# About the Vaults Collateral Discussion category

**URL:** <https://community.agoric.com/t/about-the-vaults-collateral-discussion-category/389>\
**Category:** Vaults Collateral Discussion\
**Created:** [July 25, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.agoric.com/t/about-the-vaults-collateral-discussion-category/389 "2023-07-25T15:53:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![JD-Agoric](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.agoric.com/jd-agoric/32/113_2.png) [@JD-Agoric](https://community.agoric.com/u/JD-Agoric)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.agoric.com/t/about-the-vaults-collateral-discussion-category/389/1 "2023-07-25T15:53:54Z")

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The first step of onboarding a new collateral type for Inter Protocol Vaults is to post to the community for a discussion here in this channel.

Each new collateral type should have it’s own topic, and all conversations about a specific collateral type should be replies to the original thread.

To start a new discussion, use the “+ New Topic” option and fill out the answers to the template provided.

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**Author:** ![fred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.agoric.com/fred/32/15_2.png) [@fred](https://community.agoric.com/u/fred)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.agoric.com/t/about-the-vaults-collateral-discussion-category/389/4 "2023-07-25T16:27:08Z")

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**Author:** ![fred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.agoric.com/fred/32/15_2.png) [@fred](https://community.agoric.com/u/fred)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://community.agoric.com/t/about-the-vaults-collateral-discussion-category/389/5 "2023-12-13T00:42:39Z")

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There is a new [Inter Protocol playbook available](https://community.agoric.com/t/playbook-for-adding-new-collateral-type-to-inter-protocol-for-vaults-or-the-psm/563) that outlines the process for adding collateral types to vaults (and the PSM).  
It does not supplant the posting guidelines here that outline the initial post and what should be included, rather it expands it to an overall suggested process.