Vault Automation Case Studies
Real incidents from running autonomous liquidity vaults with real capital — what broke, how we diagnosed it, and the safeguards that shipped as a result. We publish these for the same reason we publish our signal track record: trust in automation is earned with receipts, misses included.
The 78% APR that was actually an exit door: the CARDS dump-volume trap
A pool showed 78% fee APR on $1.3M daily volume while its token fell 42% — the volume WAS the dump. How our vault averaged down into it, and the three-layer capital-protection system we shipped in response.
The death spiral that idled a vault: when the denominator lies
A vault drained itself to 83% idle because allocation percentages were computed on deployed capital only — every divest made the remaining pools look more over-allocated. Plus: why keyword-matching on the word "risk" is not a safety gate.
The invisible shells: $600 stuck idle behind zero-liquidity NFTs
Concentrated-liquidity positions wound down to zero liquidity leave their NFTs on-chain. Ours blocked every new investment for days — because the failure path assumed a human operator with a "burn" button.
The pool the vault could not quit: an hourly exit-and-re-enter loop
The analyzer exited a DLMM pool for drifting out of range — then re-picked the same pool an hour later, opened a new position, drifted out again, and exited again. The deeper cause: a hardcoded position width of ±0.2%.
The 351% APR mirage: anatomy of a dead-token pool
A pool advertised 351% APR. Its quote token had no swap route anywhere and the pool priced it 1.7× above oracle. Our planner deposited real SOL into it — and about $47 became unrecoverable. How we got it back, and the gates that now refuse such pools.
These case studies describe engineering incidents on small live test vaults and are published for transparency and education. They are not financial advice, and past behavior of the system does not guarantee future performance.
Explore more on WealthVille
Compare across DEXs
EVM opportunities (AI-scored)
Cross-chain yields
