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Octant Vaults: 0→1 Partner Onboarding

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This guide is for organizations and treasuries looking to deploy capital into Octant v2 vaults - preserving principal while routing yield as a funding stream.

You'll learn how vaults and strategies work, how to deploy capital, how yield is routed, how roles and operations function, and how to verify everything onchain.

This onboarding path assumes you'll adopt existing vaults and strategies without custom engineering.

For custom integrations and strategy development, see the Developer docs linked throughout.

For Vaults UI walkthroughs, see the Visual Guides.

The Further Reading section provides developer documentation for deeper verification.

What Octant v2 Vaults Deliver​

Octant v2 vaults are ERC-4626 based vault infrastructure, designed so capital can be deployed into a yield strategy, while the yield is routed to a destination (or multiple) which you control. The core design of the vaults separates vault mechanics from strategy logic, so strategies can be swapped or extended without reinventing ERC-4626 accounting.

In practice:

  • deposit capital into a vault or strategy vault configured for your program
  • capital is deployed into one or more yield strategies, depending on the vault path you choose
  • a keeper calls report() to realize gains or losses
  • you retain full withdrawal rights to your principal, but yield is intentionally directed to the configured donation address rather than compounded back into the vault.

Why teams use Octant vaults​

  • Capital preservation by design: your principal stays in the vault, only yield moves, subject to normal DeFi risks.
  • Non-custodial: you deploy the smart contract, you control admin keys via your multisig or governance.
  • Programmable funding: yield routes to a destination you control, commonly a splitter for multiple recipients.
  • Onchain transparency: flows are visible on block explorers, anyone can verify where yield goes.

Diagram showing how Octant v2 vaults work: users deposit capital, a strategy generates yield, and yield is routed to configured funding destinations

Think of it as "Kickstarter powered by yield": you commit capital once, and the returns sustainably fund the initiatives you care about.

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What is live today (what this onboarding covers):

  • vault and strategy deployments
  • strategy factories
  • yield routing to a donation address you control
  • operational roles (management, keeper, emergency admin)
  • withdrawals and emergency controls