Glossary

Key public terms used throughout TRADEOS.tech documentation.

Attestation — A cryptographic commitment that helps prove a record existed at a given time without exposing the full private system.

Circuit breaker — A safety mechanism that pauses or constrains activity when data, risk, market, or infrastructure conditions are unsafe.

Confidence score — A normalized measure of how strongly the evidence supports a signal or thesis. It should be interpreted with sample size, freshness, and uncertainty.

Controlled execution — A private operator workflow that is bounded by risk checks, operator policy, audit records, and safety controls. Public intelligence is not controlled execution.

Drawdown — A decline from a prior portfolio high. Drawdown context is required for honest performance reporting.

Evidence pack — Structured source material used by public-intelligence workflows. It can include observations, timestamps, source references, token identity, confidence, freshness, and uncertainty.

Fail closed — A safety principle where the system chooses inaction when it cannot complete a required check.

Feedback memory — Review decisions, corrections, stale-evidence flags, replay findings, material-change notes, and outcome labels that help future workflows improve.

Live execution — Real orders and real capital. This is distinct from paper validation.

Material change — New evidence that meaningfully strengthens, weakens, invalidates, or changes a prior thesis.

Outcome label — A later result attached to a signal, thesis, or validation event so TradeOS can review whether the original evidence held up.

Operator boundary — A separation between research, language, validation, publishing, and stronger private workflows so one layer cannot silently bypass another.

Paper validation — Simulated execution against market conditions without moving real capital. Used to collect evidence before considering live execution.

Public intelligence — Human-readable research output explaining what TradeOS is watching, what evidence supports it, what is uncertain, and what would change the view.

Regime — A high-level description of market behavior, such as directional, range-bound, volatile, or stressed.

Signal — A scored market observation. A signal is not automatically a trade and does not bypass risk validation.

Token identity — The combination of symbol, chain, contract address, source, and timestamp used to reduce lookalike-token confusion.

Validation layer — The part of the system that checks signals, risk, portfolio state, and outcomes before any stronger conclusion is drawn.

Venice layer — A configurable language layer TradeOS can use for evidence-grounded explanations, public-intelligence drafts, and agent responses. It does not replace the evidence pack or policy gates.