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Earn is policy-bounded automation for Kamino lending. It is not a fixed-rate account, a managed custody vault, or a promise that DeFi risk disappears.

One-Screen Summary

QuestionDirect answer
Where does yield come from?Kamino lending markets. Lenders earn from borrower demand, reserve utilization, and any market incentives included in the live rate.
Is the APY fixed?No. It is a variable market rate that can move up or down.
What does Loyal optimize?Approved Kamino stablecoin routes that pass the active smart-account policy and execution checks.
Who holds the funds?Your Loyal Smart Account. Earn funds sit in the Earn vault inside that account.
What can Loyal execute?Policy-approved Earn actions through the delegated policy signer.
What still requires you?Setup, manual deposits, manual withdrawals, policy revocation, and cleanup flows require your wallet approval.
What risks remain?Kamino protocol and market risk, Squads smart-account risk, Solana network risk, and liquidity or withdrawal timing risk.
What is the main protection?A Squads smart-account policy limits what automation can submit.
What is not protected?The policy does not insure deposits, guarantee APY, or reverse losses in an underlying market.

Money Path

User wallet
  -> Loyal Smart Account settings
  -> Earn vault
  -> approved smart-account policy
  -> approved Kamino lending route
LayerWhat it doesWhat to remember
User walletApproves setup and each deposit or withdrawal; also approves revocationLoyal cannot sign as your wallet.
Smart Account settingsStores the root account configurationThis stores settings; the Earn balance lives in the Earn vault.
Earn vaultHolds Earn funds and executes approved actionsThis is the account Earn routes from.
Earn policyConstrains the delegated signerInvalid instructions should fail on-chain.
Kamino routeSupplies or withdraws from approved lending marketsThis is where yield and lending risk come from.
Live Earn holdings are checked from Solana RPC and Kamino account state. Loyal databases store coordination state, confirmed history, and snapshots; they are not the authority for the current balance.

Rate Source

Kamino reserves pay lenders from borrower interest. A reserve’s APY changes as supply, borrowing demand, utilization, market incentives, and available liquidity change.
TopicEarn behavior
Rate sourceKamino reserve market data and on-chain market state.
Displayed rateA current or forecasted market-rate view with no contractual yield.
Route choiceLoyal compares approved routes and can skip when the edge is not worth acting on.
FreshnessStale or missing market data should cause the system to wait rather than force a move.
VerificationUsers should be able to compare the displayed rate with the underlying Kamino market or reserve shown in the app.
AccountingConfirmed Earn history is written after chain confirmation; live holdings come from chain state.
Base lending yield is borrower-funded: borrowers pay interest, utilization determines the borrow rate from the reserve curve, Kamino’s reserve factor or protocol spread reduces the pass-through, and suppliers receive the remaining yield through reserve accounting. Incentives or rewards can add to displayed returns only when that market exposes them separately.

Safe Bracket Kamino Markets

The Safe bracket is Loyal’s mainnet market allowlist for conservative Earn routing. Kamino does not publish it as a risk tier; Loyal uses it as a routing allowlist. Each market still has its own liquidity, reserve parameters, issuer exposure, and withdrawal risk. For every market below, the displayed APR/APY is still the Kamino supplier rate for the selected reserve. The notes explain what each market’s lending or yield exposure is built around. Kamino’s own docs cover the rate mechanics in more detail: supplying, interest rates, and the market API.

Main Kamino

Address: 7u3HeHxYDLhnCoErrtycNokbQYbWGzLs6JSDqGAv5PfF Yield comes from borrower interest in Kamino’s core lending market, across stablecoins and major Solana assets.

Figure / Prime

Address: CqAoLuqWtavaVE8deBjMKe8ZfSt9ghR6Vb8nfsyabyHA Yield comes from Prime/Figure lending exposure backed by home equity lines of credit, based on Figure’s Democratized Prime materials.

Maple

Address: 6WEGfej9B9wjxRs6t4BYpb9iCXd8CpTpJ8fVSNzHCC5y Yield comes from institutional lending and related strategies behind syrupUSDC within the Maple market.

OnRe

Address: 47tfyEG9SsdEnUm9cw5kY9BXngQGqu3LBoop9j5uTAv8 Yield comes from reinsurance premiums plus collateral returns within the OnRe market.

Ethena

Address: BJnbcRHqvppTyGesLzWASGKnmnF1wq9jZu6ExrjT7wvF Yield comes from USDe and stablecoin exposure within the Ethena market, backed by crypto assets, hedge positions, and liquid stable assets.

Execution Boundary

Loyal canLoyal cannot
Prepare Earn setup plus deposit/withdrawal/cleanup transactionsSign as your wallet
Use a delegated policy signer for approved Earn actionsBecome a root settings signer unless you explicitly approve that
Execute actions that match the active Earn policyTransfer arbitrary tokens from your wallet
Route through approved Kamino lending pathsBypass Squads policy checks
Pause, skip, or disable automation pathsGuarantee future APY
Record confirmed Earn history after chain confirmationInsure deposits or reverse an underlying protocol loss
The important distinction is narrow: Loyal-side custody risk is reduced by the policy boundary. Underlying DeFi risk is still real.

Risk Matrix

RiskExamplePrimary ownerLoyal mitigationResidual risk
Kamino protocol or market riskExploit, bad debt, reserve accounting issue, extreme utilizationKamino and the lending marketApproved route set; simulate routes and disable unsafe routes when neededPrincipal or withdrawal timing can still be affected
Squads smart-account riskPolicy or smart-account program bugSquads program and integration codeUse established smart-account primitives and keep Earn authority policy-scopedSmart-account execution risk remains
Solana network riskCongestion, outage, delayed confirmationSolana networkRetry after congestion; wait for confirmation before marking actions finalDeposits, rebalances, or withdrawals can be delayed
Liquidity and withdrawal timingReserve liquidity is mostly borrowedKamino market conditionsCheck route state and prepare withdrawals through available pathsExits can be slower than expected

User Controls

ControlWhat it does
WithdrawMoves funds out of Earn through the prepared withdrawal path, subject to market state.
Pause AutodepositStops new surplus sweeps from being executed.
Close AutodepositRevokes the recurring delegation and closes the Autodeposit policy.
Close or revoke Earn policyRemoves the delegated automation authority after the required signed cleanup flow.
Review transaction detailsShows the route, market, reserve, mint, policy account, and setup requirements before signing.
The safest wording is: Earn is constrained automation on top of DeFi lending. The constraint is real, but it is not a guarantee of yield, liquidity, or protocol safety.