Self custody

During the DeFi Pooling flow, the user always has self custody of funds.

There are three different token types that the user owns during the flow:

  • Investment and strategy tokens

    These tokens have an onchain value. They can be withdrawn at any time by using StarkEx self-custody mechanism using a Withdrawal transaction or the Full Withdrawal mechanism.

  • Ride ticket token

    This token only has value within the DeFi Pooling StarkEx platform. Therefore, the Pool Manager smart contract provides a redeem function.

If the user has a ride ticket token and the DeFi Pooling flow did not proceed to trade it, the user can withdraw it onchain to redeem their share of funds from the Pool Manager smart contract. The redeemed tokens are:

a) the strategy tokens — in the case that the strategy was executed
or
b) the original investment tokens — in the case that the strategy was not executed.