> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.idle.finance/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.idle.finance/developers/best-yield/architecture.md).

# Architecture

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The main smart contracts used by Idle are the following:

* `IdleToken` holds pooled funds of all users for a specific asset and issues ERC20 shares of the pool (IdleTokens) for each deposit.
* `IdleCompound`, `IdleAave` wrappers contract used by `IdleToken` to interact with the lending protocols implemented

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BY strategies are also ERC-4626 compliant! Deployed wrappers can be found [here](/developers/best-yield/deployed-contracts.md#erc-4626-wrappers-for-best-yield-tokens).
{% endhint %}

Idle Rebalancer automatically analyses supply rate functions across integrated protocols and total funds in the pool to constantly rebalance capital across any number of protocols to **earn the highest interest rate possible** with very high precision. When a new allocation can improve the aggregated APY of an IdleTokens, the Rebalancer submits new allocations to the contract.&#x20;

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New allocations are not enforced, but when they are submitted, any user can trigger a rebalance.
{% endhint %}

During the rebalance process, `IdleToken` contracts check if the new allocation is different and eventually accept it. This triggers a rebalance which mints or redeem the pooled funds on different lending protocols via the dedicated wrappers (`IdleCompound`, `IdleAave`, ...).

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If no rebalance is triggered after some time (currently every \~3h), an off-chain bot rebalances the pool for everyone.
{% endhint %}

All Idle strategies use the same set of smart contracts, but each allocation uses a different instance of those contracts.


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