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Contango: A Forward-looking Approach to Leverage
Contango is an emerging project sitting at the intersection of lending and leverage trading..... cPerps (Contango Perps) allow users to leverage trade crypto assets via automated looping on money...Many leverage traders use perps as a form of gambling....Loan positions’ max leverage of around 7x will often be insufficient to meet these needs.
13 Min
DeFi
Jun 2024
An Update on Crypto Market Structure: Leverage and Volatility
Open Interest Tracks Price, Leverage Proxy A pattern you see with crypto markets that differs from other...While not perfect, we can use open interest as a rough proxy for the amount of leverage in the market...If BTC continues to rally, it seems reasonable to expect an influx of leveraged capital, perhaps on a...
4 Min
DeFi
Aug 2021
Leverage Wipes Out, But Is the Worst Behind Us?
There was too much momentum built up from $60K onwards, almost entirely caused by leveraged traders.
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Infrastructure
Oct 2021
Liquity v2: Evolving Onchain Leverage
...from the crowd could be well-positioned to outperform in a sustained bull market as the appetite for leverage...Most CDP’s are capital efficient yet risky, making them ideal as leverage vehicles....Together with its one-click leverage trading interface, Liquity v2 could become a popular venue for ‘...
20 Min
Debt-Backed (CDP) Stablecoins
Nov 2024
Leverage Watch, ETF Traction, and Relentless L1s
With Great Leverage Comes Great Responsibility Earlier today, ETH did what we’ve all been waiting for...Given price instantaneously recovered, this was an obvious shakeout orchestrated to wipe out over-leveraged...As we enter the next phase of the crypto bull market, consider this a lesson: keep your leverage in check...
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Infrastructure
Oct 2021
Analyzing Leverage Ratios and Altcoin Price Movements
Benchmark: The benchmark leverage ratio is calculated by multiplying the average leverage ratios of BTC...as leverage is easily accessible....taking on leveraged long positions....AXS’ leverage ratio is the most violent among the chosen assets, showing a higher frequency of leverage...
17 Min
Derivatives
May 2023
Fearful Market Shakes Out Little Leverage
Market Update Today has been brutal across global financial markets, presumably from fears surrounding China’s real estate market. BTC and […]...
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DeFi
Sep 2021
Futures OI Leverage Ratio Indicates Deleveraging Event Yet To Occur
📊 Futures OI Leverage Ratio Continues To Climb The Futures Open Interest Leverage Ratio for BTC...This ratio indicates the amount of leverage that exists within a market, relative to the asset’s market...Or is this just the outcome of higher appetite for leverage in a relatively new market?
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Macro & Markets
Aug 2022
Analyzing Leverage Ratios and Altcoin Price Movements
Leverage is a double-edged sword, and is frequently misunderstood in the realm of crypto trading....However, this perspective alone is rather shortsighted, as it overlooks the key advantage of leverage...By employing leverage, traders can take normal position sizes while reducing counterparty risk, as they...
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Derivatives
May 2023
TLX - Leveraged Tokens
TLX is a leveraged tokens protocol on Optimism that launched on 05/16/2024....Leverage tokens utilize reactive rebalancing, which means no liquidations or margin management....As BTC declines in price, the leverage inherently increases in price....Rebalancing ensures that as leverage increases, borrowed funds are reduced, and as leverage decreases...
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DeFi
Jun 2024
F(x) Protocol: stable-leverage pair
F(x) protocol is incubated by AladdinDAO and introduced the stable-leverage pair....FxUSD FxUSD leverages the aforementioned stable-leverage pair to create two derivative tokens based on...FxUSD (pegged to $1) Volatile, leveraged tokens (xstETH and xfrxETH)....btcUSD F(x) protocol introduced leveraged Bitcoin exposure.
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DeFi
Jul 2024
Preconfirmations PoC leveraging restaking
@cairoeth released a PoC of preconfirmations leveraging restaking by using Relic’s Prover....This implementation leverages EigenLayer’s AVS to power the slashing mechanism....This implementation leverage...
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Infrastructure
Apr 2024
Wasabi - leverage trading protocol
Wasabi is a asset-backed leverage trading protocol specifically designed for long tail assets....the contrary, asset-backed derivatives provide the security of the spot asset while also allowing for leverage...The traders borrow capital from these one-sided positions when they open a leverage position....& higher leverage = more points). ...
2 Min
DeFi
Sep 2024
Covalent Is Enabling Applications To Leverage Multi-Chain Data
So it sounds like those in the traditional space could basically build any app they want, leveraging...because that has second order implications for anybody trying to mess with any applications that use or leverage...The two discuss how Covalent is enabling traditional and crypto developers to leverage data from any...
Infrastructure
May 2021
Terra Autumn Series Ep. 2: Leverage Any Asset With Levana
In the first phase, you’re going to use the leverage token architecture leveraging Mars protocol underlying...And then now I’ll ride that leverage up....We repeat that to lower the leverage exposure....I guess, why did you choose the leverage token architecture?...What can be done with these leverage tokens? Yeah.
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Lending / Borrowing
Oct 2021
A New Lender Compensation Model for the Leveraged Strategy Era
Essentially, Stella will have strategies that people can leverage up and deposit into....The leverage, as expected, comes from lenders on Stella....A user obtains leverage from the protocol’s lender; that loan + posted margin are deposited into the...Assuming a situation where the leveraged strategy generates 10% APY, lenders receive roughly 3.67% per...
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Lending / Borrowing
Jun 2023
A Look Into This Weekend's NFT Action
Gauging leverage, volatility, and the Ethereum DEX fall off.
4 Min
NFTs
Aug 2021
Are Infinity Pools the Next Big Speculation Primitive?
Infinity Pools is an upcoming leverage trading DEX that offers unlimited leverage on any asset pair,...Current On-Chain Leverage Experience Leveraged trading typically works by allowing a trader to borrow...Where Does the Leverage Come From?...Unlimited LeverageLeverage is only limited by the tick range.
12 Min
AMM
Mar 2023
A Brief Look at Market Structure
Leverage Impact We’ve often tried to use different measures to gauge the level of leverage in crypto...Look at the leverage ratio and price during Mar. 2020, Jul. 2020, and Apr. 2021....But BTC price rallied hard, implying that demand for spot BTC exceeded demand to hold leveraged positions...Gauging leverage, volatility, and the Ethereum DEX fall off.
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DeFi
Aug 2021
Gearbox Protocol: Shifting DeFi Into the Next GEAR
Introduction When used correctly, leverage can be a powerful tool....DeFi is yet to see an efficient model for spot leverage....A 94.5% LTV implies max leverage of 18.18x. Alice’s leverage of 5x wasn’t exactly “pushing it.”...The equation to calculate max leverage is: [1/(1-LTV)].
10 Min
Vaults
Nov 2022