How TurtleDAO Simplified DeFi Complexity with Enso
Kicking off our Case Study series with TurtleDAO: discover how they unified 8 disjointed vault flows into one smooth user journey using Enso’s routing API.
TurtleDAO helps protocols drive liquidity by running reward campaigns, like their recent campaign that brought $150M in 16 days to the TON Network Summoning campaign. But managing eight different vault protocols manually would have reduced their ability to scale that success. Additionally, their phantom liquidity protocol design leaves no trace in transactions, making it difficult to measure and reward user activity.
With Enso's routing API, the team now offers an improved, friction-free user experience across their campaigns, building it in a fraction of the time.
As Nick, CTO at TurtleDAO, explains:
From the technical side, the problem is quite complex because you have different ABIs and then different functions you need to call. And you need to integrate all of that. Enso allows us to abstract out the complexity of building a native integration for every single smart contract that we're interacting with.
Scattered Paths Problem
The TurtleDAO team had to deal with more than technical complexity of difficult integrations. Their main goal is to seamlessly guide users to right deals and ensure high success rates.
The regular path is too demanding for users, and leaves a big space for error, threatening to kill conversion rates:
- Spot deal opportunities on partner websites by looking at visual cues
- Swap/Redeem existing assets manually before depositing
- Master different dApp interfaces
- Understand protocol-specific deposit flows
On top of that, the development speed was at risk as the team faced integration of 8 different vaults for the TAC Build Summoning campaign, each with its own unique ABIs and flows.
As Nick noted, “It would be better to allow users to deposit from the TurtleDAO site, because then it's just like a one-click thing.”
Single Route Unified Solution
Enso's /route API was the solution to eliminate these complexities for both end users and the development team. It allowed TurtleDAO to focus on user journey and UX rather than protocol-specific details. The community now has 1 step: pick a deal and sign a single transaction that moves assets in a cost-effective manner.
User Experience: As Nick explains, the key to a smooth flow was to have a clear starting point: a curated list of vaults and tokens relevant to ongoing deals. The next step—the deposit itself—becomes even simpler, as Enso finds and optimizes a direct path for any token in the user's portfolio. With this, participation in the Summoning campaign becomes possible to anyone, regardless of their DeFi experience.
Developer Experience: The complexity of managing multiple vault ABIs and integrations is completely gone. Additionally, by using the tokens and balances APIs, devs have all the data necessary to build such an experience.
Technical Scaling: What would have been months of custom integration work became a single API implementation. For good! In the future, adding new deals or starting new campaigns translates to adjusting the UI and backend configuration to use the protocols Enso supports out of the box.
Measuring Activity
In addition to supporting the main deposit flow, the TurtleDAO team needed a way to track and measure user activity. Their innovative phantom liquidity approach is non-custodial at its core. This means all assets flow directly into target protocols, without passing through any intermediary smart contracts.
To resolve this, Enso team accommodated by adding a referralCode to the final transaction’s ShortcutExecuted event. This simple addition enables the team to automate regular onchain data queries and ensure accurate rewards calculations.
Built to Scale Success
The integration delivered immediate technical wins while positioning TurtleDAO to replicate their proven campaign success at scale:
- Multi-Protocol Support: Eight vault standards unified under one seamless interface, eliminating the need for users to navigate multiple dApps and protocols.
- Rapid Deployment: What would have required 8 separate integration cycles (estimated 2-3 months of engineering work) was completed in a single day of implementation.
- Optimized Conversion: Controlled user flows that eliminate friction and maximize participation rates. As Nick puts it: "It's funneling. You channel the user step by step where exactly they are about to go instead of throwing them into another UX."
- Future-Ready Infrastructure: New protocols and vault standards are now available out-of-the-box without additional development work, positioning TurtleDAO to maintain their proven success rate across unlimited protocols.
With this foundation in place, TurtleDAO is already planning their next phase of expansion.
What's Next: Crosschain & Distribution
TurtleDAO is expanding beyond singlechain operations:
Crosschain Campaigns: Nick notes their interest in expanding beyond singlechain operations: "We've had crosschain deals in the past, but with bridging support, we could offer complete zap functionality for those deals." Enso's recently released crosschain Route API will enable seamless bridge-and-deposit flows with callback actions.
Continuous Campaigns: Rather than one-off events, TurtleDAO plans to maintain constant deal flow: "We want at least one flagship campaign running at all times," creating ongoing opportunities for users and partners.
Key Takeaways
The real value isn't just in intention-based routing infrastructure—it's about optimizing for actual user behavior. TurtleDAO recognized that user confusion leads to drop-offs, hurting TVL and campaign success. Now, with a single API abstracting all protocol complexity and providing efficient execution, TurtleDAO campaigns are safe, cost-effective, and also more intuitive.
- Complexity Kills Conversion: Eight vault protocols would have created massive user friction without abstraction.
- Unified Experience Drives Results: $150M raised demonstrates the power of reducing barriers to participation.
- Focus on Outcomes: "You could just express the outcome that you want" - developers specify goals, not low-level implementation details.
- Scale Matters: Supporting multiple protocols simultaneously requires infrastructure-level solutions that keep scaling after initial integration
As Nick summarized,
We can just route over whether it's a swap, a vault deposit, we can just have a user with all the tokens in their wallet and figure out the path to get them into the deal.
Ready, Set, Route!
Every month spent on vault integrations is a month your competitors get ahead. TurtleDAO proved you can support 8+ protocols with only one integration.
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