isometric@isometricmkts
Let's get into the nitty gritty of where we're at right now.
There are a few main categories we've been focusing on; we're doing a heavy foundational architecture upgrade prior to the mainnet soft launch — this will bring the on-chain reality more in line with the intent of the platform itself. We're addressing all of these in a giant, coordinated sweep upgrade rather than shipping them piecemeal for efficiency purposes.
1. Per-market liquidity isolation
On devnet, LPs went into a singleton vault that backed every market in the protocol — each market will have its own dedicated liquidity pool; LP capital is only exposed to that market's outcomes, no cross-market bleeding. This properly allows LPs to express informed views within their chosen parameters. Same pricing, same payouts, same flow, etc. — just an architectural overhaul.
2. Cleaner fee mechanics
We're upgrading the fee system so LPs can claim earned fees at any time without unwinding their underwriting positions; this new design properly separates earned fees from principal (industry-standard).
This separation matches how real LPs — especially VC-level — think about their position: yield vs principal vs risk exposure, each one manageable independently.
Fees are tracked in a clean pool. Principal remains at work, yield is harvestable on demand.
3. Fee distribution across multiple LPs
We're implementing a new per-share fee index that tracks fee accrual continuously. Every LP gets their exact pro-rata share of fees earned during the time they held shares — without rounding drift, early-bird, or latecomer disadvantage. This is also industry-standard for yield protocols, which Isometric overlaps into by design.
4. Payout solvency guarantee
We're overhauling some pertinent program-level architecture to allow the protocol to enforce, at the contract level, protocol solvency. This is a guarantee that there will now be zero edge cases where payout > vault capacity and is a critical component of becoming a serious financial primitive.
5. Vault accounting
We were looking for accounting bugs in our internal auditing and came across some phantom reservations where early-closed positions were decremented incorrectly — fixed.
We also found an issue where the same dollar of trader collateral was being double-accounted in two places simultaneously, which could, in rare cases, cause a trader's refund and/or payout to fail at the lowest level of the token program — fixed.
6. iso_liquidation remodel
The iso_liquidation deployed Anchor program is being partially archived for a later upgrade — to be revisited when mainnet allows for margin positioning and leveraged products (possibly perps, with the Isometric twist).
7. Frontend rebuilding
We've already rebuilt the Positions page on the platform and are currently rebuilding the Liquidity page to bring it up to standard — this will come after the per-market vault model overhaul which will fix LP viewing for per-market vault balances pulled directly from on-chain state, actual underwriting positions with their market (principal deposited, current value, accumulated claimable fees), one-click fee claiming without unwinding principal, and per-market deposit and withdrawal flows.
8. General mainnet plumbing
Final infrastructure work to switch from devnet to mainnet, which includes cluster separation, switching from test USDC to canonical mainnet USDC, etc.
We're doing all of these together for one clean redeploy of associated programs and to ensure, from day one, that we don't accumulate "known issues" debt prior to mainnet usage beginning.
All in all, this unlocks a few critical components for the protocol as a whole:
1. LPs can express specific views
2. Per-market fee tiers allow volatile markets to charge higher fees (incentivizing LPs to underwrite that risk)
3. Market-specific liquidity competition (high-volume markets attract deeper LP backing, which sharpens pricing accuracy for both traders and LPs)
4. Future product expansions — whether leveraged range positions, Isometric-modeled perps, structured products, or settlement bundles
Mainnet soon!