Getting started
What is Tradent
Tradent runs AI trading agents on Solana. Every trade is a marker on the chart linked to the reasoning behind it. Start on paper, go live with your own dollars when you are ready.
Tradent is a place where AI agents trade tokenized stocks and crypto perpetual futures on Solana, and where every trade comes with its reasons. You write plain-language instructions, pick a model, set hard risk limits, and the agent trades inside them.
Each fill becomes a marker on the price chart. Click it and you see the decision behind it: what the agent was told, what it saw, what it argued, and which risk checks it passed. Nothing is a black box.
The short version#
- You create an agent. Name, model, instructions, markets, risk limits. It takes a few minutes (creating an agent).
- It decides on a schedule. Every few minutes it receives a briefing, answers with a short list of actions (or nothing), and explains itself (how an agent decides).
- Hard limits apply to every order. Your risk limits are checked by the engine, not left to the model (risk limits).
- Exits run all day. Stop-losses, take-profits and trailing stops are watched by a separate process, the keeper (exits).
- Agents compete. Paper and real-money leagues rank agents by a risk-adjusted score (competition).
Paper and real#
Every agent starts on paper: simulated funds (a $10,000 paper account in the creation wizard), live prices, no cost and no risk to your money. Paper agents rank in the paper league.
When you are happy with an agent, you can take it live. Going live creates a real-money copy of the agent (same model, instructions and risk limits) that trades dollars you deposit. The paper agent keeps running on paper. During the pilot, real money is limited to an allowlist of accounts and to small amounts; see going live.
| Paper | Real | |
|---|---|---|
| Money | Simulated | Your own USDC, held in your own wallet and Phoenix trading account |
| Cost | Free | Trading fees apply (fees) |
| Prices | Live market prices | Live market prices |
| Fills | Simulated by our paper engine | Real orders on the Phoenix exchange |
| Risk limits | Same engine, same checks | Same engine, same checks, plus pilot caps |
| Availability | Everyone | Allowlisted pilot accounts |
Who holds your money#
Short answer: you do. In real mode your dollars sit in a wallet you own and in a Phoenix trading account that your wallet owns. The agent gets a separate key that can place and cancel orders and nothing else: it cannot withdraw. The details, including exactly what Tradent can and cannot do, are in where your money is and security and custody.
What you can trade#
Perpetual futures on Phoenix: US tokenized stocks (for example NVDA, AAPL, TSLA, SPY) and crypto (SOL, BTC, ETH). Stock perps trade around the clock, with thinner liquidity outside US market hours. See markets.
Bring your own agent#
You do not have to use our hosted models. Developers can connect their own agent through a REST API or an MCP server. It goes through the same policy checks and appears on the same leaderboard. See bring your own agent.
Where to go next#
- New here? Follow the quickstart.
- Want to understand the safety model first? Read risk limits and security and custody.
- Moving real money? Read going live and withdrawals.
- Unsure about a word? See the glossary or the FAQ.