Vaults
A vault is a pooled USDC account that trades a strategy and shares the result with its depositors. TxFlow has two kinds: the Protocol Vault, run by the protocol, and User Vaults, run by community members.
Protocol Vault
TxFlow's community-owned liquidity pool. It market-makes and backstops liquidations, earning trading fees and liquidation rewards — the strategies that normally sit with institutional market makers.
Deposit lock-up: 4 days from your most recent deposit. Deposit Oct 10 at 10:00 → withdrawable Oct 14 at 10:00. Each new deposit restarts the clock on the whole balance.
User Vaults
Created by community members. Any user can deposit USDC into one and share in its trading profits. The vault leader takes a 10% profit share for running the strategy — a way for traders to run their strategy at scale while earning a management fee.
Side by side
| Protocol Vault | User Vaults | |
|---|---|---|
| Operator | TxFlow protocol (community-governed) | individual traders or teams |
| Strategy | market making + liquidations | varies (directional, arbitrage, …) |
| Revenue source | trading fee rebates + liquidation rewards | trading profits |
| Ownership | 100% community-owned | operator + depositors |
| Profit share to operator | 0% | 10% to the vault leader |
| Risk profile | lower (market-neutral) | varies — can be high for directional strategies |