Imagine building your own institutional-grade yield engine – custody intact, risk isolated, execution spanning both DeFi and CEXes. Where adding protocols don’t require endless code, new adapters, or patching dashboards. That’s Core Vaults by Mellow. And they’re live today.

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The first Core Vault by Mellow – the @LidoFinance stRATEGY Vault – has been live for less than 3 days. That was all it needed to cross $25M TVL🎉🎉🎉 Choose a hub to put your capital on autopilot🧑‍✈️ Lido: https://t.co/4dFZRMorZY Mellow: https://t.co/aYMyOg2HCp

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As dust from xUSD begins to settle, expect to see a flight to safety for many disillusioned vault users. We already got the plane fueled up. The first flight is boarding – @LidoFinance's stRATEGY Core Vault is live. Get your boarding pass here: https://t.co/4dFZRMorZY

The vault model will rebuild public trust, but not with excessive yields or by pricing their shares offchain. It will do it by bringing depositors back to the forefront. No surprise we're already seeing @CredoraNetwork ratings come to Morpho and Spark:

Yield can be complex – delta-neutral, levered, looping – but it shouldn’t be mysterious. Core Vaults make every leg visible, it’s the vault architecture that treats transparency as a feature, not a footnote. You know exactly where the APY comes from, broken down by source.

This week, Mellow launched Core Vaults – endgame design for curated yield. Curators plug directly into protocols, no adapters, no extra code. Integrations drop from months to minutes. Focus shifts from “patching” to risk managing. That's exactly what curation is meant to be.

Every vault shows its true face eventually. The question is when. If you don't focus on transparency in vault design, you'll do it in a postmortem. Mellow’s answer? Skip that chapter and make vaults fully transparent and verifiable from day one.

The xUSD fallout isn’t a hack – it's opacity, compounded. If you have no clue where capital went or what backed your yield, by the time you found out, it is already gone. That’s not DeFi – that’s “trust me, bro” with extra steps. Something we mentioned before it even started.

Vaults were meant to make yield transparent. Then came bundling, rehypothecation, “external fund managers” – and somehow we ended up back at black boxes. Users deserve traceable, attributable, *honest* vaults, and Mellow is on a mission to bring yield back into the light🦾

Already $15M+ of ETH earning risk-adjusted yield. And it’s not even day 2 🫡 @LidoFinance and @mellowprotocol are cooking 🤝

Every vault stands on the shoulders of giants. Kudos @HashKeyCloud for being part of the process🙏

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To mark the launch, deposits into the Core Vault earn 3× Mellow Points for the first four weeks. Early participants gain amplified rewards while accessing a diversified, institution-grade strategy. Check it out: https://t.co/rg6tT4QjWx Learn more: https://t.co/0bALOlw4vz

Up to 12x leverage sounds spicy, but the vault keeps it cool – health checks, oracles, and real-time monitoring make sure it never runs hot. If things shift, it unwinds fast and safe. What once required multiple systems transformed into one seamless, institutional framework.

ETH gets swapped into wstETH and other LSTs to mint ETH+ at @reserveprotocol, paired with wETH on Curve, and staked through boosters like @StakeDAOHQ Part of the yield then loops back through @aave – posting wstETH as collateral, borrowing ETH, and compounding exposure up to 12x

Think of it as your ETH working overtime. It takes Lido’s wstETH, loops it, adds a bit of @CurveFinance magic, and turns it into a structured carry that keeps stacking yield while staying fully onchain.

At launch, the vault strategy anchors on ETH with a base allocation to @LidoFinance's wstETH-based low-risk DeFi. This foundation provides principal stability and liquid staking rewards while serving as the collateral layer for the broader strategy design.

The vault architecture is asset-agnostic and protocol-agnostic, so new strategies can be built on virtually any DeFi primitive. Because of the vault architecture, protocols require no custom adapters or code upgrades to be connected seamlessly.

This new framework broadens what a vault can do, giving allocators access to a fullscale strategy engine rather than a single yield source. Strategies run modularly across staking, lending, and other DeFi instruments, while stability of principal remains the defining objective.