> ## Documentation Index
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# Glossary

> One-line definitions for every term used in the curator vault docs

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| Term                       | Definition                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Allocation Admin**       | Limited admin role that can update weights, caps, types, and priorities on existing allocations only. See [Roles & ownership](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/roles-and-ownership#the-three-admin-roles).                       |
| **Allocation Cap**         | Hard ceiling on tokens deployed into a single reserve. See [Allocations](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/allocations#the-allocation-cap).                                                                                       |
| **Allocation Weight**      | Relative integer determining proportional share for Standard allocations. Ignored for Conditional. See [Allocations](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/allocations#the-weight-system).                                            |
| **AUM Fee**                | Annual percentage fee on total vault assets, paid to the vault admin. See [Yield & fees](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/yield-and-fees#manager-fees).                                                                          |
| **Autocompound Farm**      | Farm that distributes rewards in the deposit token, automatically compounding into vault positions. See [Yield & fees](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/yield-and-fees#farm-rewards).                                            |
| **Borrow Order**           | A standing on-chain intent to borrow specific terms. One of two demand paths into a fixed-rate reserve. See [Fixed Rates → Concepts](/docs/curators/vaults/fixed-rates/concepts#how-borrowers-take-fixed-rate-liquidity).      |
| **Conditional Allocation** | Allocation type that deploys capital only when borrow demand arrives. Recommended for fixed-rate reserves. See [Allocations](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/allocations#standard-vs-conditional).                              |
| **Crank**                  | Permissionless off-chain bot that triggers on-chain state updates such as rebalancing.                                                                                                                                         |
| **Crank Fund Fee**         | Per-deposit fee covering the cost of the invest crank. See [Yield & fees](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/yield-and-fees#the-crank-fund-fee).                                                                                   |
| **Curator**                | Vault creator and manager — the admin (or multisig) controlling vault operations.                                                                                                                                              |
| **Deposit Token**          | The token a vault accepts. Immutable per vault.                                                                                                                                                                                |
| **Direct Borrow**          | An instant atomic borrow against available reserve liquidity. The other demand path alongside Borrow Orders. See [Fixed Rates → Concepts](/docs/curators/vaults/fixed-rates/concepts#how-borrowers-take-fixed-rate-liquidity). |
| **Fixed-Rate Reserve**     | Lending reserve with a constant borrow rate and a fixed term (e.g. `USDC 5.5% 3M`). See [Fixed Rates](/docs/curators/vaults/fixed-rates).                                                                                      |
| **Floating-Rate Reserve**  | Lending reserve with a utilization-based variable rate.                                                                                                                                                                        |
| **Insurance Pool**         | Curator-locked capital that absorbs losses before depositors. Implemented as `FirstLossCapitalFarm`. See [Risk primitives](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/risk-primitives#the-insurance-pool).                                 |
| **kToken (Receipt Token)** | The vault's share token, issued to depositors. Format: `kv[DEPOSIT_SYMBOL]-[SUFFIX]`.                                                                                                                                          |
| **Lamports**               | Smallest unit of a token (e.g. 1 SOL = 1,000,000,000 lamports).                                                                                                                                                                |
| **Performance Fee**        | Fee on vault profits, paid to the vault admin. See [Yield & fees](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/yield-and-fees#manager-fees).                                                                                                 |
| **Priority**               | Numerical value controlling which Standard allocations are eligible as source reserves for Conditional fills. Higher = more protected. See [Allocations](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/allocations#priority).                 |
| **Reserve**                | A specific lending pool within a market. Vaults allocate capital to reserves.                                                                                                                                                  |
| **Squads**                 | Solana multisig used for production vault management. See [Roles & ownership](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/roles-and-ownership#the-squads-multisig-model).                                                                   |
| **Standard Allocation**    | Allocation type that deploys capital immediately and continuously per weight. See [Allocations](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/allocations#standard-vs-conditional).                                                           |
| **Sync Allocations**       | Permissionless action to rebalance the vault toward target allocations. See [Allocations](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/allocations#sync-and-rebalance).                                                                      |
| **Unallocated Funds**      | Idle vault capital kept liquid for instant withdrawals. See [Liquidity & withdrawals](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/liquidity-and-withdrawals#the-unallocated-buffer).                                                        |
| **Vault Admin**            | Full-control admin role for the vault. Production vaults transfer this to a Squads multisig. See [Roles & ownership](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/roles-and-ownership#the-three-admin-roles).                                |
| **Vault Farm**             | The farm where depositors stake their kTokens to receive reward distributions. See [Yield & fees](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/yield-and-fees#farm-rewards).                                                                 |
| **Whitelisted Reserves**   | Smart-contract-level constraint preventing allocation to reserves outside Kamino's verified set. See [Risk primitives](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/risk-primitives#whitelisted-reserves).                                   |
| **Withdrawal Penalty**     | Security mechanism — fee on withdrawals returned to the vault to defeat yield-sniping. See [Yield & fees](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/yield-and-fees#the-withdrawal-penalty).                                               |
| **Withdrawal Queue**       | Per-reserve FIFO queue for exits when reserve liquidity is committed. See [Liquidity & withdrawals](/docs/curators/vaults/concepts/liquidity-and-withdrawals#the-withdrawal-queue).                                            |
| **Withdrawal Ticket**      | An entry in the withdrawal queue. Has a sequence number, a queued amount, and a destination token account.                                                                                                                     |
