The previous article in this series explained how deposits, PPS, and withdrawals work inside the Altura vault. If you haven’t read it yet, start there. This one picks up the next question: how do you know it’s actually working the way it claims to? Every protocol in DeFi
The first article in this series explained what Altura is and where the yield comes from. This one answers the next set of questions: what happens when you actually deposit? How does your balance grow? And what does it look like when you want your capital back? Altura went live
Yield in DeFi has a credibility problem. Most protocols advertise double-digit APYs, but when you look under the hood, the returns come from the same place: newly minted tokens. The protocol prints them, hands them to depositors, and calls it yield. Strip the emissions away and the base return is