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A timeline of what we shipped, when, and to which part of CFIN — Iris, the website, the app and admin.

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Project Iris · 12 updates Website · 36 updates App · 20 updates Admin · 3 updates

October 2026

October 2026

1 update Project Iris 1

Project Iris Milestone Every Project Iris update, 23 September to 4 October Twenty-one updates in twelve days, each listed at the moment it went live, with what changed for the trades Project Iris places. CFIN Team Oct 04, 2026 8 min read

September 2026

September 2026

1 update Project Iris 1

Project Iris Milestone From Project Green to Project Iris: a new name for our engine CFIN's trading engine, previously known internally as Project Green, is now called Project Iris. Here's what the rename means. CFIN Team Sep 20, 2026 2 min read

July 2026

July 2026

1 update Project Iris 1

Project Iris Milestone The Transition from Amber to Green: Why We Rebuilt the Execution Pipeline Why monolithic MQL5 code on MetaTrader 5 could no longer scale, and how decoupling execution into an asynchronous Python engine laid the groundwork for Project Iris. CFIN Core Architecture Jul 02, 2026 2 min read

May 2026

May 2026

1 update Project Iris 1

Project Iris Milestone The Amber days: inside CFIN's original algorithmic foundation A short look back at Project Amber, CFIN's first MQL5 Expert Advisor: how it was built, what it checked on every tick, and what later engines kept from it. CFIN Engineering Team May 15, 2026 1 min read