# Darwins

- **Event:** [AI Engineer World's Fair Hackathon 2026](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/aiewf-hackathon-2026)
- **When:** Jun 27 at 9:00 AM – Jun 28 at 5:00 PM (PDT)
- **Where:** San Francisco, CA
- **Team:** [Javokhir Shomuratov](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/javokhir), [Guangting Yu](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/GuangtingYu), [Aneesh Durai](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/aneeshdurai)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/ShJavokhir/quant-alpha
- **Demo video:** https://www.loom.com/share/8a43cc069e2b4302ab85f9b738b8ed0c
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/aiewf-hackathon-2026/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/aiewf-hackathon-2026/hackathon/gallery/46

DARWIN — an AI that researches quant trading alphas and measurably gets better at it. Each generation it proposes new trading signals, kills the weak, breeds the strong, and accumulates a vector memory of every win and failure that compounds into sharper research. The twist: it's graded by a judge it can't fool — a deterministic, cost-aware backtest. With memory on, it discovers +119% more profitable signals than its memory-ablated self. Continual learning, measured. "The LLM proposes, the backtester disposes."

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