Strategy variants tested
1,093
Every one counted, losers included: 1,017 before the desk opened, 76 since.
Founding member access is open Testnet preview opens 30 Oct 2026
The trading desk that improves itself, and never sleeps.
Archon is the first recursively self-improving, autonomously managed, agentic algorithmic trading platform, and you can self-host it. Its research desk hunts for stronger strategies around the clock. Its engine runs your Hyperliquid account 24/7 and never breaks its rules. Your money never leaves your own account.
- Recursively self-improving
- Agentic, 24/7
- Streaks, XP and leagues
- Your keys, your account
- Self-host for free
1,093
strategy variants tested and counted, losing ones included
Source
The desk's trial counter: every configuration the project has evaluated, from 1,017
in earlier research plus every cell the desk has measured since. docs/evidence/desk/trials.json, desk.
3×
shallower worst fall than simply holding, on prices the live rule had never seen
Source
Rule chosen on prices before 1 Mar 2026, then run once on prices from
1 Dec 2025: worst fall −13.9% against
−41.8% for holding all 32 markets, with a return of
+41.5% to holding's +44.8%. Fees charged, before funding and slippage.
docs/evidence/walk-forward-2026-10-23.json, 22 Oct 2026.
On prices it had never seen
Breadth Trend: Being upgraded by the research desk
Most of the upside. A third of the downside.
The live rule, Breadth Trend, ran once on prices from 1 Dec 2025 that it was never tuned on. It made +41.5%, within 3.3 points of holding all 32 markets, and its worst fall was −13.9% against holding's −41.8%.
The desk is hunting a version that beats holding outright. This one keeps trading until a stronger rule passes every gate and replaces it.
The months it had not seen
From 1 Dec 2025, the frozen rule against holding all 32 markets.
Return
Worst fall
For every 1% it fell at worst, the rule made 3.0%. Holding made 1.1%.
The fine print
The rule was picked on prices before 1 Mar 2026, a stretch in which holding all 31 markets lost 11.1% and the rule made +56.8%. The unseen run starts on 1 Dec 2025; the two overlap until 1 Mar 2026 so every rule is warmed up before it is scored.
We ran all 38 rules that cleared the bar on the earlier prices. On the unseen months every one fell less than holding.
The 32 markets are the ones liquid on the day of the freeze, which favours any test. Every
figure charges 5 bps a side in fees and is before funding and slippage.
docs/evidence/walk-forward-2026-10-23.json, 22 Oct 2026.
Recursively self-improving. In plain sight.
Every day the research desk proposes challengers, tests them, paper-trades the survivors and promotes the winners on its own. AI agents ship improvements to the platform itself every day. Here is where it stands.
In paper trading now
C001 funding exit
day 1 of 60, verdict on 27 Dec 2026
The idea: When longs pay a lot of funding to stay long the trade is crowded and the carry eats the trend, so stepping aside while the last week was expensive should keep most of the trend for less cost.
- Backtest
- Unseen prices
- Paper trial
- Promotion
Promotions
0
so far. A challenger has to earn it. 8 challengers in paper trials right now. Next verdict in 60 days
Desk log
- Breadth Trend 150 handed to the desk for an upgrade
- Breadth Trend 100 handed to the desk for an upgrade
- Breadth Trend handed to the desk for an upgrade
- C007 closed its test on unseen prices; the desk moved on
On the live rule today
Breadth Trend, the rule the bot trades, is holding 1 of its 32 markets and keeping the rest in cash.
Next 4h candle closes in a few hours. The engine reads it within minutes.
For the technically curious
C001 came from the funding_exit template: 6 of its 6 backtested cells
passed the listing bar on prices before 1 Mar 2026, and the desk picked funding_exit n=200 max_week_pct=0.3.
- White's reality check, p
- 0.48
- Deflated Sharpe: chance the edge is luck, against 1,093 trials
- 0.46
- Unseen prices, the challenger
- +20.5%
- Unseen prices, holding the same markets
- +60.7%
In plain words. It is unproven: its backtest edge is not yet distinguishable from luck. Promotion needs the reality check and the deflated Sharpe both under 0.10, so on today's figures it would not pass, whatever the paper trial shows. Until it is promoted it trades on paper, never in your account. The window was frozen before its first candle existed and is scored once, when it closes.
Records: docs/evidence/desk/registry/, append-only and hash-chained. Daily report of 28 Oct 2026.
The hunt
The desk is hunting for the next champion.
It now researches 1-hour, 2-hour, 4-hour and daily bars across 11 strategy families. Every challenger that survives its backtest and its one look at unseen prices goes into a paper trial. 8 are on the clock now, each with a fixed verdict day.
- strategy families
- 11
- bar widths, 1-hour to daily
- 4
- variants measured in this hunt
- 102
- challengers in paper trials
- 8
- Funding carry daily
- Ensembles 4-hour
- Multi-timeframe confirmation 4-hour
- Concentrated breakout books 4-hour · daily
- Concentrated momentum books 4-hour · daily
- Volatility targeting 4-hour · daily
- Cross-sectional momentum 4-hour · daily
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Funding exit
Verdict in 60 days day 1 of 60
Verdict day 27 Dec 2026
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Multi-timeframe confirmation
Verdict in 61 days starts soon
Verdict day 27 Dec 2026
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Concentrated breakout books
Verdict in 61 days starts soon
Verdict day 27 Dec 2026
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Volatility targeting
Verdict in 61 days starts soon
Verdict day 27 Dec 2026
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Funding carry
Verdict in 61 days starts soon
Verdict day 28 Dec 2026
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Concentrated breakout books
Verdict in 61 days starts soon
Verdict day 28 Dec 2026
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Volatility targeting
Verdict in 61 days starts soon
Verdict day 28 Dec 2026
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Cross-sectional momentum
Verdict in 61 days starts soon
Verdict day 28 Dec 2026
The game
Your desk. Your streak. Your league.
Check in, keep your streak alive, climb the weekly league and call the desk's verdicts before they land. Daily quests, chests, badges and level-ups, with a celebration for every one. Watching your strategy get better is the game.
Daily streak
23days
- M
- T
- W
- T
- F
- S
- S
2 freezes ready. A missed day uses one, so the run keeps going.
XP and level
Level 9Reader
Daily goal hit · 3,720 XP all time
Levels change your layout and look. Never what you can see or trade.
Weekly league Gold
| 1 | Member 4Flvl 14 | 1,240 XP |
| 2 | Member K2lvl 11 | 1,105 XP |
| 3 | Youlvl 9 | 980 XP |
| 4 | Member 7Qlvl 12 | 940 XP |
| 5 | Member B9lvl 8 | 815 XP |
Promotion zone Top 3 move up to Platinum on Monday
Daily quests
- Read today's Brief +10
- Read a challenger's gate rows +15
- Earn 60 XP today +20
Pick the champion
Who comes out ahead on 28 Dec 2026?
+10 XP for a pick, +60 if you call it. No stakes, just bragging rights.
Badges
- 7-day streak
- Called it
- First trade
- Perfect week
- Hot hand 3
How it looks in the app, shown with example numbers. The game runs on reading, checking and calling the desk's verdicts: no XP depends on account size or profit.
Start your streak →
Leagues open with the testnet preview on 30 Oct 2026.
How a strategy earns its place.
Five gates, and most ideas never get past the third. Tap any gate for the detail.
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Templates People write the ideas, each with a reason it should work.
10 today: the four classic trend families and three new hypotheses built on the live rule. A template is never edited in place; a change is a new version with its own fingerprint.
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Backtest Every variant runs on years of 4h candles, net of fees and funding.
Search only sees prices before 1 Mar 2026. Every variant is counted (1,093 so far), and the winner is tested for luck against all of them.
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Unseen prices The winner gets one look at prices it was never tuned on.
Pass or fail, the result is written at once and cannot be rerun. Most ideas stop here.
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Paper trial 60 days on new prices, with no money at stake.
The window is frozen before its first candle exists and scored once, when it closes. The current trial closes on 27 Dec 2026.
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Promotion Survivors are promoted automatically, on gates fixed before any result.
Four gates: it passed on unseen prices, its edge is not luck, it made money over the paper trial, and the engine reproduces its results exactly. Listed strategies that stop earning their place are withdrawn the same way. A promotion adds a choice; it never changes what you already trade.
Never sleeps. Never panics. Never breaks its rules.
Then the engine takes over. Every few minutes, day and night, it checks your account against the strategy and trades only the difference.
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1
Ask Hyperliquid
What does the account hold right now, and what is it worth?
BTCETH -
2
Ask the rule
On the last closed 4-hour candle, which markets should be held?
BTCSOL -
3
Compare
Keep what both agree on. Mark the rest to sell or to buy.
keep BTCsell ETHbuy SOL -
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Trade the difference
Orders that fill now or cancel. Nothing is left waiting on the book.
ETH soldSOL bought
A few minutes later it asks again, from scratch.
- 30% circuit breakerIf the account falls 30% from its peak, Archon sells everything and waits for you.
- No leverageSet to 1x before every entry. Long or in cash, never short.
- Starts from scratchEach cycle reads the account fresh, so a restart never loses its place.
Your trading key cannot withdraw. We tested it.
Archon gets a key made only for trading. The key that moves money never leaves you.
You keep this
Your main wallet
The wallet you signed up to Hyperliquid with. It owns the account, the USDC and the positions.
- Deposits and withdrawals
- Transfers to anyone
- Creating and replacing API wallets
Archon never asks for it, never sees it, never stores it.
Archon is given this
An API wallet
A separate key you create on Hyperliquid for one purpose: placing orders on your account.
- Place and cancel orders
- Set leverage, which Archon fixes at 1x
On 28 Oct 2026, on testnet, we signed a withdrawal and two transfers with one. Hyperliquid refused all three and the balance did not move.
Three steps. That is all.
No forms, no bank details, no card on file.
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Connect your wallet
Sign in with the crypto wallet you already use. No email, no password, no forms to fill in. Your streak starts that day.
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Pay $500 once
One payment from your wallet makes you a founding member. Not a subscription: nothing is ever taken automatically.
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Choose hosted or self-host
Let us run it for you from $50 a month, or run it free on your own computer with your AI assistant.
- Your money stays put. It never leaves your own Hyperliquid account.
- No lock-in. Pause or stop whenever you like, from your dashboard.
- Practice first. Testnet opens 30 Oct 2026 with play money, so you can watch before you commit.
Get early access →
Testnet first. Real money only when you decide.
Join once. Then choose how it runs.
Paid in crypto, in advance. Nothing renews behind your back.
Founding member
Early access
$500once
Your Archon membership. Needed for either way of running it.
- Every listed rule, with its full record and live signals
- The full game: streaks, XP, weekly leagues, daily quests and Pick the champion
- A dashboard that reads your Hyperliquid account
- Testnet practice with play money
- The self-host runbook for your AI assistant
Archon Hosted
$50a month
$280 for 6 months, or $500 a year
We run the engine for you, day and night. Added to early access. Free on testnet during the preview.
- Nothing to install, no computer to leave on
- A hosted streak that earns XP for every day Archon runs your account
- Your trading key encrypted at rest, bound to your account
- Renewal reminders on your dashboard before your paid period ends
- If it lapses, nothing is sold for you: new entries stop and held positions leave on the rule's own exit
Self-hosted
$0beyond early access
The same engine on your own computer or server.
- Claude Code or Codex sets it up from our runbook
- Your trading key never leaves your machine
- Ask your assistant anything: it can read these docs
- You keep the machine awake and online
Under the hood.
The full record, for anyone who wants the receipts.
The live rule's full history
- Return
- +150.0%
- holding +101.7%
- Worst fall
- −23.0%
- holding −64.8%
Breadth Trend
Holding all 32
20 Aug 2024 to 28 Oct 2026
−50%0%+50%+100%+150%+200%
+150.0%
+101.7%
Drawdown: the fall from the highest point so far
−23.0% worst for Breadth Trend, −64.8% holding
0%−20%−40%−60%−80%
Breadth Trend: enter on a new 200-bar closing high, exit on a close below the 200-bar
average, 32 markets, 4h candles, equal weight, unlevered. A replay of the code that
trades, 20 Aug 2024 to 28 Oct 2026, with 5 bps fees on every trade,
before funding and slippage. The rule was chosen on this history; the months it had not seen, above, are
the fairer test. .context/app/live.json, 28 Oct 2026.
The years it was chosen on
Before the unseen months
Prices before 1 Mar 2026. Holding lost money; the rule made it.
Return
Worst fall
Picked from 39 trend rules, 5 bps per side, no funding,
no slippage. docs/evidence/walk-forward-2026-10-23.json, 22 Oct 2026.
What happens if Archon's servers go down?
Your positions stay open on Hyperliquid exactly as they were. When the engine comes back it reads the account fresh and carries on from what is actually held.
Do I need to be technical?
Not for Archon Hosted: you connect a wallet, create one key on Hyperliquid and paste it in. Self-hosting needs an AI assistant such as Claude Code or Codex, which follows our runbook and can answer questions from these docs as you go.
Why only crypto?
You already hold crypto to trade on Hyperliquid, and an on-chain payment can be checked by anyone. There is no card on file, so plans are prepaid and nothing renews without you.
Founding members
Get in before the doors open.
Testnet preview opens on 30 Oct 2026. The testnet preview is open. Watch it trade with play money first. Real money comes later, one account at a time, after a 7-day run without incident.