Adding 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.
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Borrowing 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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