glossary
Vault
A hardware-secured environment where your digital assets live. If it's in your Vault, you own it.
A secure environment where your digital assets live. If a Genome is in your Vault, you own it. Period.
Think of a personal safe that no one — not even the company that made it — can open. Your Vault uses hardware-level security to enforce possession. Even system administrators cannot see what's inside.
This is what makes Onli fundamentally different from traditional systems: your assets don't live in someone else's database. They live in your Vault, under your control.
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Types of Vaults
| Type | Who owns it | What it's for |
|---|---|---|
| Treasury Vault | Asset issuers | Stores new assets before they're issued to owners |
| Mobile Vault | You | Everyday wallet on your device — quick access |
| Cloud Vault | You | Long-term archival safe — for high-value assets |
| Settlement Locker | Neutral | Temporary zone during two-phase ownership changes |
Your personal Vaults (Mobile and Cloud) are accessed through Onli You.
How it works
Vaults are built on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) — specialized hardware that creates an isolated zone no external process can penetrate. This means:
- Even administrators can't look inside — The hardware enforces isolation at the physical level
- Possession is observable — If a Genome is in a Vault, that's a verifiable fact
- No extraction — Assets can only leave with your explicit authorization
When an asset needs to change hands, the Onli One network creates a direct connection between two Vaults, the ownership transfer executes atomically, and the connection is destroyed.