📚Protocol Overview

Shprd protocol is designed to combine security with decentralisation.

For this purpose, a role-based access system has been set up to drastically reduce the risk of malicious actions. Besides, sensitive smart-contracts use proxies, which allow changes to be made in case of discovered vulnerabilities or the addition of new features.

Learn more about Shprd's security measures on Security.

DeFi protocols used by Shprd:

Vault smart contracts rely on two external actors, a DEX Aggregator API and Chainlink price feeds.

1. Chainlink Price Feeds: In a vault, each asset is associated with a Chainlink price feed denominated in USD to exactly 8 decimal places. Chainlink price feeds are the fastest, most reliable and most secure way to obtain asset prices in a decentralised manner.

2. DEX Aggregator and AMM: The rebalance process is performed via Paraswap which is a swap optimizer like 1inch or 0x. The aim is to swap assets in a decentralised way and at the best prices.

Factory

The Factory enables the creation of vaults and serves as a registry.

🏭Factory

Vault

Shprd protocol is mainly represented by one contract, the vault. Vaults are smart contracts deployed by a Factory with a set of parameters defined at creation (assets, fees, security constraints). At creation, the vault creates an ERC20 which will represent its shares.

A vault accepts deposits (e.g. in BUSD) and mints new ERC20 shares, in proportion to the deposit. It accepts withdrawals (in shares of the vault) and charges fees (management, performance and exit fees) according to the rates defined at creation.

To continuously value itself, it uses Chainlink oracles (e.g. USD-BTC, USD-ETH price feed) to determine the prices of volatile assets (e.g. BTC, ETH). Depending on the development of the volatile asset included in the vault, the value of the shares in the vault increases.

💎Vault

FeesManager

The FeesManager contract manages management and performance fees receivers.

💰FeesManager

AccessManager

The AccessManager contract manages the privileges of protocol users. Indeed, vault creation by the Factory's 'createVault' method is only possible for addresses with the vault creator role granted by the AccessManager contract.

⛔AccessManager

KYCToken

The KYCToken contract manages the KYC of the protocol users. It may be necessary to be KYC to invest in a vault depending on the configuration chosen by the trader.

🛂KYCToken