Institutions & DAOs
Institutions, DAOs, fund managers and treasuries can create custom vaults on top of Unison's audited cross-chain architecture, designed around their own risk appetite and allocation strategy.
Custom vaults
Anyone approved by the Unison protocol can deploy their own vault using the DAO Vault Factory. A custom vault is a full UnisonVault instance — same architecture, same security, same cross-chain capabilities — but owned and configured entirely by you.
What you control
Deposit asset
USDC, ETH, WBTC, or any supported token
Strategies
Pick from Unison's existing strategies or deploy your own
Allocation weights
Define how capital is distributed across strategies
Risk profile
Conservative, aggressive, or anything in between — you design the portfolio
Keeper
Use Unison's keeper infrastructure or run your own
Fees
Set your own performance and withdrawal fees
Branding
Custom vault name and token symbol for your community
How it works
Get whitelisted by the Unison protocol
Define your vault parameters — asset, strategies, roles, fees
Deploy via the factory — vault is created with your strategies attached
Accept ownership — two-step transfer, you explicitly confirm
Start accepting deposits — your vault is live
The factory retains zero post-deployment authority. Once ownership transfers to you, Unison cannot access, modify, or freeze your vault.
Security guarantees
Only whitelisted bridge and messaging adapters can be used — you cannot accidentally point your vault at a malicious bridge
Inflation attack prevention is enforced at deployment
Every vault inherits the same audit coverage as Unison's own vaults
Ownership uses two-step transfer to prevent accidental loss
For DAOs & treasuries
DAOs can use custom vaults as a treasury management system:
Operational reserves — deploy idle stablecoins into a low-risk vault with automatic compounding
Growth allocation — allocate a portion of treasury to RWA exposure or higher-yield strategies
Diversification — spread capital across multiple vaults with different risk profiles
Custom vaults integrate directly into existing DAO tooling — Gnosis Safe, Zodiac modules, Governor contracts — via the standard ERC-4626 interface. No custom development needed.
Example allocation:
60%
Low risk
Operating reserves — liquid, stable
25%
Medium risk
Growth with managed downside
15%
RWA
Long-term appreciation via real-world assets
For institutions & fund managers
Institutions get the same custom vault infrastructure with the properties they need:
Verifiable NAV Every position and price is readable from public contract state. NAV can be independently computed by any party at any time — no reliance on Unison's UI or off-chain reporting.
Non-custodial Funds are held in audited smart contracts. No team multisig, no off-chain custodian. Only the vault owner controls the funds.
Real-time settlement Deposits and withdrawals settle on-chain. No T+2, no wire windows, no business hours restriction.
Composable Vault shares are standard ERC-4626 tokens. They integrate into treasury management systems, lending protocols, multi-sig workflows, or any DeFi application.
ERC-4626 integration
All Unison vaults — including custom vaults — implement the ERC-4626 standard.
On-chain transparency
Every material action emits an on-chain event — deposits, withdrawals, harvests, rebalances, strategy changes. All indexable via Dune Analytics, The Graph, or direct RPC subscription.
Current position
Vault share balance × NAV per share
Entry price
Historical deposit events
Unrealised P&L
Current value minus cost basis from deposit events
Fee history
Harvest events log fee deductions
Strategy allocation
Read vault strategy registry on-chain
Access control
Custom vault owners configure three roles:
Owner
Full admin. Sets keeper and manager. Two-step ownership transfer.
Manager
Operations. Adds/deactivates strategies, updates fees, pauses/unpauses.
Keeper
Automated. Deploys capital, triggers harvests, rebalances.
Depositors have no special role — the ERC-4626 interface is open to any address.
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