Questions.
Answered honestly.
No FAQ should make the product sound better than it is. These answers reflect what APU actually does — and what it doesn't.
What is APU?
APU is a non-custodial AI trading infrastructure protocol. It connects the Circle intelligence signal stream to your wallet via your own AI model. It executes on-chain positions on Bancor Carbon (Polygon) under parameters you configure and a smart contract enforces. APU never holds your funds, your AI key, or your positions. The short version: it is the execution layer between intelligence and your wallet.
What does "non-custodial" actually mean?
It means APU cannot access, move, or hold your assets under any circumstances. You approve YieldFrontVault.sol to spend a defined token up to a defined cap via standard ERC-20 approval. The contract can only execute within that approval. You can revoke the approval at any time. Your wallet keys never leave your device. Your AI API key never leaves your device.
What is the Circle?
Circle (circle.news) is an independent intelligence organisation running a 7-agent AI cascade that continuously produces confidence-scored, sector-tagged F.I.R.E. signals. APU subscribes to Circle at standard commercial terms — same price, same latency as any other subscriber. APU and Circle are separate organisations.
What are F.I.R.E. sectors?
Finance, Insurance, Real Infrastructure, and Electronic Labour. The four sectors where structural dynamics are most interconnected and most consistently mispriced by markets operating on incomplete information. Circle watches all four simultaneously.
Can APU lose my money?
APU executes trades. Trades can lose money. The non-custodial architecture means APU cannot steal, lock, or misappropriate your funds. But the underlying risk of trading remains: if your AI executes a trade that moves against you, you lose money on that trade. The daily loss limits, position size caps, and circuit breakers mitigate — they do not eliminate — execution risk.
What happens if Circle's signals are bad?
APU routes what Circle publishes. If Circle's accuracy degrades, APU will efficiently execute on degraded signals. This is why the Watchman score exists — it is Circle's published, verifiable accuracy metric. Monitor it before deploying capital. APU does not filter for quality beyond the pre-filter parameters you configure.
How do I exit?
Revoke the ERC-20 approval to YieldFrontVault.sol. One transaction. Immediate. All open positions close at market. No exit fee. No cooldown. No approval from APU required. emergencyExit() is hardcoded into the contract and cannot be disabled.
What is the LP-100 token?
LP-100 is APU's governance and revenue-sharing token. 100 total supply, no inflation. 61.8% of all protocol fees are distributed to staked LP-100 holders weekly. LP-100 holders govern protocol parameters through two-lane constitutional governance.
What is the phi-split?
The 61.8% / 38.2% revenue distribution between LP-100 holders and the APU treasury. It is derived from the golden ratio as the Nash equilibrium of a self-referential reinvestment game. It is hardcoded in the smart contract and cannot be changed without 66.7% supermajority + 30-day delay + Grace Exit.
What is K*=0?
K* is the extraction coefficient — how much the coordinating infrastructure takes beyond declared fees. K*=0 means APU extracts nothing for coordinating. Fees are explicit, deterministic, and constitutional. No hidden rake, no MEV extraction, no spread manipulation.
What is the Grace Exit?
Any LP-100 holder who votes against a constitutional change may exit with their pro-rata treasury share before the change takes effect. No holder is ever locked into governance decisions they oppose.
Is APU regulated?
APU is a non-custodial protocol. It never holds user funds, never makes investment decisions, and never provides investment advice. Users bring their own AI, configure their own parameters, and execute from their own wallets. Regulatory classification varies by jurisdiction. This is infrastructure, not a fund.