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How Tradient works, in plain terms

A faithful summary of the Tradient Whitepaper v1.0 for the current release. Read the full whitepaper (PDF).

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Overview

Tradient connects an AI assistant you already use to market data, portfolio research and trading on Robinhood Chain. You bring the AI, you own the wallet, and you decide what the AI may do. The AI is the conversation; the Tradient terminal is where you review, approve and sign.

You own the walletA smart account that only your passkey or wallet can sign for.
Your AI asksIt can research and request trades. It can never sign one.
You decideEvery trade waits for your review and signature. One switch pauses everything.

The whitepaper is a product and architecture specification. A capability is available only after it passes its own release gate. Nothing in these docs means an audit or integration has been completed unless the status page says so.

What’s available

This list comes from the live release register, the same one the status page uses.

Ownership and signing

Owner key
A passkey on your device, or a wallet you already use. It is the only thing that can authorize a trade or a withdrawal.
Tradient wallet
A smart account (ERC-4337) owned by that key. It holds the funds you trade with and is separate from your other wallets.
AI connection
A revocable OAuth permission for one AI app. It never receives keys or credentials.

In this release every trade that moves funds needs your signature. Delegated signing, where an AI could act without asking, is not enabled. Your wallet keeps working without Tradient; see If Tradient is unavailable.

Safety checks

There are no spending limits to set. Every trade an AI asks for comes to you, whatever its size, and nothing moves until you review fresh terms and sign. Before a request reaches you, Tradient’s servers check it the same way whichever app sends it:

CheckWhat it does
TokensOnly verified tokens, resolved to exact contract addresses
PriceBlocked if the executable price is more than 2% from the reference price, or if the reference is missing or older than 10 minutes
Slippage1% by default, and never more
Request floodAt most 60 new requests an hour across all AI apps, so a runaway assistant can’t bury you in approvals
PauseWhile Tradient is paused, every new request is rejected and waiting ones are cancelled

Quotes and trades

  1. Quote. Fixed terms: tokens by address, amount in, minimum out, fee, route and an expiry of at most 30 seconds.
  2. Approve. You review fresh terms in the terminal and sign. If they change, you review again.
  3. Submit. The signed action is submitted once. Its id is used on-chain so it can never execute twice.
  4. Confirm. The receipt shows what you actually received, read from the chain. If an outcome is uncertain, the trade shows as checking and is never retried as a new trade.

The on-chain executor sends every output back to your own Tradient wallet and reverts if you would receive less than the minimum.

Connecting an AI

Tradient runs a remote MCP server with OAuth. In an AI app that supports remote MCP connectors, add Tradient, sign in, and choose what it may do. Access tokens last one hour; refresh grants rotate and last at most 30 days.

PermissionWhat your AI can do
ReadSee your Tradient wallet balances, trade history and market prices. Always included.
TradeAsk for quotes and request trades. Each one waits for you to approve and sign.
PauseAny connection can pause Tradient in an emergency. Only you can resume it.

You can disconnect an AI at any time from the Assistant window (the Assistant button in the terminal’s top bar). Pausing Tradient stops every connection at once.

Fees

ActionTradient fee
Confirmed spot swap0.25% (25 bps) of the amount you pay, collected once
Failed or blocked swapNone. A submitted transaction that fails can still cost network gas.
Portfolio and market toolsNone

Example: on a $100 trade, 0.25% is $0.25. Each quote shows the fee before you sign. You pay network gas from your Tradient wallet in ETH; on testnet the faucet includes a little test ETH for this. This is the specified launch fee, not a statement about revenue.

TRADIENT and holder access

You never need TRADIENT to trade, recover your wallet or withdraw. Holding it unlocks extra features. AI connections need at least 5,000,000 TRADIENT, counted live across your Tradient wallet and any owner wallet you linked, and re-checked while an assistant is connected. Below that, an assistant can still pause Tradient, list waiting approvals and check trade status, but nothing else.

Tradient doesn’t run or sell AI: you bring your own assistant, which bills its own usage. No sale, staking, yield or governance is offered. On testnet, holdings are measured with the tTRADIENT test token, and the faucet gives enough to unlock AI connections.

Testnet assets and contracts

Testnet uses Tradient test tokens (tUSDG, tWETH, tWBTC, tTRADIENT) that have no value. Test tokens follow the live price of the asset they imitate, and trades settle in Tradient’s own test pools.

If Tradient is unavailable

Your Tradient wallet is a standard smart account (ZeroDev Kernel v3.1 on EntryPoint v0.7). It doesn’t depend on Tradient’s servers: any app that supports Kernel accounts can operate it with the same passkey or wallet that owns it.

  1. Note your wallet address and owner from Security → If Tradient is ever unavailable.
  2. Open a compatible app, choose the same signer type (passkey or wallet), and point it at your address on Robinhood Chain.
  3. Sign with your owner key and move your assets wherever you like.

Risks and limitations

  • You can lose money, including all of it. Nothing here is investment advice and no returns are promised.
  • Trades can settle at a worse price within your slippage limit, fail, or be delayed.
  • Market data, the network and AI assistants can be wrong, stale or unavailable.
  • Smart contracts, including Tradient’s and the wallet’s, can contain bugs. An audit, when one exists, does not guarantee safety.
  • Pausing stops new actions immediately but can’t reverse a transaction already submitted on-chain.
  • Public blockchain records can’t be deleted.
  • Tradient is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Robinhood, any AI provider, or any data provider.

FAQ

The FAQ lives on the home page, so the answers stay in one place. For help with your account, see Support.