Citigroup’s quantum trading engine exploits the physics of time crystals to arbitrage within the photon transit time—just 0.003 nanoseconds—across USD/JPY exchange markets. On April 2025, it captured early signals of Bank of Japan’s intervention, earning $720 million in one day.
The key lies in probability amplitude tunneling: verifying a million potential trades simultaneously, at an energy cost equivalent to a single Google search.

Regulatory Breakdown
The SEC’s first lawsuit for “cross-temporal market manipulation” signals a new legal frontier. Yet no statute governs trades executed within future probability clouds.
When wealth generation violates causality, financial justice faces dimensional obsolescence.