The Concrete crypto project runs on one simple idea: make a single deposit, and let curated strategies put it to work.
Built by Blueprint Finance, Concrete runs ERC-4626 vaults that spread each deposit across vetted yield strategies and issue yield-bearing shares in return. On September 30, 2026, Concrete launched CT, its native governance and configuration token, with a fixed supply of 1 billion tokens.
This guide explains how Concrete vaults work, what the CT coin is used for, and how to buy CT on MEXC.
Key Takeaways
The Concrete crypto project, built by Blueprint Finance, runs ERC-4626 vaults that put a single deposit to work across curated strategies.
Concrete vaults issue ct[ASSET] shares, such as ctETH, whose value rises or falls with the vault's exchange rate.
The CT token launched on September 30, 2026, with a fixed supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens and no inflation mechanism.
Concrete's official CT allocation is 35% ecosystem, 28% investors, 22% team and 15% foundation, with team and investor tokens behind a one-year cliff.
Concrete designed the CT coin for governance through locking and protocol-fee adjustments through staking, with governance rolling out in stages, and CT carries no ownership or profit-sharing rights.
On MEXC, CT trades through the CT/USDT and CT/USDC spot pairs and the CTUSDT perpetual futures contract.
Concrete is a DeFi yield protocol whose ERC-4626 vaults take one deposit, spread it across vetted strategies and track it with yield-bearing vault shares.
CT, officially named the Concrete token, is the protocol's native governance and configuration token.
Eligible holders who lock CT may take part in governance over defined protocol decisions, and those who stake it may access adjustments to certain protocol fees.
Blueprint Finance is the development company behind Concrete, while the Cayman Islands-based Concrete Foundation coordinates governance and administers the CT treasury. CT itself is issued by Concrete Network, Ltd., the Foundation's British Virgin Islands subsidiary.
Official CT contracts share one address, 0x0A092E544DA31150b439a1aAA1A3a2214a867F46, on both Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain.
Concrete, CT and ct[ASSET] sound alike, but they are three different things.
Name | What it is | Examples | How you get it |
Concrete | The protocol and its product suite | Earn, Vaults, Enterprise, AssetCX | Use the Concrete app or a partner product |
CT (Concrete token) | ERC-20 governance and configuration token | CT | Buy on MEXC, or claim through the official distribution if eligible |
ct[ASSET] | ERC-20 vault share that tracks a deposit | ctWBTC, ctDefiUSDT, ctETH | Deposit the underlying asset into a Concrete vault |
Put simply, CT is the token you trade, while ct[ASSET] tokens are receipts for assets deposited in a Concrete vault.
Buying CT does not open a vault position, and holding a vault share does not make you a CT holder.
Concrete targets a practical gap in DeFi: on-chain yield exists, but capturing it takes constant manual work for individuals and a full technology stack that most institutions will not build themselves.
The protocol packages allocation, accounting, custody connections and risk controls into vaults and white-label products.
Without a vault, a DeFi user has to pick protocols, move funds and rebalance positions alone.
Concrete replaces that routine with one deposit.
Curators allocate the capital across strategies behind the scenes, so users do not chase yield from one protocol to the next.
The whole position lives in a single vault share whose value follows the vault's performance.
Concrete notes that custodians, exchanges, asset issuers and publicly traded companies increasingly expect their digital assets to earn, yet most will not build yield products in-house.
Doing it themselves would mean building vault contracts, share accounting, NAV reporting, access controls, monitoring and custody integrations, then maintaining all of it.
Concrete offers that stack as ready-made infrastructure, so a partner can launch a yield product without writing its own DeFi back end.
Some institutions must keep their assets with a qualified custodian, which makes a direct deposit into a public DeFi vault impractical.
Concrete built AssetCX for this case, giving such institutions a way to put assets to work without rebuilding their custody setup.
The assets can stay with the custodian while they earn yield on Concrete infrastructure.
In his view, professional allocators expect controls, transparency, automation and risk management from on-chain infrastructure.
Concrete's response is a vault design with separated roles, bounded accounting updates and, where a vault enables it, a breakdown of where its off-chain capital is deployed.
The Concrete crypto project was created by Blueprint Finance, which CEO Nic Roberts-Huntley co-founded in 2023. After a $7.5 million raise in 2024, Blueprint came out of stealth and launched Concrete on Ethereum as asset management infrastructure built for DeFi.
In June 2025, it raised $9.5 million more in a Polychain Capital-led round that included VanEck, taking total funding past $17 million. Polychain returned to lead a strategic round in August 2026.
Ahead of the September 30, 2026 TGE, the team introduced the Concrete Foundation and the CT token to bring governance into the open.
The Concrete protocol's main features are curated multi-strategy vaults, a layered security model with independent audits, a vault transparency panel, cross-chain deposits for supported vaults and a published fee schedule. Together, they let a depositor hand off strategy management while still checking fees and, where enabled, where capital is deployed.
A Concrete vault accepts one underlying asset, such as WBTC or USDT, and deploys it into vetted yield strategies.
Curators allocate capital across strategies, and the Allocator role, run through automated services, executes those moves.
For the depositor, that whole mix shows up as a single share token.
Concrete splits authority across separate roles, so no single key controls every part of a vault.
In vaults with custodied strategies, deposits go to a MultisigStrategy backed by Gnosis Safe or Fordefi MPC wallets, and on-chain limits bound accounting updates.
Blockaid monitors risk in real time, ZeroShadow can pause vaults, and Concrete cannot push upgrades onto deployed vaults.
Where enabled, each Earn vault page shows a Vault transparency panel that breaks down the vault's off-chain portfolio by asset, protocol and network.
The figures run about 24 hours behind, so they work as a daily snapshot rather than a live feed.
Concrete also says vault NAV updates daily.
Before depositing, users can see where capital is deployed without leaving the vault page.
Through an Enso integration, users can deposit into supported vaults on another chain without swapping or bridging manually first.
Enso converts the asset into the vault's base asset if needed, bridges it and deposits it, with a fixed 0.3% slippage tolerance.
Withdrawals always pay out the base asset on the vault's own chain, so you must control the same wallet address there.
Routes depend on liquidity, and gas spent on a failed transaction is not refunded.
Concrete publishes fee ranges, and each vault page lists the rates that apply.
Deposit and withdrawal fees: none.
Management fee: set per vault, with a standard 1.5% applied to most vaults.
Performance fee: 0% to 30%, charged only on net positive yield.
Cooldown exit fee: 0% to 1%, only where a vault allows early exit from a cooldown.
Fees are paid by minting vault shares to the fee recipient, so their cost shows up in the share price.
A Concrete vault is an ERC-4626 smart contract that accepts one asset, issues vault shares in return and routes the deposit into the strategies its curator selects.
Your share count stays fixed; what changes is how much of the underlying asset each share can be redeemed for.
Shares are priced at the vault's exchange rate, which equals total assets divided by total share supply.
When strategies earn, total assets grow while the share supply stays the same, so each share becomes redeemable for more of the underlying asset.
Concrete's documentation offers an example: 1 ctETH worth 1 ETH on day one would be redeemable for about 1.0375 ETH if the vault gained roughly 3.75% over 90 days. Losses work in reverse and lower the share price.
Concrete offers three ERC-4626 vault implementations that share the same core but settle withdrawals differently.
Vault type | How withdrawals settle | Best suited for |
Atomic Vault | In a single transaction | Strategies whose liquidity can always be unwound on-chain |
Queued Withdrawal Vault | Through scheduled epochs, followed by a claim | Strategies with off-chain custody; the most common production setup |
Pre-deposit (Cross-Chain) Vault | Shares are claimed on the target chain via LayerZero | Launches that start on one chain and move to another |
Each vault page states which model it uses.
Most Concrete vaults use queued withdrawals, so exits are not instant.
Requests join the current epoch and can be cancelled until its cutoff.
The share price is set when the epoch is processed, not at request time.
Some vaults cap each epoch's withdrawals, rolling the excess forward in first-in, first-out order.
Certain vaults add a cooldown on new deposits, with any early exit fee capped at 1%.
Concrete's real-world use cases range from individual DeFi users earning on BTC, ETH and stablecoins to wallets launching white-label yield products and institutions earning on assets held by a qualified custodian.
Its vault shares can also be reused across other DeFi protocols.
Concrete Earn provides yield infrastructure for stablecoins, BTC, ETH and institutional assets, through public vaults or KYC-gated deployments that run on the same audited contracts. Deposit assets featured on Concrete's site include WBTC, USDT, USDe and weETH.
A user connects a Web3 wallet, picks the vault that matches the asset and confirms the deposit on the Earn page.
Eligible vaults also index on-chain points and rewards automatically, so depositors do not have to track them by hand.
Concrete Enterprise is white-label vault infrastructure: Concrete supplies the vault architecture, accounting and monitoring tools, while the partner owns the product and the customer relationship. Concrete says exchanges, wallets, custodians and asset issuers can use its suite to offer yield without building a DeFi stack.
Blueprint Finance describes Concrete as full-stack vault infrastructure that lets institutions, protocols and asset managers launch, manage and allocate capital through on-chain strategies.
AssetCX is Concrete's product line for custody-native assets, developed together with BitGo.
Institutions whose assets must stay with a qualified custodian receive a 1:1 receipt token that works across the rest of the Concrete suite.
Concrete says AssetCX has already onboarded capital from publicly traded digital asset treasuries.
For these institutions, AssetCX is a bridge between qualified custody and on-chain strategies.
Because ct[ASSET] shares are standard ERC-20 tokens, holders can transfer them, trade them or use them in other protocols.
Concrete's homepage highlights Pendle, Morpho and Euler as DeFi venues where some of its vault shares can be used. A share used elsewhere still tracks its vault's exchange rate, but it also picks up the risks of the protocol it moves into.
Shares still in a withdrawal cooldown cannot be transferred until that cooldown ends.
The CT token has a fixed total supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens, all minted at the token generation event, with no inflation mechanism.
Ecosystem: 35% (350,000,000 CT) for community distribution, ecosystem participation, liquidity and growth.
Investors: 28% (280,000,000 CT) for the protocol's strategic backers.
Team: 22% (220,000,000 CT) for current and future contributors who build, launch and maintain the protocol.
Foundation: 15% (150,000,000 CT) for security, integrations, governance, R&D and commercial initiatives.
The token amounts are calculated from the published percentages and the fixed 1 billion supply.
Concrete's official unlock chart shows team and investor tokens behind a one-year cliff, with the full supply unlocked about 12 quarters after TGE.
Contributor and investor allocations follow long-term vesting schedules, according to Concrete.
According to Concrete's MiCA white paper, CT was not sold in a public token sale; tokens went to token warrant holders, founding contributors and service providers, with the rest held in the Foundation treasury, which also releases tokens as incentives to protocol users.
The TGE announcement shows vesting as a chart rather than exact monthly figures, and it does not state a circulating supply at launch.
The first team and investor unlocks after the cliff are a supply event worth tracking.
Yes, part of CT's ecosystem allocation goes to wallets that supported Concrete through eligible on-chain and ecosystem activity.
Before TGE, users earned Concrete Points from eligible vault deposits and Bags from social quests, which convert into Points. Eligible wallets can claim CT through concretefoundation.xyz during the claim period shown in the claim interface, and points alone do not guarantee an allocation.
Verify claim links only through concrete.xyz, concretefoundation.xyz or Concrete's official channels.
The CT coin is a governance and configuration token that carries no revenue-sharing rights.
Its utility depends on active participation: locking CT may give eligible holders a governance vote, staking CT may unlock protocol-fee adjustments, and active stakers may qualify for rewards.
Eligible holders who lock CT may participate in governance over defined protocol parameters and module settings, from strategy approvals and collateral classifications to fee frameworks and treasury-related policies.
According to Concrete's MiCA white paper, each CT equals one vote, and submitting a proposal currently requires an estimated 3% of total supply.
Today, governance is foundation-led through a multisig, with authority planned to shift to token-governed timelocks over time.
Users who stake CT may access adjustments to certain protocol-side fees on their own interactions with supported Concrete modules.
Concrete's CT whitepaper describes this as a cost discount capped by governance, not a payment, reward or yield. The adjustment never alters a module's economics, such as yield generation, interest rates, collateral requirements or liquidation rules.
Holding CT in a wallet without staking or locking it brings no functional benefit.
Depending on the mechanism and their level of participation, users who actively stake CT may become eligible for token rewards.
Concrete stresses that eligibility, timing and amounts follow the applicable rules and are not guaranteed.
Its MiCA white paper ties these rewards to participation in governance rather than to passive staking.
Concrete's documents spell out CT's limits clearly:
No ownership, equity, debt, dividend or profit-sharing rights over the protocol or its assets.
No treasury payouts, since proposals to distribute treasury assets to CT holders are invalid.
No buybacks or market making, because the treasury does not repurchase CT or trade in CT pairs.
Concrete's MiCA white paper notes that CT's market value may be driven largely by market sentiment, speculative demand and the perceived relevance of its protocol functions.
Concrete plans to introduce governance in stages, moving from multisig-led administration to token-governed timelocks, and has promised a dedicated post on voting powers and the rollout timeline.
CT is also designed to expand to additional networks as the ecosystem grows.
Concrete expects to keep expanding across more assets, strategies, integrations and institutional deployments.
On the product side, Blueprint Finance has added new on-chain primitives to the ecosystem, including AssetCX and concUSD.
The CT whitepaper's roadmap adds new vault strategies, more lending collateral classes, additional synthetic assets and wider cross-chain deployment, each subject to governance.
Yes, Concrete has competitors.
Its most direct peers are other ERC-4626 vault platforms, such as Yearn Finance (YFI), whose token launched in 2020, and Morpho (MORPHO), whose curated vaults lend into Morpho markets. Concrete stands apart mainly through its institutional products and custody-ready vault design.
Yearn's V3 Allocator Vaults are ERC-4626 contracts that take deposits, mint shares and spread the underlying asset across a set of yield strategies. Yearn's docs list all 36,666 YFI as minted, and in October 2025 YFI holders approved YIP-88, which introduces stYFI to replace veYFI as Yearn's governance token. Morpho Vaults hold a single loan asset and allocate deposits across several Morpho lending markets, with curators managing risk exposure. Morpho also appears on Concrete's homepage as a venue for Concrete vault shares, so the two protocols overlap as much as they compete.
Feature | Concrete (CT) | Yearn Finance (YFI) |
Vault standard | ERC-4626 | ERC-4626 (V3 Allocator Vaults) |
Capital allocation | Curators set the strategy mix; an automated Allocator executes it, including custodied multisig strategies | Allocator Vaults spread deposits across ERC-4626 strategies; anyone can deploy vaults and strategies |
Institutional products | Enterprise (white-label), AssetCX (custody-native), KYC-gated Earn deployments | Docs focus on permissionless vaults and strategies |
Token supply | 1,000,000,000 CT, fixed | 36,666 YFI, all minted |
Token role | Designed for governance (lock) and fee adjustments (stake); no revenue rights | Governance; YIP-88 (approved October 2025) replaces veYFI with stYFI, a revenue-sharing staking token |
Since | Concrete launched in 2024; CT TGE on September 30, 2026 | YFI launched in July 2020 |
Based on each project's own documentation, Concrete stands out in three areas:
Institutional access: AssetCX serves capital that must stay with a qualified custodian, and Earn also offers KYC-gated deployments.
White-label distribution: Enterprise lets wallets and other platforms launch their own yield products on Concrete vaults.
Cross-chain onboarding: pre-deposit vaults and, for supported vaults, Enso routing let users enter from another chain.
Yearn, for its part, brings a longer track record and an open, permissionless strategy ecosystem.
Neither protocol is better for everyone.
Concrete fits users and institutions that want curated vaults, custody options and white-label tools, while Yearn fits DeFi-native users who prefer permissionless vaults with a longer history.
Concrete's own docs note that custodied strategies rely on operators reporting values on time, whereas strategies with on-chain accounting have no such off-chain dependency.
Compare each vault's strategy, fees and withdrawal terms before you deposit.
You can buy Concrete (CT) on MEXC, which offers CT on both its spot and futures markets.
Check the live CT coin price on MEXC before you place an order, because newly launched tokens can swing sharply.
You can buy CT on MEXC in a few steps once your account is verified.
Use the spot market to own CT outright, or the futures market to trade CT price moves with leverage.
Step 2: Fund your Spot account with USDT or USDC, either by depositing crypto or by buying stablecoins through card, bank transfer or P2P. Step 3: Open the Spot trading page and search for CT.
Step 4: Select the CT/USDT or CT/USDC trading pair.
Step 5: Choose a market order to buy at the current price or a limit order to set your own price, then enter the amount and confirm.
Step 6: Your CT appears in your Spot account as soon as the order fills.
Step 1: Transfer USDT from your Spot account to your Futures account.
Step 2: Open the Futures page and select the CTUSDT perpetual contract.
Step 3: Choose cross or isolated margin and set leverage between 1x and 20x.
Step 4: Enter your position size, then open a long if you expect CT to rise or a short if you expect it to fall.
Step 5: Set take-profit and stop-loss levels and keep an eye on your margin while the position is open.
Leverage can amplify both gains and losses, and futures trading may not be suitable for all investors.
What Is Concrete Crypto?
Concrete is a DeFi yield protocol whose ERC-4626 vaults put a single deposit to work across curated strategies, with CT as its governance and configuration token.
What Is the CT Coin?
CT is the Concrete token, an ERC-20 governance and configuration token with a fixed supply of 1 billion and no inflation.
Is CT the Same as ctETH or ctWBTC?
No, CT is the governance token, while ctETH and ctWBTC are vault shares that represent deposits in specific Concrete vaults.
What Is a Concrete Vault in Crypto?
A Concrete vault is an ERC-4626 smart contract that accepts one asset, issues ct[ASSET] shares and routes the deposit into curated yield strategies.
Is There a Concrete Crypto Airdrop?
Yes, wallets on Concrete's eligibility list can claim CT through concretefoundation.xyz before the deadline shown in the claim interface.
Which Blockchains Is the CT Token On?
Concrete lists official CT contracts on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain at the same address, 0x0A092E544DA31150b439a1aAA1A3a2214a867F46.
Does Holding CT Earn a Share of Concrete's Revenue?
No, CT confers no ownership, dividend or profit-sharing rights, and holding it without locking or staking brings no protocol benefit.
Is Concrete.xyz the Official Website of the Concrete Crypto Project?
Yes, concrete.xyz and concretefoundation.xyz are Concrete's official sites, and the project asks users to verify all CT information through them.
What Is the CT Coin Price Today?
The CT coin price moves constantly, so check the live CT/USDT and CT/USDC markets on MEXC for the current rate.
Concrete turns DeFi yield into infrastructure: ERC-4626 vaults that individual users, wallets and custody-bound institutions can all plug into.
CT adds a governance and fee-configuration layer on top, with a fixed 1 billion supply and the largest allocation, 35%, set aside for the ecosystem.
The token is deliberately narrow, rewarding participation rather than passive holding and carrying no claim on protocol revenue.
Before you buy, weigh that design, the one-year cliff on team and investor tokens and the withdrawal terms of any vault you plan to use.
When you are ready, you can trade CT on MEXC through the CT/USDT and CT/USDC spot pairs or the CTUSDT perpetual futures contract.