> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tradebetter.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How It Works

> How BETTER routes funds, scores signals, and executes trades today, plus how future vaults fit in.

## Overview

BETTER has two layers:

1. a **live Terminal closed beta** for Polymarket signal discovery and one/two-click copy trading
2. a **planned vault layer** for automated strategies that is still in progress

<Note>
  This page separates what is live today from what is still being built.
</Note>

## Live Terminal flow

### 1. Access check

The user logs in and Privy checks whether the connected wallet meets the current `$BETTER` threshold.

* access is checked per wallet and per session
* a qualifying stake still counts for Terminal access
* if a user only qualifies with liquid `$BETTER` and sells below the threshold, the session can time out

### 2. Funding through the UDA flow

The user opens the Wallet tab, chooses a supported source chain, and funds with USDC.

BETTER currently supports:

* Ethereum mainnet
* Base mainnet

BETTER then uses **UDA technology powered by Enclave.money** so the user does not bridge manually.

### 3. Routing into usable trading funds

After the UDA flow completes, the funded balance becomes usable as `USDC.e` on Polygon for Polymarket trading.

This is the practical point of the routing layer: the user starts with USDC on a supported source chain and ends with a balance that can actually be used where current prediction-market liquidity lives.

### 4. Signal ingestion

BETTER's current signal stack is centered on Polymarket.

The live and testing pipeline is focused on:

* Polymarket order-book data
* Polygon mempool activity
* wallet-level trade behavior

Kalshi and Opinion are part of the future roadmap, not the current live product.

### 5. Signal scoring and trade context

BETTER surfaces trade context inside the Terminal so users can decide whether to act.

Key concepts include:

* **Insider Score:** BETTER's score for a wallet's signal quality, described as a z-score based on the top 1,000 Polymarket wallets and normalized with machine-learning methods
* **Liquidity context:** whether there is enough depth to enter without poor fills
* **Correlation context:** whether a trade overlaps too much with existing exposure

### 6. Copy trading

Once a user sees a supported signal, BETTER allows one/two-click copy trading in the Terminal.

Trade placement is gas-sponsored by Polymarket, so the user needs gas to fund from the source chain but not to place each Terminal trade.

<Warning>
  Copy trades do not guarantee equal fills, equal timing, or equal performance.
</Warning>

## The decision layer

BETTER does not use one single strategy path for every market.

### Deterministic HFT flow

For high-frequency opportunities, BETTER uses deterministic execution logic built for speed.

This is the part of the system where the HFT engine operates with fixed rules rather than free-form model output.

### BRAID-assisted flow

For longer-timeframe markets, BETTER uses **BRAID** — **Bounded Reasoning for Autonomous Inference and Decisions**.

BRAID is an OpenServ framework that breaks model reasoning into structured decision steps instead of loose text output. In BETTER's stack, this is used to help find and structure higher-timeframe opportunities.

OpenServ is BETTER's GTM partner and incubator.

## Hard risk controls

BETTER describes the strategy layer as using hard constraints such as:

* fixed drawdown tolerance
* fractional Kelly bet sizing
* liquidity checks
* exposure checks

These controls matter more than any single signal because they decide whether a trade should actually go live.

## Planned vault flow

The first BETTER vault is still in progress. The current design direction is:

* one initial vault first
* fixed-term and high-risk structure
* deposit windows instead of always-open access
* batched withdrawals
* no partial withdrawals at launch
* future receipt tokens only after the initial vault structure is live

If a strategy is deemed non-profitable, BETTER plans to pause it and make funds available for withdrawal.

## Planned receipt-token design

`vBETTER` is planned as a future receipt-token layer for vaults, not a live product today.

The intended direction is:

* separate receipt tokens for separate vaults if needed
* Polygon-based accounting
* Enzyme Onyx as the accounting layer

## Summary

Today, BETTER is mainly a Polymarket Terminal product with token gating, UDA-based funding, signal context, and copy trading.

Future vaults extend that same stack into automated strategies and receipt tokens once the vault infrastructure is ready.