Mothership (pre-launch)
Alien Base's automated liquidity manager — the next-gen Vault layer
Mothership is Alien Base's purpose-built Automated Liquidity Manager (ALM). It's the first protocol Alien Base has written from scratch (no upstream fork). Mothership turns passive concentrated-liquidity Vaults into actively managed strategies that re-balance ranges and re-allocate capital on the fly.
Last updated: July 6, 2026. Mothership is pre-launch as of the time of writing — audit in flight, alpha imminent. Everything below describes the design; details may shift before launch.
What Mothership is
A modular ALM with a strategy-plugin architecture. Each plugin is a smart contract that implements a defined set of tools (e.g., "manage multiple V3 Positions in a single vault"). Mothership routes user deposits into the strategy of their choice, and the strategy actively manages the underlying V3 NFT(s) on the user's behalf.
Concretely:
Multi-range positions. A single Mothership strategy can hold multiple V3 ranges simultaneously, with arbitrary weights.
Auto-rebalance. The strategist defines the rebalancing logic. Users do not need to touch anything.
Signal-driven. Strategies can use volatility data, time-of-day patterns, or external signals to allocate capital.
Composable. Mothership shares are ERC-20 — fully composable in DeFi.
How it differs from Bunni Vaults
Range
Fixed at deploy time
Dynamic per strategy
Rebalance
User migrates manually when bounds drift
Strategy rebalances automatically
Granularity
Single range, single fee tier
Multi-range, multi-tier possible
Strategy author
Protocol (range definition)
Anyone (in the future marketplace)
Best for
LPs who want predictable bounds and low gas
LPs who want max-yield + are willing to delegate management
Both will coexist on the Vaults page once Mothership ships. They're not competing; they serve different LP profiles.
Public alpha — what to expect
The first public release will run with strict supply caps until the audit completes its formal review and the team is comfortable expanding capacity:
A small number of curated strategies, single-pair to start.
Capped per-Vault TVL.
Conservative range parameters.
Active monitoring; emergency-pause readiness.
The caps are not a permanent feature — they're a launch-safety mechanism. They'll lift as the team gains operational confidence and the audit closes.
The marketplace vision
Mothership's strategy-plugin design is intentional. The end-state is a marketplace of liquidity managers:
Third-party strategists publish their own strategies (separate contracts implementing the Mothership interface).
Users browse, compare historical performance, and allocate capital to strategies they trust.
Strategists earn fees on the assets under management.
The protocol takes a small slice of those fees as Real Yield to esALB.
This is a long-term roadmap item — see Roadmap. The MVP is single-strategy, team-published. The marketplace turns on after the protocol matures.
Audit status
Audit in flight. Pre-audit hardening is visible in the public Mothership repo: extensive fuzz tests and an audit-scope commit dated January 2026 marking the contracts the auditor is reviewing. The audit will complete before the MVP is publicly accessible without supply caps. Full audit framing: Audits & Security.
See also
Bunni explainer — Mothership builds on the same V3 substrate, but adds active management.
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