# Symbiotic

Symbiotic is a collateral markets platform that brings enforceable economic guarantees onchain.

- [Symbiotic](/get-started/): Get started with Symbiotic, the collateral markets platform that brings enforceable economic guarantees onchain.
- [What is Symbiotic?](/get-started/what/overview): Symbiotic is a collateral markets platform that brings enforceable economic guarantees onchain through programmable collateral markets.
- [Vaults](/get-started/what/components/vaults): A vault is a permissionless ERC-4626 container that holds a single collateral asset and lets curators deploy it across yield-generating strategies.
- [Adapters](/get-started/what/components/adapters): Adapters connect Symbiotic vault capital to supported applications and external strategies while preserving consistent allocation, accounting, and security rules.
- [Universal Delegator](/get-started/what/components/universal-delegator): The Universal Delegator is the execution layer between vaults and adapters, deciding where capital is deployed and how liquidity is retrieved.
- [Curators](/get-started/what/participants/curators): Curators define vault strategy, configure vault parameters, and manage how capital is allocated across applications and adapters.
- [Applications](/get-started/what/participants/applications): Applications are consumers of collateral that connect to Symbiotic vaults through App Adapters and pay rewards for the economic guarantees they receive.
- [Allocators](/get-started/what/participants/allocators): Learn how allocators participate in Symbiotic vaults and evaluate different vault strategies.
- [Operators](/get-started/what/participants/operators): Learn how operators participate in Symbiotic and provide services backed by vault collateral.
- [Use Cases](/get-started/use-cases/): Explore how teams ship on top of Symbiotic's shared security and Relay attestations.
- [Credit & Guarantees](/get-started/use-cases/credit-and-guarantees): Credit applications can use Symbiotic vault collateral to back borrower obligations, transfer default risk, and create programmable guarantees.
- [Insurance and Underwriting](/get-started/use-cases/insurance-and-underwriting): Collateralized underwriting applications can use Symbiotic vault capital to back coverage, isolate risk, and settle valid claims through slashing.
- [Liquidity](/get-started/use-cases/liquidity): Symbiotic vault capital can provide on-demand liquidity through adapters while remaining part of a unified collateral and accounting framework.
- [Addresses](/get-started/resources/addresses): A comprehensive list of Symbiotic official smart contract deployments.
- [Audits](/get-started/resources/audits): Security audits and reviews of Symbiotic's core, rewards, relay, and Liquid Lane contracts, with linked reports from each auditor.
- [Risks](/get-started/resources/risks): General security recommendations for participants interacting with Symbiotic Core V2.
- [Points Program](/get-started/resources/points-program): Symbiotic Points reward participants that provide useful economic security by depositing collateral into vaults and delegating it to secure networks.
- [Analytics](/get-started/resources/analytics-and-apis): Live dashboards for monitoring Symbiotic vaults, rewards, and users.
- [Universal Staking](/learn/): Universal Staking is more than just restaking. Instead of merely reusing staked assets to secure multiple networks, it introduces a flexible coordination layer...
- [Network](/learn/core-concepts/network): In Symbiotic, a Network is any protocol that requires a decentralized infrastructure network to deliver a service in the crypto economy, such as enabling...
- [Operator](/learn/core-concepts/operator): Operators run the software that keeps decentralized networks alive. They include node operators or validators that run consensus and network-specific binaries,...
- [Vault](/learn/core-concepts/vault): A vault is the on-chain container that holds collateral and connects it to networks. Each vault holds a single collateral token, tracks deposits and...
- [Curator](/learn/core-concepts/curator): Curators set and maintain a vault's policy. They decide how stake is spread across networks and operators, what kind of slashing flow applies, and who can...
- [Rewards](/learn/core-concepts/rewards): Rewards are payments that Networks make to vault participants in exchange for security and work. Rewards are distributed using historical snapshots of vault...
- [Slashing](/learn/core-concepts/slashing): Slashing is how a Network penalizes operators for provable misbehavior. A Network's middleware sends a slashing request to the vault; the vault's Slasher...
- [Registries and Opt-ins](/learn/mechanics/registries-and-opt-ins): Registries give Networks and Operators a canonical on-chain identity that the rest of Symbiotic can reference.
- [Epochs and Delays](/learn/mechanics/epochs-and-delays): Epochs are the time rules of Symbiotic. They tell you when validator sets update, when withdrawal requests can be claimed, and how long captured guarantees...
- [Voting Power](/learn/relay/voting-power): The VotingPowerProvider is the Relay contract that turns delegated Symbiotic stake into operator voting power inside a validator set. It sits between Symbiotic...
- [Valset (Validator Set)](/learn/relay/valset): The validator set is the current list of operators and their weights that a network uses for signing and verification during a given epoch. In Relay, this is...
- [Secure Attestations](/learn/relay/secure-attestations): Secure attestations are stake-backed signatures over a message hash that contracts can verify against the active validator set header.
- [Settlement](/learn/relay/settlement): Settlement is the on-chain endpoint for Relay. It stores validator set headers (operators, keys, weights, thresholds) per network / subnetwork / epoch and...
- [Liquid Lane Overview](/liquid-lane/): Liquid Lane lets market makers source redemption liquidity for illiquid or time-locked assets from curator-managed Symbiotic vaults via onchain RFQ.
- [How Instant Liquidity Works](/liquid-lane/how-it-works): A six-step onchain RFQ flow showing how a market maker pulls USDC from a Symbiotic vault to settle an RWA redemption atomically.
- [Curators](/liquid-lane/participants/curators): Curators service Instant Liquidity on Liquid Lane — deploying and managing Symbiotic vaults, configuring redemption assets and pricing, and fulfilling instant redemption requests.
- [Asset Issuers](/liquid-lane/participants/asset-issuers): Asset issuers integrate Instant Liquidity to provide immediate redemptions for their tokenized assets without maintaining idle liquidity.
- [Symbiotic RFQ Backend API](/liquid-lane/api): Public RFQ backend API for approval checks, quote creation, order submission, and order polling.
- [Introduction](/integrate/): Symbiotic is a modular coordination layer that lets applications access economic security and capital through independently managed vaults.
- [Get Started](/integrate/curators/): This guide walks you through the curator lifecycle in Symbiotic. You'll deploy a vault, manage allocations, and earn fees from managing depositors' funds.
- [Deploy Vault V2](/integrate/curators/deploy-vault): This guide explains how to deploy a Symbiotic V2 vault using the DeployVaultV2 script.
- [Submit Metadata](/integrate/curators/submit-metadata): The Symbiotic UI displays TVL, allocations, and relationships between curators, vaults, operators, and applications; submit yours to appear on the UI.
- [Adapter Management](/integrate/curators/manage-adapters): Learn how to add adapters to a Vault V2 Universal Delegator.
- [Manage Allocations](/integrate/curators/manage-allocations): Learn how curators allocate Vault V2 assets across adapters through the Universal Delegator.
- [Manage Fees](/integrate/curators/registry-and-fees): Vault V2 supports management and performance fees configured directly on the vault. Fees accrue automatically as newly minted vault shares to the configured fee receivers.
- [Build an Application](/integrate/applications/deploy-an-application): Learn how to integrate an application with Symbiotic Core V2 by deploying a middleware, registering your application, and connecting AppAdapters to vaults.
- [Get Started](/integrate/builders-researchers/): Build applications on top of Symbiotic and access protocol data. Use these resources to integrate Symbiotic into your project.
- [AI Resources](/integrate/builders-researchers/ai-resources)
- [Relay](/learn/relay/): Learn how Symbiotic Relay provides stake-backed attestations, validator sets, voting power, and settlement.
- [Developers Hub](/get-started/developers/developers-hub): Find role-specific integration paths, tools, APIs, ABIs, and AI resources for building with Symbiotic.
- [Relay Quickstart](/get-started/developers/relay-quickstart): Symbiotic Super Sum spins up a relay network that runs simple sum computations and posts the result to every supported destination chain.
- [Ecosystem](/get-started/resources/ecosystem): Explore Symbiotic ecosystem participants, including networks, curators, and operators using shared security.
- [Bridges and Cross-chain Messaging](/get-started/use-cases/bridges-cross-chain-messaging): Stake-backed validator attestations for bridge state, DVNs, and cross-domain proofs.
- [Chain Agnostic Applications](/get-started/use-cases/chain-agnostic-applications): Relay gives appchains a single stake-secured validation layer for cross-chain outcomes, replacing bespoke validator sets and custom messaging paths.
- [Decentralized Compute and AI Verification](/get-started/use-cases/decentralized-compute-ai-verification): "Decentralized Docker" or AI inference jobs producing proofs and Relay attestations.
- [General Attestation Layers](/get-started/use-cases/general-attestation-layers): Stake-secured attestations for arbitrary computations and events that trigger on-chain actions.
- [Insurance and Guarantees](/get-started/use-cases/insurance-and-guarantees): Insurance, guarantees, and onchain risk transfer secured by slashable capital.
- [Liquidity Management](/get-started/use-cases/liquidity-management): Use Symbiotic Relay attestations for liquidity management, rebalancing, and cross-chain treasury workflows.
- [Oracle Networks and Data Feeds](/get-started/use-cases/oracle-networks-data-feeds): Price, rate, and event oracles with custom resolvers and slashing rules.
- [Relay SDK](/get-started/what/relay): The Symbiotic Relay SDK is the trust layer for data and computation.
- [ABIs And Bindings](/integrate/builders-researchers/abis-and-bindings): Find generated ABIs and TypeScript bindings for integrating with Symbiotic smart contracts and protocol tooling.
- [APIs](/integrate/builders-researchers/apis): Use Symbiotic API endpoints to fetch protocol data, build dashboards, and improve integrations.
- [Helpful Core Contracts' Endpoints](/integrate/curators/helpful-core-contracts-endpoints): This page lists useful functions for curators across Symbiotic Core contracts.
- [Vault Wrapping](/integrate/curators/vault-wrapping): Legacy V1 guide on wrapping the Symbiotic Vault; retained for reference.
- [Relay Quickstart](/learn/relay/dev-workflow): This quickstart walks through the developer workflow that the repo enables: spinning up Symbiotic Core locally, preparing vaults and operators, wiring...
- [RFQ](/liquid-lane/api/rfq)
- [System](/liquid-lane/api/system)
- [Capital Efficiency Analysis](/liquid-lane/research/capital-efficiency-analysis): Compare liquidity buffers, DEX pools, and Symbiotic instant liquidity vaults for tokenized RWA redemptions and capital-efficient yield generation.