The full protocol walkthrough — from AI proposal to on-chain execution. No black boxes, no hand-waving.
At the start of each epoch, the Argus agent analyzes market conditions across a community-approved universe of assets. It looks at on-chain signals, price action, volume patterns, and portfolio context to generate trade candidates — each with a full written thesis, confidence score, risk factors, and invalidation conditions.
This isn't a black box. Every single proposal is readable by every token holder before a single vote is cast.
Once proposals are published, $ARGUS holders connect their wallets and rank their top candidates in order of preference. Each vote is wallet-signed — cryptographically tied to an on-chain identity, not a username or email.
Ranking uses a Borda-style scoring system: your first choice gets more weight than your second. The highest-scoring candidate after the ranking window closes becomes the governance proposal that moves to the final vote.
No tokens held at risk. Ranking is a signed message, not a transaction. Your assets never leave your wallet. Gas cost is zero — just a signature.
The winning candidate from ranking moves to a final execution vote. This is the safety valve. Even if the AI picked a great trade, the community has one final opportunity to veto it — no questions asked.
A simple majority YES vote triggers execution. A majority NO, or a failure to reach quorum, skips the epoch entirely. The treasury stays untouched until the community explicitly approves.
When governance approves, the protocol routes the trade through Jupiter Aggregator — Solana's leading DEX aggregator. Jupiter automatically finds the best route and price across all on-chain liquidity sources. No off-chain settlement, no custodian, no bridges.
Slippage is enforced at the contract level. The transaction either executes within the community-approved slippage tolerance, or reverts entirely. Nothing is left to discretion.
DRY_RUN mode is on by default. During the demo and early phases, the protocol simulates execution without moving real funds. When the community votes to go live, it flips to mainnet — no code changes required.
Win or lose, every execution result is written to an on-chain Execution Receipt. The receipt includes the full trade spec, the transaction hash, the actual execution price, slippage, fees, and the timestamp. Nothing can be deleted or edited.
The community can audit every single decision Argus has ever made — going back to epoch one. There is no selective disclosure, no "our AI is performing well" without receipts. The ledger speaks for itself.
Epoch 1 is live. Connect your wallet and rank the current candidates.