- Why a funded trader cannot take the money
- Trading rights are not a wallet. The capital sits in a sub-vault contract that exposes exactly three things to the address that earned it: buy, sell, and, once the term is over and every position is closed, claim, which pays out that address’s share of the profit and nothing else. There is no transfer, no approve, no arbitrary call, no upgrade path, and no function that sends the principal anywhere a caller can name. The principal has one exit, and it is settlement, which returns it to the vault it came from.
- That is what the session-key model means here
- The scope of the permission is the contract’s function set, not a policy a server agrees to honour. So it does not matter which wallet holds the key. Robinhood Wallet, MetaMask, the embedded key created at login: every one of them can reach the same three functions and no others, and the pools they may route through are fixed in the registry rather than passed in with the order. Losing the key loses the rights, not the capital.
- Why the profit cannot be inflated
- The result is cash, not a mark. A term settles only after every position is closed (settlement is refused while one is still open), and the figure it splits is the USDG actually in the sub-vault measured against the allocation it started with. Nothing is valued by a price feed at settlement. Positions are marked to pool prices during the term, but only to detect a drawdown breach, never for profit accounting. Ending the month holding a token at a price you pushed pays nothing: to be paid on it you have to sell it, into the same pool, at whatever it really clears.
- Who absorbs a loss, in order
- First the trader’s rights, which is the only thing they ever had at stake: a term that ends below its allocation pays them nothing at all, and no share of a loss either, because they never held a claim on the principal. Then the insurance buffer: when a sub-vault returns less than it was given, the vault covers the gap out of the buffer, up to the whole of it. Only what the buffer cannot cover is a loss to LP capital. The buffer is funded by half of every entry fee and has no withdrawal path of any kind: capital that enters it can only ever leave by covering a loss.
- What a Stock Token is, and is not
- An instrument that tracks the price of a share. It is not the share. Holding one carries no ownership of the company, no vote, no dividend, and no claim on anything an issuer holds. It is a token on Robinhood Chain, priced against a Chainlink feed for the underlying, trading in a Uniswap v4 pool like any other token. Everything the arena prices and every position a funded sub-vault can open is that instrument.
DisclaimerEverything on this site describes how a set of contracts behaves. None of it is investment, legal or tax advice, a recommendation, or an offer. The contracts are unaudited. Entry fees are non-refundable, trading carries risk of total loss, and nothing here, including any figure read live from the protocol, implies anything about future results.