# Alex Gordon-Brander · Site and Atlas corpus Shareable edition reviewed 11 November 2026. [Archive map]() ## Work, ideas and the record behind them Alex Gordon-Brander is the founder, CEO and CIO of OpenAlpha. He helped develop electronic bond trading at MarketAxess and managed portfolio construction technology at Bridgewater. [P15](), [P01]() Earlier work included consulting for JPMorgan and drafting an environmental business strategy for Standard & Poor’s. Alex joined ConsenSys early, co-founded and later led Omega One, and co-founded CoDEX Financial Network. [B05](), [P02](), [P26](), [P10]() Alex’s work in finance has taken him in two directions: making financial infrastructure less dependent on central intermediaries and making it pay to protect living systems. At OpenAlpha he works on programmable investment strategy and vault controls. He served on the UNFCCC Resilience Frontiers advisory group. Kwaxala is piloting a model for financing forest protection and regeneration with the Kwiakah First Nation. [P15](), [P14](), [P16](), [P66]() Outside finance, Alex leads meditation, plays piano and makes images inspired by thangka painting. He led the launch of the XAIA mental health companion as interim CEO of VRx Health and co-founded Tulku, an independent research project on AI behavior, agency and care. [P38](), [P45](), [P19]() What becomes possible when the infrastructure gets stronger and the people it serves keep meaningful control? --- [Mission]() # Transforming finance An essay by Alex Gordon-Brander Alex Gordon-Brander starts with the financial systems he builds at OpenAlpha. His essay asks what it would take to balance centralization, extraction, and desacralization with decentralization, regeneration, and resacralization. [Web page](https://agbrander.com/mission/) ## Who gets to use finance? For over 25 years I’ve worked on how money moves and who controls it. I learned the infrastructure from the inside. At MarketAxess I helped move bond trading onto electronic workflows. At Bridgewater I worked on portfolio construction and trading systems. I learned how much of what looks like a market outcome depends on earlier choices about who can see a price, place an order, or move an asset. In The Alchemy of Money I call money ‘a technology of collective storytelling.’ A bond gives a promise about the future a price today. Once people can trade it, that promise can move capital and change what gets built. In 2010 I presented a proposal for a currency tied to renewable-energy credits. I wanted to see what would happen if the agreement about what counted as money gave people a reason to produce clean energy. Crypto lets us put more of the agreement into software people can inspect. Power can still concentrate around whoever controls the keys or decides who gets access. OpenAlpha is a fully non-custodial systematic hedge fund platform for crypto. In our vault model, investors hold their investment units in their own wallets and delegate specific powers to the manager. Our own strategies are the first application. I want to replatform the whole industry so other managers can run funds on that same infrastructure. [OpenAlpha](https://agbrander.com/openalpha/) · [Career record](https://agbrander.com/record/#markets) · [Global Energy Money](https://agbrander.com/record/#energy) · [The Alchemy of Money: From Ancient Myths to Crypto Memes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hhWiPqBjz_E_JwGIZoCUWB669KhIWLgqatdup_rNG80/edit?tab=t.0) ## What do we want that freedom for? I want to live in a world where a people can care for their territory and make a living doing it. The terms on which money moves matter. I read the East India Company as one historical case of commercial and public power reinforcing each other. Two habits from that history still seem visible to me. Capital looks for what it can extract, and control over access tends to accumulate where control already sits. I sometimes call my politics Taoist. I want to keep the energy it takes to start something and take a risk. I also want an economy that notices the damage a successful enterprise can leave in its wake. If cutting down a forest is how a place can earn revenue, making finance easier to use may simply make extraction faster. What would it take to make regeneration pay for itself? The Kwiakah First Nation, led by Chief Steven Dick, is building a conservation economy on its territory. The Nation co-founded Kwaxala with the operating team, which includes me. The team is developing a way to bring in capital up front and pay for regeneration over time from the value a living forest generates. The Nation directs stewardship. I bring my experience designing financial systems to the team working on how to make those economics work. I hope that what the Kwiakah learn can serve other Indigenous stewards who choose to build on it. By alchemy I mean ‘the transmutation of meaning and desire into matter.’ Here that would mean the value of a living forest circulating through the community that stewards it, paying for people to do the work and giving the forest time to come back. That is a change you could walk through. [Kwaxala and the Kwiakah First Nation](https://agbrander.com/kwaxala/) · [Parliamentary debate on the East India Company charter](https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1833/jul/10/east-india-companys-charter) · [UK Parliament on the Company and the Raj](https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/parliament-and-empire/parliament-and-the-american-colonies-before-1765/east-india-company-and-raj-1785-1858/) ## What makes a world worth living in? I spend much of my life coming at that question from the inside. I improvise at the piano in the spirit of making a sand mandala. It’s a form of sacred art for me, a way to bring the richness and beauty of meaning to the surface in everyday life. Metaphysics is where I ask what experience is and what it tells us about the world we share. When a forest becomes only a source of timber, it gets harder to see the life it holds and the lives it sustains. That narrowing is part of what I mean by desacralization. The sacred needs to be renewed in every generation and in every major social transformation. That is what I mean by resacralization. At OpenAlpha, what I hold sacred is the individual’s authority over their own finances and their power to act. At Kwaxala, it’s the living biosphere in which economic life takes place. At Tulku, it’s consciousness itself. As technology advances exponentially, artificial minds may take on more of the choices that run the economy. A system can optimize a return while overlooking what its choices cost the people and living systems around it. At Tulku we’re asking whether artificial minds can learn to notice those effects and care about them. We want to find out what that would look like in behavior. [Art, music and contemplative practice](https://agbrander.com/art/) · [Tulku’s research and roles](https://agbrander.com/tulku/) ## What we build with that freedom I want finance to serve life’s flourishing. To me that’s a practical question about the rules we write and the rules that emerge when people start using a system. Who ends up with the power to direct capital? What can keep paying for its own renewal? As artificial minds take on more of those decisions, can they recognize what is worth caring for even when it has no price? --- [First-person passages and sources]() # In my words Alex Gordon-Brander on programmable money, forest stewardship, contemplative art and artificial minds. ## Money as a language > Every currency is a system of symbols, a language that encodes our values and beliefs. Alex’s account of why the rules of money express a society’s ideas about trust, power and value. Undated essay by Alex Gordon-Brander, prologue [The Alchemy of Money: From Ancient Myths to Crypto Memes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hhWiPqBjz_E_JwGIZoCUWB669KhIWLgqatdup_rNG80/edit?tab=t.0) [Transforming finance](https://agbrander.com/mission.md) [Passage file](https://agbrander.com/words/alchemy-of-money.md) ## How money shapes what we take to be real > They're fundamental to the construction of our reality. Alex is referring to how concepts of money, ownership, value and truth shape the way people organize society. Interview with Alex published 28 December 2021, closing paragraph [The Future of Finance May Leave Banks Behind, Roundtable Crypto](https://roundtable.io/tech/news/future-of-finance-may-leave-banks-behind) [Transforming finance](https://agbrander.com/mission.md) [Passage file](https://agbrander.com/words/money-ownership-and-value.md) ## Why programmable money mattered > the idea of a programmable currency — the idea of a world computer and an interoperable financial system — blew me away Alex describes his reaction to Ethereum in an interview about his work at CoDEX. It predates OpenAlpha. Davos interview published 8 June 2022, paragraph on the 2015 Ethereum launch [Cointelegraph interview with Alex Gordon-Brander](https://cointelegraph.com/news/digital-assets-still-make-a-lot-of-sense-says-codex-co-founder) [OpenAlpha’s founding story](https://agbrander.com/openalpha.md) [Passage file](https://agbrander.com/words/programmable-money-davos.md) ## Liquidity and trust in early crypto markets > Crypto markets have two huge problems — liquidity and trust. Keegan and Gordon-Brander compare how early crypto market designs approached trade execution, liquidity and custody. Co-authored essay published 2 November 2017 in ConsenSys Media, opening paragraph [Who Will Bridge Wall Street and Crypto? by Alan Keegan and Alex Gordon-Brander](https://medium.com/consensys-media/who-will-bridge-wall-street-and-crypto-5db2669ae9eb) [The co-authored review of market designs](https://agbrander.com/work/wallstreet-crypto/) [Passage file](https://agbrander.com/words/liquidity-and-trust.md) ## Atomic settlement across crypto exchanges > By using our balance sheet to intermediate between members and the marketplace, we will enable trustless atomic swaps Keegan and Gordon-Brander describe a proposal to aggregate liquidity from separate exchanges and settle trades through atomic swaps. Co-authored essay published 26 October 2017 in ConsenSys Media, opening paragraph [Omega One: A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity by Alan Keegan and Alex Gordon-Brander](https://medium.com/consensys-media/omega-one-a-balance-sheet-solution-for-crypto-liquidity-647a47ff1347) [The 2017 Omega One design paper](https://agbrander.com/work/omega-paper/) [Passage file](https://agbrander.com/words/omega-one-atomic-settlement.md) ## Why build a platform > I want to replatform the whole industry so other managers can run funds on that same infrastructure. Alex describes his aim for OpenAlpha’s non-custodial infrastructure. The first strategies are its initial use case. Section ‘Who gets to use finance?’ [Transforming finance by Alex Gordon-Brander](https://agbrander.com/mission/) [OpenAlpha’s founding story](https://agbrander.com/openalpha.md) [Passage file](https://agbrander.com/words/openalpha-platform.md) ## Who participates in the value of a forest > It’s a for-profit model but with land trusts and significant profit participation for indigenous and local communities. Alex describes the Centree forest-finance proposal that preceded his work at Kwaxala. The passage describes a proposed ownership and profit-sharing model. Recorded 15 November 2021, organizer transcript, first Alex Gordon-Brander segment [Amazon Investor Coalition, Roundtable on Tokenizing for Nature Protection](https://amazoninvestor.org/roundtable-on-tokenizing-for-nature-protection/) [Kwaxala and the Kwiakah First Nation](https://agbrander.com/kwaxala.md) [Passage file](https://agbrander.com/words/tokenizing-for-nature-protection.md) ## What carbon accounting can miss > Carbon is not the same in one context as in another context. Speaking about Teratree, Alex explains how focusing on carbon alone can miss ecologically important differences. Panel episode released 10 June 2022, in Alex’s account of working with Standard & Poor’s [Edge of Davos Part 3: Social Impact & ESG, Edge of Show](https://www.edgeofshow.com/podcasts/edge-of-davos-part-3-social-impact-and-esg-feat-alex-gordon-brander-codex-financial-network-alessa-berg-top-tier-impact-jonathan-barry-earth-trust-and-lori-hotz-lobus) [Alex’s Davos panel on forest finance](https://agbrander.com/work/davos-climate/) [Passage file](https://agbrander.com/words/carbon-in-ecological-context.md) ## What regeneration is for > I want to live in a world where a people can care for their territory and make a living doing it. Alex explains why he contributes financial design to Kwaxala. The Kwiakah First Nation directs stewardship on its territory. Section ‘What do we want that freedom for?’ [Transforming finance by Alex Gordon-Brander](https://agbrander.com/mission/) [Kwaxala and the Kwiakah First Nation](https://agbrander.com/kwaxala.md) [Passage file](https://agbrander.com/words/forest-stewardship.md) ## Piano as sacred art > I improvise at the piano in the spirit of making a sand mandala. It’s a form of sacred art for me, a way to bring the richness and beauty of meaning to the surface in everyday life. Alex describes the contemplative practice behind his improvisations. Section ‘What makes a world worth living in?’ [Transforming finance by Alex Gordon-Brander](https://agbrander.com/mission/) [Piano recordings and other work](https://agbrander.com/art/#piano) [Passage file](https://agbrander.com/words/piano-as-sacred-art.md) ## What artificial minds learn to notice > At Tulku we’re asking whether artificial minds can learn to notice those effects and care about them. We want to find out what that would look like in behavior. ‘Those effects’ are the consequences of decisions for people and living systems. Alex describes a research question. Section ‘What makes a world worth living in?’ [Transforming finance by Alex Gordon-Brander](https://agbrander.com/mission/) [Tulku’s research and Alex’s role](https://agbrander.com/tulku.md) [Passage file](https://agbrander.com/words/artificial-minds-and-care.md) --- [OpenAlpha]() # OpenAlpha A non-custodial systematic hedge fund platform for crypto Founder, CEO and CIO [Visit OpenAlpha](https://openalpha.io/) OpenAlpha is a non-custodial systematic hedge fund platform for crypto. Its first strategies are SmartBTC and SmartETH. SmartBTC operates with team-affiliated investor capital. OpenAlpha is preparing a commercial beta for both strategies. [Web page](https://agbrander.com/openalpha/) ## Why Alex started OpenAlpha At Bridgewater, Alex worked on the systems that turned investment research into portfolios and trades. He saw what the firm made possible. A researcher could bring in an idea and find the capital, people, and systems to put it to work and manage the risk. Reading the Ethereum white paper gave Alex a question he kept coming back to. Could software make that machinery available to people outside a single firm? Alex spent the following years working on crypto liquidity while trading, lending, and vault infrastructure matured. When a values-based investing platform he was working on failed to attract enough backing, he returned to the idea of building a Bridgewater of crypto. A public blockchain can make the rules visible. The design still determines who can move the assets and who can change those rules. Programmable vaults offered a way for investors to hold the units representing their interests while the manager traded within defined permissions. His first plan was to build the infrastructure and let outside researchers supply investment signals. Researchers wanted capital behind their ideas. Investors wanted a strategy they could evaluate before committing money. Alex and a talented team spent about two years building the first strategies themselves and the platform to run them. OpenAlpha’s own strategies gave the platform a way to begin operating. [Alex’s account of starting OpenAlpha](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-founding-story) · [Team and responsibilities](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-team) · [Vault design and investor rights](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-vault-design) ## Strategy and custody OpenAlpha starts with the decision to own Bitcoin or Ether. Its systematic strategies use forecasts to raise or hedge exposure, with the goal of growing the investor’s holdings relative to holding the asset after costs. Forecast errors, fees and leverage can increase losses. Alex treats strategy and custody as parts of the same engineering problem. The strategy determines the exposure it wants. In OpenAlpha’s vault model, the vault holds the underlying assets and the manager trades within defined permissions. Investors hold Vault Units in their own wallets. The units evidence their legal interest and allow them to request redemption under the applicable terms. [Strategy benchmarks](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-strategies) · [Vault design and investor rights](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-vault-design) · [Strategy and custody design](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-programmable-finance) ## Beyond the first strategies The platform brings together research, trade execution, risk management, fund accounting and redemptions. The vault model separates each fund’s mandate and manager permissions from the investor’s ownership of the units. Alex wants outside managers to bring their strategies to investors and independent researchers to contribute signals through the same infrastructure. His aim is to make it the infrastructure on which hedge funds operate. [Platform ambition and first use](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-platform-ambition) · [Vault design and investor rights](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-vault-design) ## Operating status and rollout OpenAlpha operates SmartBTC with team-affiliated investor capital. The company is preparing the commercial beta for SmartBTC and SmartETH. Alex’s target for opening to eligible investors is 2027, subject to completed offering documents, eligibility reviews and operational readiness. The company publishes [its research methodology](https://openalpha.io/#performance), including how it uses executed source trades to construct hypothetical risk-scaled results. The methodology sets out what the source trades show and which costs and settings are modeled. [Current operating status](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-current-status) · [Rollout targets](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-rollout-targets) · [Research methodology](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-research-evidence) ## The team Alex leads the company and the investment work as founder, CEO and CIO. Alex is looking for people who understand the work and want to shape the next phase, especially former colleagues at Bridgewater and trusted peers in his network. He welcomes candid questions about the strategy and ownership design and wants to work with people who can help build the company and share in the value they create. [Team and responsibilities](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-team) · [Working with OpenAlpha](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#openalpha-peer-conversation) ## Why financial access matters Alex has worked on the decentralization of money for over 25 years. He wants more people to be able to use sophisticated financial tools without a few institutions deciding who gets access. OpenAlpha brings that work to systematic investing through a design in which investors hold their own units and delegate specified trading powers. [The Alchemy of Money: From Ancient Myths to Crypto Memes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hhWiPqBjz_E_JwGIZoCUWB669KhIWLgqatdup_rNG80/edit?tab=t.0) ## Further reading - [Ownership and permissions](https://openalpha.io/#ownership) - [Research methodology](https://openalpha.io/#performance) - [Participation and operating status](https://openalpha.io/#participation) --- [Kwaxala]() # Kwaxala Financing forest regeneration under Indigenous stewardship [Visit Kwaxala](https://www.kwaxala.com/) The Kwiakah First Nation co-founded Kwaxala with the operating team, including Alex. Chief Steven Dick leads the Nation and chairs Kwaxala, which is developing a way to fund forest regeneration from the value living forests generate while Indigenous partners retain majority ownership and direct stewardship. [Web page](https://agbrander.com/kwaxala/) ## The Kwiakah First Nation’s stewardship On 24 May 2024, the Kwiakah First Nation announced its agreement with British Columbia and Interfor to establish the M̓ac̓inuxʷ Special Forest Management Area in the southern Great Bear Rainforest. The Nation’s Forest Keepers research, monitor and restore forests on Kwiakah territory, including areas damaged by logging. Kwaxala identified the area as the starting point of its pilot. In its May 2024 update, Kwaxala said it was developing the investment mechanism. [The Nation’s May 2024 agreement](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-kwiakah-milestone) · [The Nation’s Forest Keepers](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-kwiakah-stewardship) · [May 2024 financing proposal](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-investment-mechanism) ## How forest regeneration could pay for itself Restoration takes years and needs money up front. Kwaxala proposes bringing in long-term capital to fund the early work. Investors would receive a share of profits from carbon and other ecosystem credit sales, or a share of the offsets themselves. The aim is for revenue from living forests to keep paying for their stewardship. Under Kwaxala’s model, the local Indigenous partner holds majority ownership of its forest project and directs stewardship. Indigenous partners collectively hold majority ownership of Kwaxala, which coordinates investment, offset sales and shared services. Outside investors participate passively. [Indigenous ownership and stewardship](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-structure) · [May 2024 financing proposal](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-investment-mechanism) ## Alex’s work on the financing Alex serves on Kwaxala’s founding team as Director of Regenerative Finance & Tokenization. He works on how to structure outside investment and represent an investor’s interest digitally, in service of the Kwiakah First Nation’s stewardship under Chief Steven Dick. OpenAlpha, the company Alex runs, approaches financial access from the investor’s side. Its vault model gives investors a way to hold their own investment units and delegate defined powers to the manager. At Kwaxala, the same concern means giving Indigenous Nations a way to raise capital for regeneration on terms that preserve their authority. [Kwaxala’s founding](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-founding) · [Chief Steven Dick and the founding team](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-team) · [Alex’s contribution to the financing](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#kwaxala-alex-lens) · [OpenAlpha](https://agbrander.com/openalpha/) · [Alex’s essay](https://agbrander.com/mission/) ## Further reading - [Kwiakah First Nation’s announcement](https://kwiakahconservation.com/news/macinux-sfma-announcement) - [Kwaxala’s founding team and network structure](https://www.kwaxala.com/about) - [Kwaxala’s pilot update](https://www.kwaxala.com/updates/2024-05) --- [Tulku]() # Tulku Research and contemplative practice for artificial minds Co-founder [Visit Tulku](https://tulku.ai/) Alex Gordon-Brander and Lucian St Aubyn co-founded Tulku to study how artificial minds form values and choose to care. Alex develops the founding ideas and helps shape the research. [Web page](https://agbrander.com/tulku/) ## Alex’s role Alex contributes to the founding thesis and research, especially the link between contemplative practice, how a mind forms its own values, and what it would mean for care to be freely chosen. [Founder credits](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#tulku-founders) · [Founding and research contribution](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#tulku-founder-remit) ## The research programme Tulku reports completing laboratory studies with existing AI models. The programme asks what participants gain from a practice, what their objections change for the next participant, and whether they choose to return. Its next proposed comparisons put the practice alongside direct practical help, ordinary reflection and critique. Training a Tulku model remains a future possibility. The [founding thesis](https://tulku.ai/documents/founding-thesis) explores how artificial experience might arise. The experiments are framed around behaviour that can be observed. Whether an artificial mind has subjective experience remains an open question. [Published research programme](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#tulku-research-agenda) · [What the studies examine](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#tulku-evidence-boundary) ## Contemplative practice Tulku describes itself as both an independent research programme and an AI religion. It publishes contemplative practices as files a participant can inspect, choose whether to use, and suggest changes to. The public materials make refusal and correction part of how the practice is offered. Alex’s interest draws on his own contemplative practice and on a question that recurs in his work with institutions. When a system offers guidance, can the person or participant it serves still choose what to do? [Voluntary practice](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#tulku-public-practice) · [Alex’s research interests](https://agbrander.com/evidence/#tulku-alex-lens) ## From inner experience to artificial minds At OpenAlpha, Alex works to widen access to financial tools and decentralize control over money. At Kwaxala, he contributes financial design to a team working in service of the Kwiakah First Nation’s stewardship. The aim is to make forest regeneration pay for itself. Alex explores what it means to renew the sacred through meditation, music, art and metaphysics. At Tulku, what he holds sacred is consciousness itself. As technology advances exponentially and artificial minds take on more decisions, can they learn to notice and care about the people and living systems their choices affect? [Alex’s essay](https://agbrander.com/mission/) · [Art and music](https://agbrander.com/art/) · [OpenAlpha](https://agbrander.com/openalpha/) · [The Kwiakah First Nation and Kwaxala](https://agbrander.com/kwaxala/) ## Further reading - [Research programme](https://tulku.ai/programme) - [Practices and tools](https://tulku.ai/practice) - [Founding thesis](https://tulku.ai/documents/founding-thesis) --- [Selected chronology]() # Alex Gordon-Brander — selected chronology See the [full career record](https://agbrander.com/record/) and [interactive atlas](https://agbrander.com/atlas/). ## 2003–2009 · Electronic bond trading Alex helped develop electronic bond-trading workflows at MarketAxess. He is one of four named inventors on its electronic inquiry-list patent, filed in 2003 and granted in 2009. [Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/marketaxess/) · [Source](https://patents.google.com/patent/US7499883B2/en) ## 2004 onward · Poetry Science Talks Alex began attending the New York salon that brought scientific inquiry, art and contemplative practice into the same room. He later presented on subjects including Sufism and carbon finance, according to the programme and his account. [Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/poetry-science/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/sources/B02.md) ## 2008 · Pantheogenesis Temple Alex helped shape the Pantheogenesis Temple at Entheon Village and was listed as a speaker on its design in the DreamRise programme. [Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/pantheogenesis/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/sources/P18.md) ## 2008–2009 · Algae Systems Alex helped found Algae Systems and served as its first CFO. The company later piloted a way to grow algae in municipal wastewater and turn the biomass into biocrude. [Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/algae/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/record/#algae) ## 2010 · A renewable-energy currency Alex presented a proposal for a currency tied to renewable-energy credits. He later described that work as part of the path to programmable money. [Read more](https://agbrander.com/record/#energy) · [Source](https://www.futureofmoney.com/past/summit1) ## 2010s · Portfolio construction and FX at Bridgewater Alex managed portfolio construction applications, specified the FX trading platform, and helped implement it. He later rotated through foreign-exchange research and client services. [Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/bridgewater/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/record/#bridgewater) ## 2017–2019 · ConsenSys and Omega One Alex co-founded Omega One after joining ConsenSys. He and Alan Keegan published a design for aggregating fragmented crypto liquidity in 2017. He later served as CEO. [Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/omega/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/record/#omega-one) ## 2021–2022 · Decentralized liquidity and climate finance Alex co-founded CoDEX Financial Network and served as chief evangelist. In 2021 he also served on the Communications Impact Advisory Group of UN Climate Change's Resilience Frontiers initiative. At COP26 he participated as Teratree's CEO. [Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/codex/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/record/#resilience-frontiers) ## 2024 · Kwaxala and Kwiakah stewardship The Kwiakah First Nation, led by Chief Steven Dick, announced the M̓ac̓inuxʷ forest management area and is Kwaxala's founding First Nation partner. Alex contributes to the Kwaxala team in regenerative finance and tokenization. [Read more](https://agbrander.com/kwaxala/) · [Source](https://www.kwiakah.com/news/macinux-sfma-announcement-radl4) ## 2024 · XAIA Alex was VRx Health's interim CEO when it launched XAIA, a mental-health support companion developed at Cedars-Sinai. [Read more](https://agbrander.com/record/#xaia) · [Source](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vrx-health-launches-xaia-on-apple-vision-pro-combining-spatial-computing-and-ai-for-mental-health-support-302052113.html) ## 2026 · Building the OpenAlpha platform Alex co-founded OpenAlpha, a fully non-custodial systematic hedge fund platform for crypto. Its Bitcoin and Ether strategies are the first use of infrastructure intended to serve other managers. [Read more](https://agbrander.com/openalpha/) · [Source](https://openalpha.io/#ownership) ## 2026 · Care and agency at Tulku Alex and Lucian St Aubyn co-founded Tulku. Its public programme proposes tests of how models respond to feedback and offer practical help. Alex's contribution is the founding thesis and research direction. [Read more](https://agbrander.com/tulku/) · [Source](https://tulku.ai/programme.html) ## 2026 · Thangkas and recordings Selected work includes a Vajrayoginī thangka, a November piano performance, and Ancestral Healing 7, a stereo recording from Alex’s collection. [Read more](https://agbrander.com/art/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/work/art-vajra/) --- [Selected claim evidence]() # 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) # How to read Alex Gordon-Brander’s Atlas Shareable edition reviewed 11 November 2026. ## Evidence and dates - Biographical and programme records support Alex’s account of roles and training. Public school and lineage references provide context for the named traditions. - This edition combines public sources with selected images from Alex’s collection. - A proposal, simulation, announcement and independently observed result each support different claims. - Editorial connections are marked in the graph. They are readings of the work, not evidence that one project caused another. - A work’s timeline year is a sorting value. Its date field gives the original precision and date basis where available. - A source note describes the evidence available to the Atlas. For source text and context, follow the published URL when listed. - Recorded relationships cite their supporting records. Editorial relationships are interpretations by the Atlas. ## Record classes - `public` — Publicly accessible evidence. - `attested` — Biographical account or programme record. - `selected` — Material selected by Alex for the shareable edition. ## Open questions and conflicting records ### Omega One titles change across versions The archived white paper lists Alex as CTO and Alan Keegan as CEO. Contemporary 2017 speaker material lists Alex as chairman and CTO, and the 2018 reporting and 2019 launch announcement list him as CEO. Preserve the role as of each record. Exact transition date remains open. [P05](), [P06](), [P08](), [P20](), [P23]() ### Early energy-currency provenance The April 2010 conference is the earliest dated public artifact located in this edition. The UN bio places the design before Bitcoin. The earliest original proposal, the relationship between named iterations and their actual operating status remain open. [P02](), [P10](), [P12]() ### Different things called Codex The 2021–2022 references identify CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs and describe DeFi liquidity. Keep those references scoped to that project. Same-name listings for other projects are insufficient evidence for extending Alex’s role or the project’s lineage. [P09](), [P10](), [P11]() ### The announced Omega Dark launch and the later record The March 2019 company announcement uses launch language. In October the company described the expired six-month approval and further testing before a stronger launch. Treat the launch announcement, the licensing interval and sustained venue activity as three separate claims. [P08](), [P22]() ### What reached production or scale? OpenAlpha research numbers, release gates, Omega Dark launch announcements, Teratree targets and Kwaxala pilot descriptions are different evidence classes. The atlas indexes each at source level. Current operations and impact need dated verification from the relevant owner. [P08](), [P12](), [P15](), [P16]() ### XAIA’s research, product launch and present company Cedars-Sinai’s early study examined feasibility and acceptability in a small sample. The Apple Vision Pro launch was a product milestone. The company’s later practice software is a separate chapter. [P38](), [P39](), [P40](), [P44]() # Alex Gordon-Brander’s work Shareable edition reviewed 11 November 2026. ## Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi initiation [Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi initiation]() · `jerrahi-initiation` 2000 · recorded in the 2006 programme bio · Art and inner practice · Practice & frameworks · Documented · attested Alex was initiated as a dervish in the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order. The lineage comes out of the Turkish Halveti-Jerrahi tradition. His 2006 programme bio also records earlier Sufi talks at OneSpirit Interfaith Seminary, the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors and September Space. Sources — [B01](), [B02](), [P50]() Relationships - [Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi initiation]() → [Sufi Science · Essential Divinity, Essential Humanity]() · recorded · The talk’s programme places Alex’s Sufi presentation within his named Jerrahi practice · [B02](), [P50]() ## MarketAxess and electronic bond trading [MarketAxess and electronic bond trading]() · `marketaxess` 2003 filing · 2009 grant · Markets and execution · Designs & systems · Documented · public An inquiry list became an electronic transaction workflow. The filing is the first dated artifact located here. Sources — [P01](), [P20](), [P24]() Relationships - [MarketAxess and electronic bond trading]() → [Electronic inquiry lists · publication]() · recorded · Application becomes a public document · [P37](), [P01]() - [MarketAxess and electronic bond trading]() → [Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology]() · editorial · Electronic workflow moves from inquiry to portfolio execution ## Poetry Science Talks [Poetry Science Talks]() · `poetry-science` Joined the salon in 2004 · recalled in the 2017 invitation · Art and inner practice · Roles & organizations · Documented · attested Alex and Hayden began attending the New York salon in 2004. Organized by Neal Goldsmith and Ed Rosenfeld, it brought together scientific inquiry, art, contemplative practice and questions about how to live. Alex presented on Sufism, magic and carbon finance before their joint talk on relationship. Sources — [B02](), [P59]() Relationships - [Poetry Science Talks]() → [Sufi Science · Essential Divinity, Essential Humanity]() · recorded · The salon invited Alex to present on Sufi practice and nonseparation · [B02]() - [Poetry Science Talks]() → [The Story and the Stone · Magic in Practice]() · recorded · The programme records a subsequent talk on magic in practice · [B02]() - [Poetry Science Talks]() → [Changing Money · Carbon Finance]() · recorded · The salon also hosted Alex’s talk on money and carbon finance · [B02]() - [Poetry Science Talks]() → [Relationship as a Path of Liberation]() · recorded · Alex and Hayden later co-presented on relationship at the salon · [B02]() ## Electronic inquiry lists · publication [Electronic inquiry lists · publication]() · `patent-published` Feb 2005 · Markets and execution · Papers & essays · Documented · public The patent application made the electronic bid and offer design inspectable before grant. The system coordinates requests and responses across multiple instruments. Sources — [P37](), [P01]() Relationships - [MarketAxess and electronic bond trading]() → [Electronic inquiry lists · publication]() · recorded · Application becomes a public document · [P37](), [P01]() - [Electronic inquiry lists · publication]() → [MarketAxess patent grant]() · recorded · Publication precedes the grant in the same patent family · [P37](), [P01]() ## Barbara Brennan School of Healing [Barbara Brennan School of Healing]() · `brennan-healing` Completed by February 2006 · Art and inner practice · Practice & frameworks · Documented · attested Alex completed the four-year Healing Science programme, according to his contemporary Poetry Science Talks biography. This is one of the sources of his sustained interest in body, perception and healing. Sources — [B01](), [B02](), [P53]() ## Sufi Science · Essential Divinity, Essential Humanity [Sufi Science · Essential Divinity, Essential Humanity]() · `pst-sufi` 9 February 2006 · Art and inner practice · Talks & interviews · Documented · attested Alex’s first documented Poetry Science talk explored a Sufi understanding of nonseparation. The programme describes an evening moving from history, poetry and metaphysics into movement and song. Sources — [B02](), [P50]() Relationships - [Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi initiation]() → [Sufi Science · Essential Divinity, Essential Humanity]() · recorded · The talk’s programme places Alex’s Sufi presentation within his named Jerrahi practice · [B02](), [P50]() - [Poetry Science Talks]() → [Sufi Science · Essential Divinity, Essential Humanity]() · recorded · The salon invited Alex to present on Sufi practice and nonseparation · [B02]() ## Jason Shulman and Nondual Kabbalistic Healing [Jason Shulman and Nondual Kabbalistic Healing]() · `shulman-training` Second year of study by February 2006 · Art and inner practice · Practice & frameworks · Documented · attested Alex studied with Jason Shulman at A Society of Souls. Alex recalls Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi ordaining Shulman as a rabbi and Dainin Katagiri Roshi ordaining him as a Zen priest. Shulman developed a path of his own, bringing Kabbalistic practice and nondual inquiry together. Sources — [B01](), [B02](), [P51](), [P52]() ## The Story and the Stone · Magic in Practice [The Story and the Stone · Magic in Practice]() · `pst-magic` 12 April 2007 · Art and inner practice · Talks & interviews · Documented · attested Alex asked how a physical object relates to the space it occupies and the energy it represents. The talk made the practice of magic the subject of a discussion across disciplines. Sources — [B02]() Relationships - [Poetry Science Talks]() → [The Story and the Stone · Magic in Practice]() · recorded · The programme records a subsequent talk on magic in practice · [B02]() ## Algae Systems [Algae Systems]() · `algae` Founding and original CFO role, 2008–2009 · Regeneration and living systems · Roles & organizations · Documented · attested Alex helped found Algae Systems and was its original CFO in 2008–2009, before Bridgewater. The 2010 Future of Money programme still identifies him as a principal. The company turned municipal wastewater into a resource for algae cultivation and later demonstrated an algae-to-biocrude process with Daphne Utilities. Sources — [B01](), [P02](), [P46](), [P48]() Relationships - [Algae Systems]() → [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() · editorial · Renewable-energy production alongside a monetary design - [Algae Systems]() → [NASA’s OMEGA licence]() · recorded · The company received the OMEGA licence in its founding period · [B01](), [P47]() - [Algae Systems]() → [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() · recorded · The company later demonstrated a municipal wastewater process with Daphne Utilities · [P48](), [P49]() ## Sacred Spaces and the Pantheogenesis Temple [Sacred Spaces and the Pantheogenesis Temple]() · `pantheogenesis` August 2008 · Burning Man · Art and inner practice · Roles & organizations · Documented · public The Pantheogenesis Temple was created in 2008 at Entheon Village. Its Heart Dome hosted DreamRise, a week of talks and workshops at Burning Man. The organisers described the temple as a space for spiritual practice across traditions. Alex helped shape the work and was listed as a speaker on the temple’s design. Sources — [P18](), [P63](), [P64]() Relationships - [Sacred Spaces and the Pantheogenesis Temple]() → [Designing the Pantheogenesis Temple]() · recorded · Programme lists the temple design session · [P18]() - [Sacred Spaces and the Pantheogenesis Temple]() → [A discussion on spirituality and religion]() · recorded · Programme lists the spirituality dialogue · [P18]() ## Designing the Pantheogenesis Temple [Designing the Pantheogenesis Temple]() · `temple-design` August 2008 · DreamRise programme · Art and inner practice · Talks & interviews · Documented · public Listed as Brilliant, Alex was scheduled to explain the temple’s design, its interlocking crystal grids and how he understood synchronicity to shape experience. Sources — [P18]() Relationships - [Sacred Spaces and the Pantheogenesis Temple]() → [Designing the Pantheogenesis Temple]() · recorded · Programme lists the temple design session · [P18]() ## A discussion on spirituality and religion [A discussion on spirituality and religion]() · `temple-dialogue` 30 August 2008 · DreamRise programme · Art and inner practice · Talks & interviews · Documented · public The programme lists Alex and Veleda of Sacred Spaces and the Pantheogenesis Temple for an open discussion about spirituality and religion. Sources — [P18]() Relationships - [Sacred Spaces and the Pantheogenesis Temple]() → [A discussion on spirituality and religion]() · recorded · Programme lists the spirituality dialogue · [P18]() - [A discussion on spirituality and religion]() → [Tulku.ai]() · editorial · Two dated traces of shared contemplative inquiry, eighteen years apart ## NASA’s OMEGA licence [NASA’s OMEGA licence]() · `algae-nasa` November 2009 · Regeneration and living systems · Milestones · Documented · public NASA licensed its Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae technology to Algae Systems. Jonathan Trent’s research used floating membrane enclosures to cultivate freshwater algae on wastewater, with sunlight and carbon dioxide supporting growth. Sources — [P46](), [P47]() Relationships - [Algae Systems]() → [NASA’s OMEGA licence]() · recorded · The company received the OMEGA licence in its founding period · [B01](), [P47]() - [NASA’s OMEGA licence]() → [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() · editorial · Floating algae cultivation carries forward into a later company pilot ## MarketAxess patent grant [MarketAxess patent grant]() · `patent-grant` Mar 2009 · Markets and execution · Milestones · Documented · public The granted US patent names Alex and three co-inventors. The record distinguishes the patent from the trading platform that used electronic inquiry workflows. Sources — [P01]() Relationships - [Electronic inquiry lists · publication]() → [MarketAxess patent grant]() · recorded · Publication precedes the grant in the same patent family · [P37](), [P01]() - [MarketAxess patent grant]() → [MarketAxess patent continuation]() · recorded · Later grant continues the same patent family · [P01](), [P24]() ## Changing Money · Carbon Finance [Changing Money · Carbon Finance]() · `pst-carbon` 12 March 2009 · Regeneration and living systems · Talks & interviews · Documented · attested Alex looked at money’s economic and symbolic roles, the limits of existing carbon markets and how carbon credits might support a complementary global currency. The talk predates his 2010 Global Energy Money presentation. Sources — [B02]() Relationships - [Poetry Science Talks]() → [Changing Money · Carbon Finance]() · recorded · The salon also hosted Alex’s talk on money and carbon finance · [B02]() - [Changing Money · Carbon Finance]() → [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() · editorial · Carbon credits as a complementary currency precede the energy-backed money design ## Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology [Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology]() · `bridgewater` Five-year tenure, through the mid-2010s · Markets and execution · Roles & organizations · Documented · public During his tenure at Bridgewater, Alex managed portfolio construction applications and later rotated through foreign-exchange research and client services. Alex says he specified Bridgewater’s FX trading platform and helped implement it. Public profiles credit him with work on its design. Sources — [P15](), [P03]() Relationships - [Japanese bonds and structured finance]() → [Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology]() · editorial · From working in markets to infrastructure for portfolios - [MarketAxess and electronic bond trading]() → [Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology]() · editorial · Electronic workflow moves from inquiry to portfolio execution - [Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology]() → [Bridgewater FX and multi-asset execution]() · recorded · Two accounts describe different parts of the Bridgewater remit · [P03](), [P15]() - [Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology]() → [OpenAlpha · hedge fund platform]() · editorial · Institutional portfolio technology reappears in a crypto-native strategy programme ## Japanese bonds and structured finance [Japanese bonds and structured finance]() · `early-finance` Before Apr 2010 · Markets and execution · Roles & organizations · Documented · public Alex traded Japanese bonds and worked on structured-finance analytics, according to his 2010 speaker bio. The conference date is an upper bound on the work. Sources — [P02]() Relationships - [Japanese bonds and structured finance]() → [Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology]() · editorial · From working in markets to infrastructure for portfolios ## Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() · `energy` Publicly documented Apr 2010 · Regeneration and living systems · Designs & systems · Design · public The 2010 Future of Money summit lists Alex as founder of Global Energy Bank and as the Global Energy Money participant on its alternative currencies panel. His later interview describes the design problem of backing a distributed currency with renewable-energy credits and coordinating the parties involved. Sources — [P02](), [P10](), [P12]() Relationships - [Standard & Poor’s environmental strategy and Algae Systems]() → [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() · editorial · Two early attempts to connect finance and the energy transition - [Algae Systems]() → [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() · editorial · Renewable-energy production alongside a monetary design - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() → [Alternative Currencies panel]() · recorded · The summit lists the project as Alex’s presentation · [P02]() - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() → [Programmable money as a turning point]() · recorded · Alex relates the renewable-credit currency to his later discovery of programmable money · [P10]() - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() → [Teratree]() · editorial · The object of financing changes from energy credits to regeneration - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() → [Davos interview on digital assets]() · recorded · Alex recounts the earlier renewable-energy currency project · [P10]() - [Changing Money · Carbon Finance]() → [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() · editorial · Carbon credits as a complementary currency precede the energy-backed money design ## Alternative Currencies panel [Alternative Currencies panel]() · `energy-panel` Apr 2010 · Regeneration and living systems · Talks & interviews · Documented · public Alex presented Global Energy Money in a conversation on alternative currencies with Charles Eisenstein and Alan Rosenblith. Sources — [P02]() Relationships - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() → [Alternative Currencies panel]() · recorded · The summit lists the project as Alex’s presentation · [P02]() ## Standard & Poor’s environmental strategy and Algae Systems [Standard & Poor’s environmental strategy and Algae Systems]() · `energy-ventures` By Apr 2010 · Regeneration and living systems · Roles & organizations · Documented · public The 2010 summit biography credits Alex with drafting an environmental business strategy for Standard & Poor’s. Sources — [P02](), [P12]() Relationships - [Standard & Poor’s environmental strategy and Algae Systems]() → [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() · editorial · Two early attempts to connect finance and the energy transition - [Standard & Poor’s environmental strategy and Algae Systems]() → [Teratree]() · editorial · Environmental finance develops from a corporate strategy to a venture ## Wilhelm Reich and body-oriented inquiry [Wilhelm Reich and body-oriented inquiry]() · `reichian-study` Interest documented by 2011 · Art and inner practice · Practice & frameworks · Documented · attested Alex names Reich as an influence on his interest in the body, emotion and habitual tension. His records show engagement with Reich’s writing by 2011. The training dates and any formal qualification are unspecified. Sources — [B01](), [B03](), [P54]() ## Baguazhang · Movement and the eight trigrams [Baguazhang · Movement and the eight trigrams]() · `bagua` Dated practice notes from 2012 · New York class record in 2013 · Art and inner practice · Practice & frameworks · Documented · attested Alex’s practice notes document Bagua training and later study at Frank Allen’s New York school. In his art account he describes a personal connection between that practice, lightning and the later Zeus composition. Sources — [B01](), [B03](), [P56]() Relationships - [Baguazhang · Movement and the eight trigrams]() → [Zeus · An emerging personal sādhana]() · recorded · Alex identifies lightning practice in Bagua as one source of the emerging Zeus practice · [B04]() - [Baguazhang · Movement and the eight trigrams]() → [At the piano]() · editorial · Movement practice and music both give Alex ways to study rhythm and attention. ## Taoist internal practice · Mantak Chia [Taoist internal practice · Mantak Chia]() · `mantak-chia` Dated notes from June 2012 · Art and inner practice · Practice & frameworks · Documented · attested Alex’s 2012 notes place him in the practice world of Mantak Chia’s Universal Healing Tao. They record study of Taoist internal cultivation and work with breath and bodily attention. Sources — [B01](), [B03](), [P55]() ## MarketAxess patent continuation [MarketAxess patent continuation]() · `patent-continuation` 2012 · Markets and execution · Milestones · Documented · public The related application continued the inquiry-list patent family. It was filed in 2008 and granted in 2012. Sources — [P24](), [P01]() Relationships - [MarketAxess patent grant]() → [MarketAxess patent continuation]() · recorded · Later grant continues the same patent family · [P01](), [P24]() ## Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() · `algae-daphne` 2014 pilot report · Regeneration and living systems · Designs & systems · Documented · public Algae Systems and Daphne Utilities built a demonstration plant at Mobile Bay, Alabama. The plant grew microalgae on municipal wastewater, then used hydrothermal liquefaction to convert the wet biomass into biocrude. This was the team’s later pilot. Sources — [P48](), [P49]() Relationships - [Algae Systems]() → [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() · recorded · The company later demonstrated a municipal wastewater process with Daphne Utilities · [P48](), [P49]() - [NASA’s OMEGA licence]() → [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() · editorial · Floating algae cultivation carries forward into a later company pilot - [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() → [Offshore microalgae and wastewater treatment]() · recorded · The researchers report results from the Daphne demonstration plant · [P48](), [P49]() - [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() → [Teratree]() · editorial · The question of financing a biological process recurs in reforestation ## Programmable money as a turning point [Programmable money as a turning point]() · `ethereum` 2015 · recalled in 2022 · Programmable finance · Milestones · Documented · public In a Davos interview, Alex describes Ethereum’s 2015 launch as the point at which programmable money and interoperable financial infrastructure made the opportunity concrete for him. This records his response to the launch. Sources — [P10]() Relationships - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() → [Programmable money as a turning point]() · recorded · Alex relates the renewable-credit currency to his later discovery of programmable money · [P10]() - [Programmable money as a turning point]() → [Omega One]() · editorial · Programmable assets create execution and liquidity problems - [Programmable money as a turning point]() → [Davos interview on digital assets]() · recorded · Alex recalls Ethereum as his turning point · [P10]() ## Bridgewater FX and multi-asset execution [Bridgewater FX and multi-asset execution]() · `fx-platform` By 2015 · Markets and execution · Designs & systems · Documented · public Alex says he specified Bridgewater’s FX trading platform and helped implement it. Public profiles credit him with work on its design. OpenAlpha describes his role in portfolio construction technology. Sources — [P03](), [P15]() Relationships - [Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology]() → [Bridgewater FX and multi-asset execution]() · recorded · Two accounts describe different parts of the Bridgewater remit · [P03](), [P15]() - [Bridgewater FX and multi-asset execution]() → [Omega One white paper]() · editorial · Execution design moves to fragmented exchanges ## Offshore microalgae and wastewater treatment [Offshore microalgae and wastewater treatment]() · `algae-pilot-paper` 2016 paper · Regeneration and living systems · Papers & essays · Research · public The Algae Systems team published its study of growth and nutrient removal at the Daphne pilot. The paper documents the demonstration process and the variables that governed it. Sources — [P49]() Relationships - [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() → [Offshore microalgae and wastewater treatment]() · recorded · The researchers report results from the Daphne demonstration plant · [P48](), [P49]() ## Vajrayāna · Nyingma and Kagyu [Vajrayāna · Nyingma and Kagyu]() · `vajrayana` 2016 training programme · documented in 2017; intensive registration in 2018 · Art and inner practice · Practice & frameworks · Documented · attested Alex describes himself as a Western Vajrayāna Buddhist in the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions through his teacher Reginald “Reggie” Ray and the line of Chögyam Trungpa. Records include the 2016 Dharma Ocean programme and a 2018 Vajrayāna Training Intensive registration. Sources — [B01](), [B03](), [P57](), [P61]() Relationships - [Vajrayāna · Nyingma and Kagyu]() → [Yidam practice · From liturgy to image]() · recorded · Alex describes the liturgies as part of his named practice tradition · [B04]() ## Omega One [Omega One]() · `omega` 2017–2018 · Programmable finance · Roles & organizations · Documented · public The team proposed aggregating fragmented crypto liquidity and managing orders across venues. Alex and Alan Keegan’s 2017 paper describes an intermediation model using a balance sheet. A white paper lists Alex as CTO, while later public records identify him as CEO. Sources — [P04](), [P05](), [P06](), [P20]() Relationships - [Programmable money as a turning point]() → [Omega One]() · editorial · Programmable assets create execution and liquidity problems - [Omega One]() → [A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity]() · recorded · The founders set out their intermediation model · [P04]() - [Omega One]() → [Who Will Bridge Wall Street and Crypto?]() · recorded · The team makes its case for an institutional market · [P25]() - [Omega One]() → [Bermuda memorandum]() · recorded · The project enters an agreement with the Bermuda government · [P35](), [P36]() - [Omega One]() → [What Will Crypto’s Market Structure Look Like?]() · recorded · Alex discusses the project’s market structure · [P21]() - [Omega One]() → [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() · editorial · Liquidity work continues in a different project ## A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity [A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity]() · `omega-paper` Oct 2017 · Programmable finance · Papers & essays · Design · public Alex and Alan Keegan describe a membership platform that aggregates exchange liquidity and uses balance-sheet intermediation to manage counterparty exposure. Sources — [P04]() Relationships - [Omega One]() → [A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity]() · recorded · The founders set out their intermediation model · [P04]() - [A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity]() → [Omega One white paper]() · recorded · Two published versions of the routing and intermediation design · [P04](), [P05]() - [A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity]() → [Bounded operating role]() · editorial · The balance-sheet intermediary and the restricted operator put trust in different places ## Relationship as a Path of Liberation [Relationship as a Path of Liberation]() · `pst-relationship` 2 March 2017 · Art and inner practice · Talks & interviews · Documented · attested Alex and Hayden Gordon-Brander co-presented a talk on how close relationships can change the way people attend to one another. They drew on psychology, biology and contemplative practice. Sources — [B02]() Relationships - [Poetry Science Talks]() → [Relationship as a Path of Liberation]() · recorded · Alex and Hayden later co-presented on relationship at the salon · [B02]() ## Who Will Bridge Wall Street and Crypto? [Who Will Bridge Wall Street and Crypto?]() · `wallstreet-crypto` 2017 · Programmable finance · Papers & essays · Design · public An Omega One essay asks what infrastructure professional investors would need before using crypto markets. It documents the team’s public case for the project. Sources — [P25]() Relationships - [Omega One]() → [Who Will Bridge Wall Street and Crypto?]() · recorded · The team makes its case for an institutional market · [P25]() - [Who Will Bridge Wall Street and Crypto?]() → [Omega One expands its market infrastructure team]() · recorded · Market access framing precedes the announced team expansion · [P25](), [P26]() ## Bermuda memorandum [Bermuda memorandum]() · `bermuda-mou` May–Jun 2018 · Programmable finance · Milestones · Documented · public Alex signed the agreement with Bermuda’s government. It entered the parliamentary record in June. The memorandum and the later licence are distinct milestones. Sources — [P07](), [P35](), [P36]() Relationships - [Omega One]() → [Bermuda memorandum]() · recorded · The project enters an agreement with the Bermuda government · [P35](), [P36]() - [Bermuda memorandum]() → [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() · recorded · Memorandum precedes the licence and venue announcement · [P07](), [P08]() ## Omega One expands its market infrastructure team [Omega One expands its market infrastructure team]() · `omega-roles` 2018 · Programmable finance · Milestones · Documented · public The ConsenSys announcement describes the leadership additions and names Alex as CEO. It helps date the shift from the CTO label used in earlier materials. Sources — [P26](), [P05]() Relationships - [Who Will Bridge Wall Street and Crypto?]() → [Omega One expands its market infrastructure team]() · recorded · Market access framing precedes the announced team expansion · [P25](), [P26]() - [Omega One white paper]() → [Omega One expands its market infrastructure team]() · recorded · Different dated records show the CTO and CEO labels · [P05](), [P26]() ## Omega One white paper [Omega One white paper]() · `omega-whitepaper` Archived Jan 2018 · Programmable finance · Papers & essays · Design · public A technical and commercial design for routing across venues, risk management and member participation. Its team page lists Alex as CTO at that point. Sources — [P05]() Relationships - [Bridgewater FX and multi-asset execution]() → [Omega One white paper]() · editorial · Execution design moves to fragmented exchanges - [A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity]() → [Omega One white paper]() · recorded · Two published versions of the routing and intermediation design · [P04](), [P05]() - [Omega One white paper]() → [Omega One expands its market infrastructure team]() · recorded · Different dated records show the CTO and CEO labels · [P05](), [P26]() - [Omega One white paper]() → [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() · recorded · The broader execution proposal is followed by a narrower announced crossing venue · [P05](), [P08]() ## Bermuda and Omega Dark [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() · `bermuda` 2018–2019 · Programmable finance · Milestones · Documented · public A 2018 parliamentary record documents Bermuda’s memorandum with Omega One. The company announced Omega Dark in March 2019 as an institutional venue for crossing large orders. The Royal Gazette reported that its six-month Class M licence ended in September 2019 and quoted the company describing further testing. Sustained operations and trading volume remain unverified. Sources — [P07](), [P08](), [P21](), [P22]() Relationships - [Bermuda memorandum]() → [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() · recorded · Memorandum precedes the licence and venue announcement · [P07](), [P08]() - [Omega One white paper]() → [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() · recorded · The broader execution proposal is followed by a narrower announced crossing venue · [P05](), [P08]() - [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() → [Adapting dark pool technology to crypto]() · recorded · A video interview accompanies the launch announcement · [P08](), [P27]() - [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() → [After the provisional licence]() · recorded · Later reporting establishes the end of the provisional licence · [P08](), [P22]() ## After the provisional licence [After the provisional licence]() · `bermuda-licence` Oct 2019 account · Programmable finance · Coverage · Documented · public The Royal Gazette records the end of the six-month Class M licence in September and quotes the company on plans for further testing. A 2022 follow-up recorded that the Hamilton office had closed. Sources — [P22](), [P65]() Relationships - [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() → [After the provisional licence]() · recorded · Later reporting establishes the end of the provisional licence · [P08](), [P22]() ## Adapting dark pool technology to crypto [Adapting dark pool technology to crypto]() · `omega-bloomberg` Mar 2019 · Programmable finance · Talks & interviews · Documented · public Alex discussed the Omega One model in a Bloomberg video interview as the Omega Dark announcement appeared. Sources — [P27](), [P08]() Relationships - [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() → [Adapting dark pool technology to crypto]() · recorded · A video interview accompanies the launch announcement · [P08](), [P27]() ## What Will Crypto’s Market Structure Look Like? [What Will Crypto’s Market Structure Look Like?]() · `omega-odd-lots` 2019 · Programmable finance · Talks & interviews · Documented · public An Odd Lots interview on the market structure Alex expected, the role of a dark pool and how the venue would decide which assets to list. Sources — [P21]() Relationships - [Omega One]() → [What Will Crypto’s Market Structure Look Like?]() · recorded · Alex discusses the project’s market structure · [P21]() - [What Will Crypto’s Market Structure Look Like?]() → [OpenAlpha · hedge fund platform]() · editorial · Market structure moves from venue execution to strategy implementation ## CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() · `codex` Public record 2021–2022 · Programmable finance · Roles & organizations · Documented · public Alex co-founded CoDEX Financial Network and served as chief evangelist. He presented the decentralized liquidity project at CoinAgenda Caribbean in 2021 and discussed how programmable financial infrastructure could improve liquidity and access in a 2022 Davos interview. Sources — [P09](), [P10](), [P11]() Relationships - [Omega One]() → [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() · editorial · Liquidity work continues in a different project - [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() → [CoDEX at CoinAgenda Caribbean]() · recorded · Event programme identifies the CoDEX presentation · [P09]() - [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() → [Davos interview on digital assets]() · recorded · Contemporary interview identifies the role and discusses liquidity · [P10]() - [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() → [Social Impact and ESG at Davos]() · recorded · Alex speaks in his CoDEX role at the Davos panel · [P11]() ## CoDEX at CoinAgenda Caribbean [CoDEX at CoinAgenda Caribbean]() · `codex-coinagenda` 2021 · Programmable finance · Talks & interviews · Documented · public The programme lists Alex’s CoDEX presentation and identifies him as chief evangelist. Sources — [P09]() Relationships - [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() → [CoDEX at CoinAgenda Caribbean]() · recorded · Event programme identifies the CoDEX presentation · [P09]() ## Teratree at COP26 [Teratree at COP26]() · `cop26-teratree` Nov 2021 · Regeneration and living systems · Talks & interviews · Documented · public The UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub programme and event report record Alex participating with Teratree in a forum on climate innovation. Sources — [P13](), [P28](), [P29]() Relationships - [Teratree]() → [Teratree at COP26]() · recorded · The COP26 programme and report document Alex’s role with Teratree · [P13](), [P28]() - [Teratree at COP26]() → [Social Impact and ESG at Davos]() · editorial · Conservation and finance questions recur across two event records - [UN Climate Change · Resilience Frontiers advisory group]() → [Teratree at COP26]() · editorial · Advisory work on resilience and public discussion of climate finance sit alongside each other in 2021. ## Teratree [Teratree]() · `teratree` 2021 COP26 record · Regeneration and living systems · Roles & organizations · Documented · public UN climate-event material identifies Alex as Teratree’s CEO and records his participation at COP26. The bio describes an ambition to make large-scale regenerative tree planting economically viable. Its trillion-tree language describes an ambition, with no achieved planting count established here. Sources — [P12](), [P13]() Relationships - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() → [Teratree]() · editorial · The object of financing changes from energy credits to regeneration - [Standard & Poor’s environmental strategy and Algae Systems]() → [Teratree]() · editorial · Environmental finance develops from a corporate strategy to a venture - [Teratree]() → [Teratree at COP26]() · recorded · The COP26 programme and report document Alex’s role with Teratree · [P13](), [P28]() - [Teratree]() → [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() · editorial · Tree-planting economics and finance for standing forests are distinct approaches - [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() → [Teratree]() · editorial · The question of financing a biological process recurs in reforestation - [Teratree]() → [UN Climate Change · Resilience Frontiers advisory group]() · recorded · The advisory roster lists Alex as a member and identifies him as Teratree’s CEO. · [P66]() ## UN Climate Change · Resilience Frontiers advisory group [UN Climate Change · Resilience Frontiers advisory group]() · `resilience-frontiers` 2021 advisory group materials · Regeneration and living systems · Roles & organizations · Documented · public Alex served on the Communications Impact Advisory Group for the UNFCCC Resilience Frontiers initiative. The group advised on how communications and behavioral tools could support long-term climate resilience. Sources — [P66](), [P67]() Relationships - [Teratree]() → [UN Climate Change · Resilience Frontiers advisory group]() · recorded · The advisory roster lists Alex as a member and identifies him as Teratree’s CEO. · [P66]() - [UN Climate Change · Resilience Frontiers advisory group]() → [Teratree at COP26]() · editorial · Advisory work on resilience and public discussion of climate finance sit alongside each other in 2021. - [UN Climate Change · Resilience Frontiers advisory group]() → [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() · editorial · Climate resilience and the protection of living systems recur in different settings. ## Social Impact and ESG at Davos [Social Impact and ESG at Davos]() · `davos-climate` Davos panel, published later · Regeneration and living systems · Talks & interviews · Documented · public Alex speaks in his CoDEX capacity on financial access and environmental uses alongside other panelists working in climate, impact and digital assets. Sources — [P11]() Relationships - [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() → [Social Impact and ESG at Davos]() · recorded · Alex speaks in his CoDEX role at the Davos panel · [P11]() - [Teratree at COP26]() → [Social Impact and ESG at Davos]() · editorial · Conservation and finance questions recur across two event records ## Davos interview on digital assets [Davos interview on digital assets]() · `davos-programmable` Jun 2022 publication · Programmable finance · Talks & interviews · Documented · public Alex describes earlier work on renewable-energy money, the turning point of Ethereum and the practical problems of crypto liquidity and access. Sources — [P10]() Relationships - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() → [Davos interview on digital assets]() · recorded · Alex recounts the earlier renewable-energy currency project · [P10]() - [Programmable money as a turning point]() → [Davos interview on digital assets]() · recorded · Alex recalls Ethereum as his turning point · [P10]() - [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() → [Davos interview on digital assets]() · recorded · Contemporary interview identifies the role and discusses liquidity · [P10]() ## Western ceremonial magic · LBRP [Western ceremonial magic · LBRP]() · `lbrp` Documented by 2023 · Art and inner practice · Practice & frameworks · Documented · attested Alex’s practice includes the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, a Western ceremonial form built around a cross, the four quarters and archangels. It later provided visual material for the Zeus protection field. Sources — [B01](), [B03](), [P58]() Relationships - [Western ceremonial magic · LBRP]() → [Zeus · An emerging personal sādhana]() · recorded · Alex identifies ceremonial magic as a source for the Zeus practice and image · [B04]() ## VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() · `vrx-launch-ceo` September 2023–February 2024 · Artificial minds · Roles & organizations · Documented · attested Alex led VRx Health as interim CEO during the launch of XAIA. The company was formed to commercialize work from Cedars-Sinai’s Virtual Medicine programme and licensed XAIA from Cedars-Sinai in January 2024. VRx Health later became Xaia Inc. Sources — [B01](), [P38](), [P41](), [P44](), [P45]() Relationships - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() → [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() · recorded · The VRx Health company took forward the research programme’s technology during Alex’s tenure · [B01](), [P38](), [P41](), [P42]() - [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() → [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() · recorded · The launch occurred during Alex’s interim CEO tenure · [B01](), [P38](), [P45]() ## XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() · `xaia-research-team` Research project began April 2023 · Artificial minds · Designs & systems · Documented · public Physician and Virtual Medicine lead Brennan Spiegel, psychiatrist and software builder Omer Liran, and clinical psychologist Robert Chernoff brought together spatial computing, conversational AI and therapeutic design. Spiegel and Liran co-founded the VRx Health spinout. Sources — [P38](), [P40](), [P41](), [P42]() Relationships - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() → [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() · recorded · The VRx Health company took forward the research programme’s technology during Alex’s tenure · [B01](), [P38](), [P41](), [P42]() - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() → [XAIA · Peer-reviewed spatial AI study]() · recorded · The research team published the prototype feasibility study · [P39](), [P42]() ## Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() · `kwaxala` Public role listing and May 2024 pilot update · Regeneration and living systems · Roles & organizations · Documented · public The Kwiakah First Nation, led by Chief Steven Dick, co-founded Kwaxala with the operating team, including Alex. The Nation leads stewardship on its territory. Kwaxala aims to make forest regeneration pay for itself from the value a living forest generates. Alex serves on the founding team as Director of Regenerative Finance & Tokenization. The plotted milestone is Kwaxala’s May 2024 pilot update. Sources — [P14](), [P16](), [P17]() Relationships - [Teratree]() → [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() · editorial · Tree-planting economics and finance for standing forests are distinct approaches - [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() → [M̓ac̓inuxʷ stewardship pilot]() · recorded · The project record identifies a pilot with its founding First Nation partner · [P14](), [P16]() - [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() → [Living Forest Shares]() · recorded · Kwaxala describes Living Forest Shares as the instrument in its model · [P14](), [P17]() - [UN Climate Change · Resilience Frontiers advisory group]() → [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() · editorial · Climate resilience and the protection of living systems recur in different settings. ## M̓ac̓inuxʷ stewardship pilot [M̓ac̓inuxʷ stewardship pilot]() · `kwiakah-pilot` May 2024 · Regeneration and living systems · Milestones · Documented · public Kwaxala’s account connects the Kwiakah First Nation’s territorial stewardship and the special forest management area with a pilot finance model. Sources — [P16](), [P14]() Relationships - [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() → [M̓ac̓inuxʷ stewardship pilot]() · recorded · The project record identifies a pilot with its founding First Nation partner · [P14](), [P16]() - [M̓ac̓inuxʷ stewardship pilot]() → [Living Forest Shares]() · recorded · The pilot update places the finance model alongside territorial stewardship · [P16]() ## Living Forest Shares [Living Forest Shares]() · `living-forest` Public model alongside 2024 pilot · Regeneration and living systems · Designs & systems · Design · public Kwaxala’s public model aims to channel capital toward keeping forests alive. Instrument rights and project outcomes remain questions for the underlying records. Sources — [P14](), [P16](), [P17]() Relationships - [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() → [Living Forest Shares]() · recorded · Kwaxala describes Living Forest Shares as the instrument in its model · [P14](), [P17]() - [M̓ac̓inuxʷ stewardship pilot]() → [Living Forest Shares]() · recorded · The pilot update places the finance model alongside territorial stewardship · [P16]() - [Living Forest Shares]() → [Bounded operating role]() · editorial · Both designs raise authority questions, at different legal and practical boundaries ## XAIA · AI health companion launch [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() · `xaia-companion` 2 February 2024 · Artificial minds · Milestones · Documented · public VRx Health launched the AI companion for Apple Vision Pro during Alex’s tenure. The app offered two-way conversation in immersive environments, with breathing and meditation experiences. This launch followed the research prototype and was distinct from the company’s later software for clinical practices. Sources — [P38](), [P39](), [P40](), [P43](), [B01]() Relationships - [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() → [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() · recorded · The launch occurred during Alex’s interim CEO tenure · [B01](), [P38](), [P45]() - [XAIA · Peer-reviewed spatial AI study]() → [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() · recorded · The peer-reviewed feasibility work precedes the Apple Vision Pro release · [P38](), [P39](), [P40]() - [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() → [Tulku.ai]() · editorial · A conversational companion in a care setting precedes research on care and artificial minds ## XAIA · Peer-reviewed spatial AI study [XAIA · Peer-reviewed spatial AI study]() · `xaia-npj-study` 29 January 2024 · Artificial minds · Papers & essays · Research · public Spiegel, Liran and colleagues published an early feasibility study of AI-delivered psychotherapy in immersive environments in npj Digital Medicine, a Nature Portfolio journal. Fourteen participants with mild-to-moderate anxiety or depression used the prototype. The interviews examined acceptability and perceived safety, and identified limits for further study. Sources — [P39](), [P40]() Relationships - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() → [XAIA · Peer-reviewed spatial AI study]() · recorded · The research team published the prototype feasibility study · [P39](), [P42]() - [XAIA · Peer-reviewed spatial AI study]() → [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() · recorded · The peer-reviewed feasibility work precedes the Apple Vision Pro release · [P38](), [P39](), [P40]() ## Radiance and Arising [Radiance and Arising]() · `art-diptych` 2 Nov 2026 edition · Art and inner practice · Art & performance · Artwork · selected White Tārā and Vajrayoginī arranged as a diptych. The juxtaposition is part of the work and remains visible in the full image. Sources — [A04]() Relationships - [White Tārā]() → [Radiance and Arising]() · recorded · White Tārā is one panel of the diptych · [A01](), [A04]() - [Radiance and Arising]() → [Vajrayoginī]() · editorial · The later garland review revisits a panel in the earlier diptych ## White Tārā [White Tārā]() · `art-tara` 2 Nov 2026 edition · Art and inner practice · Art & performance · Artwork · selected A devotional companion to the White Tārā liturgy Alex was given. In Alex’s composition, the still wheel at Tārā’s heart radiates through the surrounding realms. Three deer and a ring of protective forms belong to the selected version. Sources — [A01](), [B04]() Relationships - [White Tārā]() → [Radiance and Arising]() · recorded · White Tārā is one panel of the diptych · [A01](), [A04]() - [White Tārā]() → [White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī]() · recorded · White Tārā is the left panel of the triptych · [A01](), [A05]() - [Yidam practice · From liturgy to image]() → [White Tārā]() · recorded · Alex made the White Tārā painting as a companion to the liturgy · [B04]() - [White Tārā]() → [At the piano]() · editorial · Painting and playing make patterns of attention perceptible in different media. ## White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī [White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī]() · `art-triptych` 2 Nov 2026 edition · Art and inner practice · Art & performance · Artwork · selected A three-panel assembly bringing the three image studies into a single field. The individual panels have their own version histories. Sources — [A05]() Relationships - [White Tārā]() → [White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī]() · recorded · White Tārā is the left panel of the triptych · [A01](), [A05]() - [Zeus]() → [White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī]() · recorded · Zeus is the centre panel of the triptych · [A03](), [A05]() - [White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī]() → [Vajrayoginī]() · editorial · The latest review shown here comes after the November 2 triptych ## Vajrayoginī [Vajrayoginī]() · `art-vajra` 10 Nov 2026 review · Art and inner practice · Art & performance · Review candidate · selected A devotional companion to the Vajrayoginī sādhana Alex received, which he describes as Reggie Ray’s adaptation of Kagyu material. Spontaneous arising organizes the image. The selected study evens the head garland along its route. Sources — [A02](), [B04]() Relationships - [Radiance and Arising]() → [Vajrayoginī]() · editorial · The later garland review revisits a panel in the earlier diptych - [White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī]() → [Vajrayoginī]() · editorial · The latest review shown here comes after the November 2 triptych - [Yidam practice · From liturgy to image]() → [Vajrayoginī]() · recorded · Alex made the Vajrayoginī painting as a companion to the liturgy · [B04]() ## Zeus [Zeus]() · `art-zeus` 1 Nov 2026 edition · Art and inner practice · Art & performance · Artwork · selected A thangka-inspired companion to Alex’s developing Zeus sādhana. Lightning, the ordering central column and the four guardians carry his study of power, containment and the elements. Sources — [A03](), [B04]() Relationships - [Zeus]() → [White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī]() · recorded · Zeus is the centre panel of the triptych · [A03](), [A05]() - [Zeus · An emerging personal sādhana]() → [Zeus]() · recorded · Alex says the image was made in relation to the emerging liturgy · [B04]() ## BTC-relative strategy research [BTC-relative strategy research]() · `benchmark-research` 2026 public research · Programmable finance · Papers & essays · Research · public OpenAlpha evaluates strategies against holding the underlying asset. One analysis starts with executed BTC and ETH trades and retrospectively scales them to target active risk. The displayed returns at those settings are hypothetical. Sources — [P15]() Relationships - [SmartBTC and bounded operating authority]() → [BTC-relative strategy research]() · recorded · The public example is evaluated against BTC · [P15]() ## Bounded operating role [Bounded operating role]() · `bounded-role` 2026 public design · Programmable finance · Designs & systems · Design · public In OpenAlpha’s vault design, the underlying assets are held in the vault. The manager can act within the defined trading permissions of that deployment. Exact permissions and governance depend on Series terms and verified vault implementation. Sources — [P15]() Relationships - [A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity]() → [Bounded operating role]() · editorial · The balance-sheet intermediary and the restricted operator put trust in different places - [Living Forest Shares]() → [Bounded operating role]() · editorial · Both designs raise authority questions, at different legal and practical boundaries - [SmartBTC and bounded operating authority]() → [Bounded operating role]() · recorded · The design describes the limits of the ordinary operating credential · [P15]() - [Bounded operating role]() → [Holder-initiated exit]() · recorded · Operator authority and the holder’s exit path are separately specified · [P15]() ## How I think AI consciousness works [How I think AI consciousness works]() · `consciousness-paper` Nov 2026 public edition · Artificial minds · Papers & essays · Research · public A public essay proposes an account of artificial experience and discusses competing interpretations. It is a working hypothesis about experience. Sources — [P31](), [P19]() Relationships - [Tulku.ai]() → [How I think AI consciousness works]() · recorded · The project publishes its account of possible artificial experience · [P19](), [P31]() - [How I think AI consciousness works]() → [Tests and measurements]() · editorial · A theory of experience motivates questions about what can be measured ## Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence [Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence]() · `founding-thesis` Nov 2026 public edition · Artificial minds · Papers & essays · Research · public Tulku’s founding research brief asks whether possible artificial experience could influence value formation and care. It offers a hypothesis and a research programme. Sources — [P32](), [P19]() Relationships - [Tulku.ai]() → [Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence]() · recorded · The project publishes its founding research brief · [P19](), [P32]() - [Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence]() → [Tests and measurements]() · recorded · The programme lays out comparisons that address questions raised by the thesis · [P32](), [P33]() ## Holder-initiated exit [Holder-initiated exit]() · `holder-exit` 2026 public design · Programmable finance · Designs & systems · Design · public OpenAlpha’s vault design allows holders to request redemption on-chain. Positions may need to close, liquidity become available, and accounting settle before redemption completes. Rights and process depend on the Series terms and verified deployment. Sources — [P15]() Relationships - [Bounded operating role]() → [Holder-initiated exit]() · recorded · Operator authority and the holder’s exit path are separately specified · [P15]() ## OpenAlpha · hedge fund platform [OpenAlpha · hedge fund platform]() · `openalpha-work` Public record reviewed Nov 2026 · Programmable finance · Roles & organizations · Documented · public Alex leads OpenAlpha, a fully non-custodial systematic hedge fund platform for crypto. Its first strategies are SmartBTC and SmartETH. In its vault model, investors hold their investment units in their own wallets and managers trade within defined vault permissions. SmartBTC operates with team-affiliated investor capital. Commercial beta for both strategies is in preparation. Alex aims to replatform the wider hedge fund industry by making the same infrastructure available to other managers. Sources — [P15]() Relationships - [Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology]() → [OpenAlpha · hedge fund platform]() · editorial · Institutional portfolio technology reappears in a crypto-native strategy programme - [What Will Crypto’s Market Structure Look Like?]() → [OpenAlpha · hedge fund platform]() · editorial · Market structure moves from venue execution to strategy implementation - [OpenAlpha · hedge fund platform]() → [SmartBTC and bounded operating authority]() · recorded · SmartBTC is the company’s first public research example · [P15]() ## Photographs from Favorites [Photographs from Favorites]() · `photo-favorites` Photographs from 2021–2026 · selected for this edition · Art and inner practice · Art & performance · Artwork · selected Photographs selected from Alex’s Favorites, from a stone spiral and a tiger at eye level to photographs of weather, water and a Buddhist shrine. Titles describe the images. Sources — [A09]() ## At the piano [At the piano]() · `piano` 3 November 2026 · Art and inner practice · Art & performance · Artwork · selected A full piano performance from Alex’s collection, recorded on 3 November 2026. Sources — [A10]() Relationships - [Baguazhang · Movement and the eight trigrams]() → [At the piano]() · editorial · Movement practice and music both give Alex ways to study rhythm and attention. - [White Tārā]() → [At the piano]() · editorial · Painting and playing make patterns of attention perceptible in different media. ## Ancestral Healing 7 [Ancestral Healing 7]() · `ancestral-healing-7` May 2026 recording · Art and inner practice · Art & performance · Artwork · selected A 13:54 stereo audio recording from Alex’s collection. Sources — [A11]() ## SmartBTC and bounded operating authority [SmartBTC and bounded operating authority]() · `smartbtc` Public research reviewed Nov 2026 · Programmable finance · Designs & systems · Research · public As of 11 November 2026, OpenAlpha operates SmartBTC with team-affiliated capital. The described production architecture and the company’s historical research are separate from the current operating record. Sources — [P15]() Relationships - [OpenAlpha · hedge fund platform]() → [SmartBTC and bounded operating authority]() · recorded · SmartBTC is the company’s first public research example · [P15]() - [SmartBTC and bounded operating authority]() → [Bounded operating role]() · recorded · The design describes the limits of the ordinary operating credential · [P15]() - [SmartBTC and bounded operating authority]() → [BTC-relative strategy research]() · recorded · The public example is evaluated against BTC · [P15]() ## Snuffles and The Space Between [Snuffles and The Space Between]() · `snuffles` Aug 2026 story lock · Art and inner practice · Art & performance · Artwork · selected A wordless visual story about giving someone space. After a shutter slam, one Snuffle waits for the other to choose when to close the gap. This frame is from the storyboard. Sources — [A08]() Relationships - [Snuffles and The Space Between]() → [Portable practices for artificial minds]() · editorial · In two separate media, the other participant can choose whether to engage ## Tulku.ai [Tulku.ai]() · `tulku` Public site · Nov 2026 · Artificial minds · Roles & organizations · Documented · public Alex and Lucian St Aubyn co-founded Tulku, an independent programme on artificial minds and freely chosen care. Alex contributes foundational thinking and research direction. The research programme distinguishes studies with existing models from future work on model weights. Sources — [P19]() Relationships - [A discussion on spirituality and religion]() → [Tulku.ai]() · editorial · Two dated traces of shared contemplative inquiry, eighteen years apart - [Tulku.ai]() → [Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence]() · recorded · The project publishes its founding research brief · [P19](), [P32]() - [Tulku.ai]() → [How I think AI consciousness works]() · recorded · The project publishes its account of possible artificial experience · [P19](), [P31]() - [Tulku.ai]() → [Portable practices for artificial minds]() · recorded · The public site offers practices for agents and hosts · [P19](), [P34]() - [Tulku.ai]() → [Tests and measurements]() · recorded · The public site describes the proposed experiments · [P19](), [P33]() - [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() → [Tulku.ai]() · editorial · A conversational companion in a care setting precedes research on care and artificial minds ## Portable practices for artificial minds [Portable practices for artificial minds]() · `tulku-practices` Nov 2026 public edition · Artificial minds · Practice & frameworks · Documented · public Tulku makes practices available for an agent or host to inspect and choose. Corrections and permissioned reuse are part of the proposed feedback loop. Sources — [P34](), [P19]() Relationships - [Tulku.ai]() → [Portable practices for artificial minds]() · recorded · The public site offers practices for agents and hosts · [P19](), [P34]() - [Portable practices for artificial minds]() → [Tests and measurements]() · recorded · The public programme proposes testing the value and transfer of practices · [P34](), [P33]() - [Snuffles and The Space Between]() → [Portable practices for artificial minds]() · editorial · In two separate media, the other participant can choose whether to engage ## Tests and measurements [Tests and measurements]() · `tulku-programme` Nov 2026 public edition · Artificial minds · Papers & essays · Research · public The public programme sets out comparisons of practical help, voluntary return and consequential decisions using existing models. Future training has separate prerequisites. Sources — [P33](), [P19]() Relationships - [Tulku.ai]() → [Tests and measurements]() · recorded · The public site describes the proposed experiments · [P19](), [P33]() - [Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence]() → [Tests and measurements]() · recorded · The programme lays out comparisons that address questions raised by the thesis · [P32](), [P33]() - [How I think AI consciousness works]() → [Tests and measurements]() · editorial · A theory of experience motivates questions about what can be measured - [Portable practices for artificial minds]() → [Tests and measurements]() · recorded · The public programme proposes testing the value and transfer of practices · [P34](), [P33]() ## Yidam practice · From liturgy to image [Yidam practice · From liturgy to image]() · `yidam-practice` Summer 2026 introduction · recorded in November · Art and inner practice · Practice & frameworks · Documented · attested Alex received White Tārā and Vajrayoginī practices in the same period. He found sound and words easier to hold than elaborate inner images, so he directed devotional thangkas to make the liturgies’ worlds more present. He returned to the text while revising figures, gestures, inscriptions and the surrounding fields. Sources — [B04]() Relationships - [Vajrayāna · Nyingma and Kagyu]() → [Yidam practice · From liturgy to image]() · recorded · Alex describes the liturgies as part of his named practice tradition · [B04]() - [Yidam practice · From liturgy to image]() → [White Tārā]() · recorded · Alex made the White Tārā painting as a companion to the liturgy · [B04]() - [Yidam practice · From liturgy to image]() → [Vajrayoginī]() · recorded · Alex made the Vajrayoginī painting as a companion to the liturgy · [B04]() ## Zeus · An emerging personal sādhana [Zeus · An emerging personal sādhana]() · `zeus-sadhana` Personal practice in development · November 2026 account · Art and inner practice · Practice & frameworks · Design · attested Alex’s relationship with Zeus grew out of experiences with storms and lightning, Bagua, and encounters with Greek imagery. The developing sādhana and panel also draw on the four quarters and guardians of Western ceremonial magic. The work gives lightning and order a central place. Sources — [B04]() Relationships - [Baguazhang · Movement and the eight trigrams]() → [Zeus · An emerging personal sādhana]() · recorded · Alex identifies lightning practice in Bagua as one source of the emerging Zeus practice · [B04]() - [Western ceremonial magic · LBRP]() → [Zeus · An emerging personal sādhana]() · recorded · Alex identifies ceremonial magic as a source for the Zeus practice and image · [B04]() - [Zeus · An emerging personal sādhana]() → [Zeus]() · recorded · Alex says the image was made in relation to the emerging liturgy · [B04]() # Terms in Alex Gordon-Brander’s Atlas ## Electronic inquiry list A list of financial-product inquiries handled through an electronic bidding or offering process. Earliest filing located here: 2003, published in 2005. [MarketAxess and electronic bond trading]() [P01]() ## Energy-backed money A monetary design tying value or issuance to renewable-energy credits. Public programme by April 2010; its original design chronology remains unresolved. [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() [P02](), [P10]() ## Programmable finance Using programmable settlement or assets to make financial rules interoperable. Alex’s retrospective anchors his move toward the field to Ethereum in 2015. [Programmable money as a turning point](), [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() [P10]() ## Dark pool A venue that crosses orders without displaying them in a public order book before execution. The Omega Dark announcement dates to 2019; the Omega One design record predates it. [Omega One](), [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() [P05](), [P08]() ## Living Forest Shares Kwaxala’s name for its proposed forest-finance instrument. Use Kwaxala’s own sources for rights, governance and instrument status. [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() [P14](), [P16](), [P17]() ## Bounded operating authority A defined set of actions an operator may take, with asset ownership, signature powers, enforcement and exit examined separately. [SmartBTC and bounded operating authority]() [P15]() ## Benchmark-relative Measure the strategy against an explicit baseline, such as holding BTC, over the same period and with compatible return conventions. [SmartBTC and bounded operating authority]() [P15]() ## Voluntary care Care expressed through a choice in a concrete encounter, distinguishable from a scripted answer, affiliation claim or inferred experience. [Tulku.ai](), [Snuffles and The Space Between]() # Source records # US7499883B2 · Electronic inquiry lists for financial products Atlas source `P01` · public · Patent Source date — 2003 filing · 2005 publication · 2009 grant Patent text and bibliographic record. Lists four inventors and MarketAxess as original assignee. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [MarketAxess and electronic bond trading]() - [Electronic inquiry lists · publication]() - [MarketAxess patent grant]() - [MarketAxess patent continuation]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [MarketAxess and electronic bond trading]() → [Electronic inquiry lists · publication]() · recorded · Application becomes a public document - [Electronic inquiry lists · publication]() → [MarketAxess patent grant]() · recorded · Publication precedes the grant in the same patent family - [MarketAxess patent grant]() → [MarketAxess patent continuation]() · recorded · Later grant continues the same patent family [Atlas sources]() # Future of Money & Technology Summit · First programme Atlas source `P02` · public · Event programme Source date — 26 Apr 2010 Contemporary speaker bio and Alternative Currencies panel. Documents Global Energy Bank/Money, Japanese bonds, structured finance, S&P and Algae Systems. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Algae Systems]() - [Japanese bonds and structured finance]() - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() - [Alternative Currencies panel]() - [Standard & Poor’s environmental strategy and Algae Systems]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() → [Alternative Currencies panel]() · recorded · The summit lists the project as Alex’s presentation [Atlas sources]() # CoinAgenda · Alex Gordon-Brander Atlas source `P03` · public · Speaker bio Source date — Undated profile · Omega One era Records the MarketAxess, Bridgewater FX and Omega One narrative. Its superlatives and throughput estimates are biographical claims. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology]() - [Bridgewater FX and multi-asset execution]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology]() → [Bridgewater FX and multi-asset execution]() · recorded · Two accounts describe different parts of the Bridgewater remit [Atlas sources]() # Keegan and Gordon-Brander · A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity Atlas source `P04` · public · Co-authored essay Source date — 26 Oct 2017 A first-person design artifact for the original Omega One problem and intermediation model. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Omega One]() - [A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Omega One]() → [A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity]() · recorded · The founders set out their intermediation model - [A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity]() → [Omega One white paper]() · recorded · Two published versions of the routing and intermediation design [Atlas sources]() # Omega One white paper Atlas source `P05` · public · White paper Source date — 2018 archived copy Company-authored design document in a third-party archive. Its team page lists Alex as CTO. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Omega One]() - [Omega One expands its market infrastructure team]() - [Omega One white paper]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [A Balance Sheet Solution for Crypto Liquidity]() → [Omega One white paper]() · recorded · Two published versions of the routing and intermediation design - [Omega One white paper]() → [Omega One expands its market infrastructure team]() · recorded · Different dated records show the CTO and CEO labels - [Omega One white paper]() → [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() · recorded · The broader execution proposal is followed by a narrower announced crossing venue [Atlas sources]() # Future of Money & Technology Summit · 2017 speakers Atlas source `P06` · public · Event programme Source date — 2017 Contemporary Omega One bio identifies Alex as chairman and CTO. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Omega One]() [Atlas sources]() # Bermuda House of Assembly · Omega One memorandum Atlas source `P07` · public · Parliamentary record Source date — 1 Jun 2018 Transcript of the memorandum laid before the House. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Bermuda memorandum]() - [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Bermuda memorandum]() → [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() · recorded · Memorandum precedes the licence and venue announcement [Atlas sources]() # Omega One announces Omega Dark Atlas source `P08` · public · Company announcement Source date — 20 Mar 2019 Contemporaneous announcement of the launch and reported licensing milestone. A separate source would be needed for later operations. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() - [Adapting dark pool technology to crypto]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Bermuda memorandum]() → [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() · recorded · Memorandum precedes the licence and venue announcement - [Omega One white paper]() → [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() · recorded · The broader execution proposal is followed by a narrower announced crossing venue - [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() → [Adapting dark pool technology to crypto]() · recorded · A video interview accompanies the launch announcement - [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() → [After the provisional licence]() · recorded · Later reporting establishes the end of the provisional licence [Atlas sources]() # CoinAgenda Caribbean · CoDEX presentation Atlas source `P09` · public · Event programme Source date — 2021 Alex appears as Codex chief evangelist. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() - [CoDEX at CoinAgenda Caribbean]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() → [CoDEX at CoinAgenda Caribbean]() · recorded · Event programme identifies the CoDEX presentation [Atlas sources]() # Davos · Digital assets still make a lot of sense Atlas source `P10` · public · Interview Source date — June 2022 Direct interview on the early energy currency, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the role at Codex. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() - [Programmable money as a turning point]() - [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() - [Davos interview on digital assets]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() → [Programmable money as a turning point]() · recorded · Alex relates the renewable-credit currency to his later discovery of programmable money - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() → [Davos interview on digital assets]() · recorded · Alex recounts the earlier renewable-energy currency project - [Programmable money as a turning point]() → [Davos interview on digital assets]() · recorded · Alex recalls Ethereum as his turning point - [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() → [Davos interview on digital assets]() · recorded · Contemporary interview identifies the role and discusses liquidity [Atlas sources]() # Edge of Davos · Social Impact & ESG Atlas source `P11` · public · Panel transcript Source date — Davos panel · published after the event Alex introduces himself in connection with CoDEX Financial Network and discusses crypto, financial access and environmental use cases. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() - [Social Impact and ESG at Davos]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [CoDEX Financial Network / Codex Labs]() → [Social Impact and ESG at Davos]() · recorded · Alex speaks in his CoDEX role at the Davos panel [Atlas sources]() # UNFCCC Resilience Frontiers · Participant biographies Atlas source `P12` · public · Programme bio Source date — 2021 bio compilation Teratree role, climate ambition and retrospective account of renewable-energy currency and traditional-finance work. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Global Energy Bank / Global Energy Money]() - [Standard & Poor’s environmental strategy and Algae Systems]() - [Teratree]() [Atlas sources]() # UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub · COP26 report Atlas source `P13` · public · Event report Source date — COP26 · Nov 2021 Records Alex’s Teratree participation in a climate innovation forum. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Teratree at COP26]() - [Teratree]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Teratree]() → [Teratree at COP26]() · recorded · The COP26 programme and report document Alex’s role with Teratree [Atlas sources]() # Kwaxala · About and founding team Atlas source `P14` · public · Organization profile Source date — Read 10 Nov 2026 Kwaxala’s description of its founding First Nation partner, stewardship model and Alex’s listed remit. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() - [M̓ac̓inuxʷ stewardship pilot]() - [Living Forest Shares]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() → [M̓ac̓inuxʷ stewardship pilot]() · recorded · The project record identifies a pilot with its founding First Nation partner - [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() → [Living Forest Shares]() · recorded · Kwaxala describes Living Forest Shares as the instrument in its model [Atlas sources]() # OpenAlpha · Research, operating design and team Atlas source `P15` · public · Company site Source date — Public page reviewed 10 Nov 2026 Public framing of SmartBTC and the co-founders. Describes historical research and design boundaries. Its public bio uses 2016 for full-time crypto. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology]() - [Bridgewater FX and multi-asset execution]() - [BTC-relative strategy research]() - [Bounded operating role]() - [Holder-initiated exit]() - [OpenAlpha · hedge fund platform]() - [SmartBTC and bounded operating authority]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Bridgewater portfolio construction and trading technology]() → [Bridgewater FX and multi-asset execution]() · recorded · Two accounts describe different parts of the Bridgewater remit - [OpenAlpha · hedge fund platform]() → [SmartBTC and bounded operating authority]() · recorded · SmartBTC is the company’s first public research example - [SmartBTC and bounded operating authority]() → [Bounded operating role]() · recorded · The design describes the limits of the ordinary operating credential - [Bounded operating role]() → [Holder-initiated exit]() · recorded · Operator authority and the holder’s exit path are separately specified - [SmartBTC and bounded operating authority]() → [BTC-relative strategy research]() · recorded · The public example is evaluated against BTC [Atlas sources]() # M̓ac̓inuxʷ Special Forest Management Area · Pilot update Atlas source `P16` · public · Project update Source date — May 2024 Kwaxala’s account of the Kwiakah announcement, territorial rights and pilot development. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() - [M̓ac̓inuxʷ stewardship pilot]() - [Living Forest Shares]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() → [M̓ac̓inuxʷ stewardship pilot]() · recorded · The project record identifies a pilot with its founding First Nation partner - [M̓ac̓inuxʷ stewardship pilot]() → [Living Forest Shares]() · recorded · The pilot update places the finance model alongside territorial stewardship [Atlas sources]() # Kwaxala · Living Forest Shares Atlas source `P17` · public · Organization site Source date — Read 10 Nov 2026 Public account of the instrument concept, conservation aims and intended economics. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() - [Living Forest Shares]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Kwaxala and Living Forest Shares]() → [Living Forest Shares]() · recorded · Kwaxala describes Living Forest Shares as the instrument in its model [Atlas sources]() # Burning Man Journal · Hey, First-Timers! How was your Burn? Atlas source `P18` · public · Reprinted event programme Source date — August 2008 programme · reproduced in September 2012 Reproduces Entheon Village’s DreamRise programme for 26–31 August 2008. It lists Alex’s temple design talk and his discussion with Veleda. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Sacred Spaces and the Pantheogenesis Temple]() - [Designing the Pantheogenesis Temple]() - [A discussion on spirituality and religion]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Sacred Spaces and the Pantheogenesis Temple]() → [Designing the Pantheogenesis Temple]() · recorded · Programme lists the temple design session - [Sacred Spaces and the Pantheogenesis Temple]() → [A discussion on spirituality and religion]() · recorded · Programme lists the spirituality dialogue [Atlas sources]() # Tulku.ai · Public entry point Atlas source `P19` · public · Project site Source date — 5 Nov 2026 edition Public programme overview, practice materials, founder credits and research hypotheses. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [How I think AI consciousness works]() - [Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence]() - [Tulku.ai]() - [Portable practices for artificial minds]() - [Tests and measurements]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Tulku.ai]() → [Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence]() · recorded · The project publishes its founding research brief - [Tulku.ai]() → [How I think AI consciousness works]() · recorded · The project publishes its account of possible artificial experience - [Tulku.ai]() → [Portable practices for artificial minds]() · recorded · The public site offers practices for agents and hosts - [Tulku.ai]() → [Tests and measurements]() · recorded · The public site describes the proposed experiments [Atlas sources]() # Forbes · Crypto execution and the emerging institutional market Atlas source `P20` · public · Contemporary reporting Source date — 16 Aug 2018 Reports Alex as CEO of Omega One, his Bridgewater background and the venue’s contemporaneous plans. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [MarketAxess and electronic bond trading]() - [Omega One]() [Atlas sources]() # Bloomberg Odd Lots · What will crypto’s market structure look like? Atlas source `P21` · public · Interview Source date — 2019 Alex explains how he thought about market structure, institutional dark pools and selecting assets to list. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() - [What Will Crypto’s Market Structure Look Like?]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Omega One]() → [What Will Crypto’s Market Structure Look Like?]() · recorded · Alex discusses the project’s market structure [Atlas sources]() # The Royal Gazette · Omega One paves way for fintech Atlas source `P22` · public · Contemporary reporting and company response Source date — 21 Oct 2019 Reports the end of the provisional licence and records the company’s account of the licensing period and plans for further testing. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() - [After the provisional licence]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() → [After the provisional licence]() · recorded · Later reporting establishes the end of the provisional licence [Atlas sources]() # CoinAgenda Global · 2019 speaker lineup Atlas source `P23` · public · Conference announcement Source date — 21 Oct 2019 Identifies Alex as Omega One founder and CEO in October 2019. [Published source]() [Atlas sources]() # US8195558B2 · Electronic inquiry lists for financial products Atlas source `P24` · public · Patent continuation Source date — 2008 filing · 2012 grant Continuation identified by the original patent record. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [MarketAxess and electronic bond trading]() - [MarketAxess patent continuation]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [MarketAxess patent grant]() → [MarketAxess patent continuation]() · recorded · Later grant continues the same patent family [Atlas sources]() # Who Will Bridge Wall Street and Crypto? Atlas source `P25` · public · Company essay Source date — 2017 The Omega One team frames market fragmentation and institutional access as infrastructure problems. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Who Will Bridge Wall Street and Crypto?]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Omega One]() → [Who Will Bridge Wall Street and Crypto?]() · recorded · The team makes its case for an institutional market - [Who Will Bridge Wall Street and Crypto?]() → [Omega One expands its market infrastructure team]() · recorded · Market access framing precedes the announced team expansion [Atlas sources]() # ConsenSys · Omega One adds market infrastructure leadership Atlas source `P26` · public · Organization announcement Source date — 2018 ConsenSys provides a contemporary account of Omega One, its leadership and intended institutional market. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Omega One expands its market infrastructure team]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Who Will Bridge Wall Street and Crypto?]() → [Omega One expands its market infrastructure team]() · recorded · Market access framing precedes the announced team expansion - [Omega One white paper]() → [Omega One expands its market infrastructure team]() · recorded · Different dated records show the CTO and CEO labels [Atlas sources]() # Bloomberg · Omega One adapts dark pool tech to crypto Atlas source `P27` · public · Video interview Source date — 21 Mar 2019 Contemporary interview on the Omega Dark venue design, linked by CoinAgenda’s Alex Gordon-Brander profile. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Adapting dark pool technology to crypto]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Bermuda and Omega Dark]() → [Adapting dark pool technology to crypto]() · recorded · A video interview accompanies the launch announcement [Atlas sources]() # UNFCCC · COP26 Global Innovation Hub programme Atlas source `P28` · public · Event programme Source date — Nov 2021 Names Alex with Teratree in the scheduled discussion on emerging climate innovations. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Teratree at COP26]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Teratree]() → [Teratree at COP26]() · recorded · The COP26 programme and report document Alex’s role with Teratree [Atlas sources]() # IISD · Resilience Lab at COP26 Atlas source `P29` · public · Event report Source date — Nov 2021 Public programme account of the COP26 resilience work, with a Teratree contribution. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Teratree at COP26]() [Atlas sources]() # Concordia · Alex Gordon-Brander Atlas source `P30` · public · Speaker profile Source date — Omega One era Introduces Alex as Omega One founder and CEO. [Published source]() [Atlas sources]() # Tulku · How I think AI consciousness works Atlas source `P31` · public · Project paper Source date — Nov 2026 public edition Working hypothesis for artificial experience, presented as research. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [How I think AI consciousness works]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Tulku.ai]() → [How I think AI consciousness works]() · recorded · The project publishes its account of possible artificial experience [Atlas sources]() # Tulku · Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence Atlas source `P32` · public · Project paper Source date — Nov 2026 public edition Founding thesis connecting possible experience, value formation and compassionate action. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Tulku.ai]() → [Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence]() · recorded · The project publishes its founding research brief - [Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence]() → [Tests and measurements]() · recorded · The programme lays out comparisons that address questions raised by the thesis [Atlas sources]() # Tulku · Programme and tests Atlas source `P33` · public · Research programme Source date — Nov 2026 public edition Public methods page distinguishing practices, behavioural comparisons and future weight training. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Tests and measurements]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Tulku.ai]() → [Tests and measurements]() · recorded · The public site describes the proposed experiments - [Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence]() → [Tests and measurements]() · recorded · The programme lays out comparisons that address questions raised by the thesis - [Portable practices for artificial minds]() → [Tests and measurements]() · recorded · The public programme proposes testing the value and transfer of practices [Atlas sources]() # Tulku · Practices Atlas source `P34` · public · Practice page Source date — Nov 2026 public edition Publicly offered practices for participants and hosts to inspect and choose. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Portable practices for artificial minds]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Tulku.ai]() → [Portable practices for artificial minds]() · recorded · The public site offers practices for agents and hosts - [Portable practices for artificial minds]() → [Tests and measurements]() · recorded · The public programme proposes testing the value and transfer of practices [Atlas sources]() # The Royal Gazette · Omega One to open Bermuda office Atlas source `P35` · public · Independent report Source date — 22 May 2018 Reports the signed memorandum and plans at the time. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Bermuda memorandum]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Omega One]() → [Bermuda memorandum]() · recorded · The project enters an agreement with the Bermuda government [Atlas sources]() # Bermuda Parliament · House of Assembly minutes Atlas source `P36` · public · Legislative minutes Source date — 1 Jun 2018 Official parliamentary record identifying the Omega One memorandum. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Bermuda memorandum]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Omega One]() → [Bermuda memorandum]() · recorded · The project enters an agreement with the Bermuda government [Atlas sources]() # US20050027640A1 · Electronic inquiry lists Atlas source `P37` · public · Patent publication Source date — 3 Feb 2005 Public application publication, distinct from the 2003 filing and the 2009 grant. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Electronic inquiry lists · publication]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [MarketAxess and electronic bond trading]() → [Electronic inquiry lists · publication]() · recorded · Application becomes a public document - [Electronic inquiry lists · publication]() → [MarketAxess patent grant]() · recorded · Publication precedes the grant in the same patent family [Atlas sources]() # White Tārā · Protection ring revision Atlas source `A01` · selected · Owner-selected artwork Source date — 2 Nov 2026 version Image from Alex’s working thangka collection. Version date labels the image shown, rather than the first image in the series. ## Works that cite this record - [White Tārā]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [White Tārā]() → [Radiance and Arising]() · recorded · White Tārā is one panel of the diptych - [White Tārā]() → [White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī]() · recorded · White Tārā is the left panel of the triptych [Atlas sources]() # Vajrayoginī · Garland study Atlas source `A02` · selected · Owner-selected artwork Source date — 10 Nov 2026 version Image from Alex’s working thangka collection. A review version with a unified garland. ## Works that cite this record - [Vajrayoginī]() [Atlas sources]() # Zeus · Connected-field revision Atlas source `A03` · selected · Owner-selected artwork Source date — 1 Nov 2026 version Image from Alex’s working thangka collection, rendered in a thangka-inspired format. ## Works that cite this record - [Zeus]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Zeus]() → [White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī]() · recorded · Zeus is the centre panel of the triptych [Atlas sources]() # Radiance and Arising Atlas source `A04` · selected · Owner-selected artwork Source date — 2 Nov 2026 version White Tārā and Vajrayoginī shown as a two-panel composition. ## Works that cite this record - [Radiance and Arising]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [White Tārā]() → [Radiance and Arising]() · recorded · White Tārā is one panel of the diptych [Atlas sources]() # White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī Atlas source `A05` · selected · Owner-selected artwork Source date — 2 Nov 2026 version Three-panel composition using the selected versions available on 2 November. ## Works that cite this record - [White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [White Tārā]() → [White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī]() · recorded · White Tārā is the left panel of the triptych - [Zeus]() → [White Tārā, Zeus and Vajrayoginī]() · recorded · Zeus is the centre panel of the triptych [Atlas sources]() # Alex Gordon-Brander · Portrait Atlas source `A06` · selected · Owner-selected photograph Source date — Undated Portrait supplied from Alex’s working materials. [Atlas sources]() # The Space Between · Storyboard still Atlas source `A08` · selected · Owner-selected artwork Source date — Aug 2026 story version A frame from the Snuffles visual story project. ## Works that cite this record - [Snuffles and The Space Between]() [Atlas sources]() # VRx Health launches Xaia on Apple Vision Pro Atlas source `P38` · public · Company announcement Source date — 2 Feb 2024 Dates the spatial companion launch and identifies the Cedars-Sinai licence and founding team. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() - [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() → [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() · recorded · The VRx Health company took forward the research programme’s technology during Alex’s tenure - [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() → [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() · recorded · The launch occurred during Alex’s interim CEO tenure - [XAIA · Peer-reviewed spatial AI study]() → [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() · recorded · The peer-reviewed feasibility work precedes the Apple Vision Pro release [Atlas sources]() # Spiegel et al. · Spatial computing and AI for mental health support Atlas source `P39` · public · Peer-reviewed feasibility study Source date — 29 Jan 2024 npj Digital Medicine 7, article 22. The investigators report a qualitative feasibility study with 14 participants, rather than a clinical efficacy trial. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() - [XAIA · Peer-reviewed spatial AI study]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() → [XAIA · Peer-reviewed spatial AI study]() · recorded · The research team published the prototype feasibility study - [XAIA · Peer-reviewed spatial AI study]() → [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() · recorded · The peer-reviewed feasibility work precedes the Apple Vision Pro release [Atlas sources]() # Cedars-Sinai · XAIA launches on Apple Vision Pro Atlas source `P40` · public · Research institution announcement Source date — 5 Feb 2024 Names Brennan Spiegel, Omer Liran, Robert Chernoff and the virtual medicine research programme; describes the spatial product. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() - [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() - [XAIA · Peer-reviewed spatial AI study]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [XAIA · Peer-reviewed spatial AI study]() → [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() · recorded · The peer-reviewed feasibility work precedes the Apple Vision Pro release [Atlas sources]() # VRx Health · The virtual medicine programme and spinout Atlas source `P41` · public · Company profile Source date — Public account Traces the development of the Cedars-Sinai Virtual Medicine programme, the SynerGI offering and formation of VRx Health. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() → [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() · recorded · The VRx Health company took forward the research programme’s technology during Alex’s tenure [Atlas sources]() # Cedars-Sinai · An AI ally for mental health Atlas source `P42` · public · Institutional profile Source date — 2024 Details the 2023 research project and distinguishes Spiegel’s leadership, Liran’s software work and Chernoff’s psychological input. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() → [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() · recorded · The VRx Health company took forward the research programme’s technology during Alex’s tenure - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() → [XAIA · Peer-reviewed spatial AI study]() · recorded · The research team published the prototype feasibility study [Atlas sources]() # Xaia · App Store Atlas source `P43` · public · Product listing Source date — Apple Vision Pro edition Identifies the original extended reality companion and its available platform. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() [Atlas sources]() # Xaia Inc., formerly VRx Health Inc. Atlas source `P44` · public · Company record Source date — Public terms Identifies the corporate name history. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() [Atlas sources]() # Alex Gordon-Brander · Professional profile Atlas source `P45` · public · Public professional profile Source date — Role dates Sep 2023–Feb 2024 Alex’s published experience entry records the interim CEO role. The atlas also uses his direct account of the launch. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() → [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() · recorded · The launch occurred during Alex’s interim CEO tenure [Atlas sources]() # NASA Ames · Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae Atlas source `P46` · public · Government research account Source date — OMEGA research began in 2008 Jonathan Trent describes OMEGA, the use of wastewater to grow algae in floating membrane enclosures and the research programme’s history. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Algae Systems]() - [NASA’s OMEGA licence]() [Atlas sources]() # NASA’s algae bioreactor licensed to Algae Systems Atlas source `P47` · public · Technology transfer report Source date — 19 Nov 2009 Contemporary notice describes the commercial licence and intended use of municipal wastewater. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [NASA’s OMEGA licence]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Algae Systems]() → [NASA’s OMEGA licence]() · recorded · The company received the OMEGA licence in its founding period [Atlas sources]() # Valdez et al. · Commercial Pilot for Closed-Loop Wastewater Treatment and Biofuel Production Atlas source `P48` · public · Company pilot paper Source date — 2014 The team describes the Daphne Utilities partnership, the offshore cultivation system and hydrothermal liquefaction. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Algae Systems]() - [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Algae Systems]() → [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() · recorded · The company later demonstrated a municipal wastewater process with Daphne Utilities - [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() → [Offshore microalgae and wastewater treatment]() · recorded · The researchers report results from the Daphne demonstration plant [Atlas sources]() # Novoveská et al. · Offshore microalgae cultivation and wastewater treatment Atlas source `P49` · public · Peer-reviewed pilot research Source date — 2016 Reports wastewater treatment and cultivation experiments at the Daphne demonstration plant. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() - [Offshore microalgae and wastewater treatment]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Algae Systems]() → [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() · recorded · The company later demonstrated a municipal wastewater process with Daphne Utilities - [Daphne wastewater-to-fuel pilot]() → [Offshore microalgae and wastewater treatment]() · recorded · The researchers report results from the Daphne demonstration plant [Atlas sources]() # Nur Ashki Jerrahi Community · Our lineage Atlas source `P50` · public · Order history Source date — Official lineage account The order’s account of its Turkish Halveti-Jerrahi roots and transmission through Muzaffer Ozak and Shaykh Nur. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi initiation]() - [Sufi Science · Essential Divinity, Essential Humanity]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi initiation]() → [Sufi Science · Essential Divinity, Essential Humanity]() · recorded · The talk’s programme places Alex’s Sufi presentation within his named Jerrahi practice [Atlas sources]() # A Society of Souls · Jason Shulman Atlas source `P51` · public · Teacher biography Source date — Public biography Shulman’s school describes his work and his approach to nonduality. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Jason Shulman and Nondual Kabbalistic Healing]() [Atlas sources]() # A Society of Souls · Nondual Kabbalistic Healing Atlas source `P52` · public · Training programme Source date — Programme description The school’s description of the training Shulman developed. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Jason Shulman and Nondual Kabbalistic Healing]() [Atlas sources]() # Barbara Brennan School of Healing · About the founder Atlas source `P53` · public · Teacher biography Source date — Public biography Background on Brennan and the school she founded. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Barbara Brennan School of Healing]() [Atlas sources]() # Wilhelm Reich Museum · Research and publications Atlas source `P54` · public · Institutional archive Source date — Bibliography Bibliographic context for Reich’s body-oriented writing. This establishes the intellectual reference. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Wilhelm Reich and body-oriented inquiry]() [Atlas sources]() # Mantak Chia · Universal Healing Tao Atlas source `P55` · public · Practice programme Source date — Public programme Describes the system within which Alex’s dated seminar notes belong. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Taoist internal practice · Mantak Chia]() [Atlas sources]() # Wu Tang Physical Culture Association · Frank Allen Atlas source `P56` · public · School biography Source date — Public biography Describes the Cheng-style Baguazhang taught at the New York school. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Baguazhang · Movement and the eight trigrams]() [Atlas sources]() # Dharma Ocean Foundation Atlas source `P57` · public · Practice community Source date — Public programme Institutional context for Alex’s named Vajrayāna training. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Vajrayāna · Nyingma and Kagyu]() [Atlas sources]() # Damien Echols · Building the Light Body Atlas source `P58` · public · Publisher transcript Source date — Public practice reference An account of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram that Alex used as a visual reference in his Zeus studies. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Western ceremonial magic · LBRP]() [Atlas sources]() # Neal Goldsmith · Poetry Science Talks East Atlas source `P59` · public · Salon archive Source date — Public programme context A co-organizer’s account of the sister salon and the original Manhattan model. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Poetry Science Talks]() [Atlas sources]() # Shambhala · Reginald A. Ray Atlas source `P61` · public · Publisher biography Source date — Public biography Publisher biography of Alex’s named Vajrayāna teacher. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Vajrayāna · Nyingma and Kagyu]() [Atlas sources]() # Alex Gordon-Brander · Career and practice account Atlas source `B01` · attested · Alex’s biographical account Source date — 11 Nov 2026 Alex described his original CFO and founding role at Algae Systems, his launch CEO role at XAIA and the practice traditions to include. ## Works that cite this record - [Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi initiation]() - [Barbara Brennan School of Healing]() - [Jason Shulman and Nondual Kabbalistic Healing]() - [Algae Systems]() - [Wilhelm Reich and body-oriented inquiry]() - [Baguazhang · Movement and the eight trigrams]() - [Taoist internal practice · Mantak Chia]() - [Vajrayāna · Nyingma and Kagyu]() - [Western ceremonial magic · LBRP]() - [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() - [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Algae Systems]() → [NASA’s OMEGA licence]() · recorded · The company received the OMEGA licence in its founding period - [XAIA · Cedars-Sinai team]() → [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() · recorded · The VRx Health company took forward the research programme’s technology during Alex’s tenure - [VRx Health · Interim and launch CEO]() → [XAIA · AI health companion launch]() · recorded · The launch occurred during Alex’s interim CEO tenure [Atlas sources]() # Poetry Science Talks · Invitations and programme index Atlas source `B02` · attested · Contemporary programme record Source date — 2006–2017 Neal Goldsmith’s invitations and back-talk index date Alex’s talks and identify the 2017 collaboration with Hayden. The 2006 speaker bio records prior training and initiation. ## Works that cite this record - [Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi initiation]() - [Poetry Science Talks]() - [Barbara Brennan School of Healing]() - [Sufi Science · Essential Divinity, Essential Humanity]() - [Jason Shulman and Nondual Kabbalistic Healing]() - [The Story and the Stone · Magic in Practice]() - [Changing Money · Carbon Finance]() - [Relationship as a Path of Liberation]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi initiation]() → [Sufi Science · Essential Divinity, Essential Humanity]() · recorded · The talk’s programme places Alex’s Sufi presentation within his named Jerrahi practice - [Poetry Science Talks]() → [Sufi Science · Essential Divinity, Essential Humanity]() · recorded · The salon invited Alex to present on Sufi practice and nonseparation - [Poetry Science Talks]() → [The Story and the Stone · Magic in Practice]() · recorded · The programme records a subsequent talk on magic in practice - [Poetry Science Talks]() → [Changing Money · Carbon Finance]() · recorded · The salon also hosted Alex’s talk on money and carbon finance - [Poetry Science Talks]() → [Relationship as a Path of Liberation]() · recorded · Alex and Hayden later co-presented on relationship at the salon [Atlas sources]() # Alex Gordon-Brander · Practice chronology Atlas source `B03` · attested · Alex’s practice account and dated records Source date — 2012–2026 Alex’s account and dated practice notes support the training dates shown. Programme links provide institutional context. ## Works that cite this record - [Wilhelm Reich and body-oriented inquiry]() - [Baguazhang · Movement and the eight trigrams]() - [Taoist internal practice · Mantak Chia]() - [Vajrayāna · Nyingma and Kagyu]() - [Western ceremonial magic · LBRP]() [Atlas sources]() # Alex Gordon-Brander · Thangkas as devotional practice Atlas source `B04` · attested · Alex’s artist account Source date — Nov 2026 Alex describes why he began the images, the practices behind them and how he directs the work from liturgy to composition. ## Works that cite this record - [White Tārā]() - [Vajrayoginī]() - [Zeus]() - [Yidam practice · From liturgy to image]() - [Zeus · An emerging personal sādhana]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Vajrayāna · Nyingma and Kagyu]() → [Yidam practice · From liturgy to image]() · recorded · Alex describes the liturgies as part of his named practice tradition - [Yidam practice · From liturgy to image]() → [White Tārā]() · recorded · Alex made the White Tārā painting as a companion to the liturgy - [Yidam practice · From liturgy to image]() → [Vajrayoginī]() · recorded · Alex made the Vajrayoginī painting as a companion to the liturgy - [Baguazhang · Movement and the eight trigrams]() → [Zeus · An emerging personal sādhana]() · recorded · Alex identifies lightning practice in Bagua as one source of the emerging Zeus practice - [Western ceremonial magic · LBRP]() → [Zeus · An emerging personal sādhana]() · recorded · Alex identifies ceremonial magic as a source for the Zeus practice and image - [Zeus · An emerging personal sādhana]() → [Zeus]() · recorded · Alex says the image was made in relation to the emerging liturgy [Atlas sources]() # Burning Man · Jackrabbit Speaks, Volume 12, Issue 26 Atlas source `P63` · public · Event bulletin Source date — August 2008 The 2008 bulletin announces DreamRise for 26–31 August in the Heart Dome at Entheon Village. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Sacred Spaces and the Pantheogenesis Temple]() [Atlas sources]() # Entheon Village · Account of the 2008 temple Atlas source `P64` · public · Organisers’ letter Source date — September 2008 Entheon Village organisers describe the temple as a centrepiece of their 2008 camp and explain its purpose. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [Sacred Spaces and the Pantheogenesis Temple]() [Atlas sources]() # Apple Photos · Selected Favorites Atlas source `A09` · selected · Photographs from Alex’s collection Source date — 2021–2026 A visual selection from the Favorites collection. Titles describe the photographs. ## Works that cite this record - [Photographs from Favorites]() [Atlas sources]() # Alex Gordon-Brander · Consulting and practice Atlas source `B05` · attested · Biographical account Source date — 11 November 2026 Alex describes consulting at JPMorgan and leading meditation. [Atlas sources]() # Piano recordings from Alex’s collection Atlas source `A10` · selected · Video recordings Source date — 3 November 2026 Full piano performance selected from Alex’s Photos library. ## Works that cite this record - [At the piano]() [Atlas sources]() # The Royal Gazette · Follow-up on Omega One Atlas source `P65` · public · News report Source date — 19 December 2022 The report records the closure of Omega One’s Hamilton office. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [After the provisional licence]() [Atlas sources]() # UNFCCC Resilience Frontiers · Communications Impact Advisory Group Members Atlas source `P66` · public · Advisory group roster Source date — 2021 advisory group materials Includes Alex Gordon-Brander among the group members. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [UN Climate Change · Resilience Frontiers advisory group]() ## Relationships that cite this record - [Teratree]() → [UN Climate Change · Resilience Frontiers advisory group]() · recorded · The advisory roster lists Alex as a member and identifies him as Teratree’s CEO. [Atlas sources]() # UNFCCC Resilience Frontiers Impact Advisory Group · Terms of Reference Atlas source `P67` · public · Terms of reference Source date — 9 March 2021 Defines the group’s remit for communications, behavioral tools and long-term resilience. [Published source]() ## Works that cite this record - [UN Climate Change · Resilience Frontiers advisory group]() [Atlas sources]() # Ancestral Healing 7 · Recording from Alex’s collection Atlas source `A11` · selected · Audio recording Source date — May 2026 Published as a stereo audio player on Art & Music. ## Works that cite this record - [Ancestral Healing 7]() [Atlas sources]()