The manual.
Every function, every number.

1 · Getting started

There is no sign-up, no account and no deposit. You connect a wallet and you trade. Everything below takes about three minutes.

What The Desk is

A trading terminal for Robinhood Chain, built around one uncomfortable fact: around 92 % of the tokens ever launched on this chain are dead. So every screen puts the deployer's record, the contract's powers and the holder concentration in front of you before the buy button, and the trading tools — limit orders, ladders, martingale, bots — exist so you do not have to sit and watch a chart to act on any of it.

It is non-custodial in the literal sense. Market orders and limit orders never move your money anywhere except through the swap itself. The strategies that do hold funds hold them in a contract that only your wallet can empty — see §14.

Step 1 · A wallet

1. Use an injected wallet

   MetaMask, Rabby, or the built-in browser of any wallet app. There is no WalletConnect and no e-mail login. If none is found you get: No wallet detected. Open nlyra.xyz inside your wallet app, or install MetaMask / Rabby.

   On a phone, open nlyra.xyz inside your wallet app's own browser. Safari and Chrome on iOS cannot reach a wallet app's signing keys, so the connect button will find nothing there. Every wallet app has a browser tab — use that one.

2. Press CONNECT, top right

   Approve the connection. Nothing is sent anywhere; the page just learns your address. Once connected the chip shows your ETH balance and your @name (or a shortened address).

Step 2 · Robinhood Chain

Everything happens on Robinhood Chain, chain id 4663. If your wallet is on another network, The Desk offers to switch — and if the network is not in your wallet at all, it offers to add it with these exact settings:

If the switch does not take, you get Switch your wallet to Robinhood Chain and the wallet chip turns amber. Every transaction re-checks the network before it is built, and anything carrying the wrong chain id is refused before your wallet ever opens.

Step 3 · ETH on Robinhood Chain

Three ways in:

While your balance is under 0.001 ETH with no USDG, a card appears on the board and in the trade panel telling you so and offering those three routes. It is a card, never a gate — every control stays live behind it — and you can dismiss it for 24 hours.

Step 4 · Your first trade

1. Find a token

   Browse the MARKET board, watch new launches on FIREHOSE, or paste a contract address into the search box and press Enter.

2. Read the verdict before the chart

   The chip in the header and the one line under it tell you what the contract can do to you. §3 explains every check.

3. Type an amount and press BUY

   The first press connects your wallet; the second buys. Full walkthrough in §4.

After your first fill you will see, once: You're on. Pick a token and tap BUY — nothing else to set up.

Step 5 · Claim a @name

Optional, and not required to trade — but it is your identity on the tape, the leaderboards and copy trading, and your referral link does not exist without one.

1. Open the claim sheet

   From your account, or from the prompt that appears once after a fill.

2. Type a name

   3 to 20 characters, letters, numbers and underscore only, and it may not start or end with an underscore. Availability is checked against the chain as you type: checking… → available or taken.

3. Claim it

   One transaction. The name itself is free — you pay only chain gas, about a cent. It is registered on-chain, one per wallet, first come first served. You are @yourname on Robinhood Chain.

Step 6 · Referrals

Your link is nlyra.xyz/desk/?r=yourname, and any token page you share is automatically tagged with it once you have a name.

Getting around

Press / anywhere to jump into search. Paste a contract address, press Enter, and you land on that token from any screen.

One signature, no gas

Some things are private reads — your open orders, your ladders, your martingale cycles, your bot list, your alert feed. Anyone could otherwise enumerate a wallet's open orders just by knowing its address, so those reads are signed.

2 · The market board

Six boards live behind one screen. Three list tokens, three list people. Everything you set — filter, sort, direction — is remembered per board.

The six boards

Switching between them never rebuilds the page — rows stay alive, so a board switch is instant and your scroll position comes back when you press Back.

Reading a row

The board has two completely different layouts. The switch is at 960 px: below it you get a two-line list row, above it a 15-column table.

The desktop columns

Narrow desktop windows drop columns in this order: 5M / 6H / PRICE below 1200 px, BUY PRESSURE below 1060 px, the token name below 1340 px.

Buy pressure, exactly

Buy pressure is a whole number from 0 to 100: the percentage of recent flow in that token that was buying. It is drawn as a fill bar whose width is the number, with the figure next to it.

The creator record

Every row carries the launch history of the wallet that deployed the token. Three states:

• — — no record on file.
• first launch — this deployer has launched once. Not a good sign or a bad one; simply no history.
• 9/24 with a bar (mobile prints it as 24×/38%) — 9 of this deployer's 24 launches are dead. The bar's width is the dead percentage.

The number and bar turn hot (gold, with a skull on mobile) when the deployer meets the bad-record rule: at least 3 launches, at least 60 % of them dead, and not an official/verified deployer. That same rule is what the FLAGGED filter uses.

Filters

The pill rail under the header filters the board. One pill is active at a time; the highlight slides to the one you press.

Sorting

On a phone: press the ⇅ SORT button at the left of the caption rail. A sheet opens with every sort. On desktop: click any column header. Either way, tapping the sort you are already on flips the direction — the sheet says so at the bottom.

The caption rail on mobile also makes the two right-hand captions tappable (MC and 24H normally, VALUE and PNL in MY BAG), so the two sorts people use most are one tap away.

Every sort breaks ties on 24-hour volume, descending. Featured tokens are pinned above the sort on the MARKET board whenever the search box is empty.

The watchlist

1. Star a token

   Tap the ★ at the right of any row, on any board, in the table or in the compact column. It never opens the token. On a phone you can also press and hold the row for about half a second — you get a short haptic and a toast reading added to your watchlist. Moving your finger more than 10 px cancels it, so scrolling is unaffected.

2. Open the ★ WATCHLIST pill

   It sits at the head of the filter rail with a count badge. Press it again to go back to the market.

3. Starred tokens never go missing

   If a token falls off both the market and firehose boards, the watchlist fetches it on its own so you still get a real row instead of a bare address.

⚡ Quick buy

The bolt at the right edge of a row buys immediately at market, without opening the token page. The chip labels itself with the size of the trade — BUY $25 — so you always know what you are about to spend before you press it.

The strip above the board

Up to five cards can appear above the rows. All of them are dismissible or self-retiring; none of them block anything underneath.

The stats line

The row of figures across the top of the board describes the whole chain, not the visible rows. It counts up rather than snapping, and any figure the scanner does not have hides itself instead of printing a zero.

To the right sits the live block pill — a dot and the current block height. It anchors on a real block every 30 seconds and counts between anchors at the chain's own block time (about 101 ms), with the dot pulsing every sixth block. If it cannot anchor, it does not render at all rather than count made-up blocks. Next to it, the refresh button shows how stale the board is (now, 43s, 12m) and reloads it when pressed.

The ticker

The scrolling strip is the chain's latest fills — not only Desk fills. Each chip reads who · side · size · token · age: @alice bought $420 PEPE 12s. Buys and sells are coloured differently, chips link to the token, and the newest three glow briefly.

• Put a finger on it and it stops. Someone touching a chip is someone reading it.
• It holds 40 chips and moves at a constant speed regardless of how many there are.
• A chip is patched in place when the server later works out whose fill it was — it never jumps.
• On a fresh visit the last snapshot is restored only if it is under 5 minutes old. A fill from an hour ago is not "just traded", so the strip stays empty instead.
• It appears on MARKET, FIREHOSE and WATCH only.
• With reduced motion switched on it does not scroll — it becomes an ordinary swipeable strip.

How the board stays live

Search

1. Type in the box at the top

   Placeholder: search symbol or address. Press / anywhere on the page to jump into it. The board filters live on every keystroke — it matches symbol, name or address on token boards, and @name or address on the people boards.

2. Paste a full contract address and press Enter

   You go straight to that token's page, from any screen, whether or not the token is on any board.

3. Press Enter on anything else

   You are taken to the top hit. On the rap sheet, Enter does nothing — there is no single "top" deployer to open.

4. If the address is on no board

   The list is replaced by a single row: Open 0x1234…abcd ›. Tap it to open the token page anyway.

RAP SHEET — the deployer board

The rap sheet ranks deployers, not tokens. A row reads: the deployer's address, a chip, the percentage of their launches that are dead, then 24 launches · 3.4/day · 2 alive, and finally their last token with its age — marked live or struck through if it is gone. A kill-rate bar rides on the row divider.

Desktop columns: CREATOR · LAUNCHES · DEAD · KILL RATE · PER DAY · LAST TOKEN · LAST SEEN.

When a board is empty

3 · The token page

Everything known about one token on one screen: who made it, what the contract can do to you, who is holding it, who is trading it, and the chart to trade it on.

/desk/t/<address> — reached by tapping any row, pasting an address into search and pressing Enter, or opening a shared link.

The header

Under the header sits the socials row: website, X, Telegram, Discord and the block explorer, plus the contract address as a dashed chip (tap to copy the full address) and a link to The Constellation — a holder map of the token. Only http and https links survive; anything else is discarded before it can be rendered.

The five numbers

The verdict — what it actually checks

The verdict is the output of a contract scan. It is a risk score where higher is worse, banded into labels:

The findings that carry the most weight

A serial launcher also affects the verdict directly: a deployer with 5 or more launches and 80 % or more of them dead forces the verdict to at least CAUTION, whatever the contract says.

BLUE CHIP, and why it exists

Robinhood Chain is itself younger than the age threshold the scanner uses for "established assets", so nothing on this chain can clear that gate — the canonical WETH scores CAUTION on a plain reading, because it is technically an upgradeable proxy with unlocked liquidity.

BLUE CHIP is triggered by the deployer, not by a ticker list: the issuer that deployed every tokenised equity on the chain, the canonical bridged-asset deployer, and the USDG issuer. WETH and USDG themselves are canonical outright. On a blue chip the score is discarded entirely — "42 out of what?" has no honest answer for an asset like that — and every flag is restated as a note: the proxy becomes upgradeable proxy — standard for canonical and bridged assets, and the admin is the issuer.

When a DANGER is downgraded

A DANGER verdict with no measured hard finding (no honeypot, no tax, no pulled liquidity, no balance editing, no mint, no self-destruct), a clean creator, over $1M of liquidity and more than 30 days of age is downgraded to CAUTION, and it says so: downgraded from danger — $Nk of liquidity, N days old, and no honeypot, tax or pulled LP measured. The flags below are heuristics.

The chart

Timeframes

Eight, defaulting to 5m. Your choice is remembered per token, so 1h on one and 15m on another both survive moving between them. On a phone the strip scrolls with the active button centred.

PRICE / MCAP

One button that shows the mode it is currently displaying. In MCAP mode every price on the chart is multiplied by the supply, so you are reading valuation rather than unit price.

ƒx — the chart sheet

The ƒx button (or the I key) opens every chart setting. It wears a dot in its corner whenever any indicator is on. Everything here persists.

Trade markers, and the 30-day rule

Arrows on the candles are real trades: green up-arrows below the bar for buys, red down-arrows above it for sells, and your own trades always drawn, in accent, labelled you.

• Per bar the chart draws the biggest buy, the biggest sell, and always your own trade — otherwise a busy bar would be a wall of arrows.
• The history goes back 30 days. On opening the page and on every pool switch, the last 720 hours of swaps are loaded and merged underneath the live tape, so the arrows cover the whole chart rather than only the newest page. On a token whose history is being built for the first time, it retries for about a minute.
• A trade in the top quarter by size is drawn larger, and the three biggest visible trades get a dollar label — on desktop only.
• Hover or tap a bar for a tooltip listing the three newest trades in it: side, dollars, who, and age. The tooltip is always built from every trade — switching markers to MINE or OFF never empties it.

When one of your own trades fills, a dashed line is drawn at your fill price labelled you bought or you sold for twelve seconds, with a colour flash and a sound. Open limit orders show as dotted LIMIT BUY / LIMIT SELL lines, up to eight at a time.

Zoom, fullscreen, and setting a limit from the chart

• Mouse wheel, pinch and drag all zoom and pan. Vertical touch drag is deliberately off so scrolling the page never fights the chart.
• ⤢ or the F key goes fullscreen; ✕ or Esc leaves. On a phone held upright you get a hint: rotate your phone for the full chart.
• Press and hold the chart (or right-click) for about half a second and a popover opens at that exact price, showing the distance from the current price, with BUY LIMIT and SELL LIMIT buttons. Either one opens the trade panel's LIMIT tab with that price already filled in. It works in MCAP mode too — the price is converted back to a unit price first.

TRADES tab

The live tape for this pool.

The identity chips

Show more, and pinning

• 120 trades show at first. show more · N older trades adds 200 at a time, drawing on the 30-day store as well as the live tape.
• While you are scrolled into the list, new trades are buffered rather than injected and a pill appears: N new trades. Tap it to flush them and return to the top. Nothing jumps under your finger.
• From the wallet sheet you can pin the tape to one wallet. A chip appears above the header — only 0x1234…abcd ✕ — and only that wallet's prints are accepted until you clear it.

HOLDERS tab

Concentration

The colour is the warning: over 50 % red, over 25 % gold, below that green. If a handful of wallets hold most of the supply, the price is theirs to decide.

The list

Up to 20 holders, each with rank, address, percentage and a bar. Every one links to the block explorer. Contract addresses are labelled so you are not reading a pool as if it were a person:

THE SCAN card

Seven rows summarising the contract read: HOLDERS, TOP 5 HOLD, LIQUIDITY, BUY TAX, SELL TAX, CONTRACT (verified or not) and PROXY (upgradeable or immutable). Non-zero taxes render red. Under it, the scan's findings with a warning triangle, then its neutral notes.

When the measured top-5 figure arrives from the holder book, the scan's own TOP 5 HOLD row hides itself — the screen never prints two different numbers for the same thing.

TOP TRADERS tab

Who has actually made money on this token, over the window the index has read — 24 hours by default, up to 7 days, with the real span shown in the header and on the tab badge.

ORDERS tab

Your own limit orders on this token, plus any ladders and martingale cycles running on it. Reading them needs one cached signature — it is a private read, and it reuses the signature already in your session, so there is no second prompt.

Each order shows the side, what you are paying and what you will get, the status (OPEN / FILLED / CANCELLED / EXPIRED / FAILED), the trigger (below $0.0₄1401) and the time left. Open orders carry a ✕ to cancel; completed ones link to the transaction. Full mechanics in §5.

Empty, it says: No orders on PEPE yet. Pick LIMIT above to set a price and walk away.

INFO tab

ACTIVITY · ON CHAIN

Four windows — 5M · 1H · 6H · 24H — each button showing the price change over that window. Your choice is remembered.

MAKERS is the number of unique wallets that traded in the window — the figure that separates a token forty people are trading from a token two bots are trading. If the index has not covered a full day yet, the heading says so: ACTIVITY · ON CHAIN · 6H READ SO FAR.

SECURITY card

OUR RECORD

Present only when The Desk has actually called this token: our score, when we first saw it, how it has moved since, the price when it was called, the peak multiple, how it died if it did, 24-hour buys and sells, supply and decimals — and a READ OUR CALL button linking to the write-up.

PAIRS and ON CHAIN

PAIRS lists every pool for this token with its DEX and liquidity. Tapping one switches everything — the chart, the tape, the markers, the holder book and the top traders — to that pool. If a token has two pools and one is nearly empty, this is where you notice.

ON CHAIN is the plain link list: the token contract, the pool, the creator, and every website and social the token declares. All on the block explorer, all verifiable without us.

Keyboard shortcuts (desktop)

The same sheet carries the trade sounds switch. Sounds are short synthesised tones — two rising notes on a buy, one falling note on a sell, a distinct two-note chime on a fill, a low thud for a transaction left with the chain, and a short low tone on an error. The speaker icon in the socials row mutes them.

4 · Trading — market orders

Buy or sell right now, at whatever the pool pays. The trade panel sits on the right on desktop and docks at the bottom of the token page on a phone.

The panel has two rows of controls: BUY / SELL, and MARKET · LIMIT · LADDER · MARTINGALE. This section covers MARKET.

Buying

1. Type an amount, or tap a preset

   Presets are 0.01 · 0.05 · 0.1 · 0.5 ETH — or 10 · 50 · 100 · 500 USDG in a USDG-quoted pool. A preset only fills the field. Nothing trades when you tap a chip. Under the field a live ≈ $X shows the dollar size.

2. Or press MAX

   Fills the field with your whole balance minus 0.0002 ETH kept for gas, and says so: MAX keeps 0.0002 ETH for gas. That reserve is roughly seventy transactions at this chain's prices. If your balance is under it you get Balance is below the 0.0002 ETH kept for gas and nothing is filled.

3. Check the slippage

   The slip 3% chip opens four options — 1% · 3% · 10% · 15%. Default 3 %, maximum 15 %. Your choice is remembered. Slippage is how far the price is allowed to move against you between pressing the button and the transaction landing; wider gets you filled more often and at worse prices.

4. Read the quote line

   It re-prices about a quarter of a second after you stop typing. Every figure is explained below.

5. Press BUY

   If your wallet is not connected, the first press connects it and does not trade — the button says BUY 0.01 ETH · CONNECT. Then press it again.

6. Confirm in your wallet

   You get Buy sent · waiting for the block… and the panel waits up to 90 seconds for the receipt.

Selling

The same panel with three differences:

• The presets are percentages of your position — 25 · 50 · 75 · 100 — and MAX means all of it. There is no gas reserve on the token side; you are not spending ETH.
• A sell always needs an approval first, one time, for the exact amount: Approve selling first — one time, exact amount. The Desk never asks for an unlimited approval.
• If you hold nothing you get You do not hold PEPE or Nothing to sell.

The quote line, number by number

The three warnings

Approvals

What happens when it fills

A toast with the amount, the dollar value and a link to the transaction on the block explorer. The button holds ✓ FILLED for a moment, a buy fires a small confetti burst and a haptic tap, and your fill is drawn on the chart as a dashed you bought line for twelve seconds. Selling gets the same toast in reverse — +0.0431 ETH for 12.4K CASHCAT — without the confetti.

Your position strip, your bag and your PnL all refresh a few seconds later.

When it does not fill

"refused:" — the checks that run before your wallet opens

Every transaction The Desk builds is decoded and verified against what is on your screen before it is handed to your wallet. Not the server's description of the transaction — the raw calldata itself. If anything disagrees, the flow stops with a refused: message and your wallet is never opened.

Among the things checked on a market swap: that the destination really is the NLYRA router and not some other address; that the chain id is 4663; that the token being bought is the token on screen; that the amount in the calldata matches the amount you typed; that there is a minimum output at all and it is not below what your slippage setting allows; that the fee is not above the published 1 %; that no unexpected referrer is being credited; and that the quote has not expired or been given an unreasonably distant deadline.

⚡ Quick buy from a list row

The bolt at the right of any board row buys 0.01 ETH of that token immediately, at the default slippage, without opening the token page. The chip is labelled with the dollar size so you know what you are spending. It is a convenience for small sizes — for anything you care about, open the token and read the quote first.

5 · Limit orders

Set a price and walk away. Your money never leaves your wallet, placing costs nothing, and the order can only ever execute on the terms you signed.

Placing one

1. Open the LIMIT tab

   In the trade panel, or by pressing and holding the chart at the price you want — the panel opens with that price already filled in.

2. Choose a side

   BUY / below market or SELL / above market. Switching resets the default distance: −20 % for a buy, +50 % for a sell.

3. Set the trigger price

   Type a dollar price, or tap a percentage chip — −10 · −20 · −30 · −50 buying, +25 · +50 · +100 · +200 selling. The two are the same control seen two ways: typing a price updates the percentage and vice versa. The current price is shown next to the label.

4. Set the amount

   Buying, the presets and MAX work exactly as in §4, with the same 0.0002 ETH gas reserve. Selling, the presets are 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 % of your position, defaulting to 50 %.

5. Choose an expiry

   1h · 1d · 7d · 30d, defaulting to 7 days. The exact date and time it lapses is printed next to the label. 30 days is the maximum.

6. Check you receive ≥

   This is the real commitment — the minimum output you are signing for. Buying, its dollar value is computed at your trigger price, not at today's price, because that is the price the order will fill at.

7. Place it

   The button walks through what it needs. See below — there may be one or two preparation transactions the first time, then one signature and no transaction at all.

You get: Order placed · buy below −20% · our keeper watches it.

What actually gets signed, and what gets sent

How a fill happens

An off-chain keeper watches the pool. When it will pay your minimum plus a small margin, the keeper simulates the execution and, if it passes, submits it. The contract then pulls your funds through Permit2 — validating your signature, your deadline and burning the one-time nonce — swaps along the route you signed, takes the fee you signed, and delivers the output to you.

The orders list

Cancelling

Cancelling is on-chain and mandatory — a book entry alone would not stop a signature that already exists.

1. Press ✕ on the order

   You sign a short message identifying the order, and the server hands back the cancel transaction. Nothing in the book has changed yet.

2. Confirm in your wallet

   Cancelling on-chain — confirm in your wallet. The transaction costs about 30,000 gas — roughly $0.001. When the panel says "cancel free" it means there is no protocol fee; you still pay the network.

3. Wait for the receipt

   Only a confirmed transaction closes the order. If you reject the prompt: Cancelled in wallet — your order is still open. It is only cancelled once the chain says so. That sentence is the whole design: the book never lies to you about what the chain believes.

Limits and refusals

Messages you may see: order too small — minimum 0.00085 ETH · expiry too far (max 30d) · too many open orders · duplicate order · Not enough ETH to fund this order · You do not hold PEPE yet.

As with market orders, the typed message is verified field by field against what is on your screen before your wallet is asked to sign it — the spender, the amount, both tokens, the trigger, the expiry, the nonce, the fee, the referrer and the route hash. Anything that disagrees produces a refused: message and no prompt.

6 · Ladder

One deposit, many limit orders spread across a price range. Buy the whole way down, or sell the whole way up, without placing twenty orders by hand.

Placing one

1. Open the LADDER tab and pick a side

   BUY (below market) or SELL (above market).

2. Enter the amount

   The total for the whole ladder. Presets and MAX behave exactly as elsewhere, with the same 0.0002 ETH gas reserve on an ETH-funded buy.

3. Set the range

   Two fields, from and to, each a sign and a percentage. Quick ranges are offered: buying, −2% → −30% (the default), −5% → −50%, −10% → −90%; selling, +2% → +30%, +10% → +100%, +50% → +500%.

4. Choose how many rungs

   A slider from 2 to 40, defaulting to 10. The header updates live: 10 orders · 0.005 ETH each.

5. Choose an expiry

   1d · 7d · 30d, default 7 days.

6. Read the preview, then place it

   One transaction moves the funds into escrow and creates every rung at once. Buying with ETH needs no approval; selling a token, or buying from WETH you already hold, needs one exact-amount approval to the ladder contract first.

You get: Ladder placed · 10 buys −2% → −30% · our keeper fills the rungs.

The preview

How rungs fill

• The keeper works on one rung at a time per ladder — always the nearest unfilled one.
• Each fill pays you directly. The tokens (or ETH) from a filled rung go straight to your wallet; only the unspent deposit stays in escrow.
• Rungs are independent. A ladder that is three-tenths filled has delivered three rungs' worth to you and still holds the other seven.
• Fills appear in the tape attributed to you, not to the contract.

The ladders list

One dot per rung, lit when filled. Tap a dot for that rung's detail: its number, its distance, its price, its size, and either what it filled into (with a link to the transaction) or the word open. The sub-line gives the range, what is left in escrow and the time remaining. A rung filling flashes the card.

Each open ladder also draws its outer envelope — the nearest and farthest open rung — on the chart.

Cancelling

The flow mirrors a limit cancel: sign a short message, get the transaction, confirm it, and only a confirmed receipt closes the ladder. Ladder cancelled — the remainder is back in your wallet. Reject the prompt and you get Cancelled in wallet — your ladder is still open. It is only cancelled once the chain says so.

After expiry the same button serves as the refund — and, as with every escrow on The Desk, the expiry refund can also be triggered by anyone and still pays only you.

Limits, and one thing to know

Other validation messages: Give the range a from and a to. · A buy ladder must reach below the market. · You hold 1.2M CASHCAT — less than this ladder sells. · You need 0.05 ETH to fund this ladder.

7 · Martingale

Buy a first amount, then buy bigger every time the price drops a step, then sell the whole position once it is up by your target over the average cost.

Martingale is listed in the bots hub but it runs from the trade panel: open a token and pick the MARTINGALE tab. It is long-only in this version — the SELL side is present but disabled, marked v1: long only.

Setting one up

The percentage chips and the free-text fields are two views of one value — tap a chip and the field updates, type in the field and the chips un-press.

The simulation

The panel paints its own estimate immediately (badged estimate) and replaces it with the server's simulation a moment later.

The header line above the slider says the same thing in words: 5 buys · entry + 4 dips · to −17.7 %.

Starting it, and how it runs

1. Press START MARTINGALE

   One transaction moves the entire budget into the martingale escrow. No approval is needed — it is plain ETH sent with the transaction. As with everything else, the calldata is verified against your settings first: the base, the multiplier, the step, the take-profit, the level count, the auto-restart flag and the stop loss all have to match, or it is refused.

2. Level 0 buys at market

   On the keeper's first pass, with 3 % slippage allowed.

3. Each further level waits for its price

   And this is enforced by the contract, not by the keeper: level k can only execute at or below the previous fill's price divided by (1 + step). The keeper cannot trigger a level early.

4. Take-profit sells the lot

   The keeper quotes the whole position each pass. When it fetches at least what was spent plus your target, it sells everything and pays you in native ETH. The target is fixed in the contract at creation.

5. With auto-restart, it goes again

   The level counter resets and the cycle continues on the unused budget, provided at least one more base-sized buy fits. Without it, the cycle closes and the remainder comes back.

Reading the cycle card

Ending a cycle

Five things can end it, and you control three of them.

Limits

8 · Bots

Strategies that keep trading while you are not looking. Your money sits in an escrow contract that only your wallet can empty — never with us.

/desk/bots · three tabs: My bots · Create · Leaderboard.

Creating a bot

1. Open Create and pick a strategy

   Six cards, each with what it does and what it is best for. A card marked Soon is not live yet.

2. Pick a token

   Search by symbol or name, or paste an address. The list is sorted by liquidity and dead tokens are filtered out. Arriving from a token page pre-selects it.

3. Set the amount

   Chips give you 0.1 / 0.25 / 0.5 / 1 ETH, and MAX leaves 0.002 ETH behind for gas. The hint under the field tells you the dollar size and, for grids, that half is kept in ETH and half is bought at the start.

4. Leave AUTO on, or set the parameters yourself

   ⚡ Auto · 7d vol reads the token's 7-day volatility and picks the range and spacing for you. Typing in any strategy field switches it to Manual. See below.

5. Read the preview — and the rejection if there is one

   The preview backtests the configuration and shows the net profit per grid, the estimated return and the price impact. If the configuration cannot be profitable, the CREATE button stays disabled and a red box tells you why.

6. Decide whether it is public

   Make public · leaderboard — listed right away · copiers make you their referrer (30 % of fees). A private bot never appears anywhere.

7. Create it

   One transaction. Before your wallet opens, the transaction is pinned to the right contract on the right chain with readable calldata and a quote that has not expired. The button walks through PREPARING… → SIGN IN WALLET… → WAITING FOR THE BLOCK…, and you land on the bot's detail page.

The six strategies

AUTO mode

The ⚡ Auto · 7d vol toggle is on by default for both grids. With it on, the range and spacing fields are left blank and the server derives them from the token's own history. It writes the numbers it chose back into the form, so you always see what it decided.

Typing in any strategy field — or switching geo/arith — flips the toggle to Manual and your numbers are used from then on. AUTO is not offered for DCA or TWAP, where the fields are the strategy, and it is never used on a copied bot.

The preview, number by number

The preview redraws about half a second after any change. It plots your levels over real candles and shows six tiles.

Under the tiles you get the per-level size in ETH and dollars, and how many sell levels will be seeded at the start. Under the parameter fields there is a live line: Profit per grid 7.28 % gross · net ≈ +3.05 % after 1 % fee each leg.

The backtest

The profitability guard

A bot that cannot be profitable cannot be created. This is not a warning you can click through — the preview returns a rejection, the CREATE button stays disabled, and the server refuses to build the transaction at all.

The rejection tells you how to fix it, with the exact maximum for your range:

Where the preview can suggest a fix it offers an inline Fix it → button that switches to Manual and applies it.

Stop loss and take profit

Both sell the entire position and close the bot. Neither is a partial exit.

Add funds

An open v3 Spot Grid or Infinity Grid can take more ETH without being restarted. Older bots cannot — the button is disabled with the note this bot was created before top-up existed — open a new bot with the extra amount.

1. Press Add funds

   On the bot's detail page, next to Stop.

2. Choose an amount

   Chips are 0.01 / 0.05 / 0.1 ETH, or type your own. The minimum is 0.0017 ETH; below it the sheet says Too small — add at least 0.0017 ETH — half of it is bought at market.

3. Read the split estimate

   It updates as you type: 0.05 ETH → 0.025 ETH market buy ≈ 210 CASHCAT · 0.025 ETH for 3 buy rungs below (was 2).

4. Sign and send

   One signature plus one transaction. Before sending, the client checks the transaction goes to this bot's contract and that the value matches what you typed to nine decimal places.

The bot detail page

The five tiles

The two charts

The PnL curve plots total PnL as an area with grid profit and floating PnL as lines, from a snapshot taken every five minutes. Until there are two points it says the PnL curve starts with the first fill.

The grid chart draws candles since the bot was created with every level on it: solid and labelled when a level is armed, dotted grey when it has already filled. Your floor, stop, take-profit and the current price are all marked. Fills appear as arrows on the candles — green up-arrows for buys, red down-arrows for sells, with the amount, collapsing to ×3 when several land on the same bar. Scroll or pinch to zoom, drag to pan, double-click to reset, and the ⤢ button expands the chart to full width — a choice remembered on your device. Your zoom survives a refresh.

The fills list

Nine columns: Side · Level · Price · Amount · Value · Fee · Pair profit · Tx · Age. Eight rows show at first with a Show 20 more button under them.

The header explains the accounting in one line: profit booked when a buy closes against its sell.

Stopping a bot

Before you choose, the panel shows exactly what is in the escrow, what the token is worth now, the grid profit already locked, what the floating PnL would become if sold, and the fee and slippage a sale would cost.

Either way it is one signature plus one transaction from your wallet, and the contract refuses if the keeper is mid-fill. Both modes work while the contract is paused and after expiry. Your bot shows as stopped within a few seconds.

The leaderboard and copying

The Leaderboard tab lists public bots that are in profit, ranked by return, over 7 or 30 days. A losing bot never appears. A private bot never appears. Each row shows the creator, the strategy and token, how many copies it has, and its APR.

What copying does

1. Press Copy

   You land on a create screen in copy mode. Every strategy field is hidden and there are no level lines on the chart — the preview header just says 24 levels · strategy hidden.

2. Choose your own amount and duration

   Those are the only inputs: the amount, and Runs for — 7, 14 or 30 days. The card shows the source bot's PnL, runtime and fill count so you can judge it.

3. Create it

   The strategy is cloned server-side, scaled to your amount and re-based to today's price — every level, floor, stop and target is shifted by how far the price has moved since the original was created. It runs in your own escrow, from your own wallet.

What bots cost

A practical floor: an Infinity Grid with a 4 % step needs roughly 0.025 ETH before the per-step size clears the minimum fill.

Reading the hub

Status chips on each bot: Running Out of range Stop loss Take profit Expired Paused Pending Closed. Filters let you see Active, Closed or All — stopped bots stay with their final PnL so the history counts.

A small tag at the top says whether the keeper is alive (keeper ok · 1.4s) or not (keeper offline). If it is offline, no bot is filling anything.

9 · Predict

One question — is Bitcoin higher at the end of this five-minute window than at the start — offered through two completely different pools. /desk/predict

Two pools, one bet

The pool switcher sits at the top of the page. The Polymarket tab labels itself with the live depth of the current window — that number is the entire reason the pool exists.

The NLYRA pool, step by step

1. Find the NEXT card

   The carousel holds up to seven cards: the last four settled rounds, the one running now, the one open for bets, and the one after that. Badges are EXPIRED, LIVE, NEXT, LATER. Only the NEXT card takes bets. The page centres it for you when it loads.

2. Press UP or DOWN

   The card flips to a ticket. If you press with under 5 seconds to lock you get told to take the next window instead.

3. Type an amount

   Chips give you 0.001 · 0.005 · 0.01 · 0.05 · MAX, and the ticket opens pre-filled at 0.005 ETH. MAX leaves 0.0006 ETH behind for gas.

4. Read the payout preview

   It reads If UP wins you collect 0.0121 ETH — 2.42× at this pool size. That figure already includes your own money in the pool, which is more honest than showing you the multiplier from before you bet. It is still not the number you will be paid — see the warning below.

5. Confirm and sign

   The button walks through PREPARING… → SIGN IN WALLET…. Before your wallet ever opens, the transaction is checked: the right contract, chain 4663, readable calldata, and a wei value that matches the string you typed to the last digit. Anything off and it is refused with no prompt.

6. Wait for the round

   Your entry shows immediately as confirming… and the other side is greyed out — one side per wallet per round. At lock the round takes its price and stops accepting entries; five minutes later it closes.

7. Claim

   Nothing is paid automatically. When the round settles the card grows a CLAIM 0.0031 ETH button, and the "Your record" panel gets a claim-all. One transaction can settle up to 128 rounds at once.

Round timing, exactly

The three prices — and why that matters

Predict deliberately keeps three separate BTC numbers apart, and confusing them is the fastest way to misread the screen.

The chip in the header says which is which — live: Binance · settles: PredictOracle (Chainlink-bounded) — and turns amber when the exchange socket drops, with the note that settlement is unaffected.

Why there is an oracle at all, and what stops it lying

Chainlink's BTC/USD feed on Robinhood Chain republishes on a 0.5 % move or a 24-hour heartbeat. Measured on-chain, the median gap between updates is about 2.6 hours. Settling a five-minute round straight off it would print the same price at lock and at close nearly every time — every round a draw. So a keeper-fed oracle supplies the granularity.

Chainlink is not bypassed; it is the fence. Publishing to the oracle runs this check on-chain, and reverts if it fails:

• The pushed price must be within 10 % of the live Chainlink answer or the transaction fails. The keeper cannot print a number; it can only fill in detail inside a band Chainlink vouches for.
• If Chainlink itself is down, the push reverts too — there is no "anchor unavailable, publish anyway" path.
• The oracle round id must strictly advance. Re-serving the same reading does not count as fresh, and the round is cancelled rather than settled twice on one number.
• The keeper refuses to post at all unless at least two of its three exchange feeds are fresh. It will not settle a round on a single source.

The fee and the payout, exactly

A worked example

Minimums and maximums

Draws, refunds and cancelled rounds

Two things can happen that are neither a win nor a loss, and the page never renders either of them as a loss.

A round is cancelled when: the oracle was stale at lock or at close; the oracle's round id did not advance; the keeper missed its 30-second lock or close window; a round was never locked; or the contract was paused with a round open. Each cancel is recorded on-chain with its reason.

What every number on the screen means

The chart shows a 30-minute window (20 on a narrow phone) with each round drawn as a band, coloured green or red by its outcome and grey when void. The leaderboard tab ranks by PnL or by streak over 24 hours or 7 days, with a flame on anyone running three or more wins.

The Polymarket pool

This surface trades Polymarket's own book. Your counterparty, the price and the settlement are theirs. The Desk stamps its builder code on the order so the routing is attributed to it, and that is the whole of our involvement.

1. Fund a Polygon wallet with pUSD

   This pool settles in pUSD on Polygon — not USDC.e, and not the ETH the NLYRA pool uses. You deposit it on Polymarket or bridge to Polygon; The Desk has no deposit flow and never takes custody. The page checks your balance and your two approvals (pUSD for the exchange, and your outcome tokens) and shows you exactly which step is missing.

2. Pick a window

   Up to four five-minute windows are shown, the first badged NOW. Each card shows the price of each side in cents — 61¢ / 40¢ — with the implied multiplier under it, the depth in the book, and the 24-hour volume.

3. Press UP or DOWN and enter an amount

   Chips are $5 · $10 · $25 · $100. The minimum is 5 pUSD and prices move in 1¢ ticks. The preview tells you how many shares you get and reminds you they are worth $0 if you are wrong.

4. Sign twice

   Your wallet is switched to Polygon. You sign the order itself, and once per session you sign to mint your own Polymarket API key. Those credentials live in your browser only and never touch a Desk server. The order goes straight from your browser to Polymarket.

   Three checks run before any signature: the order must be for chain 137, must be signed by your address, and must carry the builder code we advertised.

5. Collect on Polymarket

   A winning share is worth $1 once the market resolves, but the payout is claimed from the contract on Polygon. There is no redeem button here — Polymarket's own site does it for you and is the easiest place to collect.

Messages you may see

10 · MY BAG & how PnL is calculated

The board of things you own answers a different question from the board of things that exist, so it shows different numbers.

Opening it

1. Connect your wallet

   Without one there is nothing to show, and the filter is not remembered across sessions when no wallet is connected — a saved preference must not open an empty board.

2. Press MY BAG on the market board's filter rail

   The board switches to your holdings and the sort jumps automatically to VALUE, largest first. Leaving MY BAG puts the sort back to VOL.

What appears: every token your wallet holds. That includes tokens on no board at all — they are fetched individually so you get a real row rather than a bare address.

What the row shows

On desktop the same four figures replace MC / LIQ / VOL / BUY PRESSURE in the table, as VALUE · AVG COST · UNREALIZED $ · UNREALIZED % — on the board of things you own, the four numbers that matter are yours. Each of them is also a sort.

How PnL is actually computed

This matters more than it looks, because it is the difference between a number you can trust and a number that flatters you.

The totals strip

Above the rows, only on the market board with MY BAG on and something in the bag:

The dust filter

A position worth less than $0.50 is dust. Dust is hidden by default — otherwise a wallet that has touched fifty tokens shows fifty rows of nothing.

• The button reads show dust · 4 under $0.5 when hidden, and hide dust when shown. It only appears when you actually have dust.
• The setting is remembered.
• The toggle governs rows, not totals. OPEN POSITIONS and UNREALIZED always count every position, dust included, so the totals do not jump when you press it.

Empty states

Both offer a link to open my account.

11 · Leaders

Five rankings, three windows, and one rule that makes the whole thing honest: only what happened through The Desk counts.

/desk/leaders · no wallet needed to look, no signature required. Connect one and your own row appears at the bottom.

The five boards

Windows: 24H · 7D (default) · 30D. The board calls them today, this week, this month in prose. Both the tab and the window are written into the URL, so any view you are looking at is a link you can send.

Reading a row

Rank · avatar · handle (or a shortened address) · the address with a copy button · a sub-line · the ranking value · a second figure · a trend arrow. With three or more entries the top three are lifted into a podium, laid out 2 · 1 · 3 with the winner raised in the middle.

Your row

With a wallet connected, a highlighted row is pinned for you. If you are ranked it shows your place with a #. If you are not, it says exactly why rather than leaving you guessing:

The counting rules

These are printed under each board, and they are the whole reason the numbers mean anything:

• Only trades made through The Desk count — market, limit, ladder and bots. Trades you made elsewhere on the chain are invisible here. This board is not a chain-wide ranking and does not pretend to be.
• A sell without a known entry is not booked as profit. That is the anti-inflation rule: buy somewhere else, sell through us, and the sale does not become a 100 % win. Only wallets with a closed trade rank on PNL at all.
• Escrow fills count for the maker, never for the contract. A ladder or bot contract can never appear on the board with everybody's fills credited to it.
• Referrer fees are the referrer's 30 % share of every fee a referred trader paid through the router inside the window.
• Bots: public and in profit only. A private bot never appears, and a public bot with negative PnL does not appear either. Copying a public bot clones the strategy into your own escrow and pays its creator 30 % of your swap fees.
• Everything is counted from Aug 21, 2026, the day the index started.

Sharing

The SHARE button uses your device's share sheet where there is one, and copies to the clipboard otherwise. Ranked, it produces I'm #7 on The Desk leaderboard (most trades, this week) → nlyra.xyz/desk/leaders.

12 · Alerts, the wallet sheet, and rap sheets

Three ways to keep watching something without having the tab open.

Alerts

Open the 🔔 on any token page, or the alerts section of your account. Three kinds:

Price alert

1. Open the bell on the token

   The token and its current price are filled in for you.

2. Set Above, Below, or both

   Both are USD prices. Quick buttons give you +100% and +50% for the upper bound, −25% and −50% for the lower. You must set at least one, or it refuses with Give it a price to watch for.

3. Save

   Alert saved. Without a wallet connected it saves on the device only: Alert saved on this device — connect to get it delivered.

Checked every 20 seconds against the market snapshot. Tokens that are not on the board are checked against an external price source instead.

Launch alert

Pick which verdicts you care about — SAFE, CAUTION, DANGER, with safe and caution pre-selected — and a minimum liquidity, with quick buttons at $1K, $5K and $25K. Selecting all three verdicts means "no verdict filter".

Wallet alert

Pick one of the wallets you already follow, or paste an address. Adding a wallet alert follows that wallet too.

Where alerts arrive

The wallet sheet

Tap the wallet on any row of the tape. This is the rap sheet for one wallet on one token.

Three buttons: ONLY THIS WALLET ON THE TAPE (pins the tape to them — costs no request, since it is a view of what you already have), FOLLOW, and EXPLORER ↗. The full address is a copy button.

Rap sheets

Two different things wear that name, and they answer different questions.

13 · Fees & economics

One fee, taken at one moment, at one rate. Everything else is the chain's price, not ours.

What The Desk charges

What the chain and the pool charge

Minimums

The referral share

30 % of every fee a referred trader pays goes to their referrer, and the other 70 % to the treasury. It is credited by the fee router itself, in the asset the fee was taken in, and claimable by the referrer at any time.

Hook-fee pools

Some V4 pools attach a "hook" — extra code that runs inside the swap and can keep part of the output. Measured on this chain, one such hook takes 2 % of every swap while its own published figure says 1 %.

The fee cannot move under you

• The 1 % ceiling is hard-coded in the page. Any transaction carrying a higher fee is refused before your wallet opens, whatever the server says.
• The router refuses anything below 0.9 % too, so nobody can use it for free at everyone else's expense.
• A bot's fee rate is written into its record when it is created. A later change to the default does not reach a bot that is already running.
• Limit orders carry their fee inside the signature. The rate you signed is the rate that gets charged.

14 · Security & self-custody

Three different custody shapes live on The Desk. Knowing which one you are in tells you exactly what could go wrong and exactly how you get your money back.

Where your money actually is

The withdrawal guarantee

Every escrow contract on The Desk exposes a function that does one thing: send everything in this record back to the wallet that owns it, right now, without selling anything. Four properties of that function are what the guarantee rests on, and all four were verified by direct on-chain calls on mainnet with no Desk API in the path:

• It needs only the bot id. No route bytes, no quote, no signature from us. Grids and DCA take route = 0x and minOut = 0 because the route is only read inside the sellAll branch — and you pass sellAll = false.
• It is maker-only. The contract compares msg.sender against the maker address recorded when the bot was created. Nobody can change that address, including us. Anyone else calling it reverts with NotMaker.
• Pause does not block it. None of the withdrawal functions carry whenNotPaused. The pause switch stops the keeper's trading entries, nothing else.
• Expiry does not block it, and expiry never forfeits anything. The withdrawal functions do not look at the date at all. After expiry a second path opens: refundExpired(id), callable by anybody — and it still pays the maker, never the caller. Someone else can push your funds home for you and cannot divert them.

What the operator can and cannot do

What the keeper can and cannot do

The keeper is the off-chain process that executes your bots. It runs on its own key (0x96D0B800…59246c) and it is not the owner of anything. Its entire power is "call the execute function on a record that already exists". Everything about what that execution is allowed to do is enforced by the contract:

• It cannot sell a grid level at a loss. The profitable spacing is checked on-chain per level; a keeper transaction that would breach it reverts.
• It cannot pick its own route on a limit order. The route is committed inside the order you signed as bytes32 routeHash, and execute() reverts with BadRouteHash if the submitted route does not hash to it. Before this was added, a keeper could route your fill through a pool of its own and keep whatever landed above your minAmountOut. It can't now.
• It cannot beat your minimum. Every output is measured as the balance delta of the destination and compared to minAmountOut — not taken from what the pool claims to have returned. Fee-on-transfer tokens, rebasing tokens and hooks that skim part of the output are all caught by that check.
• It cannot route you through an arbitrary V4 hook. A hook is attacker code running inside the router's unlock with the deltas open, so key.hooks must be address(0) or explicitly allowlisted.
• It cannot make the router free for itself. The router enforces minFeeBps = 90 and reverts FeeTooLow() below it, and the referrer comes from the on-chain first-touch record, not from a parameter the caller chooses.
• It cannot take custody. It never holds your funds at any point.

Bounced ETH

Every contract forwards ETH with a 30,000-gas stipend. If your wallet is a smart-contract wallet with an expensive receive(), the payment does not fail and the money is not lost — it is credited to pendingEth[you]. Read it with pendingEth(<your address>) and collect it with withdrawEth() (no arguments) on the same contract.

Honest limits

• The contracts have not been audited by a third party. They are verified and readable on Blockscout, and every withdrawal path in the rescue guide has been tested with real money on mainnet, but "no bug found" is never "no bug".
• None of this protects the value of your position. A grid that bought all the way down hands you back exactly that: a losing position. Self-custody is a guarantee about access, not about price.
• A hostile token can still hurt you. Transfer taxes, blacklists and mint switches live in the token contract, which The Desk does not control. The SAFE verdict on the token page flags what is detectable; it is a filter, not a promise.
• Your keys are final. The maker address is permanent. Lose the wallet, lose the bot — there is no recovery path and we cannot build one.

15 · FAQ & troubleshooting

The things that actually go wrong, and what each one means.

Wallet and network

Trading

Bots

Predict

The screen

Money and safety

That is the whole product

Nothing above is aspirational. Every number, threshold and message on this page was taken from the code that is running.

If something here does not match what you see on screen, the screen is right and this page is out of date — tell us. If something here is a limitation you did not know about, that is exactly why it is written down.