Build on it.
The contracts are open source under the MIT licence: anyone may fork, deploy or integrate with them, without permission.
Composing an instrument on v2. An instrument is an orchestrator that creates obligation sets and liens. Third-party origination calls Obligation and Lien directly, with no permission, no upgrade and no whitelist application; each set records its creator and is handled by the same rules.
The one exception, while it exists: a contract that moves balances in the vault for its users must be an authorised consumer of the vault.
To belong to the base layer, a product meets its membership rule.
On v2, the building blocks are specified, not yet built, and their specifications are not yet published; the guides above are for v1.
Status: v1 Live (v1, audited); v2 in development on Arbitrum Sepolia, unaudited; its building blocks are specified, and the core's first testnet deployment is pending.