Over the past six articles, we have covered the most robust institutional approach for achieving broad digital assets exposure:
- Bitcoin's return profile is maturing and passive allocation to the broader market has a poor historical track record
- Digital asset volatility is a structural source of systematic edge, not a risk to be avoided
- Momentum and mean reversion strategies provide regime-specific return generation across the full market cycle
- Combining uncorrelated strategies into a single portfolio produces measurably better risk-adjusted outcomes than any single strategy can achieve in insolation
Today, we address the operational question: how can a systematic portfolio be executed reliably, at scale, across a 24-hour market that never closes?
The Operational Complexity of Automated Crypto Execution
Systematic trading in digital assets introduces operational requirements that have no equivalent in traditional market automation. A robust execution engine must handle:
- Continuous, uninterrupted data ingestion across multiple exchanges and asset pairs
- 24/7 trade execution with automatic reconciliation and position management
- Real-time anomaly detection and automatic correction without human intervention
- Execution logic conditioned on available liquidity and order book depth to minimise market impact
- Institutional-grade security in a private network environment
- Scalable architecture capable of managing concurrent portfolios across many accounts
Solving these requirements individually is achievable. Integrating them into a single fault-tolerant system, one that operates continuously in a market that has no closing bell, is an infrastructure challenge that requires significant engineering investment and operational iteration.
This is what we have built.
The Robuxio Execution Infrastructure
Our trading engine automates the execution of 20+ uncorrelated systematic strategies across a dynamic universe of the top 40 USDT-settled crypto futures, which are reconstituted daily to reflect actual market liquidity conditions.
The infrastructure is co-located near major exchanges to minimise latency and is load-tested to operate 60,000+ portfolios simultaneously, each running in a fully isolated execution agent, independent of every other client portfolio.
Every order passes through a pre-trade risk router before any instruction reaches an exchange. Checks cover exposure limits, collateral constraints, approved instrument lists, and live venue health, done automatically, on every trade.
Orders are sliced and paced to reduce market impact while maintaining execution quality at scale. The entire system operates within a private network with no public internet exposure.
For more detailed information on our trading engine, please take a look at our.
Our Portfolios
Our flagship offering is the Robuxio Crypto Portfolio, a short-term focused portfolio combining momentum and mean reversion strategies in both absolute and relative forms on both the long and short side. It is designed to generate returns in various market regimes, including bear markets.
The portfolio is available in two standardised volatility profiles to match different institutional mandates, but can be further tailored to specific volatility mandates.
Collateral Options
All portfolios trade USDT-settled futures and are available across three collateral structures, allowing institutions to align their crypto trading allocation with their existing custody and treasury preferences:
USD Stablecoin Collateral
Provides pure strategy exposure without additional currency risk, ideal for institutions seeking isolated crypto trading alpha.
Bitcoin Collateral
For institutions wanting Bitcoin exposure plus trading alpha, with profits automatically converted to Bitcoin weekly.
Ethereum Collateral
For institutions wanting Ethereum exposure plus trading alpha, with profits automatically converted to Ethereum weekly.
Historical Portfolio Returns
Historical returns for each portfolio and volatility profile are available in our detailed factsheets. Key performance metrics including annualised return, Sharpe ratio, maximum drawdown, and win rate are documented for each configuration.
Our Robuxio Crypto portfolios have been running out of sample on client accounts since July 2024.
How Can I Get Access?
We offer four onboarding routes depending on your institutional structure and custody requirements:
Direct Exchange Connection
Connect your individual or institutional, Binance or Bybit accounts via secure trade-only API keys directly to our trading engine. You maintain full custody while enabling automated execution.
Prime Brokerage
Access through BIT (formerly Matrixport), one of the world's largest institutional crypto prime brokers, for clients with regional restrictions or institutional custody requirements.
Alternative Fund
Access our Robuxio Crypto portfolios directly through our alternative investment fund.
White Label
For allocations above $10M, we selectively offer white-label partnerships, allowing clients to embed our full trading engine behind their brand. White-label availability is limited and subject to our partner selection criteria.
The Team
Behind the portfolio design and the trading engine development is a team of experts in institutional risk management, enterprise software architecture, and digital asset markets.
Pavel Kýček
(CEO & Co-Founder)
Pavel brings 18 years of trading experience and a strong background in risk management, having worked extensively in currency hedging for some of the biggest companies in his country. Now fully dedicated to Robuxio, he specializes in building uncorrelated strategies.
Xavier Fariña
(CTO & Co-Founder)
A mathematician with advanced degrees in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, Xavier combines 25 years of IT expertise with a forward-thinking approach to innovation. As a former Software Architect at HP, he excelled in designing complex systems. Now, he masterminds Robuxio's infrastructure and leads a talented development team.
Dries Van den Broecke
(COO & Co-Founder)
As a former Olympic athlete, Dries applies the same resilience and determination from his athletic career to his role at Robuxio. He oversees most operations, connecting all parts of the company to foster a cohesive and innovative environment. His strategic mindset and entrepreneurial spirit drive Robuxio's growth and operational excellence.
Chris Jack
(CGO)
As the former lead of Cambridge University's Digital Assets Program, one of the largest global public-private research initiatives, Chris brings deep expertise in digital assets and strategic growth. At Robuxio, he drives all facets of growth, from business development and partnerships to brand strategy, communications, and digital presence, shaping the company's public face and expanding its global reach.
The executive team is supported by a broader group of quantitative researchers, software engineers, and data specialists, responsible for the continuous development, testing, and maintenance of Robuxio's trading strategies and technical infrastructure.
Start Compounding Today
Whether you are a fund, family office, institutional allocator or HNWI seeking systematic crypto exposure, we offer scalable access (tailored to your mandate).