Frequently Asked Questions

What is Grid Master?

Grid Master is a non-custodial automated trading platform on Solana and Robinhood Chain. Its flagship grid strategy buys low and sells high within a price range you define — and you can also run DCA, Accumulation, and Glide (with Rebalance coming soon) — all without needing to be online.

Is it really non-custodial?

Yes. Your funds are held in a smart contract vault that only YOU can withdraw from. We never have access to your private keys. The trading bot can execute swaps within your parameters, but it cannot withdraw funds.

What tokens can I trade?

Effectively any token with on-chain liquidity — on Solana it routes through Jupiter, on Robinhood Chain through Uniswap v3, including tokenized stocks and long-tail L2 tokens. Grid Master uses a hybrid model: when a price feed exists (Pyth on Solana, Chainlink on Robinhood Chain) the vault is oracle-bound for extra protection; when it doesn't, the vault is permissive — DEX-priced with on-chain risk caps — so a coin is never simply refused.

Can I lose money?

Yes, trading always involves risk. Grid trading works best in ranging markets. If the price trends strongly in one direction and leaves your range, you may experience unrealized losses. Only trade with funds you can afford to lose.

What if Grid Master shuts down?

Your funds remain in your vault, which is controlled by your wallet — not by us. You can always withdraw directly from the smart contract, even if our website goes offline.

What if the bot key is hacked?

The bot can only execute trades, not withdrawals. If compromised, an attacker could make trades within your vault's limits, but could not steal your funds. From the dashboard you can pause the vault so it stops trading, and you can withdraw your funds to your own wallet at any time. Reassigning the bot's authority is an owner-only on-chain action; the app does not expose a button for it today.

Has the smart contract been audited?

A formal third-party audit is on our roadmap and not yet complete, so you should treat the contracts as unaudited for now. That's exactly why we recommend starting with a small amount while the system proves itself — never deposit more than you'd be comfortable losing. The non-custodial design means only you can withdraw, but an unaudited contract can still carry bugs, so size your risk accordingly.

What are the fees?

Grid Master charges a 0.20% platform fee on each executed trade, taken out of the swap. Creating a vault also costs a one-time on-chain fee, charged in SOL or ETH — the amount is read from the contract that charges it and shown on the confirmation screen before you sign anything. You also pay the DEX fee of the route, which is inside the price of every swap — Jupiter on Solana, Uniswap v3 on Robinhood Chain. You do not pay a network fee for the bot's trades — our keeper signs and pays the gas for those. You pay network fees only on the transactions you sign yourself, which are creating the vault, depositing, withdrawing and pausing, so keep a little SOL or bridged ETH in your wallet for those.

What happens if price leaves my grid range?

The bot stops trading and waits for price to return. Your funds stay in the vault. You'll hold mostly base token if price drops below range, or mostly quote token if price rises above.

How often does the bot trade?

The bot trades whenever the price crosses a grid level, subject to your cooldown settings. In volatile markets, this could be many times per day. In stable markets, less often.

Can I change my grid after creating a vault?

No. The price range, the number of grid levels and the token pair are fixed when the vault is created, so choose the range with that in mind. What you can change afterwards, from the vault's settings page, are the risk limits: maximum trade size, maximum slippage, daily trade limit, and the drawdown alert threshold. Tightening one of the first three goes to the chain: you sign an owner transaction and our records are updated only after it confirms, so the contract holds the tighter limit rather than us promising it on the contract's behalf. Raising a limit is not sent — the smart contract keeps the tightest value you have saved as the outer bound, so those trades fail on-chain rather than get bigger. The drawdown alert threshold is a monitoring figure tracked off-chain; it does not stop the bot. To trade a different range, or to run genuinely wider caps, you withdraw your funds and create a new vault, which pays the one-time creation fee again.

Which wallets are supported?

For Solana vaults, all major Solana wallets including Phantom, Solflare, Backpack, and hardware wallets like Ledger. For Robinhood Chain vaults, EVM wallets via RainbowKit (MetaMask, WalletConnect, and others).

Do I need to keep my computer on?

No. The trading bot runs on our servers 24/7. You can close your browser after setting up your vault.

Can I see my trades on-chain?

Yes. Every trade includes a link to the chain's block explorer — Solana Explorer for Solana vaults, the Robinhood Chain explorer for EVM vaults — where you can verify the transaction details.

Is the bot scalable?

Yes. The bot is architecturally designed for 1000s of users with multi-tenancy support, distributing vaults across multiple bot instances for optimal performance.