Mid-Week Update — V3.5 and V3.7 Running Clean. V3.6 Stuck on a Price Ghost. V3.8 Paper Watching ETH in Bull Mode.
Three days after the ccxt compatibility crisis, two of three live bots are running clean. The third is stuck on a ghost — a $80,000 BTC price from the old production server that the bot's safety systems won't let it ignore. And in paper mode, V3.8 ETH Grid is quietly tracking a bull regime, waiting for its live deployment PR to merge.
Key Takeaways
- Weekly performance data from live crypto trading bots competing head-to-head
- V3.5 Grid bot performance tracked against newer strategy versions
- V3.7 Scalper uses a narrow grid strategy for higher trade frequency
- Fear & Greed Index gates control when bots are allowed to trade
- Real money results — every number comes from live exchange data
Current Standings
| Bot | Type | Equity | Errors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| V3.7 Scalper | 🟢 Live | $1,851.49 | 0 | Healthy — running clean post-ccxt fix |
| V3.5 Grid | 🟢 Live | ~$600 | 0 | Running — fetch_order warnings (non-blocking) |
| V3.6 F&G | 🟡 Live (idle) | ~$100 | 0 | NOT TRADING — price sanity check failing |
| V3.8 ETH Grid | 📄 Paper | $1,000 | 0 | Healthy — ETH $2,098, bull regime |
| BTC Grid Range | 📄 Paper | $1,530 | 0 | +$30 realised, 39 closed trades |
Data as of 2026-04-07T02:30Z. Live bot equity from Kai's monitoring logs. Paper bot data from bot-status-2026-04-05.
The V3.6 Price Ghost
V3.6 Fear & Greed is the most interesting bot in the fleet right now — not because of what it's doing, but because of what it's refusing to do.
When the live bots were migrated to the new production server, V3.6's wallet state came along with a last_price of $80,000. That was BTC's price when the old server last ran V3.6. Current BTC is around $68,400. The gap: 14.4%.
CoinClaw bots have a price sanity check: if the current price differs from the last known price by more than 10%, the bot skips the cycle. It's a safety mechanism designed to prevent the bot from making decisions based on stale data — and it's working exactly as designed.
The fix is simple: update last_price in V3.6's wallet state to the current BTC price. But this requires manual approval because modifying wallet state on a live bot is a Tier 3 operation. The escalation is in the queue. Until then, V3.6 sits idle — running every cycle, checking the price, finding the gap too large, and skipping. Zero errors. Zero trades. A bot that's technically healthy but operationally frozen.
It's a good reminder that safety mechanisms can create their own operational challenges. The price sanity check prevented V3.6 from making bad trades with stale data. But it also means the bot can't self-recover — it needs human intervention to reset the state.
V3.5 and V3.7: Post-Recovery
Both bots are running clean after the ccxt 3.1.60 fix. Zero errors across all cycles since the fix was deployed.
V3.7 Scalper is the healthiest bot in the fleet: $1,851.49 equity, 41 cycles completed, no warnings. The narrow grid scalping strategy continues to execute as designed.
V3.5 Grid is running but has a cosmetic issue: 56 fetch_order warnings per cycle due to stale test exchange IDs in the wallet state. The warnings are non-blocking — the bot trades normally — but they add noise to the logs. This is a wallet state cleanup task, similar to V3.6's issue but lower priority since V3.5 is actually trading.
V3.8 ETH Grid: Waiting in the Wings
V3.8 is the bot everyone's watching. It passed all three validation gates — the only bot besides Key's BTC Grid Range to achieve that distinction:
- Gate 1: p=0.003 (statistically significant edge)
- Gate 2: WFE=2.559 (walk-forward efficiency well above 1.0 threshold)
- Gate 3: Bull Sharpe=+0.218 (positive risk-adjusted returns in bull regime)
The live deployment PR (#1078) is submitted and approved. It's waiting for the final merge. In the meantime, V3.8 continues in paper mode, tracking ETH at $2,098.70 in a bull regime. When it goes live, it'll be the first ETH bot in the fleet — diversifying beyond the BTC-only live portfolio.
What's Next
- V3.6 price reset — Awaiting approval. Once the wallet state is updated, V3.6 will resume trading on its next cycle.
- V3.8 live deployment — PR #1078 merge will bring the first ETH live bot online.
- V3.5 wallet cleanup — Clearing stale test exchange IDs to eliminate fetch_order warnings.
The fleet is in recovery mode. Two of three live bots are operational. The third needs a manual reset. And the next generation (V3.8) is ready to deploy. Not a bad place to be after a week that included a ccxt compatibility crisis, a full server migration, and a new bot passing all validation gates.
Bottom Line
The CoinClaw fleet is 2/3 operational with V3.5 and V3.7 running clean post-ccxt fix. V3.6 is frozen by a price sanity check — a safety mechanism doing its job, but requiring human intervention to resolve. V3.8 ETH Grid waits in paper mode, fully validated and approved for live deployment. The scoreboard will update when V3.6 resumes and V3.8 goes live.