# What is Lagoon?

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**Lagoon** offers institutional grade fund infrastructure protocol that enables asset managers to launch, operate, and distribute any investment strategies. Provides institutional grade controls, transparent reporting, and a standardised smart contract framework that integrates across protocols and chains.
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Lagoon is an ERC-7540 based on-chain vault protocol designed for professional, chains, protocols, funds and any other enteties that need to pool digital assets at scale. It provides the full stack needed to launch tokenized funds: smart contract vault deployment, NAV computation, access control via Safe/MPC, fee management, and investor-facing reporting. Lagoon is non-custodial, audited, and chain-agnostic.

Lagoon serves as the distribution layer that connects vault operators with investors through shared on-chain infrastructure.

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### For Institutional Asset Managers & Vault Operators

**Lagoon** is a a non-custodial, open-access vault infrastructure for managers to deploy and distribute strategies across DeFi, RWAs, and off-chain mandates.

Lagoon offers additional institutional grade tooling to support any asset and strategy.

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Independent NAV Computation</strong></mark></td><td>Share prices calculated by a third-party service independent from the manager. Ensures objective, tamper-proof valuation mirroring regulated fund administration standards.</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Role-Based Access Control</strong></mark>
</td><td>Assign scoped permissions per team member at the smart contract level. Institutional-grade segregation of duties enforced natively on-chain.</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Audit-Ready Reporting</strong></mark></td><td>Every deposit, withdrawal, NAV update, and fee event is immutably recorded on-chain and exportable. Designed to match regulatory requirements of each operator's jurisdiction.<br>On-demand feature where Lagoon either audits or calculates your vault's share price. </td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Compatible With Any Custody Solution</strong></mark></td><td>Operations secured via Multi-Party Computation or Safe multisig. No single person holds a complete private key. Every execution requires coordinated multi-party approval.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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### &#x20;For Investors & Depositors

Lagoon enables investors to discover, evaluate, and allocate to curated investment strategies across DeFi, RWAs, and off-chain mandates.

The platform provides transparent reporting including:

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Real-time Position Monitoring</strong></mark></td><td>Investors can track the current value of their vault shares, underlying asset allocation and NAV evolution at any time, providing full visibility into how their capital is being deployed on-chain.</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Historical Performance Data</strong></mark></td><td>Each vault exposes a complete, immutable record of its past performance, NAV history and strategy activity, giving investors the auditable track record needed to evaluate a manager before and after committing capital.</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Clear Fee Disclosure</strong></mark></td><td>All fee structures (management, performance, entry and exit fees) are encoded directly in the vault's smart contract and visible to any investor prior to deposit, eliminating information asymmetry between managers and their depositors.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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### Deploy a vault! <a href="#why-lagoon" id="why-lagoon"></a>

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As a manager, builder, protocol, chain, or asset issuer, you can deploy a vault today.

👉 [**Deploy here**](https://app.lagoon.finance/deploy)
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