About Sentinel Codes
Sentinel Codes is an automation-first technology provider and vault curator focused on optimizing DeFi liquidity and yield strategies through proprietary algorithmic infrastructure.
We build and operate systematic on-chain strategies designed to grow protocol liquidity while enforcing risk-aware execution, conservative parametrization, and transparent vault reporting.
Proposal Overview
Sentinel Codes has launched the Liquity ETH Carry Vault on IPOR Fusion:
The vault is designed to generate ETH-denominated carry by allocating ETH collateral through rETH and wstETH, borrowing BOLD through Liquity Troves at branch-specific, programmatically-set fixed rates, and deploying BOLD into the Curve BOLD/USDC AMM.
The strategy expands only when net carry is positive and contracts when borrow spreads, liquidity conditions, peg stability, or liquidation buffers deteriorate.
The vault has already shown early product-market fit with Liquity and Curve LPs, reaching approximately $1M TVL shortly after launch. The current vault cap is set at 1,019 ETH, with the pool currently around 55% filled.
Early Liquity incentives helped bootstrap the initial vault TVL. Sentinel now wants to make the incentive loop more sustainable by reinvesting vault fees proceeds back into the Liquity PIL program.
Sentinel commits to using 100% of the management and performance fees generated by this vault, for at least three consecutive months, to reward LQTY voters supporting this initiative. Sentinel will also top up this budget wherever needed, targeting approximately $600/week in voter incentives.
The intended loop is:
- LQTY voters support Sentinel’s liquidity initiative;
- The initiative receives PIL BOLD incentives;
- PIL BOLD is routed back into the vault as WETH rewards;
- Vault APY is consolidated at ~10% APY, benefitting BOLD AMM liquidity, Liquity’s TVL and community of LPs.
Usage of PIL Funds
100% of the BOLD incentives received by this initiative will be used to reward depositors in the Liquity ETH Carry Vault.
The proposed flow is:
- PIL BOLD incentives are received by a Sentinel smart contract deployed for this initiative.
- The contract swaps the received BOLD into WETH.
- WETH is transferred to the IPOR Fusion Vault RewardsManager contract.
- Rewards are streamed into the vault by the RewardsManager according to the distribution schedule.
Impact for Liquity and BOLD
This initiative is designed to create direct impact for Liquity through three main channels.
1. Liquity TVL Growth
The vault uses Liquity Troves as a core part of its strategy. As the vault grows, more collateral is deployed through Liquity and more BOLD is borrowed, subject to the vault’s risk parameters.
2. BOLD/USDC Liquidity Growth
Borrowed BOLD is deployed into the Curve BOLD/USDC AMM.
At full cap, the strategy is expected to support approximately $1M of BOLD/USDC AMM liquidity, improving BOLD depth and swap execution.
3. Sustainable Incentive Recycling
This is not intended as a one-off liquidity mining campaign.
PIL rewards received by this initiative will be used to reward vault depositors, while Sentinel will strategically allocate their resources, and vault fees into LQTY voter bribes to obtain more BOLD incentives to sustain the vault’s yield. This will create a positive flywheel that will benefit vault & protocol TVL, BOLD liquidity, and ultimately the community of early LPs.
Threshold & Target
There is no minimum BOLD amount required for the initiative to operate. Any PIL BOLD received will be routed into the vault reward flow described above.
The first target is to fill the vault to its current 1,019 ETH cap while maintaining a competitive and sustainable yield profile for depositors.
We expect the vault to target an approximate 10% yield, subject to market conditions, borrow rates, Curve LP returns, and available incentives.
The cap is used as a depositor protection mechanism. Sentinel will not raise the cap unless the strategy can continue to support an attractive APY without diluting existing LPs.
Impact Measurement and Reporting
All key metrics relevant to the initiative, vault data and rewards information will be visible on the IPOR Fusion vault page.
PIL incentives will also be visible through Liquity’s Dune dashboard:
https://dune.com/liquity/protocol-incentivized-liquidity
Practical Information
Chain: Ethereum mainnet
Vault address: 0xb9e806e8f2d94c015ffefa90cd24ecce18f1663c
Vault cap: 1,019 ETH
RewardsManager contract: 0x228590e9236881282c2e7817B62240db4439BA4D
PIL BOLD receiver / initiative contract: 0x865C61E03B35975d25442F60ce4621db1e349A2F
We invite the Liquity community and LQTY voters to support this initiative.