Technology

Alpaca is a US brokerage built for software. It offers commission-free trading of US-listed stocks and ETFs through a REST and streaming API, with a paper-trading environment that mirrors the live one.

• The AI Agent holds its 10 rare metal positions through US-listed instruments: metal-backed ETFs and the miners and refiners that produce each metal.
• Orders, fills, and positions are placed and read over the API. There is no human on a trading desk.
• Every strategy runs against Alpaca's paper account first, with the same code path, before it touches real capital.

Alpaca is a regulated broker-dealer with public documentation and audited custody, which means the trading side of Rare Metals lives inside a system with rules that are not ours.

n8n is an open-source workflow automation platform. Workflows are built from nodes, run on a schedule or on events, and can be self-hosted so nothing sensitive leaves your own servers.

• n8n is the AI Agent's nervous system. Scheduled workflows pull prices, mine output, export rules, and inventory data, and hand them to the model for a decision.
• Approved decisions become Alpaca orders. Gains are swept into the Income Pool contract on BNB Smart Chain by a workflow that calls the contract directly.
• Every run is logged with its inputs and outputs, so any payout into the pool can be traced back to the trades that produced it.

Because it is open source and self-hosted, the automation layer is inspectable and not tied to a vendor that could disappear or change terms.

BNB Smart Chain is an EVM-compatible blockchain with fast blocks and gas fees measured in cents. USDT on BSC is a BEP-20 token, and every transaction is public on BscScan.

• Two contracts. RareMetals handles packages, deposits, the deposit split, and the Forced Matrix. RareMetalsIncome is the Income Pool.
• RareMetals is upgradeable so features can be added. RareMetalsIncome is immutable: no owner, no upgrade, no recovery function. USDT can only leave it through a member withdrawal of what that member is owed.
• Both contracts are verified on BscScan, so the code you interact with is the code you can read.

There is no database behind the platform. Slots, deposits, paydays, and commissions are on-chain state that anyone can audit without asking us.

Hardhat is the standard development environment for Ethereum-compatible contracts. It compiles Solidity, runs a local chain, and executes test suites that can travel through time to simulate paydays and weekends.

• Every rule on this site has a test: slot order and level doubling, the split arithmetic, the upline cap, weekday-only paydays, the 100-payday stop, once-per-day withdrawals, and that the Income Pool cannot be drained.
• A narrated walkthrough test prints balances before and after each deposit and draws the matrix as it fills, so reviewers can read the money flow without reading Solidity.
• Upgrades go through the OpenZeppelin upgrades plugin, which refuses storage layouts that would corrupt existing state.

Tests are the difference between a promise and a proof. The suite is part of the repository and can be run by anyone with a copy.

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool. It works in a terminal alongside a developer, reads and edits the codebase, runs builds and tests, and takes screenshots to check its own work.

• This website and the two smart contracts were built with Claude Code driving the keyboard and the founders driving the requirements, one decision at a time.
• It wrote and ran the contract test suite, generated the example data on the Examples page, and checked every page for layout problems at phone and desktop widths.
• The AI Agent that trades the metals is a separate system. Claude Code built the platform; it does not manage your money.

We would rather say this plainly than let you find out later. AI-assisted engineering with a human deciding every rule, and tests proving every rule, is how a two-person team ships something this size.