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VEX Desktop

0.4.1 Your keys. Your machine. Your agent.

A self-custodial AI agent for crypto that runs on your own computer, trades from wallets whose keys never leave it, and asks before it moves money unless you choose otherwise.

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Livev0.4.1 · 20 October 2026

Model proposes. Runtime enforces. You decide.

Install and connectChapters

Install and connect

(01) Download, open, go.

macOS on Apple Silicon or Intel, Windows x64 or Windows on Arm, or Linux x64. The local runtime ships in the app: a PostgreSQL 18.6 database with pgvector 0.8.7 and a llama.cpp embeddings server running EmbeddingGemma 300M. No Docker. You pay OpenRouter directly for model use. No $VEX needed.
  • Open VEX. System Check measures your disk and memory first, and if there is not room for the model and the database, it tells you how much space it needs.
  • On first run VEX creates its local database and downloads the embedding model once, about 333 MB, checked against a pinned fingerprint before it is used.
  • Paste your OpenRouter key.
  • Create your EVM and Solana wallets, or restore them from a backup. Set a master password. VEX writes a backup archive automatically.
  • Start a session: Agent or Mission, Restricted or Full Autonomous. The choice is fixed for that session.

The first launch needs the internet once, for the model download. The database and the embeddings server listen only on 127.0.0.1, start when you open VEX and stop when you quit. The app must stay open: Desktop works only while it runs. Coming from a version that ran on Docker? Move my data copies your sessions, missions, memory and settings across in one click and checks the copy before VEX uses it.

KeysChapters

Keys

(02) Created and encrypted on your computer.

EVM and Solana keys are generated on your computer and stored in an encrypted vault (AES-256-GCM, scrypt N=2^17, r=8, p=1). The master password is held only in memory and asked again after every restart. VEX servers never hold your keys.
  • A backup archive is written automatically. You can export your wallets and restore them.
  • No hardware wallet support.
  • The code is source-available under the VEX Source-Available License v1.0, published so you can read and audit it.
ApprovalsChapters

Approvals

(03) What is signed, shown before it is signed.

Restricted, the default, asks before every action that moves money. The approval card shows the exact signed arguments, the VEX fee and a safety verdict from VEX's own check, never model text.
  • Approvals expire after 1 hour.
  • Slippage is 1% by default, with a hard cap of 10%.
  • Even in Full Autonomous, a price-and-safety check no older than 15 minutes from the same venue is required, and every send goes through prepare, then confirm.
  • Full Autonomous Agent sessions have no mission contract. The wallets you attach are the only limit.
DownloadsChapters

Downloads

(04) Download v0.4.1 for macOS, Windows or Linux.

Download the build for your system from GitHub: macOS on Apple Silicon or Intel, Windows x64 or Windows on Arm, Linux as AppImage or deb. macOS builds are notarized. Windows builds are Authenticode signed.
macOS, Apple Silicon (.dmg)
https://github.com/Vex-Foundation/Vex/releases/download/v0.4.1/Vex-0.4.1-mac-arm64.dmg
macOS, Intel (.dmg)
https://github.com/Vex-Foundation/Vex/releases/download/v0.4.1/Vex-0.4.1-mac-x64.dmg
Windows x64 (.exe)
https://github.com/Vex-Foundation/Vex/releases/download/v0.4.1/Vex-0.4.1-win-x64.exe
Windows on Arm (.exe)
https://github.com/Vex-Foundation/Vex/releases/download/v0.4.1/Vex-0.4.1-win-arm64.exe
Linux x64 (.AppImage)
https://github.com/Vex-Foundation/Vex/releases/download/v0.4.1/Vex-0.4.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage
Linux x64 (.deb)
https://github.com/Vex-Foundation/Vex/releases/download/v0.4.1/Vex-0.4.1-linux-amd64.deb
All files for v0.4.1
https://github.com/Vex-Foundation/Vex/releases/tag/v0.4.1

VEX charges 0.25% on the operations it executes, only after they succeed. Model costs are separate: you pay OpenRouter directly.

Run your agent on your own machine.

Needs your own OpenRouter key and nothing else to install: since v0.4.1 the local runtime ships in the app. You pay your model provider directly.

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