New to DeFi? Read this first

If crypto and "DeFi" are new to you, here's the one idea that makes everything else click: you stay in control of your own money the whole time.

There's no account to open with us — no email, no password, no company holding your funds. Instead you use a wallet (an app you control), and you move your own money in and out. We can run a vault's strategy, but we can never take your funds out for ourselves.

The rest of this section explains each piece in plain language — the wallet, USDC, gas, what a vault is, and who holds your money. Read them in order and the five onboarding steps will make sense.