One percent on the way in, always. A quarter of the profit on the way out, nothing if there is no profit. And as a member you are insured at seventy percent of your deposit.
The orbits
Seven orbits, each with a hard cap: when an orbit is full it closes until the next epoch. Two prolonged ones, the OTC Desk and XBANK Angel, target more than 50% APR and pay at exit only. Liquid Staking Majors takes BTC, ETH, SOL, HYPE and USDC into one product; Lending & Arbitrage and Coco Confluence Auto-Trading are built from the Terminal and open to its members only. Deposit USDC, SOL, BTC, ETH or HYPE, hold through the lock, leave through a cool-off queue. While you are in, you are eligible for every airdrop the desk farms and your share of royalties and referral income.
| Strategy | Est. APY | Current |
|---|
In orbit
Value is marked at the last signed attestation. Profit share is only charged on the part above what you put in, and only when you withdraw. Leaving is a request, a 30-day cool-off, then a claim: the desk approves the amount, you claim it, and it is sent from the multisig and recorded with its txid. Nothing pays out on its own.
Your holdings across AlphaBlock pools
| Pool | Your share | Value |
|---|
Standing orders
Joined by transaction?
Add the position yourself so your dashboard shows it now. The desk reconciles the txid against the chain; until then it is marked as awaiting confirmation. Membership counts from the confirmed date.
Rewards while you're in orbit
An open position is the ticket. Every month the desk snapshots open positions and distributes three things on top of vault yield: airdrops it farmed with pooled capital, half of AlphaBlock's NFT royalties, and half of its referral income from the venues it trades on.
This month's pool
Airdrops the desk is farming right now
Airdrops are discretionary and may never pay. Points are credited to the vault's book when they are claimable or sold OTC, never before. Royalty and referral income varies with AlphaBlock's own revenue and can be reduced at the end of an epoch with notice.
How it works
The whole thing in six steps, then the arithmetic with real numbers, then the questions people actually ask.
Connect a wallet
Phantom, Solflare or Backpack. Nothing else is required; a Discord link only adds tier perks for terminal and Cerberus members.
Pick a vault
Each vault is a strategy the desk already runs with its own money: delta-neutral basis, the Coco Confluence bot, SOL liquid yield. The card shows the risk grade, what it earned, how much room is left and which venues it touches.
Deposit, minus 1%
One transaction. The 1% deposit fee goes to the treasury; the other 99% buys vault shares at the current price. Your cost basis is the 99%.
Hold through the lock
The desk trades the pooled book. Twice a month an attester and an independent verifier both sign the book value, which sets the share price on-chain. Your dashboard shows it the same minute.
Collect what being in earns
Every month, open positions are snapshotted. You receive your share of airdrops the desk farmed, half of AlphaBlock's NFT royalties and half of its referral income, claimable in USDC.
Leave through the queue
After the lock, request a withdrawal. A 30-day cool-off lets the desk unwind positions and fund the payout wallet in time. Then the amount is frozen and you claim it; it is sent from the multisig and the txid is recorded on your position. You get your shares' value minus 25% of whatever profit sits above your cost basis; no profit, no fee. Nothing pays out automatically.
$10,000 in, a good quarter
| Deposit | $10,000.00 |
| Deposit fee, 1% | −$100.00 |
| Cost basis | $9,900.00 |
| Share price after 90 days, +8.0% | $10,692.00 |
| Profit above cost basis | $792.00 |
| Profit share, 25% | −$198.00 |
| You receive | $10,494.00 |
Plus the rewards snapshot for each month you were in, paid separately.
$10,000 in, a bad quarter
| Deposit | $10,000.00 |
| Deposit fee, 1% | −$100.00 |
| Cost basis | $9,900.00 |
| Share price after 90 days, −3.0% | $9,603.00 |
| Profit share | $0.00 |
| You receive | $9,603.00 |
The 1% deposit fee is charged either way; the profit share is not. Rewards for those months are still yours. Below 70% of your deposit, the Backstop tops you up.
Where does my money actually sit?
In a vault account controlled by the program. The desk can move at most 90% of it to its trading accounts, which are owned by a 3-of-5 multisig, and must bring money back before paying the withdrawal queue. Claims can never be paused, even when deposits are.
Who decides the share price?
Nobody alone. Two separate keys, the attester and the verifier, both have to sign the same book value before the program accepts it, and a single attestation cannot move the price more than 30%. Every attestation is listed on the Ledger page with both signatures.
What is the yield made of?
Strategy returns first: funding and basis capture, bot trading, liquid staking and LP fees. On top, the monthly rewards pool: airdrops, royalties, referral income. The first part moves the share price; the second is paid to you directly.
Is the return fixed?
No. The desk publishes a target per vault and its realised history. Returns can be negative. The fee model is built so that AlphaBlock is only paid for profit it actually produced.
Can I learn to do this myself?
Yes. Every vault has a manual mode that walks you through the same trade with your own wallet, step by step, with live numbers from the vault's book. Finishing one earns a NOVA bounty and a fee discount on that vault.
What is the Backstop, exactly?
A reserve account per vault, funded from AlphaBlock's own revenue: platform fees, NFT royalties, referral income. When you withdraw, if your shares are worth less than 70% of your cost basis, the reserve pays the difference up to 70%, limited by what the reserve holds that day. The reserve balance and everything it has paid out are public on the Ledger. It is a goodwill measure provided for as long as AlphaBlock keeps having positive revenue through the support of its users and holders; it can be paused at the end of an epoch with notice, and it is not insurance.
Why is no provider above 20% of a pool?
Every asset pool is split across at least five providers with a hard 20% cap on each, so a compromise of one venue costs the pool at most a fifth, and in most pools around a tenth. The split per vault is shown in its row.
Which assets can I deposit?
BTC, ETH, SOL, HYPE and USDC, all into Liquid Staking Majors as one product; USDC and SOL into the others. Majors arrive as wrapped assets on Solana or are sent natively to the asset's own deposit address. XMR and ZEC are hold-and-hedge only, no staking exists for them, and are offered to members on request.
Who can deposit?
Private beta: terminal members and Cerberus Pool members, by invitation. Not available to US persons or in other restricted jurisdictions. This is not an offer of securities and nothing here is financial advice.
One treasury of talent, three pools, both ways
The Cerberus USD Pool, SunFund and the DLMM Pool are aggregated with the vaults in both directions: pool capital can be allocated into vault strategies, and vault strategies can draw on the pool managers' books and venues. Referrals are shared across all of them, managers cross over between pools, and positive returns are used to scout new managers and fund further development.
How the aggregation works
| Capital | pools → vaults and vaults → pools, booked as positions on either side, same 1% / 25% terms |
| Referrals | one referral layer: BloFin, TxFlow, XBANK and venue codes shared, income into the members' pool |
| Managers | a Cerberus manager can run a vault strategy; a vault strategist can take a pool season; track record follows the person |
| Positive returns | a slice of each profitable epoch goes to SunFund to scout new talent and fund development |
Not financial advice. Pool and vault results can be negative; past seasons do not predict future ones.
Deposit
No wallet connection needed. Send from any wallet or exchange to the address for your asset, then fill in the form. Your entry is recorded in the ledger and becomes a position at the same terms as a wallet-connected deposit. Until the program is live this is also how every deposit is made; it stays available afterwards for anyone who prefers not to connect.
The address is also pinned in #defi-deposits on Discord. Any other address is not ours.
Ledger
Every attestation and every pre-beta deposit, in public. Entries you record on this device appear here immediately; the desk reconciles them against the chain before they count.
Attestations
| Epoch | Vault | Book value | Share price | Date |
|---|
Pre-beta deposits
| Wallet | Purpose | Amount | Date |
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Not financial advice. Launch is limited to whales and Terminal members. Fees: 1% on every deposit, charged whether the position later wins or loses; 25% of realised profit on withdrawal, nothing if there is no profit. Members who bring a friend earn 10% of that friend's fees and the friend saves 10%. Nothing on this site promises returns; vault results can be negative and the deposit is at risk. The 70% member insurance (the Backstop) is solely an act of goodwill that is provided for as long as AlphaBlock keeps having positive revenue through the support of its users and holders; it is limited to the reserve balance, it is not a regulated insurance product, and it can be withdrawn with notice. AlphaBlock DeFi is a members' vault platform operated by AlphaBlock. Vault returns are not guaranteed and can be negative. Fees: 1% on deposit, 25% of realised profit on withdrawal, nothing on a loss. Rewards from airdrops, royalties and referral income are variable and discretionary. Not available to US persons or in restricted jurisdictions. Nothing on this site is investment, legal or tax advice, and nothing here is an offer of securities. Demo mode shows simulated figures; live figures come from signed on-chain attestations.