vfat is a farming account for Aerodrome and the venues beside it: every wallet gets one Sickle, a minimal contract only that wallet controls, and vfat's strategies add liquidity, stake it in the pool's gauge, harvest the emissions and exit again through it.
The Sickle is what makes the farming composable. It sits at an address the wallet alone determines, deploys itself on the wallet's first deposit, holds the LP or the position while it farms, and pays everything it takes out back to its owner. A stable or volatile pool's LP stakes in the pool's gauge the way it would from the wallet; a Slipstream range is minted straight into a position the gauge holds; either keeps earning the gauge's AERO until the owner harvests or exits.
Farming that way is a sequence of steps that never stops needing someone. Emissions accrue every block and are only worth something once they are claimed. A range drifts out of the money and stops earning. A gauge that paid well last epoch pays less this one, and the capital in it has to move to keep up.
Every one of those steps is a plug. Depositing both of a pool's tokens, staking LP or a position the wallet already holds, harvesting what the gauge has paid, adding to or trimming a range, and exiting into the pool's tokens all run when a condition is met, with the tokens they pay out flowing straight into the next step.
Emissions harvested the moment they cross a threshold and swapped or added back in the same run. A range withdrawn and reopened around the price when it leaves the money. A farm entered with the exact tokens a swap just produced, and left the block the gauge stops paying.
The wallets that farm Aerodrome best are not the ones that check most often. They are the ones whose farms move on their own.
Decrease positionDecrease positionTakes part of a Slipstream position the socket farms through vfat out into its tokens.Takes part of a Slipstream position the socket farms through vfat out into its tokens.
DepositDepositAdds both of an Aerodrome stable or volatile pool's tokens through vfat and stakes the LP in the pool's gauge.Adds both of an Aerodrome stable or volatile pool's tokens through vfat and stakes the LP in the pool's gauge.
Deposit positionDeposit positionOpens a Slipstream position through vfat and stakes it in the pool's gauge.Opens a Slipstream position through vfat and stakes it in the pool's gauge.
Exit position to socketExit position to socketTakes a Slipstream position the socket farms through vfat back to the socket together with its emissions.Takes a Slipstream position the socket farms through vfat back to the socket together with its emissions.
Exit to LPExit to LPCloses the socket's vfat stake in an Aerodrome pool's gauge into the pool's LP and its emissions.Closes the socket's vfat stake in an Aerodrome pool's gauge into the pool's LP and its emissions.
HarvestHarvestClaims the AERO emissions an Aerodrome pool's gauge has paid the socket's vfat stake.Claims the AERO emissions an Aerodrome pool's gauge has paid the socket's vfat stake.
Harvest positionHarvest positionClaims the AERO emissions a Slipstream position the socket farms through vfat has earned.Claims the AERO emissions a Slipstream position the socket farms through vfat has earned.
Increase positionIncrease positionAdds both of its tokens to a Slipstream position the socket farms through vfat.Adds both of its tokens to a Slipstream position the socket farms through vfat.
Stake LPStake LPStakes an Aerodrome stable or volatile pool's LP in the pool's gauge through vfat.Stakes an Aerodrome stable or volatile pool's LP in the pool's gauge through vfat.
Stake positionStake positionMoves a Slipstream position the socket holds into vfat and stakes it in its pool's gauge.Moves a Slipstream position the socket holds into vfat and stakes it in its pool's gauge.
Unstake LPUnstake LPUnstakes an Aerodrome pool's LP from its gauge through vfat back to the socket.Unstakes an Aerodrome pool's LP from its gauge through vfat back to the socket.
Unstake positionUnstake positionTakes a Slipstream position the socket farms through vfat back to the socket.Takes a Slipstream position the socket farms through vfat back to the socket.
WithdrawWithdrawUnstakes LP from an Aerodrome pool's gauge through vfat and removes it into both of the pool's tokens.Unstakes LP from an Aerodrome pool's gauge through vfat and removes it into both of the pool's tokens.
Withdraw positionWithdraw positionCloses a Slipstream position the socket farms through vfat into both of its tokens.Closes a Slipstream position the socket farms through vfat into both of its tokens.