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Trading terminal
A commercial trading tool for crypto exchanges – in the concept stage.
Trading terminal is a planned commercial tool intended mainly for trading on crypto exchanges. Part of the Stratum project.
Trading terminal – concept stage · package trade-term in the Stratum repository (component non-free) · proprietary, commercial · subscription licence
Concept stage. The project is being designed, and it is being studied whether it will materialise at all. Its future depends on that decision: the project will either be carried out or retired. This page is a concept as well – it describes intentions, not a finished product.
Where the project stands
| State | Concept and feasibility study |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Trading, mainly on crypto exchanges |
| Licence | Proprietary, commercial – subscription (not free/open-source, not GPL) |
| Decision | Pending – the project is carried out or retired |
| Package | trade-term 0.05 (non-free, binary-only) – marks the project only, no trading functions |
The idea
Trading terminal is meant to bring trading on crypto exchanges into one tool on a Debian host running Stratum.
If the project is carried out, it will not start from nothing: it will build on certain existing infrastructure, which will be adapted to this tool.
Licence
Trading terminal is proprietary commercial software, used under a subscription licence. It is not free or open-source software and not released under the GPL.
- A valid subscription licence for the feature
trade-termis required to operate. Licences are handled by stratum-license – a hardware ID and licence request on the computer, a signed licence file in return – the same mechanism as for remote support. Subscriptions are issued monthly or yearly; each feature expires on its own date, independently of any other feature in the licence (with a short grace period). - Reverse engineering, decompilation, disassembly and circumvention of the licence are prohibited.
- The package is published binary-only – there is no source package in the repository.
Planned design
Only if the project is carried out – nothing of this exists yet:
- Web interface – the tool will work in the browser, in the same spirit as VM Reactor.
- Backend in Go – a single, self-contained service, like VM Reactor, shipped stripped and binary-only.
- Commercial – licensed per subscription through stratum-license.
- Part of Stratum – a package in the non-free component of the Stratum repository, for Debian 13 (trixie) and Debian 14 (forky).
The package today
The package trade-term is already in the Stratum repository. It contains no trading functions, does not connect to any exchange and stores no keys – it only marks the project, shows its state and checks the licence:
The package is in the component non-free of the Stratum repository; current versions of stratum-init and stratum-archive-keyring add it to the APT source by themselves (Components: main contrib non-free). It depends on stratum-license.
sudo apt install trade-term trade-term # state of the project and the licence trade-term --license # licence state and where the full licence is trade-term --about # what the project is about trade-term --help # all options
A subscription licence is required for the tool to operate once it has functions; obtain and install one with stratum license.
What comes next
The concept is being worked out and its feasibility studied. When the decision is made, this page will say so: either the project starts – with installation instructions, documentation and screenshots here – or it is retired.