Tiers

Autopilot is gated by ZDLT. The amount you hold determines four things: how many positions can run at once, the largest size of any one position, the maximum share of your capital that can sit in any single coin, and the smallest USDC balance Autopilot needs before it will open its first trade.

The ladder is named after stars in Orion. Higher tier = more capital deployable = more funding-rate yield captured.

The ladder

Tier	Min ZDLT	Slots	Max per coin	Min USDC to start	Max position size
Saiph	10,000,000	10	30%	$67	$100,000
Betelgeuse	5,000,000	8	30%	$67	$50,000
Bellatrix	1,000,000	5	30%	$67	$25,000
Alnilam	100,000	5	30%	$67	$10,000
Alnitak	10,000	4	50%	$40	$5,000
Mintaka	1,000	4	100%	$25	$2,500
No tier	—	0	—	—	—

Inclusive lower bound: exactly 1,000 ZDLT puts you in Mintaka, 999.99 keeps you at No tier.

Max per coin is how much of your capital any single coin is allowed to hold. Mintaka can put 100% in one coin (small accounts shouldn't be forced to split). Alnitak spreads across at least 2 coins (50% each). Alnilam and above spread across at least 4 coins (30% each). The cap is structural protection: once your capital is meaningful, no single-coin move can wipe out a large chunk.

Min USDC to start is the floor below which Autopilot can't open anything, because every position has a $20 minimum and the per-coin cap would clamp candidates below that. If your balance is under this threshold the wallet shows a deposit nudge — "Deposit $X to start. Autopilot needs $Y at your tier" — with the exact amount missing.

How the badge updates

Your tier badge sits on the ZDLT detail screen's summary card. It re-evaluates in three places:

• On login (/auth/privy-session re-runs the seeder).

• On pull-to-refresh of the home screen or the ZDLT detail screen.

• On re-entering the ZDLT tier acknowledgement screen ("Check balance").

The check is a single Solana RPC call summing all your token accounts for ZDLT, then matching against the ladder above. If the RPC fails, the policy gate fails closed — Autopilot won't open a fresh trade until the next successful refresh.

What "no tier" means

If you're under 1,000 ZDLT:

• The home screen shows an inline amber banner: "Autopilot off — Hold ZDLT to enable trades." Tap it to revisit the tier ladder + swap shortcut.

• The HL Positions screen shows the same banner.

• Existing Autopilot positions (if any) stay open — the gate denies new orders, it doesn't force-close existing ones.

• You can still receive, send, swap, and burn ZDLT at will.

Once you cross into Mintaka, Autopilot is permitted to open trades on the next worker cycle.

How tiers map to actual P&L

Three levers compound:

1. Concurrent positions — Autopilot picks the highest-Farm-Score markets it can find and runs delta-neutral pairs on each. More slots = more diversified capture across the funding-rate landscape, fewer single-market risks.

2. Notional per position — bigger size on each pair, all else equal, scales the funding payment linearly.

3. Max per coin — caps how concentrated your capital can be. Higher tiers force diversification (30% means at least 4 coins); lower tiers let small accounts concentrate so they aren't priced out by the per-position floor.

A Mintaka tier with 4 slots at $2,500 notional and 100% per-coin can put a whole small account into one or two markets. A Saiph tier with 10 slots at $100,000 each at 30% per-coin can run $1M of delta-neutral exposure spread across the top funding markets simultaneously.

There is no fixed APY. Yield depends on live funding rates. The wallet shows your current running yield so you can read the actual rate against the size you've deployed.

Climbing the ladder

In-app paths to acquire ZDLT:

• Swap from SOL — SOL detail screen → Swap → ZDLT. Single-page Jupiter Ultra flow.

• Swap from USDC-Sol — USDC-Sol detail screen → Swap → ZDLT.

• Receive from elsewhere — ZDLT detail screen → Receive → QR / address. Buy on a CEX or DEX and send to your Privy Solana wallet.

The tier acknowledgement screen has a Buy ZDLT link that opens Jupiter directly with your wallet pre-filled. Use whichever path is smoothest for your funding source.

Why ZDLT-gated

Tiers are Zirodelta's revenue alignment with Autopilot users. Holding ZDLT funds protocol operations and aligns long-term holders with the platform's growth. The trade-off is concrete and visible: hold more, deploy more, capture more.

If you're not comfortable holding a token, Zidee isn't the right surface — the full trading terminal lets you run Autopilot on a Pro subscription model instead.

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See also: Overview · Custody · ZDLT Token