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# About Vault

Vault is an on-chain escrow crowdfunding platform. Campaigns raise SOL toward a defined goal and deadline, funds are held in campaign-specific escrow on Solana, and the outcome is decided by the protocol's rules.

## From DexVault to Vault

Vault began as DexVault, a Solana-native community crowdfunding tool.

DexVault was built around a specific problem: token communities raising money together had no reliable way to hold funds. Campaign activity and escrow depended on screenshots, promises, and a private wallet controlled by an organizer. DexVault introduced campaign-specific funding, public tracking, and escrow that did not rely on trusting a single organizer.

That model worked, and it kept attracting use cases beyond token communities — charities, service purchases, projects on other chains. Those cases shared the same underlying problem: money needs to be held under rules that everyone can verify, with an outcome nobody can quietly override.

Vault is the broader system built for that problem. The same escrow model now supports projects and organizations across Web3, without requiring campaign funding to move across multiple chains.

## What Vault believes

**Escrow should be verifiable.** A funding address anyone can check on a block explorer is worth more than a promise.

**Rules should be fixed before money moves.** Goal, deadline, and fees are locked at campaign creation. The rules you evaluated are the rules that decide the outcome.

**Failure should be automatic, not adversarial.** When a campaign does not succeed, refunds are processed automatically according to the campaign's rules — not on request, not at anyone's discretion.

**Success should mean fulfillment.** Successful campaign funds are used to fulfill the campaign's stated purpose rather than simply becoming an unrestricted payout.

## Where Vault is today

Vault supports campaigns for projects across Solana, Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, Monad, Robinhood Chain, and HyperEVM.

Contributions are made in SOL, and campaign escrow operates on Solana.

## Who builds Vault

Vault is built and operated by Ralph, who also built DexVault.

## Contact

| Purpose                       | Address             |
| ----------------------------- | ------------------- |
| Campaign or contribution help | `support@vault.ky`  |
| Partnerships                  | `partners@vault.ky` |
| Security disclosures          | `security@vault.ky` |
| Legal and privacy             | `legal@vault.ky`    |


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