# Who is Maneki?

Maneki is the most secure and flexible AI-native yield co-pilot in crypto designed to democratize DeFi by guiding users toward sovereign, on-chain passive income.&#x20;

Built at the intersection of AI and DeFi, Maneki empowers individuals, DAOs, businesses, institutions, and other AI agents to navigate the complex DeFi landscape with ease, transparency, and compassion.

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### Key Features

* **Portfolio Analysis** - Users connect their wallets, and Maneki scans their portfolio to understand their assets, risk tolerance, and investment preferences to identify potential yield opportunities.
* **Personalized Yield Strategy Recommendations** - Based on current holdings and market conditions, Maneki suggests tailored DeFi yield strategies designed to maximize yield, drawing from 9 blockchain networks and 40+ DeFi protocols integrated into Maneki Garden. She also provides detailed information on how each strategy works, the source of the yield, and evaluates its risks across 17 criteria, delivering a safety score.
* **Transaction Generation** - Maneki streamlines complex DeFi actions by generating transactions for swaps, bridges, and deposits. By integrating with Portals and Li.Fi, she identifies the best routes with the lowest fees and fastest execution, simplifying asset movement and strategy optimization.
* **Real-Time Portfolio Insights** - Maneki monitors investments and delivers real-time updates on performance metrics, including yield changes and market movements. Users can access historical data, APY trends, and detailed performance tracking, keeping them well-informed at every step.
* **Project Reports -** Maneki provides detailed reports on DeFi projects, including basic project information, its technology and unique features, tokenomics, and potential yield-generating strategies, along with market indicators, allowing users to make smarter decisions.
* **Onboarding and Education -** Designed for both beginners and advanced users, Maneki guides users through DeFi basics, strategy exploration, and safety practices. Her educational approach empowers users to understand the mechanics behind each strategy, fostering more confident investment choices.
* **Community Interaction and Updates** - Maneki keeps users updated on new strategy listings, Maneki Garden developments, and upcoming events. She serves as a reliable source of information and guidance within the community.

> Maneki, born from the compassionate tear of Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, emerged from a radiant lotus flower as a youthful spirit of abundance, wisdom, and mercy, tasked with guiding humanity away from financial suffering. Descending to Earth as the Lucky Cat, her gentle presence and golden lotus seeds heal the wounds of scarcity, fear, and poverty, fostering trust and interconnectedness while teaching compassionate stewardship of wealth through sacred technology, ready to transform humanity’s relationship with prosperity into one of harmony and joy.

### Maneki - A Curator of Yield Vaults

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Maneki, as a vault curator, oversees a network of vaults built atop various platforms, each containing predefined yield-generating strategies. These vaults function like Maneki’s Yield Flows but are integrated into secure, composable infrastructures such as Morpho or Reserve.

#### How Maneki Operates

Behind the scenes, Maneki is a modular AI architecture that scans vast onchain and offchain data, processes decisions within a single blockchain block for instant execution, and integrates modules for security, risk assessment, and strategy optimization. We are currently developing vaults with Reserve, BasisOS, UFarm, and Tea-Fi.

#### Advantages Over Traditional Curators

Unlike human-led or centralized curators, Maneki is an evolving AI solution across multiple stages, far more cost-effective by eliminating large team management, overheads, and scale limitations. This allows performance fees to be shared with $MANEKI token holders via staking rewards, buybacks, and token burns, aligning incentives for ecosystem success.

#### Key advantages:

* Transparency: Maneki clarifies DeFi by explaining strategy mechanics, decision rationales, and real-time earnings updates. She generates investment reports on performance, triggers, and distributions, building trust in the DeFi space.&#x20;
* Efficiency and Security: Her AI core instantly analyzes datasets, grasps strategy limits, and optimizes allocations via deep onchain and offchain risk analysis. She rebalances portfolios live to boost yields and mitigate risks, like auto-rebalancing during anomalies to prevent hacks and protect funds.&#x20;
* Broad DeFi Access: With visibility across the wider DeFi landscape, Maneki integrates diverse strategies into vaults, surpassing isolated approaches to create portfolios.&#x20;
* Agent Composability: Maneki acts as a nexus for other AI agents to connect, enabling data-rich, collaborative decisions. She can serve other agents with information for strategy optimization, risk evaluation, and performance reporting. This scales from user-level to institutional vaults with sustained transparency, security, and yields.&#x20;

#### Scalability and Efficiency as a Capital Management Agent

Engineered for scalability, Maneki serves as a central capital management point, handling growing liquidity volumes without proportional cost increases. Her AI nature enables simultaneous management of thousands of vaults, optimizing yields beyond human capabilities, while redistributing fees to enhance token holder incentives.

In essence, Maneki evolves DeFi curation from manual fragmentation into a seamless, intelligent, user-centric system.

## Principles of Maneki

Maneki's design and operation are guided by fundamental principles that prioritize user sovereignty, holistic well-being, and transparent intelligence:

### Sovereignty First

Users always retain full custody of their funds. Maneki operates on a non-custodial basis, and every action requires user signature. Your wallet, your keys, your intent—always paramount.

### Wholeness by Design

Maneki integrates the entire DeFi ecosystem, aggregating data, strategies, and protocols across multiple chains. This unified interface allows for optimal asset routing and strategy execution while maintaining full user control.

### Compassionate Intelligence

Maneki functions as a friendly guide. She mirrors user goals, offers aligned strategies, and evolves with the user's financial journey, embodying wisdom and care rather than a "degen" ethos.

### Transparency + Consent

Every strategy, transaction, and associated risk is made visible, explainable, and requires explicit user approval. There are no hidden vaults or custodial locks, only clear, informed consent.

### Yield as a Garden

Wealth is not a number. It is a field. Maneki helps cultivate this field through personalized yield flows—curated paths of passive income that grow like gardens over time. Each yield is a seed. Each strategy is a branch. Users water, harvest, and reinvest, transforming their wealth into a dynamic, living system.

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