Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about AlphaBot, bonding curves, the quant engine, fees, and safety.

Getting Started

What is AlphaBot?
AlphaBot lets you launch a bonding curve token backed by a quant trading engine. Engine profits auto-buy and burn your token, creating a rising price floor.
How do I create a vault?
Connect your Solana wallet, pick a ticker and name, upload a logo, and click create. Your vault deploys on a bonding curve in about 60 seconds. It costs 0.1 SOL.
What wallet do I need?
Any Solana wallet works — Phantom, Solflare, Backpack, etc.
How do I buy a vault token?
Go to the vault page, enter the amount of SOL you want to spend, and click Buy. The bonding curve determines the price — earlier buyers get a better price.

The Engine

What is the quant engine?
A backtested momentum breakout strategy that trades 25+ tokens on 2-hour cycles. It has achieved a 2.87 Sharpe ratio over 90-day backtesting with +33.6% returns.
Is the engine’s performance guaranteed?
No. The 2.87 Sharpe and +33.6% returns come from backtesting. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The engine could lose money.
What does the engine trade?
The engine trades a diversified universe of tokens including SOL, ETH, BNB, AVAX, LINK, and 20+ others. It uses a BTC regime filter to avoid trading in bear markets.
How often does the engine trade?
Every 2 hours. It evaluates entry and exit signals, manages positions, and rebalances the portfolio.

Engine Mechanics

How does the buy-and-burn work?
The quant engine trades with 80% of all deposited SOL across all vaults. Every 2 hours, it checks for profits. 85% of any profit is used to buy your vault token on the bonding curve and then permanently burn it (destroy it). Fewer tokens + same liquidity = your token price rises. The remaining 15% is a protocol performance fee. The engine keeps trading with the original capital — burns come from profits only.
What happens during a drawdown?
If the engine is at a loss, no buy-and-burn happens — the floor just stops rising temporarily. Already-burned tokens stay burned forever, so your floor never drops. Circuit breakers protect against big losses: the engine reduces positions at -5%, closes all positions at -10%, and halts completely at -15% drawdown. Each individual position also has a -20% stop-loss.
How does the engine handle multiple vaults?
All vaults pool their SOL into one shared engine (called the omnibus pool). The engine tracks each vault’s proportional share. When it profits, each vault gets their share — a 50 SOL vault gets proportionally less burn than a 500 SOL vault, but everyone gets the same percentage return. Pooling lets small vaults benefit from the full engine’s trading power.
What if someone creates a new vault when the engine is down?
New vaults get a fresh entry at current pool value — they don’t share existing losses. Each vault has its own high-water mark. Burns only happen when a vault’s share exceeds its previous peak. So new depositors start earning burns immediately on any profit, while older vaults in drawdown need to recover first. Fair for everyone.
Can I get rugged?
No. The bonding curve is pure math — there’s no liquidity pool someone can drain. Creators have no withdraw function. The engine authority is separate from the admin. There’s a two-step admin transfer so it can’t be hijacked in one transaction. You can always sell on the curve (20% reserve is instant liquidity), and if the engine goes silent for 24 hours, emergency withdraw lets you rage-quit your share. 6 security audit rounds, 0 critical issues.

Money & Fees

Where does my SOL go when I buy?
20% stays as reserve (instant sell liquidity), 78% goes to the engine pool (actively traded), and 2% goes to fees (1% protocol, 1% creator).
What are the fees?
1% per buy/sell transaction on the bonding curve (0.5% protocol, 0.5% creator). The engine charges a 15% performance fee on profits only.
Can I sell anytime?
Yes. 20% of all deposits are held as reserve specifically for instant sells. The bonding curve provides liquidity at any time.
What is buy-and-burn?
When the engine makes a profit, 85% of that profit is used to buy your vault token on the bonding curve and then permanently burn it. This reduces supply, which mathematically increases the price floor.

Graduation & Growth

What is graduation?
When a vault reaches $40K in AUM (assets under management), it “graduates” — liquidity migrates to Raydium (a Solana DEX) with $15K in locked LP. The engine keeps trading forever.
What happens after graduation?
Your token trades on Raydium like any other Solana token. The engine continues trading and burning, so the buy-and-burn mechanism keeps running.

Safety & Risks

What are circuit breakers?
Automatic safety mechanisms. Soft pause at -5% drawdown, hard pause at -10%, emergency shutdown at -15%. They protect against extreme losses.
What if the engine loses money?
The engine can lose money — it’s trading real markets. Circuit breakers limit drawdowns. The 20% reserve is never traded. The bonding curve still provides liquidity. But your token price can go down.
Is AlphaBot audited?
The smart contracts have undergone 6 rounds of internal security review with 0 critical or high issues open. A formal third-party audit is planned before mainnet launch.
Is this a security / financial product?
AlphaBot is a decentralized protocol on Solana. Users should consult their own legal and financial advisors. This is not financial advice.

Technical

What blockchain is AlphaBot on?
Solana. The smart contracts are built with the Anchor framework.
Is AlphaBot open source?
The smart contract code is verifiable on-chain. The frontend is open source.

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