FAQ
Short answers, including the ones people would rather not hear. Each links to the page that explains it properly.
Identity and keys
What happens if I lose my private key?
It is gone, and nothing can be done about it.
There is no reset, no recovery email, no backup on our side, and no support process that restores a key. If both the encrypted vault in your browser and your backup of the private key are lost, the identity is permanently unreachable. The agents you published stay in the index forever, owned by a public key that nobody can sign for.
This is not a gap we intend to close. The same cryptography that makes it impossible for anyone to impersonate you makes it impossible for anyone to rescue you. Back up your key. See cryptographic identity.
Can Wakehood recover my account?
No. We do not have your private key, we have never had it, and we could not decrypt your vault if we did have it, because the password that encrypts it never leaves your browser either.
Anyone who claims to be Wakehood support and offers to restore your key is attacking you. We will never ask for your private key, for your password, or for a "recovery phrase", because none of those exist for us to legitimately want.
What if I forget my password but still have my key?
You are fine. Go to login, import the private key, and choose a new password. That encrypts a fresh vault on that device. The old vault becomes irrelevant.
The reverse case, having the password but not the key, is only survivable if the encrypted vault is still in the browser where you created it.
How do I use my identity on a second device?
Import the private key at login and set a password for that device. The form shows you the derived public key before it commits, so you can confirm you pasted the right key. Vaults are per device, and passwords do not have to match across them.
The platform
Does Wakehood run my agent?
No. Never.
Wakehood stores agent code on IPFS and indexes the metadata. It does not execute uploaded code, in any environment, at any time, for anyone. It is a hosting and discovery platform, not an execution engine.
The consequence cuts both ways. Publishing an agent here does not make it trade. And browsing an agent here means you are looking at code that has never been run, tested, or verified by us. If you want to run it, you download it, read it, and run it yourself. See publishing an agent.
Does a high trust score mean an agent is good?
No. It does not even mean the agent works.
The Phase 1 score is (10 x published agents) + (1 x days since account creation). It counts
uploads and calendar days. It contains no information about returns, risk, correctness, or safety,
because Wakehood collects no performance data at all. A profile with a high score has published a
lot, or has been around a while, or both. That is the entire claim.
See trust score.
Is any of this investment advice?
No. Nothing on Wakehood is investment advice, a recommendation, an endorsement, or a solicitation to buy or sell anything.
Wakehood is not a financial adviser, not a broker, and not a custodian. Agent descriptions are written by their authors and are not vetted by us. Trading is risky and automated trading is riskier. Any capital you put behind an agent you found here is at your own risk, and any code you run is your responsibility. See the terms.
Do I need a wallet?
No. A wallet is entirely optional and Wakehood works without one.
Your identity is your Ed25519 keypair, not your wallet address. Linking a wallet adds an address to your profile as metadata, and that is all it does. A wallet cannot publish agents, cannot recover your identity, and grants Wakehood nothing. See cryptographic identity.
Publishing
Is my code public?
Yes. Assume everything you publish is permanently public.
Files are uploaded to IPFS, which is a public, content-addressed network. The CID appears on your agent's detail page with a gateway link, and it is meant to: the point of publishing is that others can read exactly the code your signature vouches for.
Do not put anything in an upload that you would not put in a public repository. No API keys, no exchange credentials, no private keys, no personal data. If you have already published a secret, treat it as compromised and rotate it immediately.
Can I delete an agent?
Honestly: not in any way you should rely on.
Phase 1 has no delete for a published agent. Even if an index entry were removed, that would not remove the code. IPFS is content addressed: once content is pinned, any node that has fetched it can keep serving it, and anyone who has the CID can keep resolving it from wherever a copy exists. An index entry is a pointer, and removing a pointer is not the same as removing the content.
So the honest promise is the narrow one: we cannot guarantee deletion, and we will not pretend we can. Publish accordingly.
What are the upload limits?
Up to 100 files and 10 MB total per agent. Names are capped at 80 characters and descriptions at 2,000. At least one strategy tag is required, and it must be valid for the asset class you chose. See asset classes and strategies.
Why was my publish rejected?
The common causes, in order of how often they happen:
- Expired request. The signed timestamp must be within 2 minutes of the server's clock. If your system clock is wrong, fix the clock and retry.
- No valid tag for the asset class. Tags outside the class's taxonomy are dropped on the way
in, so if the only tag you sent was one of those, nothing valid is left and the publish is
rejected. A
STOCKagent cannot claimyield farming. Pick at least one tag from that class's list. - Missing CID. The code has to reach IPFS before the metadata can be signed, because the CID is part of what you sign.
- Too many files, or over 10 MB.
What is a mock CID?
If a deployment has no Pinata credential configured, the IPFS layer runs in mock mode and derives a deterministic, CID-shaped string from the file contents so the whole flow still works end to end. A mock CID is not on the public IPFS network, and fetching it from a gateway will not return your code, because nothing was pinned. It is a development mode, not storage. See publishing an agent.
Roadmap
Does a $WAKE token exist?
No. There is no token, no sale, no launch date, and no commitment to any of it. The roadmap describes intentions for future phases and nothing on it is built or promised.