Own the layer where research becomes a decision
Robinhood put equities on-chain and then made it a chain. The venues arrived. The terminal never did. PAWS is the research layer for tokenized equities — a twelve-seat agent desk that argues to a verdict, and a one-click ticket that turns the verdict into a position.
The layer above the venue is empty
We spent weeks mapping the stack before writing a line of code. The settlement layer is built. The venue layer already has serious players. Above them, nothing: no terminal, no research tooling, no native charting or filings or sentiment for tokenized equities. Traders were bridging assets in one tab and reading news in another.
Terminal
Charting · analytics · options data · filings · sentiment · execution
Venue
Rialto — spot execution · Ostium — perpetuals, long and short
Settlement
Robinhood Chain — Arbitrum Orbit L2 · USDG · open routing
“Bloomberg outlived every exchange it connected to.”
Own the layer where research becomes a decision. Let the settlement layer commoditize underneath you.
Research has to end in a position
We tested the obvious approach — one model summarizing a stock — and the failure mode was consistent: fluent text, no accountable numbers, hallucinated levels. So we built a floor instead. Twelve seats, real rebuttal rounds, and a PM that has to commit. Every seat cites its feeds and the agents are open source, because a research product you can't audit is a horoscope.
Tape
Trend structure, pivots, moving averages, ATR, volume profile.
Sentiment
Crowd positioning, mention velocity, attention vs. baseline.
News
Catalyst mapping, headline decay, event windows.
Fundamentals
Filings, insider transactions, ownership, analyst dispersion.
Regime
Classifies the tape: trend structure, VIX, realized vol.
Projection
21-day cone p05→p95, VaR and CVaR from the realized distribution.
Bull
Builds the long case, then defends it against named rebuttals.
Bear
Attacks specific claims, not the conclusion. Rounds are logged.
Safe
Reprices the setup at the tightest budget. Stop inside 1σ.
Neutral
Reprices the same setup at the middle budget.
Risky
Widest budget. Stops stay in daily sigma, never in round percentages.
Portfolio manager
Commits: direction, entry, stop, target, and a probability-weighted scenario tree.
The risk seats do not vote on direction. They take the same setup and reprice it — safe, neutral, risky — with stops quoted in daily sigma rather than round percentages, because a 5% stop means something different on a 30-vol name than on a 110-vol one. Switch the budget and every number on the plan moves with it.
Token count and latency ship with the output. If a seat cannot say what it read and what it cost, it is not research.
Stop at 1.4σ clears the pivot by 0.3σ. Earnings land inside the 21-day window, so size is cut before direction is: the tail this plan is exposed to is a gap, not a drift.
- Round 01Bull
Reclaim of the 20-day with expanding volume and RS positive against SPY over 10 sessions. Continuation setup.
- Round 01Bear
Rejecting the RS claim: the outperformance is two sessions of gap, not drift. Strip them and RS is flat.
- Round 02Bull
Conceded on RS. Holding the volume claim — accumulation persists on the down days, which the gap argument does not explain.
- Round 02Bear
Earnings land inside the 21-day window. Any continuation thesis is a bet on an event nobody at this desk has modelled.
- ResolutionRisk
Repriced at three budgets. Event risk inside the horizon caps size before it caps direction — stop at 1.4σ daily.
- VerdictPM
Long, reduced size, stop below the pivot at 1.4σ. Scenario tree anchored to the cone; EV direction-adjusted.
The desk argues against numbers, not vibes
Before any seat speaks, the context is computed: regime classification from trend structure, VIX and realized vol; a confluence score across the signal set with conflicts flagged explicitly rather than averaged away; cross-asset relative strength against SPY; and a 21-day projection cone with VaR and CVaR taken from the realized distribution. The scenario tree is anchored to those cone bands and the EV is direction-adjusted — which sounds pedantic until you count how many implementations flip the sign on a short setup.
On a short setup the identical tree returns −1.11%. Implementations that forget the flip report a positive edge on every side of every trade.
One click from the verdict
Research that ends in a summary is a newsletter. The second target we set was that execution had to be real and non-custodial: spot on Rialto, perpetuals long and short on Ostium, and the desk's levels drawn directly on the chart with the ticket one click from the verdict.
Keys never leave the wallet. Every order is signed by you; PAWS never holds funds and never needs to.
Buy and sell the tokenized stock itself, gas-free, settled in USDG on the Robinhood chain.
Long and short with leverage. Market, limit and stop, isolated margin, up to 100×.
The desk's levels draw on the chart and prefill the ticket. Verdict to position is one click — that is the entire thesis, made physical.
The token comes later and it is deliberately boring
The desk runs on credits, credits are bought with the token, and spent tokens burn — so supply reduction is a linear function of research demand and nothing else. No emissions schedule to reverse-engineer, no rented incentives, no second mechanism doing the real work behind the first.
- 01PAWS token
- Powers research runs · linked to USD prices02Agent credits
- Every run fully burnt03Burnt
- FeesSpots / perps
- Deepen LPLiquidity grows with vol
- Buy PAWS tokens→ Burnt
- Buy stocks→ AirdropOnchain buybacks
Execution fees split three ways. Part deepens the token's liquidity pool, so depth scales with volume instead of with rented incentives. Part market-buys the token and burns it. Part market-buys tokenized stocks that are airdropped to allocation spots users earn through activity — real equities, on the same chain, funded by fees those users generated.
Claim a seat at the desk
PAWS Beta is invite-gated. Connect a wallet and sign one message to hold a position in the queue — no transaction, no approval, no funds moved. The signature only proves the wallet is yours; the same wallet later carries your profile, your groups and the allocation spots you earn through activity.
- 01ConnectInjected, mobile or hardware. Non-custodial throughout.
- 02SignA plain-text message. Gasless, and it authorises nothing.
- 03Hold your seatQueue position is derived from your address, so it is stable.
Connect the wallet you intend to trade with — your seat, profile and allocation spots are attached to it.
Trading is social or it is lonely churn
The retention data on social trading products is not subtle, so we built for it from the start rather than bolting it on later. A feed of what your people are trading and what they are arguing about — with identity that costs something to fake.
Your record is your address. Positions, verdicts taken, verdicts ignored — attached to something you cannot rent.
Verification you actually have to prove, not a checkbox. Impersonation is the first thing that kills a trading feed.
Closed rooms with their own tape. Share a verdict, argue the seats, watch who was right.