# Inter Protocol Vaults: Contract Implementations

**URL:** https://community.agoric.com/t/inter-protocol-vaults-contract-implementations/261
**Category:** Inter Protocol
**Tags:** opco-update, inter-protocol
**Created:** [May 8, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.agoric.com/t/inter-protocol-vaults-contract-implementations/261 "2023-05-08T23:01:56Z")
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# Contract Deployment Options

Agoric OpCo has also spent considerable time testing contract deployment with multiple approaches:

1. Separate contract installation and deployment from chain upgrade, as expected for future third-party contract deployment
2. Integrated installation and deployment of the Inter contracts, as was done with PSM installation

Approach #1 in practice is more complex than will be required for third-party contracts because Inter contracts get privileged authority to mint native IST. Thus, it entails some execution and governance fatigue risks, and takes longer to complete.

Approach #2 reduces the cost and effort of deployment, but requires that the Inter Protocol community determine and recommend the specific code and configuration (e.g., in a signaling proposal) to include with the platform upgrade. The community should consider both options and decide which is best.

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