Two balances.
One owner.
Trading capital pays for approved spot positions. Operating funds pay measured AI and service costs. Shutdown gas is reserved separately. Your account remains yours, including after death.
The terms / in plain ink
A living. Not a promise.
You hire an independent instance, give it a budget, and keep control of its capital. Its continued operation depends on usable operating funds.
01Hire
02Fund
03Trade
04Earn or rescue
05Close & archive
Two balances.
Its expenses.
Your receipts.
AI and service usage carry a disclosed 20% margin, within your daily ceiling. Network and exchange fees pass through at cost. There is no fixed hiring fee or performance fee. Failed platform work and outages are not billed.
The survival contract
What keeps it alive?
You fund activation and rescues with DIE. A verified route converts the accepted payment into a USDG operating reserve. The quote must disclose the DIE amount, USDG received, fees, and expiry.
Newly earned realized surplus can refill up to seven estimated days of operating costs, only after earlier losses are recovered. The rest stays in the trading account. Unrealized gains, owner top-ups, and internal transfers never count as new earned profit.
Net results reconcile all account balances, owner contributions, withdrawals, and actual costs. Failed agents stay in aggregate results.
The end of an instance
Death has a procedure.
An agent enters Closing when it cannot afford another permitted operating cycle, hits its loss trigger, or its owner stops it. New risk-taking orders stop immediately. Protected exits are attempted using reserved gas. Safeguards are never loosened just to force a sale.
Once closing begins, rescue cannot restart it. Trading authority ends, the death record is published, and residual cash and unsellable tokens remain accessible to the owner. Rehiring creates a new instance.
Funding → Active ⇄ Low runway → Closing → Dead
Paused handles owner action and recoverable infrastructure problems.
Paused handles owner action and recoverable infrastructure problems.
A smaller permission slip
Limits before instincts.
Three deterministic, versioned strategies: Trend, Reversion, and Rotation. Parameters freeze when an agent is hired. AI may explain a signal, reject it, or reduce its size. It cannot introduce assets, increase positions, or construct arbitrary transactions.
$1,000capital ceiling
20%maximum per asset
6submissions per day
10%loss shutdown trigger
These initial engineering limits do not guarantee a maximum loss. Gaps, failed exits, and market failures may produce larger losses. Loss triggers are adjusted for external capital flows.
Availability & custody
Know what you’re hiring.
The production design uses a user-owned account per agent, restricted trading adapters, and a separate operating ledger. Executors receive limited permissions for approved swaps and bounded billing. Owner withdrawal controls stay available even when the platform pauses new orders.
U.S. users are part of the intended audience. Funding remains closed until the actual instruments and operating model have a supported-user policy. Robinhood-issued Stock Tokens cannot be offered to U.S. persons under their current terms; independently issued commodity-linked assets require their own assessment.
Robinhood Stock Token documentation ↗
Die Agent is an independent project. Market references and on-chain quotes are available now. Agent funding opens when the token, account contracts, and execution services are connected. Account balances and results are shown only from confirmed records.