What Are Vaults

Vaults are auto-compounding liquidity positions on Aquarius AMM pools. You deposit token pairs, and Whalehub automatically reinvests earned rewards back into the pool to grow your position.

How Vaults Differ from Staking

	Staking	Vaults
What you deposit	AQUA (or restake BLUB)	Token pairs (e.g. XLM + AQUA)
What you earn	AQUA rewards	Growing LP position
How you earn	Share of protocol reward pool	AMM trading fees + AQUA farming rewards
Compounding	Manual (claim + restake)	Automatic (4-6x per day)
Lock period	Fixed (your choice)	None — withdraw anytime
Fee	None	None on bribe income; 15% on claimed pool emissions

Available Pools

Pool	Tokens	Status
Pool 0	BLUB + AQUA	Active (also contains Protocol Owned Liquidity)
Pool 2	XLM + AQUA	Active

How Auto-Compounding Works

BLUB-AQUA is funded by the bribe harvest (the pool itself emits nothing since Aquarius de-whitelisted it):

Every 6 hours:
└── 30% of the bribe harvest (Stream B), as AQUA only
    ├── 70% → single-sided-AQUA reward class
    └── 30% → balanced reward class
        └── Deposited as liquidity; your LP share grows automatically

The other pools compound their own emissions:

Every 4 hours:
├── Backend claims AQUA farming rewards from pool
├── vault_fee_bps (15%) → treasury
└── Remainder → split into both pool tokens
    └── Re-deposited into the pool as new liquidity
        └── Your LP share grows automatically

Compounding returns are effectively flat above about 4 cycles a day: a pool with 50% base APY compounds to roughly 64% effective APY at any cadence from 6x daily upward.

ICE Boost for Vaults

Important: Due to Stellar protocol limitations, ICE tokens (which are created via classic Stellar claimable balances) cannot currently be locked directly by a Soroban smart contract. This means vault LP deposited by the contract does not benefit from the ICE 2.5x reward boost. We are actively working on a solution to route vault deposits through an ICE-holding wallet to unlock boosted yields for vault users. This feature is planned for a future release.

Compound APY Formula

Compounded APY = (1 + base_rate / 17,520)^17,520 - 1

Where 17,520 = 48 compounds/day × 365 days