Plain-English Walkthrough
Releases, Explained
Every QARI release, in plain English. What you see in the dashboard, what changed under the hood, and what we deliberately did not touch. Skip the changelog jargon.
Founding Release
ShippedRelease 2.0
The platform goes live on Bybit with the full 11-layer scanner
February 2026
Release 2.0 is the foundation. QARI scans the altcoin market on a 5-minute cycle, runs eleven layers of market-structure, liquidity, and volume analysis, and places spot orders on Bybit on behalf of each user. Every entry passes a 16-check risk gate. Every trade is surfaced in the dashboard with a plain-English explanation of why QARI took it.
What you see
- Register, connect a Bybit API key (spot + read, withdrawals blocked at the exchange).
- Three-month free trial. After trial, Pro at $49 or Premium at $99 per month.
- Autonomous mode is on by default: QARI scans, scores, and trades without asking.
- Telegram alerts on every trade event (entry, stop-loss, profit target, kill switch).
Under the hood
- 11-layer confluence scorer: structure, liquidity, order blocks, volume, sentiment, Fibonacci, indicators, order book, VWAP, session context, BTC dominance.
- Three-point confluence rule: at least three independent layers must agree before entry.
- R-based kill switch: minus 2R daily or minus 5R weekly halts trading for the rest of the window.
- Collective ML layer trains on outcomes from every user, anonymised, no personal data ever enters training.
Not changed
- Your capital stays in your own exchange account. QARI never holds user funds.
- Stop-loss sits between 10% and 30% of entry. Never tighter. Never wider.
- Spot only. No leverage, no margin, no short-selling. Not a setting, an architectural constraint.
Current Release
LiveRelease 2.1
Multi-exchange, multi-account, and a hardened compliance surface
April 2026
Release 2.1 makes QARI a serious multi-tenant platform. You can connect more than one exchange, run more than one trading account, pay with card or crypto or bank transfer, and rely on an Ethical Trading Advisory Board watching the platform from outside. The risk gate, subscription enforcement, and R-kill-switch logic all carried over unchanged.
Eight exchanges
Bybit, Binance, Bitget, Coinbase, Gate.io, Kraken, KuCoin, OKX. All spot-only. All read + trade, never withdraw.
Compliance-gate dispatch guard
Every outbound call is re-checked at the dispatch layer. A futures or margin endpoint never leaves the process.
NOWPayments crypto path
Pay your subscription in TRC-20 USDT, non-custodial, direct from your own wallet, no balance data collected.
What you see
- Connect up to three exchanges (Bybit, Binance, Bitget, Coinbase, Gate.io, Kraken, KuCoin, OKX), each with its own API key. QARI treats each exchange as an isolated account.
- Pay by bank transfer (live), TRC-20 USDT via NOWPayments (live), Stripe card (coded, activates when Stripe merchant verification completes), Flutterwave (coded, activates when CAC registration completes).
- New /cookies and /risk-disclaimer landing pages. Clear opt-in for cookies. GPC (Global Privacy Control) honoured at the edge.
- Dashboard Terms version sync: the app version string matches the legal text you accepted at registration, so you never see stale terms.
Under the hood
- ExchangeClient abstraction: scanner and execution talk to a single interface. Adding a new exchange is a configuration change, not a scanner rewrite.
- ComplianceGate: a dispatch-layer guard rejects any call targeting a futures, margin, or derivatives endpoint across every exchange.
- Ethical Trading Advisory Board stood up: risk specialist, consumer-protection lawyer, quantitative analyst. Annual public review published at qari.trade/compliance/review.
- External penetration test completed pre-launch. All HIGH and CRITICAL findings remediated. Bug bounty private programme live through Immunefi.
- Cloudflare perimeter with WAF, rate limiting, country-level geoblocking (US, Canada, UK, China, and sanctioned jurisdictions).
Not changed
- Your positions, stop-loss levels, and kill-switch thresholds carry over unchanged.
- Multi-exchange runs in parallel, it does not merge balances. Each exchange remains isolated with its own cap and risk window.
- Subscription tier limits apply identically across exchanges: a Pro user still has the same combined open-position cap whether on one exchange or three.
Continuation of Release 2.1
LiveSprint 10: Chart Pattern Recognition
Ten geometric chart patterns now feed the confluence scorer
April 2026 (rolling deploy)
Sprint 10 adds Layer 12 to the scanner: ten classical chart patterns detected directly from price geometry. No machine learning. No training data. No personal data. Bullish patterns (cup-and-handle, falling wedge, double-bottom, bullish flag, ascending triangle, head-and-shoulders bottom) lift the confluence score when they form. Bearish patterns (head-and-shoulders, rising wedge, double-top, bearish flag) block new long entries on the same symbol. This is continuation work on Release 2.1, not a new version number. Sprint 10 was always part of the Release 2.1 plan, we shipped it after the initial 2.1 rollout so the base platform could soak in production first.
Ten detectors. Zero ML.
Pure geometry: pivots, slopes, peak-trough ratios, ATR-normalised tolerances. Every detection is deterministic and explainable.
Safety by asymmetry
Bearish pattern penalties hit before the wave multiplier. Bullish boosts land after. A corrective-wave bearish pattern still blocks; a corrective-wave bullish pattern is still helpful but bounded.
Confidence, not conviction
The badge is evidence, not a recommendation. The underlying risk gate still has the final say on every order.
What you see
- A pattern badge appears next to each Developing Setup in the dashboard. It shows which pattern, which direction (bullish or bearish), and a confidence label (low, medium, high).
- Hover the badge for a one-line explanation of what the pattern means and how strongly it is detected.
- Filter Developing Setups by pattern type so you can review only the setups with the structure you trust most.
- One-time launch email (EMAIL-025) sent 24 hours after deploy to users with at least one scan in the last 14 days.
Under the hood
- Ten pattern detectors, all geometric: pivot-based, ATR-normalised tolerances, minimum 20-candle lookback. No heuristic tuned to any specific market regime.
- Bearish penalty applies before the wave multiplier. Bullish boost applies after. Encoded in confluence_scorer.py with regression tests in test_confluence.py::TestL12PatternIntegration.
- Bearish-first conflict resolution: if a bullish and a bearish pattern both qualify in the same scan, the bearish penalty wins and the bullish boost is suppressed. Capital preservation outranks alpha.
- Migration 017 (additive only, no drops): new columns l12_pattern_detected, l12_pattern_name, l12_pattern_confidence, l12_pattern_direction on the candidates table. Every historical row defaults to safe values (FALSE / NONE / 0.000 / NONE).
- Two rollback paths pre-scripted. RB-1 reverts migration 017 if the detector exception rate exceeds 0.5% per hour. RB-2 disables the feature flag and retains the schema if p95 scan latency regresses by more than 50ms.
Not changed
- Pattern scores cannot override the hard gates. Risk/reward stays at 2.0 minimum, three-point confluence stays mandatory, confidence floor stays at 72, the 16-check risk gate stays binding.
- Patterns run on the same candle data the scanner already fetches. No new exchange calls. No new data sources. No latency penalty on the scan cycle.
- Stop-loss behaviour unchanged. ELE detector unchanged. Correlation block unchanged. Kill switch unchanged.
Future Release
What is coming next
The next major release is on a deliberate timeline, not a rushed one. We ship production-grade or we do not ship. What is on the runway: public bug bounty, SOC 2 Type II, iOS and Android native apps, Mada / KNET / JazzCash / GoPay / OVO / DANA payment rails, and an external WCAG 2.1 AA audit. Each lands as evidence accumulates, not on a marketing calendar.
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