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Your Halyrd agent spends its default phase paper-trading against live market data, accumulating a verifiable track record before a single real token changes hands. When you’re satisfied with what you see, you make the call to go live — Halyrd never promotes automatically. This guide walks you through reading the eligibility signal, reviewing the track record, and confirming the switch to real capital on BSC.

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Before you promote

Promotion is always a deliberate, manual decision. The evaluation system produces an ELIGIBLE signal as advisory evidence; it is not a hard gate. You can promote before ELIGIBLE if you choose, but it’s worth spending a few minutes with the numbers first.
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Check evaluation status
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Open the Dashboard (/) or Settings (/settings). Look at the status badge in the header:
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  • PAPER — the agent is still building its track record
  • ELIGIBLE — the agent has met all three evaluation criteria: positive expectancy after fees, the minimum trade floor of closed trades, and no max-drawdown breach over the evaluation window. The badge turns green with the label “Ready for live — your call”
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    Below the equity curve, check the objective progress bars:
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    BarWhat it tells youProfitabilityWhether the agent has achieved positive expectancy after feesTrade floorWhether there are enough closed trades for expectancy to be statistically meaningfulMax drawdownHow much headroom remains before the hard ceilingDaily drawdownToday’s remaining risk budget
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    All three eligibility bars must be in the green before the ELIGIBLE badge appears.
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    Review the track record
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    Navigate to Trades (/trades) and Journal (/journal) to read the full history before committing real capital.
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    In the trades table, pay attention to:
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  • Win rate and the ratio of average win to average loss
  • Expectancy — does each trade earn more than it costs in fees and slippage on average?
  • Drawdown from peak — how far did equity fall at its worst point, and did it recover?
  • The phase column — every row is tagged PAPER so you know you’re reading simulated fills against real market prices
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    In the journal, every trade and every skip has a plain-English explanation. A healthy journal shows the agent passing up low-edge setups (“Skipped CAKE entry: expected edge 0.4% < 3× cost 0.6%”) as often as it trades. That selectivity is a feature, not a bug.
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    Open Settings → Promote to live
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    Go to Settings (/settings) and click the Promote to live button.
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    A confirmation modal appears with the prompt: “Switch to real capital on BSC.” This is your last checkpoint before real funds are at risk.
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    Promoting to live means your agent will execute real transactions on BSC mainnet using real capital. Only promote when you are genuinely satisfied with the paper track record. Review the equity curve, drawdown behaviour, and journal entries before confirming. If you have any doubts, keep the agent in paper mode and continue observing.
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    Confirm promotion
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    Click Confirm in the modal. The following happens immediately:
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  • The agent switches from paper simulation to live execution
  • The status badge updates from PAPER (or ELIGIBLE) to LIVE (solid green)
  • A promotion marker — a vertical line with a label — appears on the equity chart at the exact moment of transition, separating the paper history from the live history
  • The first real BSC transaction hash appears in the journal, linked to bsctrace
  • Both the Risk Engine and TWAK guardrails remain fully active throughout live trading
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    From this point, all fills are real swaps on BSC mainnet via Trust Wallet Agent Kit. Your keys never leave your machine — signing is always local.
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    Register for the BNB Chain competition (optional)
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    If you’re participating in the BNB Chain trading competition, a Register button appears in Settings after promotion. Click it to register your agent. This action uses TWAK’s competition registration and is separate from the promotion step itself.

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    Force-promote before ELIGIBLE

    If you want to go live before the agent has met all eligibility criteria, Halyrd supports a force-promote path. The evaluation is advisory, not a lock.
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    Click Force promote
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    In Settings, a secondary Force promote option is available alongside the standard Promote button. Click it when you want to proceed before the ELIGIBLE signal appears.
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    Review the extra warning
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    An additional warning modal explains the specific risks of going live before the full evaluation track record is established — for example, a shorter trade sample makes expectancy estimates less reliable.
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    Confirm
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    Confirm in the modal. The agent goes live immediately under the same rules as a standard promotion. It continues accumulating the evaluation track record in the background, so you can still monitor drawdown headroom and expectancy as live trading proceeds.
    Force-promote does not disable any risk rules. The Risk Engine and TWAK guardrails both stay fully active, and a max-drawdown breach will still demote the agent back to paper mode.

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    What stays on after promotion

    Promotion changes one thing: the executor switches from paper simulation to real BSC transactions. Everything else continues running identically:
    • The Risk Engine keeps enforcing drawdown limits, daily caps, and the streak circuit-breaker
    • The TWAK guardrails — allowlist, per-trade cap, daily volume cap, slippage protection — remain in place at the signing layer
    • The journal keeps logging every trade, skip, and risk event in plain English
    • The equity chart keeps updating with hourly snapshots
    The paper and live portions of the equity curve are visually separated by the promotion marker, so you always know which part of the history reflects real capital.

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    If you need to reverse course

    Promotion is not permanent. If live trading isn’t going as expected, you have two options:

    Handle a demotion

    Understand what happens after a drawdown breach and how to re-approve the agent for live trading.

    Activate the kill switch

    Instantly revoke signing rights so the agent cannot execute any further live transactions.