Concepts

Curated Vault	A DeFi product built by an independent curator, not a protocol core team, on top of an open and permissionless infrastructure.
Curator	An individual or entity that builds, maintains, and handles DeFi vaults. Curators are responsible for allocation design, risk management, and performance upkeep.
Structured Vault	A reward-bearing tokenized position composed of multiple underlying allocations, often blending DeFi-native and institutional assets.
Shared Security	A DeFi primitive that allows multiple protocols to bootstrap security mechanics (often via restaking) from a common pool of stakers. This enables additional yield for securing infrastructure.
Restaking	A mechanism that lets staked assets be repurposed and help secure additional protocols or services.
Composability	The ability for DeFi building blocks to work together seamlessly. inTokens enable this by bundling multiple yield streams into a standard ERC-4626 format.
Flash-&-Stake	A built-in Inception feature that enables instant liquidity exit from inToken positions, bypassing unbonding periods via a shared liquidity pool.
inToken	A structured ERC-4626 vault token issued via Inception that can represent multiple reward layers: curated vaults, shared security, and other DeFi strategies.