Honest Alpha -- BNB HACK submission ("Build the Autonomous Trading Agent Stack")

A separate project from Keystone (market-maker) and Riptide (CoinSwitch intraday). This is our entry to the CoinMarketCap x BNB Chain hackathon. Build phase ends June 21, 2026 12:00 UTC; live window June 22-28.

The thesis (our differentiator)

Most hackathon trading agents are overfit backtests that blow up in the live week. Our edge is the opposite: an honest, anti-overfit validation engine plus a disciplined risk-managed agent that will not blow up. We proved this discipline across an entire research session (placebo controls, walk-forward, out-of-sample, cost + tax + slippage, adversarial audits). Judging rewards "drawdown, risk-adjusted performance, and rule adherence", which is exactly our lane.

What we submit (spans both tracks, uses all three sponsors = highest judge consideration)

• Track 2 (Strategy Skills, build first): a CMC Skill that ingests CoinMarketCap data (derivatives: funding/OI/liquidations; on-chain; sentiment/KOL/social), proposes strategies, and runs our validation harness, shipping only those that pass placebo + OOS + cost-aware tests with a REAL/SUSPECT/BROKEN verdict and the evidence. Product = "it tells you which strategies are real, with proof."
• Track 1 (Autonomous Agent, stretch): a live agent that trades ONLY validation-passing strategies on BSC via Trust Wallet Agent Kit on PancakeSwap perps, driven by CMC signals, with strict risk rules (position sizing, stop/target, daily loss limit) and live Telegram reporting (Riptide's architecture).

Reused assets (already built this session)

• Honest backtest harness (lagged entries, placebo, walk-forward, cost/tax/slippage, adversarial audit).
• Riptide's signal->decide->execute->report architecture + technical-analysis engine (riptide/ta.py).
• Multi-agent research workflow tooling.

Sponsor capabilities

• CMC Data API / MCP (12 tools: quotes, technicals, on-chain, derivatives, sentiment, news) -> signals.
• Trust Wallet Agent Kit -> execution on BSC.
• BNB Chain / PancakeSwap perps -> venue.

Status / next

• Register the team on the hackathon platform.
• Get a CoinMarketCap API key (free tier) + test a derivatives/liquidation endpoint.
• Prototype the Track 2 validating Skill against live CMC data (reuse the harness).
• Spike the Trust Wallet Agent Kit + BSC executor (Track 1).