# Welcome to Mellow Mellow provides vault smart contract primitives for deploying curated onchain products with explicit risk constraints and defined execution surfaces. Vaults define how capital moves, which actions are permitted, and which venues a strategy can use, with enforcement handled by smart contracts. Mellow vaults operate under a curated model. Depositors provide capital, while designated curators define and operate the strategy within predefined onchain constraints. Curators cannot arbitrarily change strategy behavior. Their actions are bounded by the vault’s configuration, permissions, and limits. This separation of roles allows strategies to be actively managed while keeping risk parameters explicit and enforced at the vault level. Core Vaults are the primary architecture for current structured product deployments, while other vault types cover specialized use cases such as DVT-oriented staking exposure, restaking, crosschain orchestration, queued-withdrawal LRT flows, and active liquidity management. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.mellow.finance/readme.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.