Industry: Finance & Banking

Protecting the Alpha with
Confidential Algo-Trading

Secure your proprietary trading algorithms on the public cloud with hardware-enforced integrity.

Strategic Context

The Alpha Leak

In institutional finance, proprietary trading algorithms are the "Crown Jewels." Moving these workloads to a third-party cloud provider is traditionally a non-starter due to the risk of IP theft by cloud admins or sophisticated side-channel attacks. This forced reliance on expensive, slow on-premise infrastructure creates a massive "Inertia Cost."

Lucid enables financial institutions to run their most sensitive "Alpha" code on high-performance public cloud hardware without ever exposing the logic to the provider. We replace trust-based SLAs with hardware-rooted cryptographic proof.

The Technical Mechanism

Blind Processing:

Trading logic and data are only decrypted inside the cpu's L3 cache, invisible to the host OS and hypervisor.

Code Governance:

Hardware-enforced policies ensure that only authorized, hashed binaries can access the firm's trading keys.

Signed Audit Trails:

Provide regulators with immutable, hardware-signed evidence of algorithmic compliance without exposing logic.

The Lucid Argument

Unlocking the $2T AI Spend

Institutional finance is ready to spend billions on AI, but is blocked by IP risk. Lucid removes the blocker, enabling the capture of the "Sovereignty Premium."

40ms
Verification Latency

End-to-end hardware attestation optimized for high-frequency environments without compromising security.

Zero
Model Exposure

Your proprietary "Alpha" never touches a machine in an unencrypted state.

WORM
Immutable Logs

Automate SEC 17a-4(f) and MiFID II RTS 6 reporting with cryptographically verifiable model integrity evidence.

MiFID II
RTS 6 Compliance
Verifiable algorithmic governance
and identity verification.
17a-4(f)
SEC WORM
Cryptographically signed
immutable recordkeeping.
SOC2
Type II Audit
Continuous operational
security effectiveness.
FIPS
140-2 Level 3
Federal Information
Processing Standards.

Protect Your Alpha

Move to the cloud without sacrificing your proprietary edge. Contact our financial solutions team.