Vaults (Terminology)

In Tangle documentation, “vault” can refer to different on-chain components. This page clarifies the terminology.

`RewardVaults` (TNT Incentives Per Asset)

RewardVaults is an on-chain system that pays TNT incentives for delegated assets.
It maintains one vault per asset (native, TNT, etc.).
Vaults are configured by governance (APY, deposit cap, incentive cap).
Rewards are funded from InflationPool (pre-funded, no minting).

`LiquidDelegationVault` (Liquid Restaking Shares)

Liquid restaking uses a different vault concept:

LiquidDelegationVault is an ERC-7540-style wrapper around a delegated position.
It mints transferable shares representing a vault’s delegation to a specific (operator, asset, blueprint selection) tuple.
Redemptions are asynchronous and follow the underlying unstake delay.

See Liquid Delegation Vaults.

`ServiceFeeDistributor` (Service Fee Revenue)

Service-fee revenue share to restakers is handled by ServiceFeeDistributor:

It receives the restaker portion of service payments, per operator.
It accounts for All vs Fixed blueprint selection and optional per-asset security commitments.
Delegators claim rewards from the distributor (or through the protocol UI).

Overview Vault Configs