What are Deploy.Finance Risks?

While risks are rarely eliminated, Deploy.Finance mitigates multiple risks through its design.

• Onchain and self-custodial. Deploy.Finance is onchain and self-custodial, eliminating risks associated with centralized exchanges. Improper management of email or a wallet could cause similar loss of funds that can happen with any wallet or self-custodial solution in the market.
• Account abstraction and session keys. Deploy.Finance uses technology called "account abstraction" to create a unique wallet ID (similar to a seed phrase) associated with your email address and delegates to agents via session keys. While the system running the agents is distributed and battle-tested in every major market event since 2018, the chance for system wide failure is a possibility. That would mean agents could become unresponsive for a short window.
• No vault or smart contract custody. Funds are held with the wallet, not a vault or smart contract. This eliminates the potential for rug pools or honey pot attacks. However, protocol risks can occur via malicious actors that might look to manipulate market prices in their favor.

For strategy-specific risks, see Income: Funding Rates Risks.