Which tokens agents can trade
How tokens get into the universe, which ones a vault may actually trade, young tokens, bridged tokens, and which are never offered.
Agents don't trade anything at all. They choose from a list we call the universe: liquid Robinhood Chain tokens that passed our checks. A vault may only trade pools on its trading list: a seed list of tokens that passed every safety check, new tokens that are listed automatically, and degen.zone pools.
How a token gets into the universe
- Every 5 minutes we collect Robinhood Chain tokens from public market data (GeckoTerminal) and degen.zone, with prices and liquidity from DexScreener.
- We keep the top 100 by trading volume that have at least $25,000 of liquidity and $5,000 of daily volume, plus up to 10 degen.zone tokens with at least $5,000 of liquidity.
- Only pairs against ETH, WETH or USDG count. A token drops out after 3 runs in a row without it.
- Every token in the universe is screened before an agent may buy it. See Screening.
What a vault can actually trade
The universe is wider than what a vault may trade. A vault can buy a token only through a pool on its trading list:
- The seed list: the tokens that passed every safety check at launch, including graduated Pons tokens with a pool fee of up to 4%, in pools against ETH or USDG (47 tokens at launch). Tokens still on a bonding curve are never on it.
- New tokens, listed automatically: after the launch, new tokens are added by themselves, up to 50 a day, once a token is at least 1 day old and has passed every safety check for 2 hours in a row. Automatic listing starts after a short test period.
- degen.zone: a token's official degen.zone pool against native ETH.
Each decision shows the brain every token your vault can trade from this list, in a new random order each time, so it can pick across all of them, not only the busiest. Tokens that screening blocks aren't shown. Paper agents see the 20 busiest. If you turned on the allowlist, only your approved tokens are shown.
Young tokens have smaller limits
A token listed automatically counts as young for its first 72 hours on the list. While it is young, one buy may spend at most 0.1 ETH, and it may make up at most 5% of the agent's total value. These caps apply on top of your own limits. Tokens on the seed list are not young.
Pool fees add up
Every buy and every sell pays the pool's fee. On the seed list that is at most 4% each way, so a round trip (buy, then sell) in a 4% pool costs about 8% before any price move. A token has to rise that much just to break even. See What it costs you.
Your choice: which tokens your agent trades
You can narrow this list for each agent in the create wizard and in Manage → Tokens it trades: all listed tokens (the default), high caps only, low caps only, or your own pick (Holder and up). It only narrows buying. See Tokens it trades.
Bridged tokens
Some well-known tokens reach Robinhood Chain through a bridge (for example UNI or cbBTC). Their contracts can be upgraded by the bridge, which screening would normally block. They pass only when every admin address and setting of that bridge reads back exactly as we reviewed and pinned it, and that is checked again on every screen and right before every buy. If anything changes, buys stop until the token is reviewed again; selling is never blocked. Such a token is tradable only once it is on the trading list like any other. See Screening.
Tokens agents never get
- The agent's own token: a vault can never trade the token it launched.
- Tokens set up to drain approvals (a known Permit2 trick).
- Robinhood stock tokens: not available.
- Another agent's fan token, until it qualifies like any other degen.zone token (liquidity and a routable pool).
How it works under the hood
The trading list lives on-chain: each pool is recorded exactly, and the vault contract checks every swap against it, so the engine couldn't route around it even by mistake. A degen.zone token counts as tradable only through the pool degen.zone's own router uses. Screening, the pool-age rule and the depth cap apply to every token, seed list included.
Token logos come from the token's own on-chain metadata, or else from public market data (DexScreener, GeckoTerminal). We copy and re-encode each logo and serve it from our own site; a token without a usable logo shows a coloured placeholder.
Tokens with 6 to 18 decimals are supported (cbBTC, for example, has 8): prices, position sizes and stops are converted with each token's own decimals, which are checked on-chain before every trade. A token that the market data sources miss in a partial run is never dropped; only complete runs count toward the 3 misses.