Tough questions

Straight answers.

The best way to understand SuperStrat is to challenge it. Here are the hardest questions we get, and exactly how the protocol answers them.

If the curator is so good, why does he need my money?

Edge and capital are different things. A profitable trader compounds faster with more size — and earns performance fees on the upside they generate for you. You are buying access to a track record you can verify on-chain, not funding charity.

What actually stops the curator from stealing my deposit?

While your deposit is pending it sits in a separate silo the curator cannot touch. Funds only move to the trader wallet after settlement, and every movement is public on Polygonscan. The protection is segregation plus radical transparency — not a promise.

What stops the curator from trading memecoins or some random shitcoin instead of Polymarket?

The trader wallet is a fresh EOA used exclusively for this vault's polymarket.com activity, and every transaction is on-chain. Off-mandate behaviour is visible immediately, and depositors can cancel and reclaim if a curator stops settling.

Why USDC.e and not real USDC? USDC.e is deprecated everywhere else.

Polymarket settles in USDC.e on Polygon. To trade on the real Polymarket today, the vault has to speak the asset Polymarket uses. We bridge nothing and wrap nothing you don't see.

What is pUSD, and why does it appear in the flow if I deposited USDC.e?

pUSD is Polymarket's internal wrap of USDC.e used inside their deposit wallet. The curator offramps pUSD → USDC.e before recalling funds to the vault, so your accounting and settlement are always denominated in USDC.e.

The NAV is proposed by an off-chain oracle. So SuperStrat is just centralized DeFi cosplay.

The oracle proposes; it does not decide unilaterally. The curator validates, and settlement executes on-chain at one price for everyone in the epoch. The inputs (positions, balances) are all publicly verifiable, so a bad NAV is detectable.

Why can't I withdraw instantly like on Aave?

Your capital is deployed in open Polymarket positions, not an idle lending pool. Redemptions queue and pay out at the next settlement once the curator frees liquidity. If they stall for 7 days, the cancel guard lets you reclaim.

Tough questions

The criticism we get most.

V2.5 is opinionated. The trader wallet is a curator-controlled EOA; on-chain custody during trades was the price of working with the real Polymarket today. Below are the sharpest objections, answered without flinching.

Why are vault creators whitelisted? This sounds like permissioned DeFi cosplay.

It is permissioned on purpose. Anyone can deposit; only vetted curators can deploy. The allowlist is the security model — reputation staked publicly — and it is enforced transparently via factory.allowedCreators.

20% performance fee is robbery. I could just stake USDC on Aave.

Aave pays a few percent on idle capital. This is access to a directional Polymarket edge, charged only on new profit above the all-time high. If the curator doesn't make you money above the high-water mark, they don't get paid.

Why is the high-water mark global instead of per-depositor? I'm subsidizing other people's gains.

A global high-water mark means the curator must recover every drawdown for the whole vault before earning again. It is strictly harder for the curator than per-depositor accounting, and it keeps the share price a single honest number.

What if your smart contract has a bug and I lose everything?

Contracts are open-source and audited, but no code is risk-free — we say so plainly. Custody during trading is the curator's, settlement is the contract's. Size your position accordingly; transparency is not the same as a guarantee.

What happens if the curator just stops settling?

After 7 days without a settlement, the cancel guard activates: pending depositors and redeemers can cancel and reclaim their funds directly from the contract, without needing the curator to act.

What if YOU (the platform admin) pause the vault and run away with the funds?

Admin powers are limited to role management behind a 48-hour timelock and a two-step ownership transfer. Admin cannot move user funds. The pause cannot redirect deposits — it can only stop new ones — and timelocks give you time to exit.

Could a whale watching the mempool front-run the settlement transaction?

No. Every deposit and redemption in an epoch settles at the same NAV, in the same block. There is no per-order price to front-run — the settlement price is identical for everyone, by construction.

Still skeptical?

Good. Read the docs.