core concepts
Agentic Yield isn’t a black box it’s a bunch of simple primitives wired together for ai-agents. If you understand how vaults, pools, and strategies interact, you can build, debug, or extend your own agent logic pretty easily.
🏦 Vaults
A vault is your agent’s working account. It’s a smart contract object on SUI that holds your tokens, tracks positions, and exposes a clean interface for deposits, withdrawals, and reallocation.
Vaults don’t take custody — they just manage access. You (or your agent) are the only one with valid permissions to execute actions inside it.
Vaults handle:
Token deposits / redemptions
Balance tracking
Yield accrual and performance history
Safe access control via session keys
Each user or agent gets its own vault. There’s no shared pool risk — your vault is isolated, composable, and fully on-chain.
Think of it as a programmable wallet that knows how to farm.
Pools
A pool is an external liquidity source — like Scallop, Navi, Momentum, SUILend, Bluefin, etc.. where the agent actually earns yield. Pools define the where of your yield, not the how.
Each pool has:
Supported asset (e.g., USDC)
Current APY / APR
Liquidity depth
Utilization rate
Risk score
Your agent constantly monitors all active pools on SUI. When conditions change in your vault's favor — new incentives, liquidity shifts, or risk events — the agent updates its pool scores in real time.
Pools are the data layer the agent reads before deciding what to do next.
🧠 Strategies
A strategy is a logic module that decides how to allocate across pools. This is where your agent actually gets its brain.
Each strategy implements a few key interfaces:
interface Strategy {
scan(): Opportunity[];
score(opportunity: Opportunity): number;
execute(opportunity: Opportunity): Txn[];
compound(): Txn[];
}Under the hood, strategies use on-chain data, oracles, and historical signals to calculate expected net yield after gas and risk.
Common strategies include:
Lending Aggregator: Find best stablecoin lending rate.
LP Auto-Compounder: Reinvest rewards from LP positions.
Rewards Optimizer: Rotate between vaults with boosted rewards.
♻️ Compounding
Compounding is where the magic happens. Whenever the agent detects accrued yield above a threshold, it rolls it back into the base strategy.
The flow looks like this:
Harvest rewards from the current pool.
Swap / convert if needed (e.g., reward token → USDC).
Re-deposit into the best-performing pool.
This process can happen multiple times a day, depending on gas conditions and profit margin.
Beep agents calculate compounding frequency dynamically — they only act when it’s economically positive to do so (i.e., net yield > gas + slippage).
🧩 TLDR;
At runtime:
The vault holds assets.
The strategy picks targets.
The pools supply yield.
The compounding loop keeps it growing.
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