Cross Chain Enablement

Cross-chain deposits allow users to deposit into your vault from a blockchain different from the one the vault lives on. The transfer between chains is handled by Chainlink CCIP, Chainlink's cross-chain interoperability protocol.

A Cross-Chain Deposit is a deposit initiated on a chain different from the vault's home chain. The deposit asset is bridged via CCIP and settled on the vault's chain, where the depositor receives their shares.

Enabling Cross-Chain Deposits

Cross-chain deposits are configured from your vault's Advanced Configuration under the Cross Chain tab. Each chain you enable here becomes a source chain that your users can deposit from. Users connected to any enabled chain will see it as an option on the deposit form.

Adding a Source Chain

Navigate to Vault → Configure → Advanced → Cross Chain. Click the + button to open the chain picker, select the chain you want to enable, and confirm. The chain becomes available to depositors immediately.

Before enabling a new source chain, verify two things in the official Chainlink CCIP Directory:

• The lane between the source chain and your vault's chain is active.
• Your vault's deposit token is supported on that lane (has a CCIP token pool registered for the pair).

If either is missing, depositors will see an "asset cannot be bridged" message and will be unable to deposit from that chain.

Removing a Source Chain

To stop accepting new deposits from a chain, remove it from the list. Removal only blocks future deposits from that source — it has no effect on what has already happened.

Removing a chain does not cancel pending cross-chain deposits already in flight; those continue to settle normally. Depositors who already hold shares minted from past cross-chain deposits can still redeem them as usual, regardless of whether the original source chain is still enabled.

What Your Depositors See

Once a chain is enabled, depositors connected to that network can pick it from the Chain dropdown on your vault's deposit page. For the full depositor walkthrough, see Cross Chain Deposits in the Investor Interface documentation.

Cross-chain deposits incur an additional CCIP messaging fee paid by the depositor as part of the deposit transaction. Bridging from the source chain to the vault chain typically takes 20–30 minutes.