How it works
USDREFI is designed to be a set-and-forget regenerative savings experience. Here's the complete flow.
Deposit
Verify your identity via Self to unlock vault access
Approve USDC spend and deposit into the USDREFI vault
Receive USDREFI tokens at a 1:1 rate representing your position
The Foundation Safe deploys your capital into curated regenerative credit positions
The vault enforces per-user caps based on your identity tier, and a global cap to manage total exposure.
Earn Yield
Your deposited capital is deployed into curated lending sources — starting with Quipu (Colombian AI-powered microcredit) via Textile infrastructure. Yield from these real-world loans flows back to the protocol monthly.
Rewards are distributed through Merkl as a combination of USDREFI and $REFI tokens. You claim rewards on-demand via on-chain Merkle proofs, or compound by re-depositing claimed USDREFI back into the vault.
Exit
USDREFI does not support direct vault withdrawals. To exit, you swap USDREFI for USDC on the Uniswap V4 USDREFI/USDC pool.
USDREFI is designed to trade close to $1 but is not a hard-pegged stablecoin — the swap is a market transaction. Protocol-owned liquidity and LP incentives maintain pool depth for healthy exits.
If the Uniswap pool ever loses critical liquidity, the Foundation Safe can enable emergency direct vault withdrawals as a safety measure.
The USDREFI Flywheel
USDREFI creates a self-reinforcing regenerative cycle:
Deposits flow through the Credit Curation Framework into curated lending sources
Yield is generated from real-world regenerative loans
Yield splits three ways — to users (rewards), to the protocol (liquidity & operations), and to $REFI incentives
All three streams converge back into regeneration: users re-deposit and compound, the protocol deepens liquidity and funds new sources, and incentives attract new participants
Every dollar of yield strengthens the system's capacity to regenerate.