RIFT
Scout & Trade manually or let algorithms run.
From idea to live trading.
Quick Start
# One command. Python engine and CLI in a single shot.
$ brew install Nexstone/tap/rift
Works on macOS and Linux. Pulls Python 3.13, Node 20, the engine, and the CLI. View on GitHub
Scout
One command ranks coins by funding, momentum, volume, positioning. Shows entry, stop loss, and target.
Spot & Perps
Buy and sell spot tokens — or trade perpetual futures with leverage. One tool for both. Server-side stops.
Algo Trading
Walk-forward validated strategies with auto-discovery. Health monitoring, auto-pause, position management.
Portfolio Manager
Multi-strategy supervisor. Risk coordination, correlation guard, scheduling, Slack alerts, health-based rotation.
Research Lab
Backtest, walk-forward, Monte Carlo, multi-pair, feature importance, vol forecast, health check, tearsheet.
Institutional Analytics
Execution analytics, PnL attribution, Value at Risk, compliance exports, strategy versioning, and REST API.
Institutional-Grade Validation
One command validates your strategy the way quant funds do. No shortcuts.
2.5 years of real data
27 train/test windows
10,000 shuffled sequences
Cross-coin validation
XGBoost feature ranking
Edge decay detection
Pass or fail
One command: rift research your_strategy --pair SUI
Your Journey
From idea to live trading
Every step outputs structured JSON. AI agents can run the entire pipeline autonomously via MCP.
Hyperliquid Native
Born on Hyperliquid
Not adapted. Not integrated. Built from the first line of code for Hyperliquid's architecture. Predicted funding entries before settlement. Stop losses that live on the exchange — not your machine. 2.5 years of native data for 50 coins, bundled and ready.
Security
Your keys. Your machine. Your control.
RIFT runs locally. Nothing is sent to our servers — because there are no servers.
Keys never leave your machine
Your private key is stored locally. It's read from an environment variable at runtime — never passed as a CLI argument, never logged, never transmitted.
Stop losses survive crashes
The stop lives on Hyperliquid's servers — not yours. If RIFT crashes, your computer dies, or your internet goes down, the stop loss still executes.
No cloud dependency
There's no cloud account, no login, no telemetry. The only network calls are to Hyperliquid's public API. You can audit every line — it's open source.
Full audit trail
Every trade is logged with order IDs, fill prices, timestamps, and wallet addresses. Export compliance audits at any time. Every order is verifiable on-chain.
Drawdown Kill Switch
50% max
Health Auto-Pause
Grade D/F
Position Limits
Per-strategy USD cap
Portfolio Risk Gate
Net/gross limits
Comparison
How RIFT compares
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AI Integration
AI-Native Trading
64 tools via Model Context Protocol. Claude, Cursor, or any AI agent can discover edge, build strategies, validate with walk-forward, execute trades, manage positions, and learn from past experiments — autonomously.
“Scout the market, trade the best opportunity, monitor it, and send me the TCA report when it closes.” — One prompt.
// MCP config
{
"rift": {
"command": "rift",
"args": ["serve"]
}
}
Audience
Who We Build For
Quant Researchers
Walk-forward, Monte Carlo, XGBoost, GARCH, VaR
Active Traders
Scout scanner, one-click trades, Kelly sizing, trailing stops
AI Developers
64-tool MCP server for autonomous agents
Strategy Builders
No-code workbench, 56 indicators, guided UI
Our Story
Why we built this
$300/mo for tools that don't support Hyperliquid.
Backtests that don't match live results.
Basic features locked behind paywalls.
We built what we wanted — and made it free.
Here's what real returns look like.
Most tools show you one number.
RIFT shows you where it came from.
Support
Common Questions
Install RIFT, run 'rift guide' for the 9-step journey, or 'rift scout' to see ranked opportunities in under 30 seconds. No API keys, no data downloads, no configuration. 2.5 years of data for 300+ pairs is bundled — your first backtest runs immediately.
Yes. RIFT is open source — research, backtesting, simulation, and analysis are free with no limits. Live perps trading has a 0.03% builder fee ($0.30 on a $1,000 trade). Spot trading has a 1% fee on sells. That's how we sustain development. No subscriptions, no tiers, no paywalls.
A small builder fee on live trades — 0.03% on perps, 1% on spot sells. That's it. We don't sell your data, we don't run a cloud service, and we don't lock features behind upgrades. The entire codebase is open source and auditable on GitHub.
No. Scout scans the market and tells you what looks interesting. Pick an opportunity, execute with one command, and monitor it live. For hands-off trading, build strategies with the workbench or let an AI agent create them via MCP.
No. The Strategy Workbench builds strategies from 56 indicators — including cross-asset, multi-timeframe, and adaptive — using guided menus. Advanced users can write Python too.
Building for one exchange deeply is better than supporting ten poorly. Every feature — predicted funding entries, server-side stop losses, native data, hourly settlement timing — is designed around Hyperliquid's specific architecture. Generic tools can't do this.
Yes. Trading perpetual futures carries substantial risk. RIFT includes multiple safety layers — server-side stop losses, drawdown kill switches, health monitoring that auto-pauses decaying strategies, and portfolio risk limits — but no software eliminates market risk. Never trade more than you can afford to lose.
QuantConnect is powerful but expensive ($60-$1,080/mo), built for equities first, and doesn't support Hyperliquid. It has no market scanner, no health monitoring, no portfolio supervisor, and no AI agent integration. RIFT gives you institutional-grade features for free on the exchange you actually trade.
Freqtrade is free and open source — we respect that. But it's a generic bot framework that requires you to build everything yourself. No Hyperliquid support, no predicted funding, no server-side stops, no VaR, no TCA, no research pipeline. RIFT ships with walk-forward validated strategies, 2.5 years of data, TradFi perps, and a 64-tool AI server out of the box.
Stop Waiting. Start Trading.
RIFT is on Homebrew, PyPI, and npm.
Install in one command. No signup. Free forever.
Use RIFTBuilding the hosted Terminal next. Follow on X for early access.