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How it works
How it works
A complete walkthrough of the Orokai user journey — from first sign-up and wallet creation through strategy selection, first allocation, ongoing management, and exit.
From Zero to DeFi — In Under 30 Minutes
The traditional path into DeFi takes days. Sometimes weeks. By the time most people figure out wallets, KYC, gas tokens, and protocol selection — they've either given up or made a costly mistake.
Here's how the same journey looks with Orokai (on the right).
Time saved in the first month: roughly 15–25 hours down to 2–3 hours.
None of this means Orokai controls your funds. You still sign every transaction. The difference is that Orokai prepares them better — and shows you everything before you commit.
Stage 1 - Getting Started
You open Orokai, sign up with email or social login, and a self-custody wallet is created on your side. Your private keys are generated and stored exclusively on your device. Orokai never sees them.
Once your wallet exists, you buy crypto with a card. The purchase is handled by a licensed fiat partner who manages KYC and payment processing on their side. Orokai is the software layer connecting the experience — not the payment processor, not the custodian.
Funds arrive in your wallet. Not in Orokai's wallet. Yours.
Traditional DeFi: 15+ steps, 2–5 days, high stress. With Orokai: 4 steps, 15–30 minutes, guided throughout.
Stage 2 - Choosing Your Strategy
With funds in your wallet, Orokai's AI Agent takes your profile — goals, risk tolerance, time horizon, chain preferences — and highlights the option it considers the best match for your current context, drawn from the verified protocol allow-list.
The highlighted option is a starting point, not a prescription. You can explore alternatives, adjust your allocation across multiple protocols, or browse the full allow-listed protocol list yourself. The AI surfaces what fits — you decide what to use.
No recommendation from Orokai constitutes investment advice. All yields shown are variable and not guaranteed.
Stage 3 - Your First Allocation
Once you've chosen a strategy, Orokai prepares the full transaction sequence. Before you sign anything, you see a clear summary:
Investment Amount
Estimated Yearly Return*
Transaction Fee
Total Due Today
*Estimated yearly return is based on current protocol data and is variable. It is not guaranteed.
One number. No surprises.
If you want to understand exactly what makes up Transaction Fee, a detailed breakdown is one tap away — showing gas costs and Orokai's interface fees where applicable as separate line items.
Once you're satisfied, your wallet prompts you to sign each step individually. Orokai never signs on your behalf.
If you reject a step, the flow pauses. You can resume later or cancel entirely. Nothing is irreversible until you sign it.
Stage 4 - Tracking and Managing Your Positions
Once your allocation is live, everything flows into a unified dashboard — all positions, across all chains, in one place.
Rewards — Orokai tracks accrued rewards across all your active positions and shows you what's claimable. By default, you claim manually: you see the amount, you initiate the transaction, you sign it. Rewards stay in their native protocol tokens unless you choose otherwise.
Optional automation — If you want, you can configure a schedule: execute when gas is below a threshold you set. Orokai prepares those transaction flows automatically when conditions are met — but they still execute using permissions you granted, from your wallet. You can revoke this authorization at any point, instantly.
Monitoring — The AI watches your positions around the clock. When something relevant changes — a yield drops materially, a protocol reports a security issue, gas fees create a favourable rebalancing window — you get an alert. Not an automatic action. An alert. You decide what to do with it.
Stage 5 - Moving Between Protocols
Markets change. Better opportunities emerge. Sometimes moving funds from one protocol to another makes sense — but in traditional DeFi, that means 4–6 separate transactions across multiple interfaces, with meaningful error risk at every step.
Orokai's migration flow composes the entire path — unstake, bridge if needed, swap, deposit — into a single reviewable sequence. Before you approve anything, you see:
The total cost including gas, bridge fees, and slippage
A break-even estimate: how long until the migration pays for itself
You review the full path, then sign each step in sequence. You can stop between any two signatures. Nothing executes beyond the point where you last signed.
Stage 6 - Exiting
When you're ready to move back to fiat, Orokai prepares the exit flow: unstake from the protocol, swap to a major asset if needed, then off-ramp through a licensed fiat partner.
You review the steps and costs. You sign. The partner handles the fiat conversion and bank transfer on their side — including any KYC requirements on their end. Orokai is the orchestration layer, not the payment processor.
Network verification is built into the flow. The most common source of lost funds in manual exits — sending to the wrong network — is flagged automatically before you sign.
What Stays Constant — At Every Stage
Regardless of what you're doing in Orokai, six things never change:
1
Your keys stay with you. Orokai never has access to your private keys at any point in any flow.
2
You sign everything. No transaction executes without your explicit cryptographic signature. Automation means prepared flows — not execution without permission.
3
Costs are shown before you commit. Gas, DEX fees, bridge fees, Orokai's interface fee — all visible before your wallet prompts you.
4
Returns are variable. Yields depend on external protocols and market conditions. Orokai does not guarantee any level of return and will never imply that it does.
5
Blockchain rules apply. Signed and confirmed transactions are final. Orokai doesn't add or remove this property of blockchains — but it helps you understand what you're signing before you sign it.
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Risk warnings are built in. Complexity, liquidity constraints, lock-up periods, and protocol risk levels are surfaced at every relevant point. You decide what level of risk to accept.