📖 Project Story: StrategyEvolve — Self-Optimizing Trading Strategy Agent
💡 Inspiration
We were inspired by how most trading bots today are static and rigid — built with fixed parameters that fail to adapt to dynamic markets or user behavior.
Our goal was to build something different: a living, self-evolving trading agent that learns from every trade, adapts to its user, and evolves continuously using real data and intelligence.
The Self-Evolving Agents Hackathon and tools like Raindrop, **Fastino, and **LinkUp gave us the perfect ecosystem to make that vision real.
⚙ What We Built
StrategyEvolve is an intelligent trading system with three self-evolving learning loops:
Quantitative Optimization (Raindrop)
- Created initial API and used smart SQL.
Behavioral Learning (Fastino)
- Learns from user trades, overrides, and decision-making patterns.
- Detects unique risk tolerance, emotional triggers, and preferences.
- Learns from user trades, overrides, and decision-making patterns.
Contextual Intelligence (LinkUp)
- Integrates real-time market news, sentiment, and macroeconomic events.
- Enhances decision-making through context-aware analysis.
- Integrates real-time market news, sentiment, and macroeconomic events.
🧱 How We Built It
Frontend:
- Built with React + TypeScript and TailwindCSS for a clean, modern, and fast UI.
- Recharts powers real-time visualization of strategy evolution and performance metrics.
- Zustand handles state management efficiently.
- Built with React + TypeScript and TailwindCSS for a clean, modern, and fast UI.
Backend:
- Developed with Next.js (API Routes) for serverless backend logic and seamless integration.
- PostgreSQL with Raindrop SmartSQL manages strategy and performance data.
- Raindrop used for creating initial api and then used smart SQL.
- Fastino ingests user data for behavioral modeling.
- LinkUp provides real-time market intelligence and sentiment feeds.
- Developed with Next.js (API Routes) for serverless backend logic and seamless integration.
All three platforms are connected into a single adaptive loop — making the system continuously smarter over time.
🧠 What We Learned
- Designing a multi-loop self-evolving architecture that merges data science, behavior modeling, and real-time intelligence.
- Deploying and orchestrating tasks using Raindrop for distributed AI operations.
- Building a behavior-aware AI layer using Fastino Stage 3.
- Integrating real-time contextual signals from LinkUp into quantitative trading logic.
- Creating responsive, visual insights that let users watch their strategies evolve live.
🚧 Challenges We Faced
- Balancing real-time updates with computationally intensive backtesting.
- Managing synchronization between the three evolution loops.
- Visualizing complex evolution data intuitively in the UI.
- Dealing with API rate limits and data consistency under load.
- Ensuring true self-evolution — not just reactive learning but measurable improvement over time.
🌟 Outcome
We delivered a functional MVP showing:
- Live-evolving trading strategies that adapt automatically.
- Behavioral personalization that tailors strategies to each user.
- Dynamic dashboards visualizing growth, performance, and learning.
The result is a system that’s not just reactive — it’s truly adaptive.
❤ Final Thought
StrategyEvolve is more than a trading bot — it’s a step toward the next generation of adaptive AI systems.
Built with Raindrop, **Fastino, and **LinkUp, it represents what’s possible when humans and AI evolve together — learning, adapting, and growing with every iteration.
Built With
- express.js
- fastino
- linkup
- node.js
- raindrop
- react

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