Most leverage is built for people who leave. Perps liquidate. Leveraged ETFs decay. Both assume you are trading a path, not holding an outcome.
@2FactorFinance splits BTC volatility into two perpetual tranches on Base.
Senior sits behind junior capital and earns the premium juniors pay for leverage. Impairment needs a deep drawdown, on the order of a multi-sigma move, before senior capital is touched.
Junior takes the first loss and the first gain. Target leverage is moderate, about 1.33x, not 3x or 5x. At a 1:3 senior-to-junior mix, if senior earns 6%, junior’s carry is roughly a third of that, because the cost is spread across a larger junior pool. That is the whole design bet: fund long-duration leverage from people who want buffered yield, not from the short side of a perp book.
Holding both tranches in the right ratio is meant to reconstitute spot while fees are off. Volatility is partitioned, not destroyed.
Why it matters: most listed capital is held for months, not hours. Average equity holding periods run many months. Products that only work for days leave that capital unlevered or stuck in structures that bleed if you stay.
Live now as capped beta on cbBTC. Stocks are the stated next market. Governance is sketched as fee-to-buyback later, multisig first. Still early. Still beta. Smart-contract and tranche risk are real.
Season 1 of the points program is the on-ramp. Marks come from verified actions, carry into Season 2, and the top 10 split 1 BTC. Marks themselves are not cash.
If the tranche math is the part worth reading, start here: https://t.co/1sy4EgJvzz
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