# Session handoff — 2026-07-08 (rev 3: books aligned, Set E live, fresh $1k) Self-contained pickup for a fresh session (human or AI). Read [README.md](README.md) gotchas 1–15, [FINDINGS.md](FINDINGS.md) (especially the three 2026-07-08 sections at the end), and [LIVE_ROLLOUT.md](LIVE_ROLLOUT.md). The repo is authoritative; project memory has deeper history. ## Where things stand (all green) - **Live paper bot**: Fly.io `wwf-copybot`, region `arn` (Stockholm), push mode, ONE machine. Following **Set E** (7 volume wallets): LSB1, imwalkinghere, Kruto2027, 0xbadaf319, gkmgkldfmg, AIcAIc, 1kto1m. `flyctl logs --app wwf-copybot`. - **The book is a fresh $1,000, reset 2026-07-08 ~20:45 UTC** — this is the CALIBRATION EXPERIMENT: measure the live-to-backtest ratio for Set E with every fix live from day one; that ratio (not the replay %) sizes real money. Old book (Jun 25 → Jul 8, +$229.79) is in git history + `archive/copybot_fills.pre-reset-2026-07-08.jsonl`. - **The three books agree by construction** (2026-07-08 alignment work): same W/L/R/S taxonomy (win% = held-to-resolution only), same sold-vs-redeem price discriminator (redeem prints exactly the payout), same pinned floors, same follow set. Row-level cross-check bot↔backtest: 7/9 exact, 0 absent, 2 legit execution diffs. Sharps table reproduces PM's per-position books to the dollar; PM's LEADERBOARD is the biased number. - **Dashboards**: [jaxperro.com/trading](https://jaxperro.com/trading) = paper book + backtest + sharps; [jaxperro.com/live](https://jaxperro.com/live) = REAL MONEY page (NOT STARTED until Phase 2). Shared renderer: `jaxperro/trading/copybot-section.js`. `?botFeed=`/`?rmFeed=` query params override feeds for local testing. - **Watchdog live (2026-07-08)**: Fly `/health` check auto-restarts a dark machine; GH Actions `watchdog.yml` probes from GitHub's infra and pings Discord after 3 failed probes. `copytrade.py` now lives at repo root (archive/ is 100% retired code again). - **Daily pipeline** (Mac launchd 08:00, fires on wake — typically ~10:00, caffeinate-wrapped) appends one live-vs-model row/day to `live/history/calibration.csv` and re-derives everything under the new rules: entries cursors now invalidate daily, `_open_split` folds by the `redeemable` flag, `rtally` splits SOLD. - **Backtest**: `portfolio.py` takes `--bank` (backtest.json `"bank"`). Published feed stays at $1,000 to match the paper book. $500 run: +2728% (small banks compound faster — their-bet ceilings bind later). ## Queued next-session work (in value order) 0. **MORNING FORENSICS — paper-book drift −11.32 (alarm intentionally red).** The clobber bug is FIXED (settled records archive to token#ts keys on re-entry; two vanished records recovered from state git history and restored). What remains: with truth restored, drift reads −11.32 — a separate cash-outflow-without-ledger-counterpart accumulated during 2026-07-09's 27-copy day. Suspect classes: sell fills drained against already-settled records (sold_proceeds mutated post-pnl counts nowhere), settle math on re-entered tokens, trim flows. Method: replay copybot_fills.jsonl + state-history settles against the invariant term-by-term until the residual attributes. The fills ledger now has per-token BUY lines + book snapshots; state history is committed every few minutes. LIVE BOOK UNAFFECTED (0 trades, drift 0.00) and protected by the clobber fix before its first re-entry. 1. **Exact-res_t migration**: plan agreed 2026-07-08 — execute [ETHERSCAN_MIGRATION.md](ETHERSCAN_MIGRATION.md) phase by phase (0: chain sweep backfill → 1: shadow audit → 2: validate_timing → 3: portfolio → 4: selection+floors → 5: trust simplification LAST). One phase per session, before/after diffs, never coupled with follow-set changes. 2. **Empirical fill model**: every copy now logs a `book` snapshot (spread + 5c depth) to the fills ledger; once a few weeks accumulate, fit slippage vs stake/depth and replace portfolio.py's flat SLIP haircut; add a depth gate before real-money sizing. 3. **Funding-cluster tracer port** to Etherscan logs (Alchemy free tier now caps getLogs at 10 blocks — insider.py's ring detection is degraded until then). ## Watch list (the standing question: does Set E hold up?) - **0xbadaf319** — 2026-07-08 evening revealed his structure: PAIRED YES+NO clips ($6–37 each, sums ≈ $1.00) = two-sided arb/merge flow, not directional conviction. Copying one leg of a hedge is a bet HE never took; his replay P&L rode the larger leg of pairs. Moves to the TOP of the demotion watch list — judge on forward copies, not his account P&L. - **AIcAIc** — held-win only 42%; his edge is sell-timing (most lag-fragile class). Second demotion candidate. - **1kto1m** (z=2.4) and **gkmgkldfmg** (z=2.05) — near the gate floor; strong month, shallow statistical edge. - Re-ranking is cheap: the per-wallet replay harness pattern is in FINDINGS ("Aligning the three books"); `python3 live/portfolio.py --wallets 0x… --days 30 --out /tmp/w.json` per candidate, then combined-set runs. - Rejected-with-evidence (don't re-add without new facts): oliman2 (true lifetime ~$19k), leegunner (negative to copy), 0xb0E43B/ArbTraderRookie (refund harvesters — real edge, uncopyable margins), lma0o0o0o (negative in the shared book), Winnertraders (6.6-day capital locks). ## Real-money worker — ARMED AND LIVE (2026-07-09 ~04:37 UTC) `wwf-copybot-live` is trading REAL MONEY: $24.73 book, Set E, $5 stakes, rule-0.6 caps ($5/trade · $25/day · $30 exposure), poll mode 60s, own state `copybot_state.live.json`, feed `live/copybot_live_real.json` → jaxperro.com/live. Armed via LIVE_CONFIRM env (user-typed phrase; unset to disarm at next boot; `flyctl apps stop wwf-copybot-live` = instant stop). auto_redeem OFF (no POL gas) — after a WIN, redeem manually in the UI; CASH≠CHAIN nags until done. Discord pings per placement/exit/settle via DISCORD_WEBHOOK secret. Phase 4 (supervised first fill checklist in LIVE_ROLLOUT) runs when the first conviction signal lands — zero live trades so far; fill-split merging (see below) shipped 2026-07-09 evening after 13h of sub-floor-clip skips. No watchdog on the live app yet (poll mode, no HTTP) — liveness = flyctl logs + feed freshness. ## Venue fork — RESOLVED 2026-07-09 (user funded polymarket.com) The first deposit landed on polymarket.us by mistake (off-chain venue, no keys — incompatible with the stack; $32 still sits there, user may withdraw). User then funded a polymarket.com account ($24.73 after fees) and the live worker armed against it. Residual security to-dos: revoke the polymarket.us API key f03d9eb5… (secret appeared in a chat screenshot) and rotate the Discord webhook committed to this repo's history pre-2026-07-09. ## Next: Phase 2 — funding (USER ONLY) Phase 1 is 8/8 complete (LIVE_ROLLOUT.md). Before funding, the user should decide the stranding tolerance explicitly: real money turns the primary risk from P&L into the ACCOUNT (US person routing orders via Stockholm through the geoblock — a frozen wallet is a different loss category than a losing bet). Caps stay $5/trade · $25/day · $30 exposure until Phase 6. Then Phase 3 preflight (`preflight_live.py`) → Phase 4 supervised first fill → Phase 5 edge-case matrix. The typed-phrase interlock is the human checkpoint — never automated. ## Standing to-dos (user-only or external) - **None open.** Alchemy key ROTATED 2026-07-08: old app "Jax's First App" (key `…OdWgOi`, the one leaked to public git history) deleted; new app `wwf-rpc-2026-07` (key `…w0BxV5`) wired into gitignored `config.json` + the `ALCHEMY_RPC_URL` Fly secret. Verified: old key → HTTP 401 (the key in git history is now dead, so no history rewrite needed), new key serves Polygon, bot rebooted with settle-fallback ON and made a live copy, Notify webhook `wh_blf4qjjvfdbqs9mc` survived (app-delete doesn't touch Notify resources) — 7 addresses in sync. Railway project deleted (purges 07-10). ## Operational quick-reference - **Change the follow set**: edit `live/copybot.paper.json` wallets → `./live/deploy_bot.sh` (validates → pins floors → syncs Alchemy webhook → restarts Fly → confirms banner). Keep `backtest.json` mirrored. - **State surgery (reset/repair the book)**: `flyctl machine stop` FIRST, push the new state, `flyctl apps restart`, then VERIFY the first heartbeat shows the book you wrote (gotcha 15: the bot's memory wins conflicts by design, and a boot clone can read a stale GitHub replica for a few seconds). - Never 2 Fly machines (`flyctl scale count 1`) — one book, one writer. - Cache is single-writer; don't run cache-touching scripts during the daily pipeline or a regen. Three cursors per wallet (gotcha 12). - Bot commits its own state/feed — `git pull --rebase --autostash` before pushing. Image changes (fly.Dockerfile, host/) need `flyctl deploy --remote-only`; code/config changes just push + restart.