Byzantine is reshaping how staking and restaking is coordinated onchain. At its core, Byzantine is infrastructure for economic autonomy: a modular framework that lets protocols, DAOs, and individuals build custom structured products.
Today, we dive into the role of the curator - individuals or entities that ensure that Byzantine’s flexibility translates into performance for stakers. A curator in the Byzantine ecosystem is an someone who administers and optimises the risk-adjusted performance of a Byzantine vault for its stakers.
What are Byzantine vaults?
Byzantine vaults are the entry point for users to stake or restake their assets. Assets deposited in a byzantine vault are restaked according to the strategy defined by its curator.
Each vault has one Strategy Manager - an entity or individual who sets the risk profile of the Byzantine vault.
Byzantine vaults can be accessed permissionlessly and configured according to the decisions of the curator.
What does it mean to curate on Byzantine?
Curators are responsible for the curation of strategies and the overall maintenance of the vault.
Depending on the vault type, their responsibilities include:
- Delegation strategy management: Evaluate and select an approriate restaking delegation strategy on Symbiotic or EigenLayer based on risk-reward profiles of networks
- Rebalancing between protocols: In multi-vault setups, curators actively manage stake distribution between protocols to optimise risk-adjusted returns for stakers
- Vault permissions maintenance: Monitor the security of a vault and ensure roles are delegated to reliable parties
- Reward distribution: Claim and distibute staking & restaking rewards for users, as well as updating vault fee parameters
- Vault configuration maintenance: Update deposit limits or hooks
- Risk monitoring: Vigilantly assess vault health, reliability of delegation strategy, oracle performance, collateral quality, and sufficient liquidity to protect stakers
Curator categories
To simplify this, curators in the Byzantine ecosystem are split into three subcategories:
- Vault Managers: Configure deposit logic, initiate rebalancing (if applicable), and adjust vault behavior.
- Strategy Managers: Set or update delegation strategies, network/operator allocations, or hooks.
- Curation Fee Managers: Claim fees, update reward parameters, and manage payout permissions.
Advantages for Byzantine curators
- Improved capital efficiency: Byzantine’s native restaking layer maximises capital deployment and removes idle assets
- Precise risk control: Define exposure across assets, protocols, and networks with fine-tuned control.
- Non-Custodial Security: Vaults are non-custodial, making them transparent & verifiable and reducing risk of asset loss.
- Risk-isolated vaults: Vaults are entirely independent from each other at both the staking and restaking level, allowing more strategic flexibility and reducing likelihood of correlated slashing.
- Dynamic asset reallocation: React to market conditions faster and keep yields high for your stakers.
What are the technical requirements to curate on Byzantine?
The Byzantine dApp makes becoming a curator simple and straightforward, allowing anyone to spin up a vault in minutes and start running a strategy. For those looking to determine the characteristics of their vault, here is the Byzantine vault configuration guide.
To get started and read a detailed breakdown, review our documentation on vault creation.
It's important to note that multiple roles are assigned at the vault level, each with distinct responsibilities that support the curator's strategy. These roles include Owner, Curator, Guardian, and Allocator, each with specific permissions and functions within the vault management structure.
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