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Oct 31, 2022 β€’ 20 tweets β€’ 9 min read β€’ Read on X
GEARBOX V2 βš™οΈπŸ§° LIVE

Oeef, 6 hours of social madness & constant monitoring! But things are normalizing now, so we can write a thread on what all the fuss is about... "OK $100M+ TVL, who cares, why is it even there, what can I do, where is alpha and who are Ninjas?!"

Let's go 🧡 Image
First of all, total TVL is capital in pools + borrowed + collateral of leverage users. As such, total number is actually > $115M at the moment. πŸ¦™s are on the case to fix it! Anyway, TVL is amazing, but now the question is "why is that liquidity even there, what's the point"... Image
Before we begin, if you missed the "what is in V2 and what is Gearbox Protocol doing" - here is one for you. It contains market perspective, technical changes, code, audits, DAO updates, and product improvements βš™οΈπŸ§° Very-very elaborate:
So... In a very nutshell way, the protocol has two sides to it: passive liquidity providers who earn low-risk APY by providing single-asset liquidity; and active farmers or even other protocols who borrow those assets to trade or farm with ~x10 leverage: docs.gearbox.finance
That's what the last few days were about... With two-sided marketplaces, you need to kick off usage somewhere. DAO members decided that it likely would need to be on passive side first. So, a $GEAR LM proposal was structured & 5 assets were voted on: medium.com/gearbox-protoc…
And that ended up working well so far! You can see for yourself in app.gearbox.fi/pools. It's fairly straight-forward GEAR per block distribution while the APY% are counted based on organic APY + DAO-voted GEAR FDV rewards. All about that is here: . Image
The numbers per pool can be reshuffled as per DAO voting. Think of these assets as debt. This is what leverage takers trade "against" when borrowing them. They take it as debt and they need to beat borrow fees + that asset relative price compared to the positions they are taking.
Now onto the leverage side. "What can you do there?" - anything. Anything as long as it's within the security parameters. There are no forced strategies or choices. YOU decide leverage factor, debt, farm, trade, etc. All of it. Gearbox is your leveraged #DeFi wallet ❀ x4-x15! Image
Coming back to the assets. For instance, $wstETH is currently yielding more in vanilla staking than stETHcrv or other avenues (first time ever?)... Thus it's natural that utilization is none for now. This debt asset is too "expensive"! Maybe rewards should be readjusted...
But what are the things you can make $$ on? This is not financial advice, genuinely, also because variable rates change, duh. Gearbox "just" provides you with a leveraged DeFi wallet - YOU decide where to source yields. Here is a proper complex overview: docs.gearbox.finance/traders-and-fa… Image
It's all on-chain. Max leverage is not a made up factor, it's a product of LTVs. Correlated debt to position? Can do high leverage while staying fairly "safe". just do your homework and understand how these things work! Again, here is the PRO user bible: docs.gearbox.finance/traders-and-fa…
There is also a Strategies page. These are cool new multicalls that make open CA -> swap -> deposit -> stake operations for YOU incredibly easy in one transaction! From "I have some $USDC" to "Stake to Convex strategy" in one click! See for yourself: app.gearbox.fi/accounts/strat… Image
But! Those yields are a little bit "too high" because they count *current* borrow rates which are "too low". So you should price in what could be expected at normal utilization of pools based on protocol parameters: 2.1$ for stables, 3.5% for $ETH $WBTC, and sub-1% for $wstETH πŸ’‘ Image
πŸ”₯ with some $GEAR rewards for Credit Accounts starting this Friday, the calculations can become potentially even better! Keep an eye on that soon...
What is doable with Gearbox leverage? It's all in the docs & in the interface... You can "expect" 10% on stables & 20% on ETH given the rates discussed above & current yields. And that's without going too degen, you can stay fairly O-K.

Just do the math!

docs.gearbox.finance/traders-and-fa… Image
Leverage:
- Farming $FRAX in 3crv & $USDC pool on @CurveFinance
- Farming $WETH in @iearnfinance
- All the $stETH staking farming variations
- Farming $LUSD $GUSD $sUSD in @ConvexFinance

And more... check the interface! We'll dive into these strategies in the coming days...
πŸ”₯ ALPHA πŸ”₯

Just do the math! If @iearnfinance deposit rate for $yvWETH is 4.93% & borrow rate on Gearbox is 3.5%... you make 1.43% difference on every x leverage factor! And get + $GEAR... Same goes for other strategies, like. Understand risks & be careful of liquidations tho. Image
How to get access? Be a Ninja πŸ₯· Either DM one of the contributors on Discord, or post on forum. You don't need to ddox as long as your address has some history and funds on it. Fairly easy & quick.

On that note, do jump into Discord and ask anything! discord.com/channels/84120… Image
πŸ₯· new wave of Ninjas is expected in a few hours! Once you get in the new merkle, you need to spend a couple minutes in game.gearbox.fi to mint an #SBT which is your access pass to V2 contracts. 1 SBT = 1 Credit Account. Close CA, and is gone - then you can get a new one.
PS: if you spent hours trying to jump over the bridge... sorry to tell you, but you physically can't do it. You need to be a πŸ₯· Image

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More from @GearboxProtocol

Aug 12
Bull market? Bear Market? On Gearbox, it's a borrower's market. This week sees borrow rates get juicier for multiple assets. Leverage up:

β€’ USDe on @arbitrum at 8% and earn 2X STIMMIES
β€’ stETH to earn 24% APY & wstETH rewards
β€’ sDAI to earn 24% APY

Key rates highlighted πŸ‘‡πŸ§΅ Image
stETH has been the fastest growing asset on Gearbox, rising from 1K ETH to 8K ETH in TVL. Leverage stETH and earn

β€’ 24.3% APY and wstETH rewards on ETH mainnet
β€’ 7.3% APY and 2X STIMMIES on Arb

Find the strategy on the "Farms" page: app.gearbox.fi/strategies/list
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The farms page also enables you to access multiple other leveraged DeFi protocols. Like @CurveFinance and @ConvexFinance.

Earn up to 32% APY by leveraged LPing on Curve: app.gearbox.fi/strategies/list
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Dec 30, 2022
As we end the year, we also end the first two months of Gearbox V2 being live and here’s how things have been βš™οΈπŸ§°

βš™οΈ The TVL, despite the market conditions, has grown to $117m. ~$13M of this comes from collateral of the Ninjas and ~$104M from the LP side. Image
βš™οΈ With borrowings at $62M, the utilization is at almost the optimum levels leading to organic borrow rates on stables at ​​±2% and WETH at Β±2.6%. The Lend APYs have been further boosted with $GEAR rewards. LP in to earn the below APYs: app.gearbox.fi/pools/ Image
βš™οΈ The $62M borrowing has been enabled by 129 CAs opened by 104 unique Ninjas. Average collateral has been at ~$100K with average borrowing per account at $480K. This equals a 5.77x leverage on the protocol. Image
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Nov 2, 2022
π˜“π˜°π˜°π˜¬, 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘎𝘦𝘒𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘹 𝘴𝘡𝘒𝘡𝘴! - 𝘠𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺...

Just 3 days after launch, Gearbox V2 is now at ~$106M in the pools, whereas $51M ⚑️ is borrowed for farming/trading + ~9M in leverage users' collateral = approximately $115M TVL.

Let's look into some stats 🧡
1⃣ Credit Accounts open: 90

Only 90 CAs were needed to borrow ~49M from the pools [whereas ~2M is still not migrated by users from V1]. That's about $500K+ borrowed on average per account! $USDC currently is the most popular debt asset [38 CAs], $WETH at 35, and $DAI at 16.
2⃣ Avg collateral per leverage user $100K+

And it's not like users did the minimums possible [like 20k x6 leverage or 25k x5 leverage]. No, many are going balls-deep with average collateral per account being at $100K+. Impressive! Why would they be doing this?...
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Mar 15, 2022
gHearbox Hour w @element_fi πŸ§β€β™€οΈπŸ€πŸ€–

Recap of the gHearbox Hour research talk with Element Finance developers. gHearbox Hour is a podcast that we started to do research into potential integrations on the fly.

So - is leveraging fixed & variable rates possible? Image
First of all, we are back from the radio silence! A lot of work has been happening behind the scenes with v2 audits starting up, research for new protocols’ adapters, and onboarding contributors to Gearbox DAO. All that you can find in the next monthly community update...
Now onto the technical stuff.

Imagine that the Gearbox rate for borrowing is 5%, the fixed rate is 10% at Element, so then with x5 leverage the user will receive a yield of 50%! But what could be the complications on the technical side? Image
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Dec 15, 2021
5,000 Credit Accounts to mine. 55,000+ eligible addresses. 2.5M in gas costs to deploy each one ❀️‍πŸ”₯ 5% GEAR. Become one of the early DAO members & decide the future of composable leverage 2.0! FCFS.

Special UI inside πŸ’» Dec 16 - 15:00 UTC * approx.

βš™οΈπŸ§° link.medium.com/42QsyEpY0lb
Included [at November snapshot mostly]: @10b57e6da0, @element_fi LPs, $GTC @gitcoin claimants (aka donors), $ENS @ensdomains delegates, @compoundfinance delegates, $UNI delegates, $veCRV @CurveFinance holders, @MakerDAO voters, @AaveAave $AAVE voters, @NexusMutual voters... +
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Aug 9, 2021
Have you ever wanted to get leverage on your favorite #DeFi protocol? To be able to margin trade on @Uniswap or @SushiSwap; leverage farm on @iearnfinance; arbitrage pegged assets on @CurveFinance & so on?

We're building that! The first article is out πŸ‘‡

link.medium.com/F5U9kbxeAib
Gearbox is a generalized leverage protocol: it allows you to use leverage across various DeFi protocols in a composable way. The protocol has two sides to it: passive LPs who earn higher APY; and active users who borrow those assets to trade or farm with x4+ leverage.

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Gearbox does not silo the assets within its protocol. All trades happen on third-party protocols: Uniswap, Curve, Yearn, etc. Needless to say, your assets never end up in some custody or under anyone’s control. The core vision is to become a backend leverage protocol.

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