solana delegates are not multisigs

there is often confusion between delegates and multisigs, but they solve different problems. a delegate is a permission model: you use the 'approve' instruction to give another wallet temporary access to spend your tokens. you remain the owner, and you can revoke this access at any time. a multisig wallet is a shared ownership model. the authority of the token account is the multisig vault itself, not any single signer. transactions only execute when a threshold of members approve. essentially: a delegate is a temporary keycard; a multisig is a vault with multiple keys.