Engineering zero-copy execution environments
for autonomous agents and quantitative systems.

Web3 Software FZ-LLC · Ras Al Khaimah, UAE

The Thesis

"Latency is a tax."
Every millisecond of jitter costs execution quality. We put a number on it, desk by desk.
"Infrastructure is the moat."
Software is copyable. Physics-layer execution is not.
"Agents need sovereignty."
Autonomous systems require tamper-proof, zero-trust execution enclaves.

Active Programs

Program 01 · Flagship Product
—ZeroCopy Systems
Hardware-enforced signing infrastructure for institutional trading and AI agents: ECDSA signing inside AWS Nitro Enclaves, with hardware attestation, a policy engine and a jitter-aware kill switch.
STATUS: Active · zerocopy.systems →
Program 02
—Jitter Tax Engine
A framework that turns execution latency into the money a desk loses each year. Used in pre-sales to show the return.
STATUS: Active · Research
Program 03 · Advisory
—Engineering sprints
Fixed-scope reviews for trading and DeFi teams: execution safety, MEV infrastructure, key custody and TEE attestation.
STATUS: Active · nikhilpadala.com →

Work With Us

Build on ZeroCopy.
Signing infrastructure for desks and agents that can't afford a compromised key or a slow one.
Bring us a hard system.
A fixed-price sprint on your execution path, your custody or your enclave, with a written report and the fixes. nikhil@zerocopy.systems

Founder

Nikhil Padala
Founder & CEO
Financial infrastructure engineer. Founding DevOps engineer on Akuna Capital's crypto desk, and senior SRE at Gemini. Full-time trader since 2024. MS in Computer Science.
Advisory & Research →

Infrastructure Stack

COMPUTE
AWS Nitro Enclaves · c6i.metal bare-metal
NETWORK
Kernel-bypass (io_uring) · vsock IPC
SIGNING
ECDSA (secp256k1, RFC 6979) · Nitro Enclave key isolation
RUNTIME
Rust · Zero-copy serialization (rkyv) · No GC
EDGE
Cloudflare Workers · R2 Object Storage
COMPLIANCE
SOC 2 Type I (planned) · EU AI Act Article 14 human oversight (planned)