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Creator economics

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Skin-in-game floors, fee splits, strategy-change notice, subscriptions, verification, and placement — the creator side of the ledger.

Creators run vaults as public operators: public address, public fee recipient, public strategy hash, and real capital at risk beside their depositors.

Skin in the game

  • Minimum creator deposit: 5% of vault TVL (default, configurable upward).
  • Creator skin in game is required before public deposits can open, not to save a vault candidate — this mirrors vault-leader alignment models.
  • While the vault accepts public deposits, the creator cannot withdraw below the floor — enforced in the vault contract, including on share transfers.
  • Creator deposits are allowed before the public deposit gate opens, so a vault can be seeded during preparation.

Getting started is free

  • Vault candidates are free to save — 0 USDG, no VaultFactory deployment required.
  • A public vault creation fee applies only when the vault is published onchain: 50 USDG at launch (a 100 USDG standard fee is config-gated and disclosed before it applies).
  • Creator performance fee: 10% of new net profits above the high-water mark. Launch cap is 10% for unverified creators; verified creators may configure up to 20%, displayed prominently.

Earnings

  • 90% of the performance fee (the HISS protocol share is 10% of the creator fee at launch), only on gains above the high-water mark.
  • Optional referral splits, carved from the creator/protocol side and always disclosed.

Obligations

  • The strategy description hash is versioned; changes require a notice period before taking effect.
  • All 17 rebalance fuses bind every plan — allocation caps, oracle freshness, slippage, cash floor, drawdown stop, session policy, receipts, audits.
  • The creator acknowledgment (nine literal-true fields plus timestamp) is required at creation: no guaranteed-yield claims, no personalized-advice claims, no Robinhood endorsement claims.

Growth surfaces

Paid verification, subscriptions, and marketplace placements are available — all labeled, none implying safety or expected return. Creator pages aggregate vaults, receipts, and history.