Straight answers about how the agent plans and runs DeFi workflows — what it costs, who can touch your money, and worked strategies end to end.https://defiloops.com/en-gbhttps://defiloops.com/blog/aave-v4-is-not-a-version-of-aave-v3/https://defiloops.com/blog/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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureaavelendingleveragexauthttps://defiloops.com/blog/adding-leverage-to-a-position-you-already-have/https://defiloops.com/blog/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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyuniswapleverageliquidityflash-loanshttps://defiloops.com/blog/an-exit-that-refuses-to-run-at-the-wrong-price/https://defiloops.com/blog/an-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityuniswapliquidityticksexecutionhttps://defiloops.com/blog/borrowing-against-a-liquidity-position-without-closing-it/https://defiloops.com/blog/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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyuniswaplendingleverageliquidityhttps://defiloops.com/blog/closing-a-liquidity-position-into-a-long-a-short-or-neither/https://defiloops.com/blog/closing-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyuniswapaaveleverageshortingliquidityhttps://defiloops.com/blog/collecting-fees-you-have-already-earned-requires-borrowing-money/https://defiloops.com/blog/collecting-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureuniswapleverageflash-loansliquidityhttps://defiloops.com/blog/decentralised-venues-paid-twice-the-funding/https://defiloops.com/blog/decentralised-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyfundingperpetualshyperliquiddelta-neutralhttps://defiloops.com/blog/moving-a-levered-range-means-burning-it-first/https://defiloops.com/blog/moving-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureuniswapleveragerebalancingliquidityhttps://defiloops.com/blog/moving-a-position-between-lenders-without-selling-it/https://defiloops.com/blog/moving-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategylendingmigrationaavemorphorefinancinghttps://defiloops.com/blog/never-fill-a-gap-with-a-zero/https://defiloops.com/blog/never-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitecturedatabacktestingengineeringhttps://defiloops.com/blog/opening-a-levered-range-is-one-instruction-not-five/https://defiloops.com/blog/opening-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyuniswapleverageliquidityflash-loanshttps://defiloops.com/blog/opening-a-range-with-one-token/https://defiloops.com/blog/opening-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyuniswapliquiditytickshttps://defiloops.com/blog/splitting-a-range-down-the-middle-was-always-wrong/https://defiloops.com/blog/splitting-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureuniswapliquidityticksengineeringhttps://defiloops.com/blog/the-hedge-is-the-one-step-you-place-yourself/https://defiloops.com/blog/the-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitecturehedgingperpetualsoptionsdelta-neutralhttps://defiloops.com/blog/the-skew-matters-more-than-the-hedge-decision/https://defiloops.com/blog/the-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureoptionshedgingvolatilitydatahttps://defiloops.com/blog/turn-a-long-into-a-short-without-closing-it/https://defiloops.com/blog/turn-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyleverageshortingdelta-neutralflash-loanshttps://defiloops.com/blog/what-a-price-does-not-tell-you/https://defiloops.com/blog/what-a-price-does-not-tell-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureswapsroutingliquidityexecutionhttps://defiloops.com/blog/you-are-not-earning-the-fee-tier-any-more/https://defiloops.com/blog/you-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%. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyuniswapliquidityfeesunificationhttps://defiloops.com/blog/your-aave-collateral-can-become-a-liquidity-position/https://defiloops.com/blog/your-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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyaaveuniswapleverageliquidityhttps://defiloops.com/blog/a-signature-says-who-not-what/https://defiloops.com/blog/a-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. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecuritysecurityagentic-walletsignaturessimulationexecutionhttps://defiloops.com/blog/the-executor-that-trusted-itself/https://defiloops.com/blog/the-executor-that-trusted-itself/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. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecuritysecurityagentic-walletauthorizationsmart-accountsrestakinghttps://defiloops.com/blog/cheapest-usdc-borrow-rate/https://defiloops.com/blog/cheapest-usdc-borrow-rate/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. Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategylendingborrowingaavemorphorateshttps://defiloops.com/blog/talked-into-sending-150000/https://defiloops.com/blog/talked-into-sending-150000/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? Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecuritysecurityprompt-injectionagentspermissionshttps://defiloops.com/blog/half-of-lps-lose-money/https://defiloops.com/blog/half-of-lps-lose-money/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. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyliquidityimpermanent-lossbacktestinguniswaphttps://defiloops.com/blog/where-am-i-buying-this-property-from/https://defiloops.com/blog/where-am-i-buying-this-property-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. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyrwapropertyrentbasehttps://defiloops.com/blog/four-things-people-actually-asked/https://defiloops.com/blog/four-things-people-actually-asked/Real requests, typed by real people, typos included. What each one compiled to, which needed a second attempt, and where the answer surprised them. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyworked-examplelendingbridgingrwaroutinghttps://defiloops.com/blog/how-do-i-make-money-with-this/https://defiloops.com/blog/how-do-i-make-money-with-this/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. Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategygetting-startedfeeshonest-answersyieldhttps://defiloops.com/blog/one-transaction-to-stop-it/https://defiloops.com/blog/one-transaction-to-stop-it/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. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityrevocationcustodymandateshttps://defiloops.com/blog/why-an-ai-agent-should-never-hold-a-key/https://defiloops.com/blog/why-an-ai-agent-should-never-hold-a-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. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityagentic-walletai-agentskey-managementcustodyhttps://defiloops.com/blog/what-is-an-agentic-wallet/https://defiloops.com/blog/what-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. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureagentic-walletai-agentsaccount-abstractioncustodyhttps://defiloops.com/blog/what-a-year-of-downside-protection-costs/https://defiloops.com/blog/what-a-year-of-downside-protection-costs/Hedging is asked for more than almost anything. Priced at every strike, spend and tenor, it lost in every single configuration tested. Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyhedgingoptionsbacktestingriskhttps://defiloops.com/blog/splitting-a-big-trade-usually-does-nothing/https://defiloops.com/blog/splitting-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. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategytradingslippageexecutionswapshttps://defiloops.com/blog/only-usdc-crosses-and-it-takes-fifteen-minutes/https://defiloops.com/blog/only-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. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitecturebridgingmulti-chaincctpexecutionhttps://defiloops.com/blog/defiloops-and-defi-saver-do-different-things/https://defiloops.com/blog/defiloops-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. Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitecturecomparisonautomationdefi-saverexecutionhttps://defiloops.com/blog/agentic-wallets-compared-where-the-limits-live/https://defiloops.com/blog/agentic-wallets-compared-where-the-limits-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. Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureagentic-walletcomparisonai-agentscustodyhttps://defiloops.com/blog/agentic-wallet-security-what-actually-goes-wrong/https://defiloops.com/blog/agentic-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. Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityagentic-walletai-agentssecurityprompt-injectionhttps://defiloops.com/blog/a-vault-is-not-an-account-you-own/https://defiloops.com/blog/a-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. Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTArchitecturecomparisoncustodyvaultsinstadapphttps://defiloops.com/blog/a-loop-that-buys-and-borrows/https://defiloops.com/blog/a-loop-that-buys-and-borrows/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. Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTStrategyworked-examplelendingbridgingrwa