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Automate your strategy on DEXs — without giving up custody

Think of OX-ENGINE as a 3Commas-style automation layer, but built for decentralized exchanges. These guides explain how to connect, why the bot can trade but never withdraw your funds, and where we're headed next.

Buyer's guide · HubCore concept

Best DEX Trading Bot: An Honest Buyer's Guide (Non-Custodial Perpetual Futures)

Not a fake top-10 list. The criteria that actually make a good non-custodial DEX trading bot for perpetual futures — custody, risk guardrails, backtesting, macro, TradingView entries — and how OX-ENGINE maps to each, by venue, with honest limits.

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Pillar guideCore concept

Non-Custodial Automated Trading on DEXs: a 3Commas-Style Bot for DeFi

What "non-custodial automation" really means, how trade-only API keys work, why withdrawals stay locked to the fund owner, and how OX-ENGINE compares to CEX bots like 3Commas.

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Polymarket odds calculator turning order-book depth into bookmaker-style decimal odds
Prediction marketsInteractive

Polymarket Odds Calculator: Turn Order-Book Depth Into Real Bookmaker Odds

Convert Polymarket share prices into real decimal odds, simulated through the order book for a $10, $50, $100 or custom stake — with a live interactive calculator.

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Perpetual futuresLive

Futures & Perpetual Trading Bot: Automate Perpetual Futures Non-Custodially

What a futures / perpetual trading bot does, why non-custodial matters on a DEX, and how OX-ENGINE automates perps — signals, sizing, leverage and protective stops. Aster live; Hyperliquid in testnet.

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Macro signalsLive

Trading with Macro Signals: One Market-Wide BTC Bias for Your Strategy

OX-ENGINE distils Fear & Greed, the economic calendar, BTC trend, funding, open interest, DXY, the S&P 500 and more into one directional bias — plus three honest ways to use it.

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Signal engineLive

Many Signals, One Decision: How OX-ENGINE Cross-References Market Data

One place pulls together many independent variables — price action, macro, funding, the dollar — and cross-references them automatically, 24/7, so your strategy reacts fast without you watching ten dashboards.

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DEX API comparisonGuide

Aster vs Hyperliquid vs PancakeSwap: Comparing 3 DEX APIs for Automated Trading

An honest, developer-facing comparison — auth & custody, order model, market data, latency, strengths and constraints — with a side-by-side table and how OX-ENGINE abstracts all three behind one engine.

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Aster DEXLive

How to Automate Trading on Aster DEX (Non-Custodial)

Step-by-step: connect a trade-only signer wallet, keep withdrawals under your control, and let the bot run your strategy on Aster perpetuals.

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HyperliquidPlanned

Automating Your Strategy on Hyperliquid: Feasibility, Security & Roadmap

A feasibility study of Hyperliquid's API/agent-wallet model — why it's a natural fit for non-custodial automation, and the safeguards we'll apply.

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PancakeSwapPlanned

Automated Trading on PancakeSwap: Is It Possible? (Feasibility & Roadmap)

How automation works on an AMM/perp DEX, the allowance & security model we'd use, advantages on BNB Chain, and the challenges we're solving.

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