How to Deploy a Permissionless Vault on Lagoon in Minutes

Launching an onchain vault has historically meant navigating protocol-specific integrations, waiting on team approvals, and committing capital before you could even test your strategy. For curators and asset managers, this friction slowed experimentation and made multi-chain deployment impractical.

Lagoon's Vault Factory changes this. It enables fully permissionless vault deployment: anyone can spin up a production-ready vault across 18+ EVM chains in a single session. No gatekeepers, no operational overhead, no minimum TVL required.

This article walks through the six-step deployment process and explains what each configuration choice means for your vault.

Why Permissionless Deployment Matters

Traditional vault platforms require curators to commit before they can prove anything. You need a minimum TVL, a partnership agreement, or protocol approval just to get started. That model penalizes experimentation and testing.

With Lagoon, curators can launch empty vaults in production or staging environments, test multi-chain strategies freely, and scale on their own terms when they're ready. The barrier is gone: if you have a wallet and a strategy, you can deploy.

Important: Once deployed, some contract parameters are immutable, while others can only be changed after a time-lock period. Review your configuration carefully before confirming.

Six Steps to Deploy Your Vault

Step 1: Select Your Network

Choose from 18+ supported EVM chains including Ethereum Mainnet, Arbitrum, Base, and more. If you need a specific chain that isn't listed, the Lagoon team can add it on request.

Step 2: Define Asset & Symbol

Pick an underlying asset from the preset list or add any custom ERC-20 token address. Then assign a ticker symbol for your vault share token (e.g., lagUSDC). This symbol is how LPs will identify your vault onchain.

Step 3: Add Your Curation Wallet

Connect the address that will manage vault assets. This can be a multisig (Safe, Squads), an MPC wallet (Fireblocks, Fordefi), or any other curation address. The curation wallet has execution authority over the vault's assets.

Step 4: Configure Governance

Assign roles and distribute permissions across your team. Lagoon's governance model separates concerns into distinct roles:

Step 5: Set Your Fee Structure

Define performance fees and management fees, and designate the address that receives fee payouts. Lagoon supports high-water mark tracking to ensure performance fees are only charged on new gains.

Coming soon: entry and exit fee types will be available in the next protocol iteration.

Step 6: Review and Deploy

Review your full configuration. If anything needs adjustment, you can reset with a single click. Once confirmed, your vault is deployed onchain and immediately accessible.

Each deployed vault gets a lightweight UI and a unique shareable link for LP onboarding:

app.lagoon.finance/vault/[CHAIN_ID]/[VAULT_ADDRESS]

After Deployment: What You Can Configure

Currently, contract parameter changes (fees, roles, whitelist updates, sync deposit module, vault closure) require proxy verification and block explorer interaction. A dedicated configuration UI is in development.

Vaults deployed through the factory automatically receive access to new protocol upgrades on an opt-in basis; no redeployment required.

Security

Lagoon's smart contracts have undergone 7+ audits by NethermindSec. The vault architecture is built on the ERC-7540 standard, which provides asynchronous deposit and withdrawal flows designed for real-world asset management use cases.