Your swap screen tells you a price, not what routing saved you
Every quote answers what your size costs. The harder question is what size fits a cost you name — and how much of it exists only because of splitting.
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Loops, in detail.
Straight answers to the questions people actually ask us — what this costs, who can touch your money, and what a real strategy looks like once it is compiled. No prior DeFi required.
Aave v4 is not a version of Aave v3
It is a different protocol with a different mental model. You no longer pick a lending market — you pick a spoke, and spokes cannot see each other.
ReadAdding leverage to a position you already have
Borrowing against a range puts cash in your account. Adding leverage puts the borrowed money back into the range. Two operations, one important difference.
ReadAn exit that refuses to run at the wrong price
A close that only executes if the price is inside a window you signed. Outside it, the transaction reverts rather than selling your position into a spike.
ReadBorrowing against a liquidity position without closing it
A Uniswap range is an asset worth borrowing against. Two operations put one in a vault and lend you money, with the position left earning fees throughout.
ReadClosing a liquidity position into a long, a short, or neither
Exiting a Uniswap position normally leaves you holding two tokens and no view. Four operations let you name the position you become instead.
ReadCollecting fees you have already earned requires borrowing money
On a leveraged Uniswap position, taking the fees you are owed needs a flash loan first. Not a quirk of ours — a consequence of what collateral means.
ReadDecentralised venues paid twice the funding
Over 1,187 days covered by all four venues we hold, AsterDEX and Hyperliquid paid about double Binance and Bybit. Then the number that deflates it.
ReadMoving a levered range means burning it first
A Uniswap range cannot be edited, only replaced. Under leverage that means clearing the debt to burn it, and re-establishing the debt on the new one.
ReadMoving a position between lenders without selling it
Migrating a leveraged position between Morpho, Aave v3 and Aave v4 builds no route, quotes no price and uses no slippage tolerance. Nothing is sold.
ReadNever fill a gap with a zero
Four rules our market history follows: never average two venues, never fill a gap, never keep two copies, and never include a series that lies about itself.
ReadOpening a levered range is one instruction, not five
Mint the position, move it into the vault, borrow against it, put the proceeds back in. Two operations do it, and only one of them needs a flash loan.
ReadOpening a range with one token
Uniswap V3 normally wants both sides of the pair. One operation takes a single token and works the range out on-chain from where the price is.
ReadSplitting a range down the middle was always wrong
Splitting a Uniswap range used to happen at the geometric midpoint and nowhere else. Some ranges could not be split at all, and the failure said nothing.
ReadThe hedge is the one step you place yourself
Three operations do nothing on purpose. They are instructions for a person, carried in the plan so a hedge sits in the right order beside what it protects.
ReadThe skew matters more than the hedge decision
One assumed parameter moves a hedging result by more than the gap between hedging and not hedging. We measured it instead, and it is not one number.
ReadTurn a long into a short without closing it
A leveraged position's direction is a setting, not a thing you rebuild. Long, short or delta-neutral, changed inside one transaction.
ReadYou are not earning the fee tier any more
Uniswap's fee switch is on. We read all 25 pools we track from the chain: the protocol takes a quarter of the low tiers and a sixth of the 0.3%.
ReadYour Aave collateral can become a liquidity position
Collateral sitting at Aave earns the supply rate and nothing else. Two operations move it into a leveraged Uniswap range without you ever holding it.
ReadA signature says who, not what
A signed transaction feels final. But a signature proves who approved something valid — not that the exact thing executing is the thing they approved. Here is what DeFiLoops puts in that gap: a content receipt, and a simulation that judges what a transaction actually does.
ReadA stranger aimed the module
A Gnosis Safe lost 7.8 million dollars in restaked ETH — not because the Safe was broken, but because an enabled module let a passing keeper point it at an attacker's own pool. The class is old. The lesson is where you let a target come from.
ReadWhat is the cheapest USDC borrow rate right now?
It has no single answer: two venues on the same asset and chain routinely differ by a point. What sets the rate you pay, and the trap that costs more.
ReadAn agent was talked into sending $150,000 in Morse code
No exploit and no stolen key, just a message the model agreed to act on. Prompt injection is not a bug you patch, so what can a persuaded model express?
ReadHalf of Uniswap LPs lose money. Here is how to check first.
Over half of Uniswap v3 positions finish behind once impermanent loss is counted. The advertised APY cannot tell you that. Here is the number that can.
Read“Where am I buying this property token from?”
A fair question before buying a share of a building. What sits behind the token, why the register is a name and not an address, and how rent reaches you.
ReadFour real requests, and what they compiled to
Real requests, typed by real people, typos included. What each one compiled to, which needed a second attempt, and where the answer surprised them.
Read“How do I make money by using DeFiLoops?”
The second most common question people type, and one where a straight answer beats an enthusiastic one. It does not make money. It executes strategies.
ReadHow to revoke the agent in one transaction
Revocation is the feature you hope never to use and should test on day one. How it works, why the agent appointment is one-way, and what stop means.
ReadWhy an AI agent should never hold a private key
A key grants unlimited authority, and every limit on top is software. An appointment can be withdrawn; a copied key cannot be un-copied.
ReadWhat is an agentic wallet?
A wallet an AI agent can spend from without asking you each time. The whole design question is what stops it, and the answers differ.
ReadWhat protecting $10,000 of ETH for a year actually costs
Hedging is asked for more than almost anything. Priced at every strike, spend and tenor, it lost in every single configuration tested.
ReadSplitting a big trade usually does nothing
Breaking an order into pieces only helps if the market refills between them. Sent back to back, it lands in exactly the same place.
ReadOnly USDC crosses, and it takes fifteen minutes
Most plans span more than one chain without mentioning it. Two constraints shape every one, and both surprise people.
ReadDeFiLoops and DeFi Saver do different things
The closest thing to a competitor we have, and on most measures it is ahead. Here is what each is actually built for, with the numbers.
ReadAgentic wallets compared: where the limits actually live
Every one of them enforces spending limits. They differ in where the enforcement sits, and that decides what happens when the operator is wrong.
ReadAgentic wallet security: what actually goes wrong
The failure modes with evidence behind them, separated from the ones that only have a statistic. One widely quoted figure does not survive.
ReadA vault is not an account you own
Deposit into a strategy, or keep the assets and grant a bounded permission. Both are called non-custodial. Only one leaves you holding the position.
ReadOne sentence, fourteen steps, three chains
The health factor it has to hold, the fees at every hop, the places it can fail, and the three things that make this plan harder than it looks.
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