Self-Custody at CEX Speeds.
No Counterparty. No Compromise.
What is ZeroCopy?
Stop bleeding alpha to jitter. The only signing infrastructure that guarantees 42µs latency inside your own VPC.
COMPLIANCE BY PHYSICS • ZERO-ACCESS ARCHITECTURE
You're Paying the Jitter Tax. Every Single Day.
Every millisecond of signing variance costs you alpha. quantify your exposure below:
Fiduciary Negligence Quantifier
Quantify the unmitigated variance currently exposing your firm to fiduciary liability.
Methodology & Assumptions
The Liability Formula
Key Assumptions
apps/zcp/src/jitter_tax.rs⚠️ If annual loss > $250k → Get Your Latency Report
How It Works
Three Steps to Sovereign Signing
From first install to production-grade infrastructure audit in under 2 minutes. No sales calls, no onboarding meetings.
Install
One command. 10 seconds.
Install the ZeroCopy audit CLI via Homebrew, cargo, or our install script. No dependencies, no configuration.
Audit
60 seconds to quantify your Jitter Tax.
Run a single command against your infrastructure. The CLI benchmarks signing latency, measures P99 variance, and quantifies your alpha decay.
Act
Your grade. Your savings. Your decision.
Get an A-F infrastructure grade with your annual Jitter Tax cost in dollars. Share the report with your team or deploy a sovereign pod.
You Are Trapped in the Signing Trilemma
Every trading firm has been forced to pick two out of three. Until now.
Speed
Keys in memory (hot wallets)
Security
AWS KMS / Fireblocks
Sovereign Control
MPC vendors
ZeroCopy Eliminates the Choice
Hardware-isolated execution with no compromise.
The Physics of Zero-Access
Your keys are generated inside an AWS Nitro Enclave. They never leave. The only thing that exits is a cryptographically signed transaction.
Key Generation
Keys are generated inside the Nitro Enclave. No persistent storage. No operator access. Memory is wiped on exit.
Policy Enforcement
The Enclave verifies the request against your immutable embedded policy. "Sign X only if Y condition is met."
42µs Execution
Raw EdDSA/ECDSA signing happens in microseconds. No network round-trips. No API overhead. Pure compute.
Cryptographic Proof
The transaction returns with an Attestation Document proving exactly what code signed it and where.
The Only Table That Matters
Stop compromising. Compare your current setup to ZeroCopy.
| Feature | AWS KMS | Fireblocks MPC | ZeroCopy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signing Latency | 150ms | 200ms | 42µs |
| Keys Exportable? | Yes (AWS) | Yes (vendor) | Never |
| Counterparty Risk | AWS | Fireblocks | You own the enclave |
| Deploy in Your VPC | |||
| Per-Signature Attestation | Partial | Cryptographic | |
| SOC-2, 17a-4 Ready | Partial | Partial | Built-in |
| Deployment Time | Instant | 2-4 weeks | 1 hour |
Signing Latency
Keys Exportable?
Counterparty Risk
Deploy in Your VPC
Per-Signature Attestation
SOC-2, 17a-4 Ready
Deployment Time
By The Numbers
Quantifiable improvements over legacy signing infrastructure. These are not marketing claims — they are reproducible benchmarks.
Benchmarks: c6i.metal instance, EdDSA signing, P99 latency • View methodology
Who This Is Built For
ZeroCopy is specialized infrastructure. It is not for everyone. It is engineered for teams where milliseconds equal margins.
HFT & Algo Desks
- Reduce signing latency from 35ms (KMS) → 42µs
Crypto Market Makers
- Self-custody at CEX speeds without counterparty risk
Prop Trading Firms
- Run sovereign infra without hiring a 6-person SRE team
Agentic AI Systems
- Give AI agents signing power with strict policy guardrails
Why does deterministic signing matter for AI agents?
What is the Jitter Tax?
The Jitter Tax is the cumulative alpha loss caused by execution variance in non-deterministic signing environments. ZeroCopy is a sovereign protocol that eliminates this tax.
How do Nitro Enclaves protect my keys?
AWS Nitro Enclaves are isolated compute environments that have no persistent storage and no operator access. ZeroCopy is an enclave-native runtime that ensures keys never leave the hardware boundary.
Bilingual Execution
We translate institutional policies into cryptographic code. Our infrastructure speaks both the language of "Governance & Compliance" and "42µs Microsecond Physics."
The Bilingual Infrastructure
One Platform. Dual Utility.
Eliminate Execution Variance
Stop conceding 3-5% of P&L to cloud jitter. We guarantee an environment where every trade settles with absolute determinism.
~42µs Wire-to-Wire
Kernel-bypass networking (AF_XDP) + AWS Nitro Enclaves. Zero-Copy serialization eliminates the 35ms context-switch tax.
Trusted Infrastructure
Built for the sovereign stack
The Zero-Access Pipeline
Deploy production-grade signing infrastructure in 4 steps.
The Injection
Hour 0You deploy the ZeroCopy Terraform module into your VPC. No vendor calls. No sales meetings.
terraform apply -var="enclave_policy=risk_limit_10k"The Binding
Hour 1Your policy is baked into the Nitro Enclave image. "Sign ONLY if risk < $10k." The policy is now immutable law.
The Execution
RuntimeYour trading bot sends a payload. The Enclave verifies the policy in 12µs. It signs. It wipes memory.
The Proof
AuditYou receive a cryptographic attestation for every single signature. Your compliance officer gets a log that is mathematically impossible to forge.
Getting Started
Deploy sovereign signing infrastructure in under an hour. No vendor onboarding. No key ceremony scheduling. Just Terraform.
Prerequisites
- AWS Account— With permissions for EC2, IAM, KMS
- Nitro-capable instance— c6i, m6i, r6i, or c7g families
- Terraform >= 1.0— Or OpenTofu
- Signing key material— Or generate fresh in-enclave
What's Included
Integration Workflow
Common Objections
The hard questions we get from security teams and CISOs.
Ready to reclaim your alpha?
Start with a free diagnosis or deploy a production pod today.
COMPLIANCE BY PHYSICS