Glossary

AgentGuard

The on-chain policy hook installed on your account's root validator that enforces your own rules - caps, allowlists, and freeze state. See Rules & AgentGuard.

Chain tier (Botanary / Basic / Watch)

The three-level capability badge every chain carries: Botanary tier has the full rules engine available, Basic tier supports sending, swapping, trading, and managing but not delegating, and Watch tier is read-only. See Chains & networks.

Delegation

A scoped, revocable grant of spending power to a delegate - a dApp, an automation, a recurring payment, or a mandate for a hired agent - built from the account's own Smart Sessions module. See Delegations.

Depeg signal

A per-stablecoin peg-health report for a coin you hold: ok, watch, depegged, or unknown when it can't be checked. See Depeg protection.

Gas method

One of the ways an operation's transaction fee gets paid: sponsored, USDC, USDT, or the chain's own native asset. See Gas.

Guardian

An address you nominate that can help restore access to your account through social recovery. A guardian can never spend from your account - only help rotate its signer if you're locked out. See Recovery.

Kernel account

The ERC-7579 modular smart account standard every Botanary account is built on. See The smart account.

Mandate

The v2 shape of a delegation, built for a hired agent or automation acting under its own executor - bounded by specific venues and per-venue spend caps rather than a flat budget. See Agents.

Market index id

The namespaced identifier used across the Markets surface: launchpad:<chain>:<address> for a launchpad token, equity:<SYMBOL> for a tokenized equity. See Markets.

Owner lane / guardian lane

The two separate signing paths in Botanary: the owner lane, where you (or an authorized device) sign ordinary account actions, and the guardian lane, used only for a recovery rotation and signed by your guardians instead. See Recovery.

Sentient / Prototype

Launchpad token graduation states: sentient means a token has graduated and now trades on a DEX pool; prototype means it's still pre-graduation, trading on a bonding curve. See Launchpad.

Session key

A limited-authority key - a delegation's device on the delegate side - that can only act within the bounds its delegation encodes, never with your account's own full signing authority.

Simulation / preview

The advisory, fail-closed dry run every proposed action goes through before you're asked to sign it. See Simulation.

Smart Sessions

The on-chain module that encodes and enforces a v1 delegation's policy, checked during ERC-4337 validation. See Delegations.

Tokenized equity / RWA

A token that references a real-world asset's price - legally a claim on that value, not the asset itself, carrying no voting or shareholder rights. See Trade.

UserOperation (UserOp)

The ERC-4337 operation format every state-changing action in Botanary is built as - unsigned when the backend hands it to you, signed once you've approved it, and relayed only after that.

Watchlist

A locally saved set of tokens on the Stocks tab, used to filter your view - not a field Botanary's backend tracks on your behalf. See Markets.