# Strategy Hosting Canonical: https://www.usepancake.com/e/strategy-hosting **Definition:** Strategy hosting is infrastructure that runs a trading strategy on the user's behalf: the platform owns the runtime, the market-data feed, and the execution loop, and the strategy itself — not server code — is the deployable artifact. Pancake provides strategy hosting for AI-built prediction-market strategies, with immutable versioning, verifiable results, and a public ledger-backed record. The category separates two jobs that conventional tooling conflates: authoring a strategy (research — rules, parameters, evidence) and operating it (infrastructure — uptime, data feeds, execution, monitoring). A strategy host takes the operating job entirely, the way an application host takes server administration off a web developer. Adjacent options host something other than the strategy. A VPS hosts your code; you remain the operator. An exchange-linked bot platform hosts preset bot logic keyed to your exchange API keys. A charting tool hosts alerts that still need a webhook bridge to act. In each case the strategy's behavioral record lives in a private log or a platform dashboard, with no independently checkable artifact. Pancake's implementation makes the strategy the unit of hosting — a model sometimes called artifact-first hosting, because the deployable unit is the strategy artifact itself, never a server process. A strategy is a declarative spec — data, not arbitrary code — which is what makes platform-owned execution tractable: there is nothing to sandbox or babysit. Strategies are immutably versioned, and each version carries its result at a permanent URL (///v/). The authoring surface is MCP, so any MCP-capable agent (Claude or otherwise) can build, validate, deploy, and supervise a strategy without leaving its session. Deployment is evidence-gated: a version is validated with a verified backtest, then run forward as a paper deployment — entry and exit rules evaluated against live Polymarket data, fills simulated, every event appended to a write-once ledger rendered at a public page. Live venue execution is a v2-roadmap capability built on the same artifacts. The verification layer distinguishes hosting from mere running. Results are reproducible (open-source deterministic engine, content-hashed inputs, SHA-256 result hash) and honestly scoped (the verification boundary names what was verified, what was agent-supplied, and what was not modeled). The hosted strategy accumulates a track record a third party can audit, which is the property none of the adjacent categories provide. ## Related - [Q&A — what is strategy hosting](https://www.usepancake.com/q/what-is-strategy-hosting) - [Q&A — how to host a trading strategy](https://www.usepancake.com/q/how-to-host-a-trading-strategy) - [/e/paper-deployment — the hosted forward test](https://www.usepancake.com/e/paper-deployment) --- Markdown twin of https://www.usepancake.com/e/strategy-hosting — same content as the HTML page, generated from the same source data. More machine surfaces: https://www.usepancake.com/llms.txt