FAQ
The questions people ask first.
What is Helico, in plain words?
When you put money into a trading pool, it only earns while the price stays inside a band you chose. Prices drift, and then the money sits idle. Helico watches for that and moves your funds back into their band, under rules you write down once. A contract checks every rule before anything moves, and blocks anything else.
What do I need to start?
A wallet, and funds already sitting in a supported market on the Arbitrum network. Helico does not create or hold them. Nothing is live yet, so today the honest answer is the code and a rehearsal on a copy of the market.
Who holds my money?
You do. Your funds stay in your wallet as a token that proves you own them. You give the contract permission to move them, not to keep them.
What can the automation do to it?
One thing: propose a move inside your rules. It cannot pay itself, it cannot spend more than your funds released, and it cannot send anything anywhere but back to you or into the market.
When does it do nothing?
Most of the time. It waits while your cooldown runs, and whenever a move would not bring your funds meaningfully closer to the price, because every move costs a little.
What stays private?
How the decision is made. The program that decides runs inside a sealed environment. Your rules themselves are public on the chain, so anyone can check that a move followed them.
Is it live? Is it audited?
Neither, yet. The whole flow has been run end to end on a copy of the real market and kept 94% of the funds working. That was a copy, not the live network, and the sealed environment was simulated. Twelve automated reviewers and then six more went over the contract; that is not a professional audit.
Can I stop it?
Yes, at any time. Withdraw the permission or press revoke. Nothing can block that.