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# Concepts

| **Curated Vault**    | A DeFi product built by an independent curator, not a protocol core team, on top of an open and permissionless infrastructure.                                                                  |
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| **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.                                   |