How your money is held

Your balance is held in USDC in a wallet that belongs to you. Runtil creates the wallet at sign-up so you don't have to manage keys yourself, but the funds are yours: deposits, trades and withdrawals all move on-chain against your own wallet, not into a shared pool you can't see.

Because it settles on a public blockchain, you don't have to take our word for any of it. Every movement has a transaction you can look up.

You are the sole owner of your funds on Runtil. In practice that means three things:

• Your deposits are yours. Funds sent to your address land in your own wallet, not a company account.
• We do not withhold payouts. A settled trade pays out automatically — there is no review step and no approval on our side.
• Withdrawals are signed by you. We prepare the transfer; the signature is yours.

When you place a trade, your stake goes into that trade while it runs. You can exit the trade any time to bring that money back, or leave it to finish on its own — either way, once it's done the funds are yours to trade again or withdraw.