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Vault V2 Dead deposit

This tutorial explains how to set up a dead deposit for a Morpho Vault V2.

A dead deposit is a security measure against ERC-4626 inflation attacks (read more).

Setting up a dead deposit involves minting 1e9 shares from the target vault, on behalf of address 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD, through a simple process on a block explorer like Etherscan:

  1. Access the vault contract on the explorer using the vault's address.

  2. Approve the Morpho Vault V2 contract to spend the vault's deposit token on your behalf. You can do this on the deposit token's contract. Typically a value of $1.00 should suffice.

Approve (Etherscan)
  1. Use the vault contract's mint function for 1e9 shares, with address 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD as the receiver.
Vault V2 Dead Deposit (Etherscan)

Once the transaction is confirmed, the vault will be secured with a dead deposit.