Glossary · DeFi
Curator
Also: curators, risk curator
A curator is the party that configures a lending vault, choosing which markets it may lend into, setting exposure caps and oracles, and appointing the allocator that moves capital within those limits.
Related terms
- Vault
- A vault is a smart contract that pools depositor funds, deploys them into a strategy, and issues shares whose redemption value rises as the strategy earns, so depositors hold a proportional claim rather than a fixed balance.
- Isolated market
- An isolated market is a lending market defined by a single collateral asset, loan asset, oracle and liquidation threshold, so that bad debt arising in it cannot spread to lenders in other markets.
- Allocator
- An allocator is the role appointed by a vault's curator to move deposits between the markets the curator has approved, executing day-to-day rebalancing without the power to widen the vault's risk limits.
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