Answer is No, they are still running as usual.
Update on 17 October 2025, I have received reply after 10 days, asking for my bank information, I have provided and still waiting for the following payment.
Update on 10 Nov 2025, the payment has been received.
I joined the Quantitacs Q22 and Q23 competitions. My algorithm placed 7th in Q22 and won a $50,000 USD allocation. During the first quarter of live trading, the algorithm generated an 8% return with a Sharpe ratio of over 2. It placed second among all seven. The first quarter payout supposed to happen by end of September 2025, however, when I contacted the support team about the payout recently, I received no response.
Quantiacs was one of crowdsource hedge fund platform, I have started to notice its exist in 2024 (Q22 Contest), the 2 screenshots below are the contest result and live trading result.
Clearly I have won a small amount of profit and based on what they declare, I supposed to receive about 400 USD because it generated about 4000 USD profit in the first 3 months live trading.
Investigation
I have done some basic investigation on the platform now, there are a few Suspicions.
- Very low active community, and they have only online email support and they have been silent to me since end of September.
- The previous CEO (Martin Froehler) has left, and the new CEO is unknown.
- Competition keeps running, but there are no marketing content and prize sharing on social media.
- Reddit Subreddit shutdown years ago.
Summary
However, even the payment was slow, I have received it in the end, if you are interested into joining the algorithm trading competition, feel free to use the link below, it is free to join, every year they will fund 2M and everyone who are positioned at Top 7, will receive 50k to 1M fund allocation.
Other Quantiacs Alternative
there are some other crowdsource quantitative trading platform besides Quantiacs.
- numer.ai
- crunchdao.com