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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
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
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
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
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
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?
5 Min
Macro & Markets
Aug 2022
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
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 […]...
4 Min
DeFi
Sep 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.
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AMM
Mar 2023
Fraxlend Attracts $10M in Collateral as a Whale Deposits CRV
A Southeast Asian crypto hub proposes clamping down on leverage and the CEO of a prominent crypto exchange...🚨 In Case You Missed It Singapore proposes a slew of crypto regulations, including a ban on leverage...
4 Min
Money Markets
Oct 2022
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)].
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Vaults
Nov 2022
A Look Into This Weekend's NFT Action
Gauging leverage, volatility, and the Ethereum DEX fall off.
4 Min
NFTs
Aug 2021
A Post Mortem of Last Week's Flash Crash
The Great Deleveraging Leveraged longs took a senseless beating over the last week — and it was perhaps...Too many leveraged longs and a lack of spot buying is a sign that a market is peaking....The Great Deleveraging Leveraged longs took a senseless beating over the last week — and it was perhaps...
5 Min
DeFi
Dec 2021
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
Heads or Thales: Exploring the Potential of Positional Parimutuel Markets
Thales is leveraging the power of parimutuel markets to build easy-to-understand derivatives, prediction...Parlays New methods of leverage are always welcome in the crypto space....Volume Forecast The ability for Thales to leverage carefully curated, less aggressive marketing tactics...
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Options
Jan 2023
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly [Charts]
...price has essentially been cut in half in less than two months, largely driven by the major unwind in leveraged...When everyone is leveraged long, it’s not a matter of if but when a major correction will take place....bright spot of the recent market correction has been the washout of many short-term speculators and some leveraged...
6 Min
Macro & Markets
Jun 2021
Celestia's Roadmap: $TIA Time, or is DA a Commodity?
If that happens, $TIA becomes a high-leverage bet on bandwidth scale.
47 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
Enter the Dream Machine
...gas, fast block time, and custom gas token), with the additional benefit that it also enables them to leverage...Arbitrum Orbit L3 is that these are faster and cheaper than using Arbitrum One, while at the same time leveraging...Being an Arbitrum native project, Sanko can leverage Arbitrum’s incentives program, including the Gaming...
21 Min
Gaming
Jun 2024
Dog Coins, Liquidations, and Metamask's Fee Capture
...known to be a popular trading avenue for aggressive retail traders) which suggests this was a minor leverage...DOGE inspired ERC-20 memecoins dominate Uniswap volume, leveraged traders flushed across crypto, and...
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DeFi
May 2021
Solana the Modular
The key differentiator will be the emergence of innovative applications that leverage SVM’s capabilities...Maintaining close alignment with Solana Mainnet is essential to leverage the larger ecosystem and tools...The Rome protocol aims to leverage this low-latency consensus and validator set security for various...
50 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Aug 2024