Wallets & Custody

In order to interact with the Credix platform, you need a wallet. You will use this wallet to approve transactions when investing & withdrawing in the liquidity pool or in tranches. Furthermore, this wallet can be used to keep track of all assets (tokens) you posess. There are several options when it comes to wallets:

Browser wallet

A browser wallet comes in the form of a browser extension or mobile app. Popular browser wallets on Solana are Phantom and Solflare. When installing a browser wallet, you get presented with a recovery phrase. From this recovery phrase, the wallet can deduce your private key. As noted before; phantom will not store this phrase on their servers. It will store it in google Chrome storage; but when your computer crashes or you buy a new one, you'll have to re-enter it. This phrase is literally the key to your funds held in this wallet! It's thus VERY important to have a backup of this key in case you lose it. You can store it in a secure password manager or even better, on a hardware wallet.

Pros

• Free

• Easy to use

• Fast, as only one approval is needed to execute a transaction (e.g. invest)

Cons

• Single source of failure => If someone gets hold of your private key, they have access to all your assets

• No complex approval flows possible, as only one approval is needed to execute a transaction (e.g. invest)

Getting started

A full guide on how to set up your Phantom wallet can be found here.

On-chain multisig wallet

A multisig wallet is a more secure way to protect your assets. Such a wallet has several browser wallets as members, of which all / a portion needs to sign before a transaction can be executed. Let's say you're 5 people in the investment team of a fund: you could set up a multisig wallet, specifying the 5 public keys (browser wallets) and a threshold (e.g. 3). If you want to invest in Credix, you would create a proposal. After 3 out of 5 browser wallets have signed, the transaction can be executed.

Pros

• More secure as multiple people / wallets are part of the process

• More dynamic as you can set the threshold, and expiry date for the proposals

Cons

• Requires more setup (creation of the multisig)

• More orchestration as multiple people / wallets are part of the process

Getting started

We partnered with MeanFi and integrated our protocol in their multisig. A full guide on how to get started can be found here.

Custody providers

Custody providers like Fireblocks and Copper provide an enterprise-grade platform in which complex approval flows can be set. A transaction would still be initiated on app.credix.finance, but the approval flow would happen within the provider's platform. Furthermore, you can easily extract reports on trading activity / platform activity and set granular access rights.

Pros

• Most institutional

• Granular access rights + transaction execution approval flows

• Multi Party Computing (MPC) makes the execution process very secure

Cons

• Paid service

• (Semi) Custodial

Getting started

Reach out to [email protected] and we can bring you in touch with the right custody provider.