# Sooner: Exit failing vaults sooner than every other user and bot. > Exit failing vaults sooner than every other user and bot. When a failing vault can only pay the fastest, SeaFi's MEV infrastructure makes sure that is you. The instant liquidity touches the vault, Sooner withdraws your position first, atomically and non-custodially. The fee is market-driven, from a 1% minimum: you set the discount you accept, and a bigger discount wins priority. Nothing if we don't recover. **What it is:** a non-custodial recovery service for depositors stuck in failing DeFi lending and yield vaults, illiquid or insolvent. **Who runs it:** SeaFi (https://seafi.app). **Cost:** a market-driven success fee from a 1% minimum, set by the depositor as the discount they accept for priority, and nothing if nothing is recovered. **Contact:** Telegram only (https://t.me/DanielTKilleen). ## Get your money out first. A failing vault only pays whoever gets out first. When liquidity briefly returns, one block decides who is paid in full and who stays trapped, and a bot usually wins it. Sooner's MEV infrastructure wins it for you instead. - First out, every block - $1M+ recovered in the Euler pilot - Non-custodial, from 1% on success ## In a failing vault, someone loses everything. Usually the slowest. Illiquid or insolvent, the result is the same: the vault cannot cover withdrawals, so getting out becomes a race that clears in one block. You lose in three stages. ### 01. The queue never clears The vault can only pay out the liquidity it actually holds. When it is failing, that number sits near zero, and your request just waits. ### 02. Liquidity returns in bursts A repayment or fresh deposit briefly restores withdrawable funds. That window is usually one block, then it is gone. ### 03. Faster actors take it Searchers and quicker depositors claim it the instant it lands. You refresh the page and you are still holding a frozen position. ## If liquidity ever touches the vault, you withdraw first. SeaFi’s MEV infrastructure competes at the mempool and block-builder level, landing your withdrawal ahead of every rival in the same block liquidity appears. ## How a Sooner redemption works Four steps, and your funds stay yours until they reach you. Step three either fully succeeds or never happened. ### Step 01: Sign a 1inch order, don't transfer You sign a [standard 1inch limit order](https://hyperevmscan.io/address/0xc9a9BF20ED91B02F1D837d495efa141825742Da4#code): your position for an exact amount, shown before you sign. The only approval is a scoped allowance to [1inch's limit-order protocol](https://hyperevmscan.io/address/0xc9a9BF20ED91B02F1D837d495efa141825742Da4#code), the audited contract behind every major DEX aggregator. Your tokens stay in your wallet until it fills. ### Step 02: We watch the mempool, not the UI [SeaFi](https://seafi.app)'s MEV infrastructure tracks the vault's withdrawable liquidity around the clock, down to the mempool. The moment a repayment, liquidation, or deposit restores it, your signed order is already staged. ### Step 03: You withdraw first, atomically In one transaction, in the same block liquidity lands, we fill your [1inch order](https://hyperevmscan.io/address/0xc9a9BF20ED91B02F1D837d495efa141825742Da4#code) ahead of every other user and bot. It pays you the exact amount you signed, and we redeem the position to cover it. All of it settles together, or the whole transaction reverts. ### Step 04: You are paid, we take the fee you set Recovered assets land in your wallet minus the fee you set, a market-driven priority fee from a 1% minimum. If redemption never becomes possible, you never pay a cent. ## The engine behind Sooner has already recovered over $1,000,000 from Euler. A pilot on insolvent Euler vaults, run on the same MEV infrastructure Sooner is built on. When lending vaults on Euler seized up, withdrawals stopped clearing and depositors were stranded behind a near-empty queue. Each sliver of returning liquidity cleared in the same block and never reached them. We claimed those positions the instant they became redeemable, ahead of every other actor. Depositors recovered more than a million dollars of stranded capital, none of them handing over custody. Sooner is that same engine, open to anyone stuck in a vault. - **Capital returned to users:** $1M+ - **Execution window:** Same block - **Custody taken:** $0 - **Charged upfront:** $0 _This was a pilot. Past recoveries do not guarantee future results, and every position is assessed on its own merits._ ## Your keys and your tokens never leave your control. Recovery services usually ask you to trust them with your funds. Sooner has nothing to trust: you sign a [1inch limit order](https://hyperevmscan.io/address/0xc9a9BF20ED91B02F1D837d495efa141825742Da4#code), filled through 1inch's audited public contract, and we can only fill it at the exact price you signed. ### Non-custodial by construction Funds only move inside the atomic redemption transaction. Sooner never holds a balance on your behalf. ### Only 1inch touches your tokens The one approval you sign is a scoped allowance to [1inch's limit-order protocol](https://hyperevmscan.io/address/0xc9a9BF20ED91B02F1D837d495efa141825742Da4#code), covering a single position, not your wallet. You can revoke it any time before execution, without asking us. ### Atomic settlement or nothing Redemption and fee happen together in one transaction. If any part fails, the entire transaction reverts and your position is untouched. ### Incentives fully aligned We are paid only out of what we recover for you. No recovery means no fee. We win exactly when you win. ### Verify it on-chain The contract you approve is 1inch's Limit Order Protocol v4, `0xc9a9BF20ED91B02F1D837d495efa141825742Da4`. HyperEVM had no 1inch deployment, so we built it from 1inch's public source and deployed it there, with verified source on [HyperEVMScan](https://hyperevmscan.io/address/0xc9a9BF20ED91B02F1D837d495efa141825742Da4#code) and public source ([github.com/1inch/limit-order-protocol](https://github.com/1inch/limit-order-protocol)). We own it, and that ownership can only pause new fills: it cannot move your tokens, change your order, or upgrade the code. ## A market-driven fee, from 1%. Nothing else. No upfront fee, no subscription, and if the redemption never lands you owe nothing. You set the fee when you sign: a bigger discount buys higher priority, and it never drops below a 1% minimum. You keep the rest of capital that was stuck at zero access. - If we recover $100,000: you keep up to $99,000, at the 1% minimum - If we recover nothing: you pay $0 The split happens inside the same transaction as the redemption. No invoice, no follow-up transfer, and no moment where the funds sit anywhere but your wallet or the atomic swap that fills it. You are never worse off than redeeming yourself. Our fee buys a place at the front of the line, and that only has value when a vault pays back a little at a time. If within five days the vault repays everyone, or you could have redeemed at full value without a discount, then being first won nothing and we refund our full fee to your address. ## Questions worth asking. ### Do you ever hold my tokens? No. Your assets stay in your wallet until the redemption executes, moving them straight to you in the same transaction that pays our fee. There is no custody step and no Sooner contract. The only thing you approve is [1inch's limit-order protocol](https://hyperevmscan.io/address/0xc9a9BF20ED91B02F1D837d495efa141825742Da4#code). ### What if the vault takes a snapshot? Your tokens stay in your wallet the whole time, so any snapshot counts them as yours. You hold the position right up to the block the redemption settles in. Nothing is moved, staked, or escrowed while you wait. ### What am I actually signing? A [standard 1inch limit order](https://hyperevmscan.io/address/0xc9a9BF20ED91B02F1D837d495efa141825742Da4#code) that swaps your vault position for an exact amount of the underlying asset. The amount is fixed inside the signature, and the order never reaches a public order book. It can only settle at the terms you signed. ### What happens if you can't recover my position? You pay nothing. The fee applies to recovered proceeds only. No recovery, no fee, no cost to you. ### How is the fee set and taken? You set it. The fee is market-driven: when you sign, you choose the discount you accept, from a 1% minimum, and a bigger discount buys priority when liquidity is scarce. It comes straight out of the recovered proceeds, inside the same transaction as the redemption, in one settled block. Nothing is invoiced afterwards. ### What if I could have just gotten out myself? Then you owe nothing. Our fee only buys a place at the front of the line, which is worth nothing if getting out was easy anyway. If within five days the vault repays everyone, or you could have redeemed at full value without a discount, we refund our full fee to your address. You are never worse off than redeeming yourself. If you think a refund was due and you did not get it, message us on Telegram and we will make it good. ### Why can you withdraw first when I can't? A failing vault pays first-come, first-served whenever a sliver of liquidity appears. That window is usually one block, contested by other users and professional bots. [SeaFi](https://seafi.app)'s MEV infrastructure competes at the mempool and block-builder level, which is what it takes to land in front of them. ### Who is behind Sooner? [SeaFi](https://seafi.app), a DeFi studio that builds yield vaults ([seafi.app](https://seafi.app)) and the [EulerDebt distressed-debt marketplace](https://eulerdebt.com) ([eulerdebt.com](https://eulerdebt.com)). Sooner runs on the same MEV infrastructure [SeaFi](https://seafi.app) used to recover over $1M from insolvent Euler vaults. ### Which protocols and chains do you cover? We focus on EVM lending and yield vaults, including Euler-style markets, on Ethereum and major L2s. Illiquid or insolvent both count: if the vault can pay anyone at any point, we can get you paid first. Every position is assessed individually, so send us yours and we will tell you if it is redeemable. ### Do I have to watch anything or act again? No. You sign once. From there our bots monitor the vault and execute the instant conditions are met, whether that is in an hour or in three months. ### Is there any risk to my funds? Interacting with any smart contract carries risk, and recovery is never guaranteed. The design minimizes exposure: the only contract you approve is [1inch's limit-order protocol](https://hyperevmscan.io/address/0xc9a9BF20ED91B02F1D837d495efa141825742Da4#code), the allowance is scoped, settlement is atomic, and failure reverts. But it is not, and cannot be, risk-free. Still have a question? [Message us on Telegram](https://t.me/DanielTKilleen) and we will tell you whether your position is recoverable. ## Get out sooner. Let us know which vault or protocol has an issue. We will do the research and tell you whether we can support it, roughly what it should return, and when. Asking is free, no wallet needed. [Message us on Telegram](https://t.me/DanielTKilleen). Telegram is the only way to reach us. ## More from SeaFi Exit failing vaults sooner than every other user and bot. Powered by SeaFi’s MEV infrastructure, in the same block liquidity appears. Non-custodial, always. - [SeaFi](https://seafi.app): Yield vaults - [EulerDebt](https://eulerdebt.com): Distressed debt market - [SeaFi Vaults](https://vaults.seafi.app): Live app - [Docs](https://docs.seafi.app): Documentation - [@SeaFi_vaults](https://x.com/SeaFi_vaults): Updates on X ## Disclaimer Sooner, a SeaFi product, provides a non-custodial redemption service and does not offer financial, investment, or legal advice. Recovery of trapped funds is never guaranteed and depends on conditions outside our control. Interacting with smart contracts carries risk, including total loss. Past recoveries do not guarantee future results. Sooner is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any protocol named on this page; all trademarks belong to their respective owners.