| Yield source | Your USDC funds real-world private credit, and returns come back in US dollars. | Your stablecoins are lent to onchain borrowers at a rate set by pool demand. | Your cash buys exposure to short-term US Treasury bills. |
| Market correlation | Your returns follow credit performance in real businesses, uncorrelated to digital asset volatility. | Your rate rises and falls with crypto borrowing demand. | Your return follows short-term Treasury rates. |
| Custody / governance | Your deposit sits in a vault whose roles are held by a 3/6 Safe under a Zodiac Roles policy, with settlement through a Fordefi whitelisted wallet. | Your funds sit in protocol contracts whose parameters are set by protocol governance. | Your shares are recorded by the fund administrator and transfer agent. |
| Redemption mechanism | You submit an ERC-7540 asynchronous redemption request, settled at the next valuation update. | You withdraw from instant pool liquidity, subject to utilization. | You redeem through the fund on a T+0 / T+1 cycle, per the issuer's terms. |
| Verification surface | You check the records behind your deposit on Rekord Kloud, through the Proof Console. | You read pool state directly onchain. | You rely on issuer attestations and fund reports. |