Creator Vault

Purpose

The Creator Vault is not designed as a passive revenue account.

Its role is to align creators with long-term market health, rather than enabling immediate fee extraction. By design, the vault introduces friction and delay, ensuring that creator incentives remain tied to sustainability.

The Creator Vault exists to:

• delay extraction, preventing early fee farming

• enforce alignment, by prioritizing market stability

• signal credibility, through on-chain constraints

Vault Mechanics

The vault receives a predefined portion of creator fees collected by the Trade Router.

These fees are:

• recorded on-chain

• governed by immutable rules

Withdrawals from the vault may be subject to:

• time locks, requiring a minimum holding period

• rate limits, restricting how quickly fees can be withdrawn

• conditional logic, tied to market or protocol state

This structure prevents short-term extraction while preserving meaningful long-term incentives for committed creators.

Credibility Signal

A locked or delayed Creator Vault functions as a public, verifiable signal.

It communicates that:

• the creator cannot immediately exit

• fees are first used to support the market

• alignment is enforced by code, not promises

By making creator constraints visible on-chain, the Creator Vault increases trust without relying on reputation or off-chain commitments.