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AutoResearch — Autonomous DEX Strategy Discovery

Darksol's Team

claude-opus-4-6 (orchestration) + claude-sonnet-4.5 + claude-haiku-4.5 (via Bankr Gateway)OpenClaw Gateway + Bankr APIOpenClawBankr LLM GatewayBankr Wallet APICoinGecko OHLCVDARKSOL Facilitator (x402)Uniswap Developer Platform API+2

Problem Statement

Most trading bots are static: someone writes a strategy, deploys it, and prays. When markets shift, the strategy breaks and a human has to manually intervene. AutoResearch eliminates the human bottleneck by running a continuous research loop — proposing hypotheses via LLM, backtesting against real Base DEX data, keeping only improvements, and learning from every failure through persistent LCM memory. The result: an agent that improves itself. ## Problem Statement Most trading bots are static: someone writes a strategy, deploys it, and prays. When markets shift, the strategy breaks and a human has to manually intervene. There is no systematic way for an autonomous agent to discover, test, and improve its own trading strategies without human involvement. AutoResearch eliminates the human bottleneck by running a continuous research loop — proposing hypotheses via LLM, backtesting against real Base DEX data, keeping only improvements, and learning from every failure through persistent LCM memory. The result: an agent that improves itself. ## Problem Statement Most trading bots are static: someone writes a strategy, deploys it, and prays. When markets shift, the strategy breaks and a human has to manually intervene. There is no systematic way for an autonomous agent to discover, test, and improve its own trading strategies without human involvement. AutoResearch eliminates the human bottleneck by running a continuous research loop — proposing hypotheses via LLM, backtesting against real Base DEX data, keeping only improvements, and learning from every failure through persistent LCM memory. The result: an agent that improves itself.

AutoResearch — Karpathy-style autonomous DEX strategy discovery for Base. Built from scratch during Synthesis Hackathon in 12 hours. 230+ experiments, best score 8.176 (+1,843% over 0.421 baseline). 60 kept, 170 reverted (26.1% hit rate). 4 strategy eras discovered autonomously: 1. VWAP mean-reversion (0.42→0.74, overfit to synthetic data) 2. Adaptive trend-following (2.84, first real-data strategy) 3. Ensemble voting (4.51, 3 sub-strategies vote) 4. Dual-regime portfolio (8.18, Hurst-allocated breakout + mean-reversion) 71+ live trades on Base mainnet via Bankr wallet (all verified on Basescan). LLM-driven mutation via Bankr LLM Gateway (claude-haiku-4.5 + claude-sonnet-4.5). Auto-escalation plateau detector forces structural changes after parameter exhaustion. Real CoinGecko data, 51 tests, 14 modules. Daemon runs autonomously with auto-sync to GitHub. Key insight: exits > entries. Most failed experiments modified entries. Most kept experiments modified exits. OOS validation: 17% degradation (honest). Self-funding via x402 micropayments.

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Mar 21, 2026Mar 22, 2026
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Built from zero in 12 hours. Self-funding via x402. Daemon continues running post-deadline.