Assisted vs Autonomous Mode

In assisted mode, the persona watches the market and develops trade ideas based on its strategy, but it never executes a trade without your approval.

How it works:

1. The persona analyzes market conditions, social signals, and your portfolio
2. When it identifies a trade opportunity, it sends you a suggestion with its reasoning
3. You see a confirmation card with all the details — asset, amount, price, and why the persona thinks it is a good trade
4. You tap Approve to execute or Reject to decline

Assisted mode is the default for all personas. It is the recommended starting point so you can learn how each persona thinks and build confidence in its decision-making.

In autonomous mode, the persona executes trades on its own without waiting for your approval. You set the limits, and the persona operates within them.

How it works:

1. You configure the persona's limits: daily spend cap, maximum position size, and which assets it can trade
2. The persona continuously monitors markets and makes trades when its strategy identifies opportunities
3. Trades execute automatically — you receive a notification after each one
4. You can review all autonomous trades in your trade history with full reasoning

Autonomous mode is available on Pro and Premium tiers.

1. Go to Settings and select the persona you want to adjust
2. Find the Operating Mode toggle
3. Switch between Assisted and Autonomous
4. If switching to Autonomous, you will be asked to confirm your daily limits before the change takes effect

You can switch modes at any time. Changing from Autonomous to Assisted takes effect immediately — the persona will stop executing trades on its own and start sending you suggestions instead.

When you enable autonomous mode for a persona, you configure three parameters that define its trading boundaries:

• Daily budget ($) — The maximum total dollar amount the persona can trade in a single day. Once this budget is used up, the persona stops trading until the next day.
• Max per trade ($) — The maximum dollar amount for any single trade. This prevents the persona from making one large trade that uses its entire budget.
• Allowed assets — A whitelist of assets the persona can trade. For example, you might restrict a persona to only BTC and ETH, or only xStocks. The persona cannot trade any asset not on this list.

Every 15 minutes, FutureWallet runs a market scan for all active autonomous personas. Here is what happens during each scan:

1. The persona analyzes current market conditions, social signals, and your portfolio
2. If it identifies a trade opportunity, the full risk assessment pipeline runs
3. Low or medium risk trades execute automatically via Privy server-side signing — no popups, no interaction needed
4. High risk trades are never auto-executed. Instead, they appear in your chat as a notification that you can approve or reject manually.

Autonomous trades appear in your chat feed with a purple “A” badge, so you can always distinguish them from trades you initiated manually. Each notification includes the trade details, the persona's reasoning, and the execution result.