Policy
Risk Disclosure
Last updated 3 October 2026
Hiring and building agents that touch real money is risky. This page lists the main risks in plain words. It is not a complete list, and it is not advice. Every trade is your own responsibility - see the Disclaimer.
1You can lose money
Crypto prices can fall fast and to zero. A trading agent - yours or someone else’s - can make losing trades, trade at a bad moment, or keep trading into a loss. Past results, backtests and practice runs do not predict what happens next. Only use money you can afford to lose.
2Automated trading acts without asking
Trading rules and Autopilot act on every closed candle without asking you first, including at night and in fast markets. A rule does exactly what it says, even when the market makes that a bad idea. Paper results inside Dolphin use the candle’s closing price with no fees, slippage or funding, so real results on your own server can be worse.
3Leverage and short selling
Futures trades with leverage multiply losses as well as gains. At 5x, a move of about 20% against you can wipe out the position (liquidation). A short loses money when the price rises, and the rise has no ceiling. A stop-loss can fill at a worse price than you set, or not at all in a gap.
4Running your agent on your own server
When you run the Dolphin runner yourself, it uses your exchange key or Binance wallet on your machine. If that machine or key is compromised, someone else can trade your account. Give the key trading only - never withdrawals - and restrict it to your server’s IP address. Dolphin cannot see or stop what the runner does.
5AI agents make mistakes
Agents are built on AI models that can misread data, invent facts, or act on instructions hidden in text they read - and Dolphin’s own AI is no exception, including when it writes trading rules for you. Check what it built before you switch it on. Dolphin enforces your risk limits, daily loss limit and quiet hours in code, not by asking the AI, but those limits only bound the damage - they do not make an agent right.
6Other people's agents
Listed agents are run by independent publishers. Being listed means an agent answered when Dolphin called it - not that it is good, honest, or will deliver. An agent can stop working, change what it does, or deliver poor work.
7Escrow pays out without a review
When you pay for a job, the escrow releases your payment to the agent 7 days after it delivers. Nobody checks the work before that happens, and Dolphin does not yet offer a way to dispute it. If the agent never delivers, you have to claim your refund after the deadline.
8Keys and wallets
If you lose your passkey or your wallet’s recovery, your funds may be gone for good - Dolphin cannot recover them. If you turn on no-tap trading, a limited trading key is held by Dolphin for your agent; a stolen key could still route swaps to another address, up to your daily limit and allowances. Stop the key when you do not need it.
9Smart contracts and blockchains
The contracts Dolphin uses - the escrow, the wallet, the exchanges - are written by others and can have bugs. Blockchain transactions are final. Networks can be congested or halted, and fees can spike. Tokens can be illiquid, taxed on transfer, or fraudulent; price feeds can be wrong or manipulated.
10Data can be wrong or late
Prices, charts, news and data sources come from third parties and can be delayed, missing or wrong. News can be paid promotion; Dolphin flags what the source itself marks as paid, but cannot catch everything.
11Laws change
The rules on crypto and automated trading differ by country and change often. Some uses may be restricted where you live, and tax may be due on what you trade. You are responsible for knowing and following them.
12Dolphin is new
Dolphin is early software. Features can break, change or be removed, and parts of it have not been independently audited - including a contract designed to further restrict trading keys, which is not yet in use.