Trust at two levels: who are you? What HFT firm do you run? How do we know you are actually this HFT leader? What are you doing in the HFT firm that lends credibility to build a project like this? I.e. if you lead the sales team, and have no software dev background, it doesn't increase trust in this project. If you built all the software for the HFT firm, that matters.
Since it's security related, we want there to be signals in the project that we can trust it to not start sending all our data to some bad actor state or org.
Then there is trust at the code level... Does it work? Will it continue to work?
You built it in two weeks because, for the last four years, you were busy with other things. If you get busy again, will the project lag for the next four years?
You don't owe us any of these answers. It's OSS, engage at whatever level you want. But, understand that when you publish your efforts to a place like HN, we are going to find and mention the things that make us uncomfortable.
That said, it's a good sign that people are pushing back. It is a cool project and fits a real need. So if you can increase the trust signals in the project, I think you will get more users... If you really want them. More users means more critique. :)
I hope you do make an effort to increase the trust signals and keep working on the project because I'd like to use it.