You have capital. You entrust it to an intelligent system. That system trades with it, monitors itself day and night, records every decision, and returns your capital with the resulting outcome. Without a human having to watch it continuously. And when the market changes, the system adapts with it autonomously.
That intelligent system is FRCST. Its foundation is already running live today. What is still missing is the organization around it that keeps itself running. And that is exactly what vNext builds.
Independent edge, ranked and validated.
Governed execution for every live decision.
Versioned evidence closes the replay loop.
Our promise is not that capital will grow; no honest system promises that. Our promise is the technology that makes it possible: deterministic where capital is touched, self-operating where the work happens, and verifiable at any moment.
Trading live on FRCST's own capital today; capital preservation before performance. Built to scale across capital and markets.
FRCST trades exclusively on its own capital and does not manage third-party capital. The scenario above describes what the technology is built to make possible. Past performance is no guarantee of future results; nothing on this page is an offer, solicitation or investment advice.
FRCST builds and runs systematic trading strategies on its own capital. It is not a single trading strategy. It is a proprietary technology company built around two separable assets, valuable together.
A modular layer that generates independent sources of edge — multiple strategies per market.
Independent providers apply their own market logic and output complete, versioned candidates through one contract. They do not size portfolio risk and they do not place broker orders.
A live system that decides what gets accepted, sized, executed and protected — recording every decision as auditable evidence.
Provider-agnostic control of the whole portfolio, including exposure and reconciliation. The same core logic is shared by live operation and replay.
Two layers, active 24/7. The same system remains in place at every stage. What changes is who operates it and who develops the strategies: responsibility moves step by step from human to AI.
The Trading Operating System runs live on FRCST’s own capital, with one signal provider in one market. The work around it is still carried by people: a human operator monitors the system and intervenes, and a human quant develops and improves the signal strategies.
An AI Operator takes over real-time operations. It detects disruptions day and night, analyses them and resolves them autonomously, within explicitly granted permissions. That gives the human back their proper role: strategist of the whole. Strategy development stays with the human quant.
AI Quants develop, test and improve signal strategies continuously and take the providers under their care. More providers and more markets, without adding people at the same rate. Activation stays bounded, and only after evidence.
FRCST B.V. is a Dutch FinTech company, founded in 2025 and headquartered in Amsterdam. It is built and run by founding partners Niels Loup and Marcel van Bree. The core platform IP, Signal Layer contracts and evidence architecture are FRCST-owned.
Niels is a founding partner and chief technology officer of FRCST and the architect of its production technology. With a background in IT and cloud architecture, he has spent much of his career designing complex, business-critical platforms where reliability, governance and observability are non-negotiable. As an entrepreneur, he has founded, built and scaled technology businesses, combining hands-on engineering with the organisational and commercial discipline required to turn technology into enduring companies. At FRCST, he brings those two worlds together in a production-grade systematic trading stack: independent Signal Providers, a shared Trading Operating System, portfolio and risk controls, continuous observability, auditable evidence and deterministic replay. He leads the evolution from research to live operation, ensuring that technology, operating model and governance develop as one coherent system — and that every new idea is testable, versioned, inspectable and governed before capital is exposed.
Marcel is a founding partner of FRCST, leading its business development and corporate strategy. With a track record of building and scaling companies through a hands-on, results-driven approach — including a successful exit via a listing on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market — he brings the discipline of an operator to capital structure, partnerships and growth. Having invested across many asset classes, he is convinced that digital assets represent a rare structural shift, with long-term risk-reward dynamics unmatched elsewhere. At FRCST, he translates the platform’s technology and evidence into a clear market proposition, keeping commercial ambition aligned with its evidence-first discipline and growth on a credible, sustainable foundation.
Build a trading organization that can observe itself, explain itself, learn from itself and continuously renew its Signal Layer, and hand humans only the decisions that truly require human governance.
The live system is shown in a guided session. Architecture, validation and investor materials are available for professional readers who want to go deeper.
