Non-custodial design
What non-custodial means in Aqua0, and what it does not.
Locked liquidity sits in an asset vault, one contract per asset per chain, never in a team wallet. Locking credits your principal, a claim counted in the asset itself, not a share token.
What you control
- Backing a strategy never moves your liquidity out of the asset vault. A swap uses it only inside your range and only for that trade, and your share of the result lands straight in your principal.
- Only you can withdraw, in one transaction, up to your free balance. Backing a Uniswap V4 strategy does not reduce it. A 1inch Aqua range holds your slice until its program next settles, and a cross-chain swap in progress holds what it uses until it settles.
The trust model
Some actions need keys the team holds. They authorize each Uniswap V4 fill, ship 1inch Aqua strategies, run cross-chain swaps, pause the contracts and upgrade them. A pause stops swaps and withdrawals until the contracts resume. Upgrades take effect without a waiting period.
The keys the team holds carry real power over this design. A compromise of any of them is a serious incident.
Non-custodial does not remove smart contract, chain or bridge risk. See Risks.