Frequently asked questions

v018 — a physics-based, market-neutral systematic crypto strategy. We model 20 crypto assets as a live physics simulation and built v018 on what that model reveals. This site is a public showcase of the strategy and its results; v018 is available for acquisition.

The intellectual property, not a subscription:

• The v018 live strategy — full codebase and model checkpoints.
• The 20-coin physics universe-simulation engine it reads from.
• v018’s complete validation — the walk-forward backtests, the robustness sweep, and the crash analysis.
• This platform and its tooling.

Naming: v018 is the strategy; its live paper account runs under the codename “Universe.”Serious inquiries: support@cryptolab.nexus.

Funds, proprietary trading shops, or platforms that want a deployed, validated market-neutral crypto strategy and the full regime-research methodology — rather than building it from scratch.

v018 is a market-neutral long/short crypto-futures basket. It holds a concentrated long position in the universe’s leading names against a short basket of its weakest, laddered across multiple hold horizons, and opens positions only when the physics model reads a favorable regime. The performance section on the home page shows its equity curve through backtest, then live, against buy-and-hold BTC.

v018, walk-forward / out-of-sample where noted:

• Backtest +845% cumulative (Sharpe +2.7), max drawdown −20%.
• Market-neutral — beta −0.02 to BTC; it held flat-to-up through the market crashes that sank buy-and-hold.
• Out-of-sample validated; on the cleanest held-out window (~5 months) the Sharpe held rather than collapsing.

Live track record is early and shown marked clearly as such. Backtested performance is not a guarantee of future results — forward returns are expected to be lower than backtest. Note: there is no pre-2023 (prolonged-bear) test — the coin universe’s newest member listed in 2023.See the full backtest — the market-neutrality proof, crash behavior, and the in-sample/out-of-sample split →

The 20 coins are simulated as particles in a force field whose internal forces derive from market behavior — when prices co-move the particles cluster, when they decouple they separate. Four geometric lenses read the shape of those configurations to classify which regime the universe is in. The market’s structure, not hand-built indicators, drives the signal. The exact feature construction, thresholds, and model internals are part of what transfers in an acquisition and aren’t published here.

Walk-forward with a held-out out-of-sample fold, and modeled execution cost (15 basis points per leg, above typical live cost on majors). We label in-sample vs out-of-sample explicitly and lead with the out-of-sample figures — the in-sample numbers are always the flattering ones, so they’re not the ones to trust.

No — and we document our own mistakes. A recent example: a long-basket weighting in v018 had been set heavy on the coin that performed best in-sample. An out-of-sample re-test showed that weighting was overfit (the coin was the best in training and the worst out-of-sample), so we reverted it to equal-weight, which validated better on held-out data. The numbers on this site reflect the corrected, more conservative version. That kind of self-correction is the standard the v018 numbers are held to.

No. Regimes change, live execution can surprise you, and any edge can erode as capital crowds in. Backtested and walk-forward results describe what happened, not what will. Live track records here are early and labeled as such.

The physics engine behind v018: the four geometric models that read the 20-coin universe, and the regime fingerprint they produce. It’s a showcase of the engine an acquirer would receive — the live 3D regime map is the centerpiece of the home page, and v018’s performance is on the backtest page.

Email support@cryptolab.nexus with “acquisition” in the subject. Diligence — full methodology, walk-forward validation, and a live data review — is available under NDA. A real human reads everything; reasonable response window is 24 hours.

Use the contact form or email support@cryptolab.nexus directly. Security disclosures: put “security” in the subject for priority routing.