Gain
A hands-off yield product for users who prefer managed strategies over DIY DeFi. The convenience comes with meaningful trust assumptions — you are relying on vault managers' skill and integrity, and the limited transparency makes it hard to assess your actual risk exposure. The single audit from a smaller firm is below the security standard of leading vault protocols. Consider this higher risk than self-custodied yield strategies.
Top Risks
Actively managed vault strategies introduce manager discretion risk — the quality and integrity of vault managers directly determines fund safety and performance
Limited public documentation and transparency about vault strategies, risk parameters, and fund allocation makes independent risk assessment difficult
As an onchain capital allocator, Gain depends on multiple downstream DeFi protocols for yield, creating layered smart contract risk exposure