Built by one person, in the open.
Botely is a single-founder research project that productises six years of algorithmic trading work. No marketing team, no shady Telegram bro — just deterministic code, public track record and a hard rule of never touching user funds.
The founder
Andrea Acanfora
Founder · Engineer · Quant researcher
I spent the last six years iterating on systematic trading strategies for crypto perpetuals. The repo started as a side project against Binance spot in 2020, moved to MEXC futures, then to dYdX v4 in 2024. Two strategies are live in production today, dogfooded on my own capital.
Botely is the second life of that work: turn the bot into a signal service so others can subscribe without me holding any of their funds or keys. Single founder, EU based, in Italy. You can reach me on the email at the bottom of this page.
How we work.
Show, don't claim.
Every closed trade is visible at /performance. Every backtest stat is computed from raw trade logs, not screenshots. If a number looks too good, it usually is — so we publish the failures too.
Non-custodial, always.
We never receive, hold, or route user funds. You get a signal; you decide whether to execute, when, and with which broker.
Deterministic over discretionary.
Strategies are versioned with semantic numbers (v6.4, v7). Same input → same output. No human override, no late-night manual trades, no narrative justification after the fact.
Slow and boring.
Positions are held days to weeks. We don't do scalping, leverage roulette, or 'turn $100 into $1M' marketing. The strategies aim for a slow compounding edge.
From a side project to a signal service.
First strategy on Binance spot
Hand-coded momentum filter on ETH/BTC. Backtest looks promising; live it underperforms.
Move to MEXC futures
LONG + SHORT setups, regime detection, per-coin parameters. Capital reaches mid four figures.
Migration to dYdX v4 perpetuals
Permissionless settlement, transparent on-chain orders. The bot becomes audit-friendly by construction.
v6.4 + v7 live · Botely launches
Two strategies running in parallel, full audit trail in Redis + Postgres. Closed beta opens.
What's under the hood.
Trading bot
Node.js + custom backtester (Python)
Strategies
v6.4 · v7 — deterministic, versioned
Venue
dYdX v4 perpetual futures
Signal storage
Upstash Redis → Postgres
Delivery
HMAC webhook · Telegram · Email
Frontend
Next.js 16 · TypeScript · Tailwind
Want to follow along?
Drop your email — you'll hear from us once a real invite is ready. No drip campaign, no upsells, no Telegram pump.