicators
04 · THE BOOKper-sleeve attribution available
Instrument classesequities, futures
Window2014-01 → 2027-01
Delisted names retainedyes · PIT universe
Costscommitted, charged pre-verdict
Chain14 links · oldest 2025-11
Sharpe by link (decay, honest)1.63 → 1.44
Capacitynot asserted · ever
05 · DID THEY TRADE WHAT THEY PROVEDadherence · the committed spec against realised positionsLAYER 2
Realised vs committed rulestracking error 2.1%
Re-parameterisation events0 across 14 links
Position attestationprime broker, signed daily
Spec hash, link 1 → link 14identical
Undisclosed instruments tradednone detected
Coverage of live period98.6% of trading days

A gate can only ever judge a record. This section judges the behaviour that followed it: the committed specification re-checked against attested positions, so a holder who passes and then trades something else is visible rather than assumed honest.

06 · HOW IT COMPARESidentical gate · identical costs · identical drawdown markingLAYER 3
91stPercentile · deflated Sharpe, verified books
68thPercentile · research velocity
84thPercentile · breadth
412Books in the comparison set

Every tearsheet in the industry uses its own conventions, so cross-manager comparison has rarely been honest. These percentiles are computed against books judged by the same hash-pinned gate, on the same cost treatment and the same intrabar drawdown marking. The comparison set is public and append-only; anyone can recompute the distribution.

07 · AVAILABLE TO YOU, ON REQUESTneither side reveals anythingLAYER 3

Correlation to your own book, proven. Commit your portfolio’s return series: it never leaves your machine and we never see it. The holder proves, in zero knowledge, that this book’s correlation to yours sits below a threshold you choose. You learn whether it diversifies what you already own; the holder learns nothing about your portfolio; we learn nothing about either.

08 · WHAT THIS REPLACES IN YOUR PROCESSand what it leaves exactly where it was

Removed · you no longer take these on trust

  • Reconstructing whether the record was computed honestly
  • Asking how many strategies were tried, and believing the answer
  • Re-running their numbers from files they chose to send you
  • Wondering whether costs, the out-of-sample split or the start date were set after the fact
  • Normalising their conventions against another manager’s
  • Taking research velocity from a questionnaire

Unchanged · still entirely your judgement

  • Capacity, crowding, and what happens after a real allocation
  • Whether they can manage a book at your size
  • Operational DD, custody, valuation policy, admin
  • Counterparty relationships and financing
  • Key person, team stability, incentives
  • Whether you want this exposure at all

This is a screen, not a decision. It removes one category of doubt completely and leaves every other category exactly where it was: the only honest claim a verification layer can make.

09 · WHAT YOU CAN DO FROM THIS PAGEnone of it requires the manager’s cooperation
VERIFY OFFLINE

Download the 231 KB bundle and re-check every number on your own machine in ~84 ms. No network, no account, no trust in us.

REQUEST CORRELATION

Prove this book’s correlation to your portfolio below a threshold you set, without either side revealing anything.

FREE FORENSIC

Send the return series of any manager you are screening. We return their deflated Sharpe at N = 1, 10, 50, 200. Expect it to be unkind.

REQUIRE IT

One line in your diligence template: “track-record verification may be satisfied by a VTR-1 credential.” The spec is CC BY.

10 · WHAT THIS CREDENTIAL DOES NOT ASSERT

Crowding, capacity, the ability to manage the book at size, operational integrity, custody, valuation policy and counterparty competence are outside every proof system and outside this document, permanently. It does not predict returns and is not advice. It proves that the record is real, complete, and honestly measured, and then it stops. Anyone selling a credential that claims more is selling the thing this standard exists to refuse.

SHA-256 7f31c0d4…a8e2 · BITCOIN ANCHOR block 1,041,882 · studio.mizan.market/credential/0412 · 231 KB · verifies offline in ~84 ms, trusting no one · ALLOCATOR-V1 gate policy hash-pinned · identical for every holder · VTR-1 conformance vectors public · ISSUED · VTR-1
Mechanism live today: N, exposures, chain, costs, OOS, sealed path
Layer 1–2 build: holder record, breadth, velocity, book tier, regime & vol, adherence
Layer 3, the franchise: percentiles (needs volume) · ZK correlation (engineering)

Why this exists and what it is not. This page shows a complete ALLOCATOR-V1 credential as it will read when the gate class ships, so that implementers, allocators and quants can see the target rather than a description of it. The holder is fictional, the figures illustrate the format, and several fields cannot be issued today: the legend at the foot of the card marks each one as live now, pending a published engine era, or gated on the world. No credential on the public registry carries an unproven field, and none ever will; a specimen lives here, on a specification page, and nowhere near a credential URL. Field-by-field status: ALLOCATOR-V1 · the real wall: the registry.