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Meet Pouchr.
Pouchr is a delegated on-chain fund platform. Depositors participate in a shared vault; a manager chooses the trades within the protocol’s rules.
Fund shares record each holder’s participation. The manager’s trading permission is separate from the withdrawal path, and fund accounting uses independent oracle prices rather than a price published by the manager.
Start here
Take a considered first step.
Explore a strategy
Use Discover to compare examples and open a fund’s detail. A demo chart is a simulated illustration, not a verified track record.
Read beyond the headline
Review the manager’s permissions, holdings, valuation basis, fees and risks. For a real fund, verify its vault identity; a familiar name or ticker is not enough.
Check the transaction
For configured live actions, connect your wallet on the configured network. Review the asset, amount, approval and transaction details before confirming in your wallet.
Follow your position
Portfolio displays recorded positions from your wallet’s on-chain ledgers. Recorded NAV can be stale and is not a guaranteed liquidation quote.
Starting a fund as a manager?
Create fund deploys a vault and ledger with a name and ticker. An optional seed deposit is a separate transaction; if it fails, a successfully created fund still exists.
Minimum deposit, cooldown, mandate, bio and social fields are currently profile previews. They are not saved or enforced as contract rules, and do not verify a manager’s identity.
The fund lifecycle
One vault. Defined responsibilities.
Depositors
Deposit into a configured fund and hold non-transferable shares. Those shares represent participation in its pooled assets.
Hold the sharesManager
Choose trade pairs, amounts and timing. Manager status does not grant direct withdrawal access to the vault.
Direct the strategyAccounting
Use independent configured price feeds to value assets and calculate fund NAV. The manager cannot set those marks.
Value independentlyShares cannot be transferred or traded between wallets. A holder exits through the protocol’s withdrawal process. A manager who also holds shares can redeem their own position as a holder; that does not give them access to other holders’ assets.
The fund lifecycle
From a deposit to fund shares.
The current implementation uses USDG as the settlement token. A live deposit requires sufficient USDG allowance and a deposit transaction. If approval is needed, it is a separate wallet transaction. Where a fund already holds a basket of assets, the buy-in follows the existing portfolio weights within the contract’s checks.
- 01Approve USDGReview the spender and amount
- 02Enter the basketBuy into existing weights
- 03Receive sharesPriced using fund NAV
Accrued performance fees crystallize before a new deposit changes the share supply. This avoids charging a new entrant for gains that happened before their deposit.
The fund lifecycle
Delegated trading, with execution rules.
The manager selects a pair, amount and timing. The quote service obtains a route from KyberSwap and authorizes the exact trade. The authorization binds the vault, adapter, tokens, amount, minimum output, route, expiry and nonce.
Execution
Only enabled adapters can be used. The adapter checks the route and recipient, uses an exact router allowance, and checks that no residual allowance remains after execution.
Accounting
A successful trade does not automatically make every holding priceable. Oracle-based NAV remains separate from executable swap quotes.
A manager cannot lower the signed minimum output or turn trading permission into a direct withdrawal. These checks limit permitted execution; they do not guarantee liquidity or a profitable trade.
Open the manager workspaceThe fund lifecycle
What a fund’s NAV means.
Net asset value (NAV) is the total value of the vault’s assets, using independently configured Chainlink-based prices and each asset’s token decimals.
Fund NAV=Sum of asset balances × oracle prices
NAV per share=Fund NAV ÷ shares outstanding
Feeds must pass freshness and completeness checks. Missing, stale or invalid prices prevent normal NAV operations rather than falling back to a manager-supplied mark.
USDG is treated as the settlement unit. Converting USD feed prices to that unit assumes USDG stays at dollar parity; the current accounting model does not protect against a USDG depeg.
The fund lifecycle
Understand the way out.
Withdrawals redeem a holder’s shares through the withdrawal controller. The process limits sales to that holder’s pro-rata slice of the vault and settles in USDG.
NAV-based redemption
The normal path uses independent NAV, accounts for accrued performance fees and liquidates the required asset slice subject to contract checks.
Execution-value exit
The alternative path sells the exact pro-rata slice of every non-USDG holding. The payout is the holder’s cash slice plus the actual USDG sale proceeds.
The execution-value path does not send an in-kind basket to your wallet and cannot be used just to bypass fees while all assets are priceable. It does not crystallize a performance fee because an independent profit measurement is unavailable. It still needs executable routes and sufficient liquidity.
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Fees, in plain sight.
The current contract structure charges a performance fee on gains above the fund’s high-water mark. Network and execution costs are separate.
On gains above the fund-level high-water mark.
Crystallized as shares, not a recurring cash charge.
- Deposit fee
- 0%
- Management fee
- 0%
- Withdrawal protocol fee
- 0%
- Network & execution costs
- Variable
How the high-water mark works
Performance fees accrue only above the fund’s high-water mark. Crystallization mints fee shares, split equally between the manager and protocol, and raises the post-fee high-water mark. The same gain is not charged twice.
Because fees are represented by newly minted shares, they affect the share supply and each share’s claim on the fund. Review the live transaction details as well as the headline percentage.
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Know the boundaries.
Trading authority is limited. Investment risk is not eliminated.
Market & manager decisions
Asset prices can fall, strategies can underperform, and capital can be lost. Profile text and social identities are not verification of a manager or their performance.
Liquidity & execution
Thin markets, slippage, unavailable routes and network conditions can affect trades and withdrawals. A quote can expire or fail to execute.
Contracts, oracles & dependencies
Contract failures, oracle outages and external protocol dependencies can affect funds. A quote-service outage can prevent new manager trade authorizations.
Governance & configuration
Enabled controllers, adapters and signers are part of the trust model. Timelock protections depend on deployment configuration; disabling components can affect available actions.
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Common questions.
Can I deposit into a demo fund?
No. Demo funds, charts and returns are fictional examples. Their details are kept separate from live fund actions and cannot submit deposits.
Can the manager withdraw my assets?
Manager status does not grant direct vault withdrawal permission. Withdrawals go through protocol controllers for a holder’s position. The manager can still make trades that lose value.
Can I transfer or sell my fund shares?
No. Shares are non-transferable. Use the fund’s withdrawal process to redeem your own position, subject to the available withdrawal path and execution conditions.
Why does the app say “Setup required”?
The required on-chain configuration is incomplete. You can still read the guide and explore demo examples; live values and transactions require the configured contracts and an appropriate wallet connection.
Why might a deposit or withdrawal be unavailable?
Possible reasons include a closed fund, incomplete configuration, wrong network, unusable oracle prices or an unavailable route. Closure stops deposits but keeps the withdrawal path open. Read the specific message shown by the app; availability does not guarantee successful execution.
Does Pause motion pause a fund?
No. Pause motion only stops interface animations. It does not pause trades, transactions, accounting or any on-chain activity.
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A few useful terms.
- Vault
- The contract that holds a fund’s pooled assets and enforces its execution permissions.
- Fund shares
- Non-transferable ledger balances that record a holder’s participation in the fund.
- NAV
- Net asset value: the value of the fund’s holdings according to independent configured oracle prices.
- High-water mark
- The fund-level reference used to calculate performance fees only on gains above that mark.
- USDG
- The settlement token used for deposits and withdrawal payouts in this implementation.
- Slippage
- The difference between an expected trade outcome and the price available when it executes.
- Quote authorization
- A time-limited signature that binds a manager trade to exact execution terms and a one-time nonce.
Put the context to work
Explore with a clearer view.
Start with the examples. Read the details. Make your own assessment.