What is an Alpha?

Most fundamentally, the Alpha is a role granted by the Atomist. You can think of the Alpha as the active management function of a fund. The privilege that an Alpha has is preparing and executing transactions on behalf of the Fusion Vault. Alphas can be smart contracts, AI agents, EOAs, or automated services that hold their private keys. Each vault can have multiple Alphas so it is important that, if multiple Alphas are connected to a particular vault, they should be coordinated so that they don't interfere with one another.

The transactions an Alpha can perform are defined and limited by the vault's strategy. An Alpha can only execute transactions for which the necessary fuses have been connected to the vault. This ensures that an Alpha cannot misuse the vault's assets.