High-fidelity decentralized engine for the synthesis and settlement of institutional-grade financial indices on Arbitrum.
VaultWorks provides a strong core for the next generation of asset management. By replacing legacy financial intermediation with a system of deterministic mathematical laws, we enable the creation and settlement of indices with absolute precision and cryptographic sovereignty.
Powered by Arbitrum Stylus (Rust), VaultWorks achieves near-native performance, allowing complex vector-based financial products to operate at the speed and scale required by global capital markets.
The ecosystem is structured as a Castle—a high-integrity environment—where the protocol itself autonomously guards the Access Control List (ACL) and secures the perimeter against unauthorized execution.
The system logic is managed by dedicated NPCs (Non-Player Characters), each serving as a specialized inhabitant of the Castle to maintain the integrity of the realm.
| Role | Focus | Function |
|---|---|---|
| Factor | Order Execution | Orchestrates the lifecycle of buy and sell orders, managing the flow of collateral between traders and operators. |
| Banker | Market Equilibrium | Ingests vendor's supply, market data, asset margins, and liquidity slopes to synchronize precise quotes across multiple indices. |
| Clerk | Registry Maintenance | Diligently manages the formal update of protocol records and the registry of system components. |
| Steward | State Observability | Serves as the protocol’s eyes and ears, distilling complex vectors of market supply, vendor deltas, and real-time index quotes. |
| Guildmaster | Index Governance | Presides over the creation and modification of indices, officiating asset weights and the democratic submission of votes. |
| Constable | System Authority | Acts as the foundational architect, appointing sovereign roles and defining the permissions for Issuers, Vendors, and Keepers. |
| Worksman | Vault Fabrication | Maintains the architectural prototypes and executes the deployment of sovereign Vault instances for the system. |
| Scribe | Truth Verification | Operates as the gatekeeper of authenticity by performing cryptographic verification of signatures for protocol data. |
| Facet | Focus | Function |
|---|---|---|
| Vault | Identity & ERC-20 | The base vessel for the Index; implements the standard ERC-20 interface for tokenized identity while managing custody and metadata. |
| Vault Native | Valuation Engine | An implementation inspired by ERC-4626, but optimized for the protocol's high-dimensional vector math. Handles asset valuation and quote conversions.. |
| Vault Orders | Order Lifecycle | Inspired by ERC-7540; manages the asynchronous placement and processing of buy/sell orders. |
| Vault Claims | Settlement | Inspired by ERC-7540; manages the claimable state and final settlement of processed acquisitions and disposals. |
VaultWorks separates computational execution from top-level business logic to ensure a disciplined financial state.
- The Vaults: They implement ERC-20 and inspired by ERC-7540 / ERC-4626. High-security attachments that house Index definitions, asset weights, and user orders. They are built by the Worksman on command of the Guildmaster.
- The Gate: An implementation of the Proxy (ERC-1967) pattern providing secure, structured access points. The architecture utilizes individual Gates for each Vault.
- The Clerk: The Clerk smart contract orchestrates the recording of the final state in stored vectors and triggers the execution of deterministic financial logic.
- Abacus-Runtime: The foundational library powering the computational engine. It performs high-velocity, zero-copy high-dimensional vector math, bypassing the gas overhead of standard EVM implementations. Also known as the VIL VM: Decentralized Vector Intermediate Language Virtual Machine.
- Abacus-Formulas: The dedicated library containing the Vector Programs and mathematical definitions used by the protocol to align market and index vectors.
VaultWorks is engineered for the highest standards of accuracy, transparency, and efficiency.
- Speed & Precision: Data is represented as vectors of 128-bit decimals with 256-bit computational precision, ensuring exacting accuracy while maintaining WASM binaries under the 24KiB limit.
- Gas Efficiency: By utilizing a custom-built VIL VM, we eliminate the overhead of standard blockchain
SLOAD/SSTOREoperations, ensuring the core remains strong under high-frequency load. - Financial Accuracy: Trading is driven by maximizing available margin (reducing liability through incremental pegging) using the math of equity, assets, and liability, represented here as Supply, Demand, and Delta vectors.
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Technical Brief - Systematic Risk Controls And Execution Framework
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Gas-Efficient Vector Processing for On-Chain Index Order Execution
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Addendum A - Vectorized Rebalancing and Dynamic Capacity Logic
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Read more here to learn about Vector Intermediate Language Virtual Machine (VIL VM).