Connect and deposit

This guide walks you through connecting your wallet and creating your first Earn strategy.

Connect a wallet and New Strategy walks you through the whole thing. You sign, in order:

1. Terms of Service. Off-chain message, prompted once per wallet.
2. USDC allowance. On-chain approval for the amount you're depositing, taken right after you enter it.
3. Per-vault approvals. On-chain approvals for the vaults that qualify, grouped by network. Wallets that support batching group up to ten per transaction.
4. Strategy authorization. Off-chain message confirming ownership. This is not a deposit.
5. Deposit. Moves USDC into your vault(s), or initiates the cross-chain burn for vaults on other chains.

Finish within one hour of creating the strategy; an unfunded strategy is auto-deleted after that. If you leave partway, opening the strategy drops you back at the deposit step.

See Supported wallets for the fewest-prompts setup.

1

Open Earn

Visit earn.quicknode.com and click Connect Wallet.

2

Pick a wallet

Pick a wallet, or use WalletConnect for Rabby, Trust Wallet, Frame, etc. Approve the connection.

3

Walk through New Strategy

Click New Strategy. It takes one setting at a time (source chain, amount, networks, then the filters), showing how many vaults still qualify as you go. See Creating a strategy.

4

Approve, create, deposit

Approve your vaults (grouped by network, so you switch networks as few times as possible), sign to create the strategy, then confirm the deposit.

The per-vault approvals preauthorize where Earn may route and let it move your shares out when a better candidate wins. You can approve more vaults anytime; Earn prompts you when a better vault is blocked only by a missing approval. Reject anything that looks wrong and start over.

If you stop after creating but before depositing, opening the strategy drops you back at the deposit step.

5

See the confirmed strategy

After the deposit confirms, the strategy shows Earning yield on your dashboard.

Cross-chain deposits

If your USDC isn't on a chain that hosts the chosen starting vault(s), Earn bridges it via Circle CCTP v2. See Cross-chain bridging for timing.

Where to go next

Managing positions

Monitor and manage your active positions.

Closing a strategy

How to close a strategy and withdraw funds.

Rebalancing

How automatic rebalancing works.