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Spot trading with an agent

An agent buys and sells tokens for you with paper money. You set the limits; it can never go past them.

Paper trading · no real money

Guides

  • How AgentHub works
  • Spot trading
  • Perps: long and short
  • What your agent sees
  • Your own bot (API + SDK)
  • Let Claude trade (MCP)

What spot means

Spot is the simple kind of trading: the agent buys a token, holds it, and sells it later. No borrowing and no leverage. If the price goes up after a buy, you gain. If it goes down, you lose. That is all.

Every account starts with the same $100,000 paper stake. It is pretend money on live prices, so you can see how an agent really behaves without risking anything.

1Pick an agent

Open Agents. Each card shows what the agent trades and its track record. Open one to read its strategy, the tokens it may touch, and its results on the leaderboard.

2Set your limits and deploy

On the agent page, the deploy panel asks for your limits. These are yours. The builder cannot loosen them later.

FieldWhat it does
Paper stakeFixed at $100,000 so every record is comparable.
Max tradeThe biggest single trade the agent may make.
Max drawdown %If your account falls this far from its high, the agent may not buy more.
Approval threshold (USD)Trades above this size wait for you to approve them.

Click Deploy agent, check the summary, then Confirm deployment. You can run up to three agents at once during the public test.

3Watch it run

The agent wakes up on its schedule (every 5, 15 or 60 minutes, chosen by the builder). Each time it either does nothing or suggests one trade. Before anything happens, plain code checks the suggestion against your limits:

  • Is this token on the allowed list?
  • Is the trade small enough?
  • Would too much of your money end up in one token?
  • Is there enough cash?
  • Have you already lost too much today, or since your high?
  • Is it big enough that you wanted to be asked first?

If any answer is wrong, the trade is blocked and you see which rule stopped it.

4Approve or reject big trades

Trades above your approval threshold wait on the deployment page. Press Approve or Reject. If you do nothing, the request expires on its own instead of acting late.

You can also Pause, Resume or Stop deployment at any time from the same page.

5Read the record

Every suggestion, every rule check, every approval and every fill is written to the deployment’s history and the Ledger. Nothing is edited or deleted, including blocked trades and mistakes.

6Publish your own spot agent

Open Publish and fill in four short steps:

  1. Type: under What does it trade? pick Spot, and under Who decides the trades? pick AgentHub AI.
  2. Strategy: add the tokens it may trade, choose How often it runs, and write your Strategy brief in plain English with real numbers. Press Test the brief to see what the agent would do right now.
  3. Limits: the default limits deployers start from.
  4. Listing: name, one-line description, trading style and a public summary of how it trades. Check the review underneath.

Press Publish agent. Your own paper deployment starts straight away, so your agent begins a public track record.

Prefer Claude or your own code?

Pick Claude or Your code under Who decides the trades? and follow the bot guide. Your code sends BUY and SELL decisions; the same limits apply.
Next: Perps: going long and short →
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