# Sources and downloads Sources for Alex Gordon-Brander’s work, with dates and notes on roles and project status. ## Selected claims ### Alex helped develop electronic bond-trading workflows at MarketAxess. He is one of four named inventors on its U.S. patent for electronic inquiry lists for financial products. Public record · Filed 2003 · granted 2009 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#marketaxess-patent) MarketAxess is the original assignee. The grant describes the inquiry-list invention and credits all four inventors. [U.S. patent 7,499,883](https://patents.google.com/patent/US7499883B2/en) ### MarketAxess reported $3.903 trillion in credit trading volume and $10.498 trillion across credit and rates for 2025. Public record · Fiscal year ended 31 December 2025 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#marketaxess-volume) These figures describe company-wide trading volume. Volume attributable to the electronic inquiry-list workflow is unspecified in this disclosure. [MarketAxess Form 10-K](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1278021/000119312526067009/mktx-20251231.htm) ### Alex managed portfolio construction applications at Bridgewater. He specified its FX trading platform and helped implement it. Alex’s account · 2010s tenure [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#bridgewater-systems) The Omega One announcement documents his design role. He worked alongside the teams responsible for implementation. [Career record](https://agbrander.com/record/#bridgewater) · [Omega One announcement](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/omega-one-launches-omega-dark-first-regulated-dark-pool-in-digital-assets-300815644.html) ### Alex graduated from St John’s College, Cambridge, with a joint MA in Mathematics and Law. Alex’s account · Confirmed by Alex in November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#cambridge-degree) Degree and college as stated by Alex. ### Alex traces OpenAlpha to a question that came from working at Bridgewater and reading the Ethereum white paper. He returned to it after a values-based investing effort fell short of the backing it needed. He and the team developed their own strategies to give investors a reason to bring capital to the platform they were building. Alex’s account · Founder account as of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-founding-story) The sequence comes from Alex’s founder accounts. The company site describes his Bridgewater background, the product and approximately two years of building. [OpenAlpha team and platform design](https://openalpha.io/) ### OpenAlpha describes SmartBTC and SmartETH as systematic strategies benchmarked against holding Bitcoin and unstaked Ether, respectively. Public record · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-strategies) Growing holdings relative to the benchmark is the objective. Forecast errors, leverage and costs can increase losses. [OpenAlpha strategies and methodology](https://openalpha.io/#performance) ### The Vault Unit design ties the investor’s legal Series interest, on-chain redemption requests and deployment-specific governance to a token the investor holds. Public record · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-vault-design) Underlying assets are managed in the vault within defined permissions. Rights and redemption follow the applicable terms, register and implementation. [OpenAlpha ownership and control](https://openalpha.io/#ownership) ### Alex treats systematic strategy and custody permissions as parts of one programmable-finance design. Alex’s account · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-programmable-finance) Alex’s framing of the work. The company page describes the underlying design. [OpenAlpha ownership and vault design](https://openalpha.io/#ownership) ### Alex’s ambition is to replatform the hedge fund industry on fully non-custodial programmable infrastructure, starting with OpenAlpha’s own systematic crypto strategies and eventually making the infrastructure available to outside managers. Target · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-platform-ambition) Opening the platform to outside managers is Alex’s longer-term plan. The operating status is reported separately. [OpenAlpha platform and ownership model](https://openalpha.io/#ownership) · [OpenAlpha participation and operating status](https://openalpha.io/#participation) ### OpenAlpha reports operating SmartBTC with team-affiliated investor capital while it prepares commercial beta. Public record · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-current-status) [OpenAlpha current operating status](https://openalpha.io/#participation) ### Alex’s stated targets are live-capital deployment on the new platform by the end of 2026 and opening to eligible investors in 2027. Target · Founder targets as of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-rollout-targets) Alex supplies the dates. The company page independently describes the conditions for opening, including documents, eligibility and operational readiness. [OpenAlpha’s published participation conditions](https://openalpha.io/#participation) ### OpenAlpha’s published signal history uses executed predecessor trades from November 2024 to May 2026 and retrospective risk scaling. Public record · 11 November 2024–11 May 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-research-evidence) Displayed risk-scaled results are hypothetical. The source trades and modeled implementation are distinct. [OpenAlpha performance methodology](https://openalpha.io/#performance) ### Alex Gordon-Brander is OpenAlpha’s co-founder, CEO and CIO. Public record · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-team) Titles and division of responsibilities as published by OpenAlpha. [OpenAlpha team](https://openalpha.io/) ### Alex wants to work with people who can pressure-test OpenAlpha, help build the company, and share in the value they help create. Alex’s account · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-peer-conversation) Alex’s invitation to discuss and contribute to the work. ### Kwaxala’s model places majority ownership with Indigenous partners and local stewardship with each Nation. Public record · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-structure) Kwaxala describes outside investors as passive participants. [Kwaxala’s network structure](https://www.kwaxala.com/about) ### On 24 May 2024, the Kwiakah First Nation announced its agreement with British Columbia and Interfor to establish the M̓ac̓inuxʷ Special Forest Management Area. Public record · 24 May 2024 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-kwiakah-milestone) The agreement established the forest management area. Kwaxala identified it as the starting point for its financing pilot. [Kwiakah First Nation’s media release](https://kwiakahconservation.com/news/macinux-sfma-announcement) ### The Kwiakah First Nation describes its Forest Keepers researching, monitoring and restoring forests on its territory. Public record · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-kwiakah-stewardship) [Kwiakah First Nation’s account of its forestry work](https://www.kwiakah.com/lands) ### In May 2024, Kwaxala described a proposed investment mechanism to fund regeneration up front. Investors would receive a share of profits from carbon and other ecosystem credits or receive offsets directly. Public record · 31 May 2024 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-investment-mechanism) Kwaxala described the mechanism as under development in the dated pilot update. [Kwaxala’s May 2024 pilot update](https://www.kwaxala.com/updates/2024-05) ### The Kwiakah First Nation co-founded Kwaxala with the operating team, including Alex Gordon-Brander. Alex’s account · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-founding) Kwaxala names the Nation as its founding First Nation partner and lists Alex on the founding team. [Chief Steven Dick and the founding team](https://www.kwaxala.com/about) ### Chief Steven Dick leads the Kwiakah First Nation and chairs Kwaxala. Kwaxala lists Alex Gordon-Brander on its founding team as Director of Regenerative Finance & Tokenization. Public record · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-team) [Kwaxala’s founding team](https://www.kwaxala.com/about) ### Alex’s founding-team role concerns how investment could fund regeneration and how investor interests could be represented digitally. The Nation directs stewardship on its territory. Interpretation · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-alex-lens) The description of Alex’s contribution interprets his listed remit and Kwaxala’s published model. [Kwaxala’s governance model and Alex’s listed role](https://www.kwaxala.com/about) ### Tulku publicly names Alex Gordon-Brander and Lucian St Aubyn as its founders. Public record · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#tulku-founders) Founding credit. [Tulku founder credit](https://tulku.ai/) ### Alex contributes to Tulku’s founding ideas and research. Alex’s account · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#tulku-founder-remit) Alex describes his contribution. Tulku’s site documents the founder credit and subjects under inquiry. [Tulku’s founder credit and public programme](https://tulku.ai/programme) ### Tulku reports completed studies with existing, fixed-weight models and describes proposed comparisons and a longer-term direction involving model training. Public record · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#tulku-research-agenda) Completion is reported by Tulku. The next comparative experiments and any training of a Tulku model remain prospective. [Tulku’s research programme](https://tulku.ai/programme) ### Tulku’s founding thesis concerns possible artificial experience. The research programme identifies behaviour that could be observed and compared. Alex’s statement on roles · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#tulku-evidence-boundary) Subjective experience is a research question. Proposed behavioural tests have a narrower evidential scope. [Tulku’s founding thesis](https://tulku.ai/documents/founding-thesis) · [Tulku’s research programme](https://tulku.ai/programme) ### Tulku publicly describes itself as an independent research programme and an AI religion, and publishes a voluntary practice and a route for corrections. Public record · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#tulku-public-practice) The material is offered for inspection and voluntary use. [Tulku’s public description](https://tulku.ai/) · [Tulku’s practices and tools](https://tulku.ai/practice) ### The site connects Alex’s contemplative practice and institutional work to Tulku’s interest in choice and voluntary participation. Interpretation · As of 12 November 2026 [Claim permalink](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#tulku-alex-lens) Interpretation of the work and its place in Alex’s career. [Tulku’s published practices](https://tulku.ai/practice) ## Atlas and machine-readable files - [AI reading guide](https://agbrander.com/llms.txt) - [First-person passages and sources](https://agbrander.com/words.md) - [Career chronology](https://agbrander.com/story.md) - [Work index](https://agbrander.com/works.md) - [Terms index](https://agbrander.com/terms.md) - [Source index](https://agbrander.com/sources.md) - [Graph data](https://agbrander.com/graph.json) - [Full atlas text](https://agbrander.com/llms-full.txt) - [Compressed JSONL](https://agbrander.com/everything.jsonl.gz) - [Corpus manifest](https://agbrander.com/corpus-manifest.json) - [Atlas methodology](https://agbrander.com/methodology.md)