Most quant track records are overfit, backfilled, or impossible to check. MIZAN proves the few that aren't — without ever seeing the strategy. The engine is live and the registry is minting — external quants included. The destination: every systematic strategy on earth carries a MIZAN proof: the way every bond carries a rating and every company carries an audit. This is the path from built to standard.
The technically irreducible part, the part most startups are still promising — is already shipped and operating. Everything below this line is real and independently verifiable today.
18,000+ lines of Rust on RISC Zero. 219 KB STARK, seconds verify, no trusted setup — 16 conditions checked (12 independently), and the strategy is never revealed.
A public registry of real credentials — external quants included, each verified end-to-end and minted as a portable, tamper-evident credential: GPU-minted, sealed by a real STARK, timestamped, publicly re-verifiable. The first was anchored to Bitcoin and an RFC 3161 timestamp; the wall has been growing since.
Every credential is scored against the full Bailey–López de Prado framework — deflated Sharpe, PBO, and combinatorial purged CV, all three live — and, since era v11, the Harvey-Liu/Hansen program too (Probabilistic Sharpe, Hansen's SPA): both canonical schools, minting as cryptographic proof. Our own flagship passes PBO and CPCV but reads “not significant at 95%” on deflated Sharpe — shown on purpose. A credential that can fail on us is the only kind worth trusting.
Credentials that grow: the same sealed strategy re-proven over a longer window as data accrues, every link bound to its parent. First real chain public at /verify.
studio.mizan.market/app — signup, strategy submission → queued proof → issued credential, and a public per-credential page. Built and tested.
Re-verify a credential entirely client-side, no server — now including the STARK seal itself (that the computation ran), with no trusted setup.
Allocations, capital-routing, and fee accounting (allocator 80% · manager 15% · MIZAN 5%) built and tested. Real capital flowing through it is next.
Point-in-time (survivorship-free) equities, per-strike option chains with honest bid/ask spread costs, and ML / black-box paths — engines built; the PIT-equity feed (our data provider, survivorship-free) is licensed and integrated as of July 2026, first dataset live in test phase; options feeds still in build. The sealed ML path makes MIZAN verifiable AI for finance: performance proven in production, model never revealed — the half of verifiable AI that ships today.
A full internal adversarial security audit run and remediated — self-audit in public. Independent third-party audit still forthcoming.
Nine killed strategies published in full with documented root cause; 40+ retracted overall, the honesty record that makes a PASS mean something.
Continuous, fault-tolerant strategy research across asset classes — AI proposes falsifiable research questions; a locked harness confirms or falsifies each.
Multi-venue microstructure recorded continuously since June 2026 — compounds every day.
A verification standard is a coordination effect: the more allocators demand it, the more managers must hold it, and the more managers hold it, the more allocators rely on it. Three stages turn a working engine into an industry default.
Quants prove their edge without revealing it; allocators verify in seconds instead of months. A track record you own, hold, and cannot fake. The wedge — into a market where independent research finds nine of ten frontier LLM trading agents alpha-negative and allocator evaluation capability at 31/100 (SPEC Research, State of AI Alpha, Q3 2026).
Credentials compound into a marketplace where verified alpha meets capital. Each new credential makes every other more valuable. Two-sided, self-reinforcing. No cold-start: MIZAN Labs seeds it with its own gate-cleared strategies, so allocators see credentialed supply from day one.
Every institutional allocation expects a MIZAN proof, the way debt expects a rating and accounts expect an audit. The verification rail for systematic finance.
What an allocator sees when MIZAN is the standard: the engine is asset-class agnostic — trend strategies verified live today, with carry, equities, gold, FX and more as managers submit them — from MIZAN Labs and external quants, allocated into their own brokerage accounts (Interactive Brokers, Zerodha) or a non-custodial on-chain vault. Custody never leaves them. They see their own fills — never the manager's logic; confidentiality covers the position stream itself. Illustrative product preview, not live trading.
Verification is asset-class-agnostic, the engine doesn't know what it's auditing. The serviceable wedge is the $8T quant / systematic market; the rail's ultimate reach is every pool of capital that must trust a track record.
$250T total addressable. Serviceable wedge today: the $8T quant / systematic market, ~$800B immediately serviceable. We don't need 1% of the market — we need to become the standard the best of it runs on.
Trust infrastructure is the most durable franchise in finance — neutral, mandated, and impossible to dislodge once it becomes the default. Systematic finance is the last large market without one.
Every era of finance installs a verification standard once the market outgrows handshakes. 1909: the first credit rating. 1923: the first audit standard. 1999: GIPS. Systematic finance's standard is being installed now. MIZAN is built to be it.
Revenue is success-based and market-independent: a 5% platform fee on profits from marketplace-sourced capital (managers keep 15%, allocators 80%, above a high-water mark), plus recurring credential fees ($6K/yr, $25K institutional) and allocator seats ($25K/yr). No management fee, no AUM tax, no allocator carry. The marketplace and its fee are contemplated future features; they may require licensing in relevant jurisdictions and will not be offered until authorized.