06/Trust

Trust Model

How Klovr is designed to remove discretionary trust from prop trading.

The core idea

Traditional prop firms ask traders to trust a private company. The company controls the rules, the capital, the scoreboard, and the payout process.

Klovr is built differently. Traders are evaluated through transparent risk systems, funding decisions move to the DAO, and funded-account settlement is designed to be enforced by protocol rules rather than company discretion.

Trust model at a glance

Layer
Private alpha
Simulated trading only. No deposits, no withdrawals, no custody risk.
Risk evaluation
Deterministic rules, tracked by Klovr's ledger and risk engine.
Ledger
Append-only, hash-chained account history.
Funded execution
Designed to be A-Book on Hyperliquid.
Settlement
Designed to be protocol-enforced and non-custodial.
Klovr Labs
Provides software, evaluation, and risk infrastructure. Does not custody funds.
Klovr DAO
Controls funding decisions and can choose whether to use Klovr Labs.

Current status

Klovr is currently in private alpha.

Alpha accounts are simulated: no deposits, no withdrawals, and no real funded execution. The alpha is used to prove the trading experience, risk rules, ledger, leaderboard, and Performance Passport before funded accounts go live.

Funded accounts are the roadmap. The core non-custodial execution architecture has been validated on Hyperliquid mainnet, but the public funded product still requires production hardening, legal review, and security review.

What you do not have to trust

You should not have to trust
A company manually deciding whether you passed
Challenge outcomes come from rule evaluation.
Screenshots or self-reported PnL
Account history is tracked from trading activity.
Hidden balance edits
Ledger events are append-only and hash-chained.
Floating-point money math
Financial values use fixed-precision accounting.
A company custodying funded capital
Funded accounts are designed around non-custodial settlement.
A firm taking the other side of funded trades
Funded execution is designed to be A-Book on Hyperliquid.
Manual blocking of eligible withdrawals
Eligible funded withdrawals are designed to be protocol-enforced.

The ledger

Klovr is ledger-first.

Every meaningful account event is recorded: orders, fills, fees, equity updates, liquidations, rule breaches, account passes, and admin actions. Events are append-only and hash-chained, meaning historical edits are detectable because changing one event breaks the chain after it.

The base of the trust model

Account state should be explainable from the ledger, not from a private dashboard number.

The risk engine

Klovr's risk engine evaluates accounts against explicit rules.

The engine tracks equity, PnL, drawdown, daily loss, trading days, closed trades, and breach status. It is designed so pass and breach decisions come from deterministic inputs rather than manual judgement.

For alpha, this powers simulated challenge evaluation. For the full Klovr Proptocol, the same philosophy extends into funded-account rules and settlement.

Execution model

Alpha evaluations are simulated. Orders are filled by Klovr's engine against live market data; there is no real capital, no counterparty, and no A-Book/B-Book dealer model.

Funded accounts are different. Funded execution is designed to be A-Book: orders execute on Hyperliquid's real order book, while settlement and withdrawal rights remain separated from trading activity.

Non-custodial funded accounts

The funded-account roadmap is built around a simple principle:

The trader should be able to trade within rules, but neither the trader nor Klovr Labs should be able to move funds outside the rules.

For funded accounts, capital movement, settlement, breaches, and eligible withdrawals are designed to be enforced by protocol logic. Once a trader satisfies the protocol rules, neither the DAO nor Klovr Labs should be able to manually block an eligible withdrawal.

DAO and Labs

Actor
Trader
Trades accounts and builds reputation.
Klovr Labs
Provides software, risk evaluation, risk controls, and infrastructure.
Klovr DAO
Controls funding decisions and can choose whether to use Klovr Labs.
Protocol
Enforces funded-account settlement, breaches, and eligible withdrawals.
Labs is a service provider, not a custodian

The DAO should be able to replace Labs if it chooses another evaluator or risk-service provider.

What happens if something goes wrong?

Scenario
Klovr shuts down
Funded-account settlement is designed to live on-chain. If a trader has eligible profits, the withdrawal path should not depend on Klovr Labs staying online.
Klovr Labs gets hacked
Labs should not custody funded-account capital or trader profits. A Labs compromise should not let an attacker withdraw DAO funds or redirect eligible trader withdrawals.
DAO or Labs changes the rules
Rule changes should apply to future accounts only. Active funded accounts keep the rules they opened with, enforced by the protocol.
Labs blocks or misuses trading permissions
Labs is a service provider, not the owner of the protocol. The DAO can vote to replace Labs with another evaluator or risk-service provider.
Challenge rules feel unfair
The DAO can update future challenge parameters, evaluation standards, profit splits, and account terms. Governance changes future cohorts, not active funded accounts.
A trader qualifies for withdrawal
Eligible withdrawals are designed to be enforced by code, not manually approved by Klovr Labs or the DAO.

What we do not publish

Klovr's public docs explain the trust guarantees, not the full implementation.

We do not publish low-level contract architecture, key-management mechanics, settlement internals, risk formulas, or security-sensitive infrastructure details before production hardening and audit.

Important status boundary

Where alpha ends and the roadmap begins

Private alpha proves the simulated evaluation layer. The full trustless funded protocol is the roadmap: mainnet-validated, technically central to Klovr, and not yet a public funded product.

© 2026 Klovr. Simulated evaluations · nothing here is financial advice.