About DFI Labs | Paris-Based Quantitative Digital Asset Manager

2019

Established

Paris

Headquarters

AMF

Registered

24/7

Operating model

History

DFI Labs was founded in 2019 by a small group of quantitative researchers and portfolio managers with backgrounds in tier-one hedge funds and the earliest generation of institutional digital asset participants. The founding thesis was simple and, in retrospect, unfashionable at the time: digital asset markets are information-rich enough to reward disciplined research, and structured enough to operate inside the kind of governance framework institutional allocators require.

Between 2019 and 2022, we built the execution stack, the research pipeline and the risk-governance layer from the ground up. We have run live strategies continuously across multiple market regimes: the 2021 retail bull market, the 2022 venue crises, the subsequent regulatory reset, and the institutional re-engagement that has followed.

Regulatory status

DFI Labs SAS is registered with the French Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) as a Digital Asset Service Provider (PSAN) under registration E2022-032. AMF registration sets explicit standards on internal governance, cybersecurity, anti-money-laundering controls and operational continuity. It does not constitute an endorsement or guarantee by the AMF of the quality of services rendered or of the merits of any strategy.

DFI Labs is a member of Finance Innovation, a French government-backed competitiveness cluster for financial innovation, and part of the La French Tech ecosystem.

Mandate

We operate three systematic strategies covering directional, market-neutral and delta-neutral risk profiles. Each has a clearly stated investment objective, risk envelope and capacity limit. We do not operate retail-facing products, and we do not accept mandates that fall outside our institutional eligibility criteria.

Professional investors only, as defined under the MiFID II regime.
Capacity-aware onboarding. We close capacity before it degrades performance.
Transparent reporting. Exposures, attribution and operational status disclosed on a schedule agreed upfront.

Culture

The team is deliberately small, senior and technically dense. Decisions are written down. Research is peer-reviewed. Operational incidents — ours or the industry's — generate playbooks rather than anecdotes. We place a high premium on staying within our circle of competence and on saying "no" when a mandate, a venue or a counterparty does not fit.