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Distribution is Turtle’s partner product for anyone with an audience. You put vetted deals in front of your users, the deposits they make are attributed to you onchain, and you earn on the liquidity you route in. Attribution is automatic: every deposit carries your distributor ID, so you do not build tracking infrastructure or reconcile anything by hand. If you have an audience that wants DeFi yield, a newsletter, a wallet, a mobile app, or a community, distribution lets you offer vetted opportunities and get paid for the deposits without running the vaults yourself. Cohort 1 of the Turtle Distributor Program is open now; onboarding starts at Become a Distributor.
A distributor is the integration point that deposits are attributed to. Your distributor ID is the identifier that ties a deposit back to you. An opportunity is a vault or campaign a user can deposit into. See the glossary.
New to the model? The Distributor Model concept page walks through how attribution, opportunity scoping, and revenue share work, with a short video walkthrough.

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What you get

  • You surface selected DeFi opportunities through a no-code link or a full API integration. Every attributed deposit earns a payout, tracked automatically against your distributor ID. No vault operation, no manual reconciliation.
  • Your users deposit into vetted opportunities through an experience you control, in your product or through your link. They keep custody of their position and can withdraw on the vault’s terms.

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How distribution works

1

You onboard

Set up an organization, get a distributor ID, and pick an integration path: no-code share links or the Earn API. Become a Distributor walks the steps; Before you start is the preflight check.
2

You configure opportunities

Choose which opportunities from the Turtle catalog to put in front of your users, tailored to your audience. See Configure opportunities.
3

Users deposit

Your users deposit through your link or your app. The deposit carries your distributor ID in its on-chain calldata.
4

Turtle attributes the deposit

Turtle detects the deposit on-chain and attributes it to your distributor automatically. No callback or reporting call is needed.
5

You get paid

Earnings accrue against your attributed TVL and release automatically from the deal’s escrow wallet. Attributed volume and earnings show up in the Distribution Dashboard.

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Two ways to integrate

There are two integration paths. Pick by how much control you want over the deposit experience and how much you want to build. Share links work only with Turtle featured deals. The Earn API covers the full catalog. See Configure opportunities for how the two paths differ in what you can put in front of users.

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How you get paid

Each deal lists a payout rate in the dashboard. Your earnings accrue against the TVL attributed to your distributor ID and release automatically from the deal’s escrow wallet, powered by Turtle Streams. Deals with a funded escrow wallet can pay out the same day their TVL is verified, and those are the deals Turtle features first. Rates are set per distributor as part of your agreement with Turtle; attributed volume and earnings are visible in the Distribution Dashboard.

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What powers it

Distribution runs on the Turtle API, so you never build the mechanics yourself:
  • Earn API - the opportunity catalog, deposit and withdrawal transaction generation, and onchain attribution.
  • Streams - the payout rails: distributor earnings release from deal escrow wallets as streams.
See the API overview for the full surface.

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Supported chains

Distribution opportunities span a broad set of chains, including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Avalanche, BSC, Optimism, Polygon, Linea, and Scroll, with more added regularly.

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