Reserve Pool

First-loss capital and settlement reconciliation mechanism

What It Is

The Reserve Pool is Manifest's settlement reconciliation mechanism, controlled by $USA holders. It captures value when HEIs outperform modeled expectations and absorbs losses when they underperform.

How Settlement Reconciliation Works

Manifest delivers daily value capture by minting $USH based on estimated HEI returns. When HEIs actually settle:

  • Actual returns > Estimated: Additional $USH minted to Reserve Pool

  • Actual returns < Estimated: $USH burned from Reserve Pool

Due to conservative valuation, HEIs often outperform at settlement, sending value to the Reserve Pool.

Additional Inflows

During the 28-day $sUSH unstaking cooldown, positions do not earn emissions. Instead, these emissions are redirected to the Reserve Pool.

Capital Structure Position

The Reserve Pool sits as the junior tranche:

  1. $USH: Tracks HPA (home price appreciation) regardless of individual HEI over/under‑performance

  2. $sUSH: Receives daily value capture distribution (excess over HPA)

  3. Reserve Pool: Absorbs reconciliation variance + abandoned rewards; first-loss / buffer layer

Access

$USA tokens control the Reserve Pool, with withdrawals blocked until final protocol accounting. This ensures the pool can fulfill its role as the reconciliation mechanism throughout the protocol's operation.

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