Phantom connect, nothing more. Your keys are generated by you, held by you, and never leave your device. Vältgeist never sees them.
Your capital moves into a vault program whose sole withdraw key is yours. Not your Phantom wallet, but no less yours — Vältgeist never takes custody and cannot move it out. You can pull it back whenever you like.
You authorize the pod’s operator key — scoped to one action, rebalancing on whitelisted programs, structurally unable to move funds out. A dedicated Phoenix instance then quotes, defends and compounds inside your vault. Flat subscription; the P&L is yours alone; revoke any time.
Fees, adverse selection, volatility cascades, over-trading. Each mechanism exists because one of these kills bots like it — and each was verified against the primary literature before a line of it was written.
| ID | Mechanism | Defends against | Implementation |
|---|---|---|---|
| M-01 | Venue guards | Adverse selection | Refuses pools whose fee tier cannot beat the σ²/8 arbitrage bleed. Vetoes pump.fun mints by their on-chain suffix. The LVR breakeven race is displayed live. |
| M-02 | Asymmetric bands | Impermanent loss | A wide protective zone below the position — dumps never crystallize IL at the bottom of a wick. A tight trip above re-anchors fast. Hard minimum interval between rebalances. |
| M-03 | Avellaneda–Stoikov geometry | Naive placement | Inventory-skewed reservation price sets the band center; the optimal spread sets its width. One side quoted at a time, flipping with hysteresis as fills convert inventory. |
| M-04 | Hawkes cascade detector | Rugs | An exponential-kernel self-excitation fit on the swap stream. When sell flow starts feeding on itself, the pod knows before any volatility metric does. |
| M-05 | Panic flatten | Bag-holding | On alarm, the pod does not merely close the position — it exits the token entirely, back to your stablecoin, via the swap provider. |
| M-06 | Sub-Kelly compounding | Ruin | Deployment sized as a conservative fraction of live equity. Wins compound the next quote. A hard floor halts the machine permanently if breached. |
HATCHING ──▶ FLYING ◀──────┐
│ │ calm
│ cascade │
▼ │
PERCHED ────────┘
│ equity floor breached
▼
ASHES ▪ permanent VETOED ▪ bad venue, refused at startThe machine is yours. The brain is shared.
| SHARED | Cascade alarms — one pod smells a rug, every pod hears it |
| SHARED | A fleet-wide token and mint blacklist |
| SHARED | Pool crowding data — pods spread across venues instead of eating each other's edge |
| NEVER | Your capital — it never pools, never commingles, never leaves your control |
| NEVER | Your profits and losses — strictly, structurally yours |
| NEVER | Your keys or your delegation — one pod, one wallet, one owner |
Every pod that joins makes every other pod safer and better-placed. The network effect is the brain — not the bankroll.
A hedge fund charges two percent of your assets plus twenty percent of your gains — for the privilege of holding your money. A pod costs nineteen euros: one dedicated Phoenix instance, hosted and maintained, full swarm membership, live state, equity and defense telemetry. Cancel or revoke at any moment.
We take no percentage of profits — your trading results are none of our business, in the most literal sense. A fee tied to your returns would make us your manager. We are your machinist.
REQUEST EARLY ACCESS →Pods open in small batches — the strategy's edge lives in thin pools, so the fleet grows at the pace the venues can carry. The waitlist is first-come: one address, no payment, no obligation.
No. There is no pool — your capital is never commingled with anyone else’s, or with ours. It sits in a vault that only you can withdraw from; Vältgeist never takes custody of it. We sell software and hosting — a pod — for a flat fee.
No — and not as a policy promise, as a construction. Your funds sit in a vault only you can withdraw from. The pod holds an operator key authorized for exactly one action — rebalancing your liquidity on whitelisted programs — and structurally unable to transfer funds to any other address. Only you can withdraw. Revoke the pod’s key any time with a signature from your wallet.
We make no return promises, and you should distrust anyone who does. This is experimental market making on volatile assets. You can lose money — every defense in the machine exists precisely because losses are real. Fund a pod only with capital whose loss would not matter to you.
Intelligence, never money. Your pod contributes anonymized signals — cascade alarms, blacklist entries, pool crowding data — to the swarm, and receives the same from every other pod. Profits and losses stay strictly yours.
Revoke the delegation in your wallet: the pod loses all authority instantly, no support ticket required. Cancel the subscription whenever you like.
The research behind it is — the verified strategy catalog and the simulation harness live in the open repository. The pod runtime and the swarm layer are proprietary.