> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dionysus.finance/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How pools are chosen

> A live screen, not a curated list.

Every pool a Dionysus vault touches has passed a **continuously refreshed screen** of the Robinhood Chain liquidity landscape. Nothing is hand-picked once and left to rot.

## The funnel

<Steps>
  <Step title="Venue vetting">
    A venue must prove itself before any vault touches it: contract behaviour verified against source, routing probed with real transactions, failure modes mapped. New venues are added deliberately, not automatically.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Asset screen">
    An asset enters the universe only with real liquidity depth, a usable price feed, and a listing that isn't going to disappear next week. Stock tokens, majors and stables each have their own admission criteria.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pool ranking">
    Eligible pools are ranked continuously on sustained emissions, liquidity depth, and realised (not advertised) yield. The ranking model — how these are weighed, decayed, and cross-checked — is proprietary and closed source. It is the product.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Vault allowlist">
    The winning pools are written to your vault's on-chain allowlist. The agent can only ever operate inside that list — this is a contract-level guarantee, not a policy.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Why a live screen matters

Curated lists decay silently: emissions dry up, liquidity migrates, and the list keeps pointing at last month's best pools. The screen re-evaluates the whole chain continuously, so what your vault holds tracks where the yield actually is — and the app renders the screen's live output, never a static snapshot.

<Note>
  Build-your-own strategies use the same funnel — your asset picks define which part of the universe the agent may use, and the screen decides the rest. See [Build your own](/strategies/build-your-own).
</Note>