No spin. Where an answer needs a caveat, it gets one — the same standard we hold the records to.
Trust & safety
Can Vaultomate run off with my money?
The manager never can — their key only places trades, it can't move funds. And no one person at Vaultomate can either: moving money out goes through the redemption flow and needs 2 of 3 independent signers to approve, on audited Lagoon rails. That's far stronger than trusting a single key — and, honestly, not zero-trust: you're trusting that signer set won't collude. Every rule is on-chain, so you can verify it yourself.
Can the manager steal my deposit?
No. A manager holds a trade-only key, cage-enforced by Zodiac Roles on the vault's Gnosis Safe — it can trade whitelisted Hyperliquid markets and nothing else. It has no path to send USDC anywhere (the one transfer rule is pinned to the Hyperliquid bridge; everything else is denied by default). Before any vault goes live we adversarially test the cage on-chain — trying to send funds to a random wallet and to the manager's own — and both must fail.
Is the infrastructure audited?
Yes — and it isn't our code holding your money. Your vault is Lagoon's ERC-7540 standard (audited by Nethermind and Trail of Bits) on a Gnosis Safe with Zodiac Roles — widely-used, battle-tested contracts. We write no custom custody code, and the exact calls your wallet signs at deploy are byte-verified against the proven on-chain deploys.
The record
How do I know a track record is real?
Because it isn't reported to you — it's read straight from the chain when the page loads. Share price, every trade, drawdowns, fees: all reconstructed from on-chain data, each number linking to the transaction behind it. Nothing is typed in by the manager or by us.
Can a manager fake or edit their performance?
No. The record is derived from on-chain fills and settlements that already happened — there's no field for anyone, including the manager or us, to edit. A bad month stays; so does every losing or skipped trade.
Your money
How do deposits & withdrawals work?
You deposit USDC and get vault shares priced at NAV. To exit, you redeem your shares and withdraw — processed through the vault's redemption flow. The vault settles at NAV daily, so your position marks to the settled price.
Is my money locked up?
No lock-in — your shares are redeemable. Withdrawals settle at the next daily NAV settlement rather than instantly, so it's a short settlement wait, not a lockup. Your capital stays yours throughout.
What fees do I pay as an investor?
Only the manager's performance fee — their cut of the profits, charged on a high-water mark (only on new highs, never twice on the same gains) and set by them between 0 and 30%. No management fee. Every fee is shown on the record page before you deposit.
What's the minimum to invest?
$15 — a low floor by design, so you can try a vault with real but small money.
How it works
How is share price / NAV calculated?
NAV is the vault's total value divided by its shares — what one share is worth, net of all fees. It settles daily from on-chain balances and fills, and it's the number your return is measured against. Between settlements the record shows a clearly-labelled live estimate.
What chain is this, and where are funds held?
Everything runs on HyperEVM (Hyperliquid's chain, id 999). Your funds sit in the vault's own caged Gnosis Safe on-chain — not in a Vaultomate account. We operate the vault; we don't hold your money.
Do you hold my keys / is this custodial?
You sign every deposit and withdrawal from your own wallet — we never take your keys, and the manager never holds a key that can pay anyone out. In full honesty it isn't "fully non-custodial": moving funds out is operated by a 2-of-3 redemption multisig on audited rails. So no single party can misdirect your money — but you're trusting that signer set, which is stronger than trusting one key, and every control is verifiable on-chain.
Do I need to KYC?
No. It's self-custodial and on-chain — you connect your wallet and deposit (or create a vault) directly, signing from your own wallet. No account, no identity paperwork, no gatekeeper.
For managers
How does a manager get paid?
The manager sets a performance fee (0–30%). They earn it only on new highs — high-water-marked with no reset, so it is never paid twice for recovering the same ground. It accrues as the vault settles.
Why launch here vs a native Hyperliquid vault?
Cost and control. A native HL vault costs $10,000 to create and caps your fee at 10%; here you pay ~$5 in gas, set your own fee up to 30%, and get an un-fakeable public record plus TradingView / Python / AI tooling out of the box.
What does it cost to launch a vault?
About $5 in gas — that's it. (Hyperliquid charges $10,000 for a native vault; we charge no platform fee to deploy.)
Can I use my existing strategy (TradingView / Python / AI)?
Yes — that's the point. Connect a TradingView alert via one webhook, POST from a few lines of Python, or point an AI agent at your vault's llms.txt. Your strategy runs where it already lives; the vault executes and records it.
Compared to
How is this different from copy-trading?
Copy-trading is a self-reported black box you hand your money to. Here the record is read from the chain (verifiable, un-fakeable), trading happens on a real exchange (Hyperliquid), and the manager can never touch your funds — only trade.
How is this different from a prop firm?
A prop firm charges you for evaluations, takes a big cut, and owns the record. Here you keep your edge and your record is yours — public, portable, provable — with no eval fees and no firm holding the account.