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Mapping the vault

How vault allocations become a map of lending markets, assets, borrowers, and dependencies.

Follow the capitalLink to this section: Follow the capital

The assessment begins with the vault's exact contract and the block used for the run. It records the asset deposited into the vault, idle assets, connections to lending protocols, and every lending market the vault can use.

For each funded market, the map connects:

  • the vault's supplied amount;
  • the loan asset and collateral asset;
  • the amount borrowed and the borrowers behind it;
  • the liquidation threshold and incentive;
  • the price feed used by the lending protocol; and
  • the routes available to recover value from seized collateral.

Where the vault's capital goes

Lending vault The supplied asset and its allocation across idle balances and markets.
stays in the vault's value
supplied amount per market
Idle assets Part of the vault's value with no lending exposure.
Funded markets Each market with its supplied amount, borrowers, threshold, and price feed.
each market's pledged asset
Collateral assets The asset each market's borrowers pledge, with its backing and recovery routes.
backing and infrastructure in common
Shared dependencies An issuer, custodian, bridge, price provider, or redemption system used by more than one position.
The map follows the vault's capital into idle balances and funded markets, resolves each market's collateral asset, and records the issuers, custodians, bridges, price providers, and redemption systems that more than one position depends on.

For Morpho, the assessment converts market records and connected-vault balances into these economic positions. Other lending protocols can use the same method when they expose equivalent information.

Current and configured marketsLink to this section: Current and configured markets

Current allocations determine the vault's present loss exposure. Markets configured for future use remain visible but carry no current loss contribution while their allocation is zero. Idle assets are part of the vault's value and reduce the share exposed to lending risk.

The dashboard presents asset names and symbols first. Contract addresses remain available for verification.

Evidence basisLink to this section: Evidence basis

Each run uses one block-pinned vault snapshot and one evidence cutoff. Market observations, borrower data, collateral mechanisms, and policy assumptions are tied to the exact asset and market they describe.

Inputs carry one of four bases:

BasisMeaning
MeasuredObserved from a named source at a stated time
DerivedCalculated from measured inputs
Policy priorA stated assumption used for a risk channel with limited measurement
UnavailableThe fact could not be established for the run

Each assessment uses the asset profile that applies at its evidence cutoff. A material change in backing, redemption, or governance leads to a new profile for later assessments.

Shared dependenciesLink to this section: Shared dependencies

Different markets can rely on the same underlying asset, issuer, custodian, bridge, price provider, or redemption system. The map keeps these links so one failure can affect every exposed position in the same simulation path.

Continue with Asset risk and recovery.