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# Trading Overview

Blackboard is **one terminal built on two pillars** — *Access for everyone, Power for traders*. A single account, a single wallet, and a single liquidity pool unify the experience, while two product modes serve users at different stages of their journey.

## Pillar 1: Access — Consumer-Grade Fintech UX

A radically simple on-chain finance experience for people who have never touched a public blockchain, and a clean professional surface for those who have.

* **Social login**: Start instantly with Google or Apple accounts
* **No seed phrases**: Privy embedded wallets deliver a Web2-level experience
* **No gas, no jargon**: Complexity is hidden, not removed
* **One account, many markets**: Perpetual futures (crypto and real-world assets), prediction markets, and options live side by side
* **Pro surface when you need it**: TradingView-powered charts, full order book, multi-window monitoring, and fast order entry for active users

**For**: Everyone — from first-time public blockchain users to experienced on-chain traders who want a clean surface without wallet pop-ups on every trade.

## Pillar 2: Power — AI-Native Strategy Automation *(Coming Soon)*

{% hint style="info" %}
The agentic trading layer is currently in development. We will announce when it officially launches.
{% endhint %}

Describe a trading strategy in plain English. Blackboard translates it into executable logic, backtests it, and runs it 24/7 — execution, monitoring, and rebalancing included.

* **Natural-language strategies**: No code required to express a trading idea
* **TradingView indicator ecosystem**: Connect into 150,000+ existing TradingView open-source indicators as a starting point instead of a blank page
* **Autonomous execution**: The agent runs across every timezone, while you sleep
* **Session Key safety**: AI agents trade within permission boundaries you define, and never hold your funds
* **Full observability**: Every decision is visible; access can be revoked at any time

**For**: Traders who want their edge automated — from retail users turning a TradingView idea into a live strategy, to power users running multiple agents in parallel.

## Two Pillars, One Terminal

The two pillars are not separate products. They are the same terminal, the same wallet, and the same liquidity pool, viewed from two ends.

```mermaid
graph TD
  BB["Blackboard Terminal"]
  P1["Pillar 1: Access<br/>Manual · Simple"]
  P2["Pillar 2: Power<br/>Automated · AI"]
  CORE["Shared Core<br/>Session Keys · Wallet · Liquidity"]
  AS["Aster<br/>Crypto perpetuals"]
  HL["Hyperliquid<br/>HIP-3 RWA perpetuals"]
  PM["Polymarket<br/>Predictions · Options"]
  SW["Multichain spot<br/>Spot trading · Swaps"]
  CC["CollectorCrypt<br/>Trading cards"]
  BB --> P1
  BB --> P2
  P1 --> CORE
  P2 --> CORE
  CORE --> AS
  CORE --> HL
  CORE --> PM
  CORE --> SW
  CORE --> CC
```

A user who starts in Pillar 1 and learns the market will, at some point, want a trade to simply run itself. That moment is the bridge to Pillar 2 — and crossing it is how every Blackboard user eventually becomes an agentic trader.

* **Session Key**: one-time approval, no wallet pop-up per trade — one-click execution
* **Platform fee**: transparent, disclosed per product on the [Fees](/blackboard-docs/resources/fees.md) page