FAQ

Is HISS affiliated with Robinhood?

No. HISS is an independent research project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Robinhood — or Bankr, Chainlink, or Disney. It builds on publicly documented Robinhood Chain contracts the way any third-party developer can.

Does HISS own or hold stocks?

No. HISS holds nothing — no stocks, no tokens, no user funds. A Hiss is a published document (a manifest), not a position.

Are Stock Tokens shares?

No. Robinhood Chain Stock Tokens are tokenized derivatives issued by Robinhood Assets (Jersey) Ltd — not direct ownership of the underlying stock, no voting rights. They are not offered to persons in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Switzerland, and other restricted regions per the issuer's terms — an issuer-side asset disclosure, not a HISS gate.

Can HISS trade for me?

No. HISS compiles instructions — Execution Capsules — for your agent running on Robinhood’s official Trading MCP, in your own Agentic account, under Robinhood’s controls. HISS holds no credentials, opens no broker connection, and nothing in HISS places orders: liveOrderSent is hard-typed false in every artifact. Rebalance output is previews requiring your confirmation.

What is a Coil?

A structured, versioned trading playbook: a whisper, a thesis, canonical holdings weighted in bps, a rebalance policy, triggers, and binding risk fuses — with a receipt. See Concepts and CoilOps.

What is a Capsule?

An Execution Capsule: the compiled, bounded instruction bundle a verified non-paper Coil produces — allowed symbols, budgets, fuse checks, stop conditions, and a paste-ready text block for your MCP agent. Paper Coils refuse to compile one. See Execution Capsules.

What is a Fuse?

A typed, binding risk constraint — position caps, order ceilings, turnover limits, hard stops. Five fuse kinds are mandatory before any capsule can compile. See Risk fuses.

Are prices live?

No — everything is paper/mock. 26 of the 27 canonical assets have a pinned, live-verified Chainlink feed proxy, but live pricing stays off until the chain's sequencer uptime feed is published and the release flags open. Until then every price comes from the deterministic mock oracle. See Oracle health.

Why does the feed price differ from the stock's headline price?

Total-return semantics: dividends are reinvested into the token via the corporate-action multiplier, so a Stock Token tracks the underlying's total return — price changes plus reinvested dividends — and its feed price legitimately drifts above the headline share price over time. That is expected behavior, not an error. See Robinhood Chain.

Is Basket Wars gone? (Yes — removed.)

Yes — the competition was removed and replaced by CoilOps; see CoilOps and the changelog.

Why weights in bps?

Basis points are integers, so a basket's weights are exact and verifiable: they must sum to precisely 10,000, with no floating-point rounding ambiguity between clients.

Why is the address the identity?

Tickers collide and even disagree with on-chain symbols (the registry's CUSO is USO on-chain). An address is unforgeable and unambiguous — a matching ticker at a different address is a fake. See Asset registry.

Is the $HISS token launched?

NO. There is no launched $HISS token. No contract address, no presale, no airdrop. Anything claiming to be a live $HISS token is fake — do not buy it.

What does Bankr do?

When configured server-side, the Bankr Agent API acts as the AI Strategist's brain, turning whispers into draft baskets that HISS repairs and validates. Without it, a deterministic mock answers. See Bankr integration.

What is x402?

A machine-payment protocol built on HTTP status 402: agents pay per API request in stablecoins, no accounts or API keys. HISS ships ten x402 endpoints, currently in free mock mode. See x402 payments.