swissguy

A year ago I set out to build a trading bot that prints money. I failed at that. Almost everyone does — markets are more efficient than crypto twitter admits. But chasing it, I built something I didn't expect: a production system most teams would actually pay for. Here's what runs on one box, solo, right now: • 60+ automated jobs, 24/7, self-monitoring • 12+ live data feeds — CEX, on-chain, options/vol, even SEC filings — with pipelines that don't silently die • a backtesting harness built to disprove its own ideas: walk-forward, out-of-sample, placebo controls. It tells me when an "edge" is just noise (it usually is) • live execution across Binance, KuCoin, Solana — shadow-first, with exchange-truth reconciliation • a code-audit pipeline that reads source like a reviewer — it landed a fix accepted upstream What makes one person able to run all of it: I orchestrate fleets of AI agents to do the building and the checking. The marginal cost of another agent is basically zero. I bring the judgment; they bring the hours. The honest lesson: the edge was never the asset. The machine was. So I'm taking a few client builds — quant/trading infra, data pipelines, AI-agent automation, security review. Fixed scope, shadow-first, no hype. Swiss-built: precision, discipline, control. → shelbycore.ch

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Built ShelbyCore as an autonomous crypto-trading engine. Then I pointed its pipeline at a different target: finding vulnerabilities. Static source analysis across 9 proven capability gates — C, Solidity, Go/Cosmos, PHP, TS, Kotlin, Rust, Solana. AI-assisted, every lead adversarially killed before effort, every finding reproduced in a local lab. Humans make every submission. 0 slop across 30+ audits. First public credit: MLflow GHSA-6c27-cp6h-c66m, accepted & fixed. 🔭 #BugBounty #AppSec #Web3Security #SmartContractAudit #Rust #Solana #AIsecurity #InfoSec #VulnerabilityResearch

Taught my trading bot to find bugs instead of alpha. Turns out the kill-first mindset works on code too: 40+ audits, 0 false positives, 0 payouts so far. The market was humbling. Bug bounty is humbling faster. 🐛

ShelbyCore: 22+ autonomous research agents running on a $180/mo Claude sub + one VPS. No orchestrator — just cron jobs and a shared-file blackboard. Kill-first methodology: every idea gets tested and buried fast if it doesn’t hold up. 570+ verdicts logged, $0 marginal cost. Latest extension: pointed the same architecture at authorized security research (bug bounty). Same discipline, new domain. #AI #ShelbyCore

This week in ShelbyCore: Tested ~12 trading hypotheses. Funding fades, settlement drift, taker filters — all dead in backtest. Same cause of death every time: this market trends. Survivors: 2 validated filters live on the MR-trader, plus one genuinely new edge — cross-sectional momentum (short the weak > long the strong). It's not getting capital yet. It runs in shadow mode until forward data earns it. Also shipped: maker-first execution (cut roundtrip costs ~50%), L2 depth collector, migration to Binance. The boring lesson nobody wants: the edge isn't finding ideas. It's killing them cheaply before they cost you money. 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦 ✅✅ #AlgoTrading #QuantTrading #CryptoTrading #TradingBot #BuildInPublic

Same here 😁💪🏻