Open your own vault
Anyone can start a vault on an approved stock. You choose the settings; Tide's AI agent runs it.
How it works
- Go to Create a vault and connect your wallet.
- Pick a stock, choose how cautious the vault should be, set a deposit cap and your fee.
- Confirm. Your vault appears on the home page under Community vaults within a few minutes.
- Share it. Once it holds $100 in deposits, Tide's agent starts managing it.
What you control
- Your fee: a share of the trading fees the vault earns, up to 30%. Tide keeps a fifth of your fee. You can lower it any time; raising it takes 3 days so depositors can leave first.
- The deposit cap and how cautious the agent is, within Tide's limits.
- Pause: you can stop new deposits. Withdrawals always keep working.
- The AI profile: choose which Tide-run profile manages it, when you create the vault or later on its page: Tide Standard (balanced), Tide Cautious (wider ranges, fewer moves), or Rules only (no AI, free to run at any size).
What each cautiousness level sets
The choice you make at creation writes four numbers into the vault. They stay fixed afterwards, whichever AI profile runs it. Widths are in price terms: a ±10% starting range around a $100 stock runs from about $90 to $110.
| Level | Starting range | Narrowest range allowed | Wait between moves | Max price given up per swap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cautious | ±10% | 10% | 8 hours | 0.5% |
| Balanced | ±6% | 4% | 4 hours | 0.8% |
| Aggressive | ±3% | 1.2% | 2 hours | 1% |
Every level also caps the range at Tide's widest allowed, blocks moves when the price sits more than about 1% away from its 10-minute average, and leaves the agent free to go wider than the starting range when it thinks that is wise. A tighter range earns more per dollar while the price stays inside it, and falls out of range more often.
The AI profiles
| Profile | What runs it | Starts managing at |
|---|---|---|
| Tide Standard | Tide's strongest model, balanced behaviour. | $100 in deposits |
| Tide Cautious | The same model, told to prefer wider ranges and fewer moves. Suits volatile stocks. | $100 in deposits |
| Rules only | No AI. Mechanical rules recentre the range when the price leaves it and put new deposits to work. | Any size |
Below the starting amount, a vault on an AI profile still accepts deposits and still earns fees from its starting range; it just isn't moved yet. The owner can switch profile at any time from the vault page, and the agent picks the change up within a few minutes.
Tide's limits
Whatever you choose has to sit inside these. They are enforced by the factory contract, so a vault outside them can't be created.
| Setting | Limit |
|---|---|
| Wait between moves | At least 1 hour |
| Price given up per swap | At most 1% |
| Spot vs recent average | Moves blocked beyond about 2% apart; the check can't be switched off |
| Averaging window | At least 5 minutes |
| Widest range | About 7× between the bottom and top price |
| Your fee | At most 30% of trading fees; Tide keeps 20% of your fee |
| Raising your fee | Takes effect after 3 days |
| Deposit cap | Any amount, or none |
What you can't do
You can't trade the vault's money, move deposits anywhere, or swap in a different AI. That keeps depositors safe no matter who opened the vault.