Gearbox Protocol

Institutional-grade, no-code lending infrastructure for tokenised assets and RWAs.

Real-World Assets need Real-World Lending.

[Gearbox Protocol @GearboxProtocol]

There's no looping on Gearbox anymore.

Why? Because there never was. Looping is fundamentally inefficient. You borrow against your deposit, buy more of the same asset, and redeposit it repeatedly to create leverage. Every step bleeds efficiency.

◾️ Looping manually? Repeatedly buy on DEXes and pay slippage.
◾️ Want to automate? Incur cost for a tool.
◾️ Don't want to incur slippage? Manually mint the asset at every loop.
◾️ Want to close a loop by unstaking assets to avoid slippage? Months lost to unstaking every loop.
◾️ Want to change the asset you loop? Wind down your current loop and create another.
◾️ Want to loop a non-tokenised or non-DEX asset like Convex staked positions? You can't.

Looping isn't just yield-inefficient, it also limits protocols to lending only against tokens and never against contracts, stifling the innovation composability makes possible. And that's why Gearbox has never had looping.

Leverage on Gearbox has never been built on loops, but on credit. Borrowers don’t receive a one-block flashloan; they receive real credit for the full duration of their position by opening Credit Accounts.

✅ Leveraging manually? No need, Gearbox can batch all of your actions from borrowing to the final swap in a single transaction at no additional cost.
✅ Don’t want to incur slippage? Use your credit to mint from the contract instead of swapping at a DEX and save months of yield.
✅ Unstaking a leveraged position? You can unstake your entire position in one go, with zero slippage and in a fraction of the time.
✅ Want to switch the asset you leverage? No need to pay back the credit, simply swap it to another asset.
✅ Want exposure to a non-tokenised position or an asset with zero DEX liquidity? Your credit flows through DeFi, unlike your loops.

Composability isn’t about putting tokens in a lending pool, it's about protocols building on each other to create new, innovative financial primitives.

The future of credit isn't stuck in a pool. The future of credit isn't limited to DEXes and tokens. The future of credit powers everything in DeFi.

The future of credit is Gearbox Permissionless, DeFi's permissionless leverage layer. ⚙️🧰

[KPK @kpk_io]

1/ The KPK wstETH Earn Pool on @GearboxProtocol is now the #1 lending venue for wstETH, and #2 overall.

The yield is driven mostly by organic borrowing demand, not incentives.

(rankings via @vaultsfyi)

[0xmikko.eth @0xmikko_eth]

I gave the agent $10,000. Then it told me to skip the pool with the highest yield.

And honestly, I wanted it to pick the 26% APY pool. It was the biggest number on the screen. The obvious answer, if all you care about is yield.

The agent said no. So what did it find?

[ETHConf @ethconf]

Heading to DeFi 3.0: less monolithic logic → better security, P2P markets for any asset, agents instead of curators.

@0xmikko_eth of @GearboxProtocol on the Breakout Stage at ETHConf.

[Gearbox Protocol @GearboxProtocol]

@symbioticfi We might have a usecase for this. Soon.

[ETHConf @ethconf]

🌟 NEW ETHConf speaker announced:

@0xmikko_eth, Co-founder and CTO at @GearboxProtocol

Built the first Gearbox at an ETHGlobal hackathon in 2021. Gearbox is a DeFi leverage protocol with smart credit accounts that compose across Uniswap, Curve, and Convex.

June 8–10, NYC. 🗽

[Superform @superformxyz]

New Feature: Discover curators on Superform!

50+ curators are now live on Superform across @Morpho, @eulerfinance, and @GearboxProtocol

Use a beautiful interface to learn more about curators, view stats, and find all their vaults from one unified location.

[Agentic Finance Summit @AgenticSummit]

No-code lending infrastructure for tokenised assets and RWAs, built for institutions.

@0xmikko_eth, Co-Founder and CTO at @GearboxProtocol, will take the stage at Agentic Finance Summit.

June 3 · New York · https://t.co/9bV6kT9BNH

[UltraYield - Vault Curation & Infra @ultrayieldapp]

To address the latest liquidity crunch in our @GearboxProtocol USDC Vault on Monad we've adjusted the Interest Rate Model, currently borrow rate at 100% utilization moved from 20% to 10%. This strikes a balance between looping strategy losses and attractiveness of the lending side.

None of the accepted collaterals have any exposure to rsETH.

We continue to monitor the markets and will adjust accordingly to find the balance, also working on other solutions to ensure the rates are cooled down, including work with LPs and external parties to help incentivize the lending side.

[KPK @kpk_io]

Update on KPK's Gearbox markets following the rsETH incident.

KPK's Gearbox markets continue to operate safely. There is no direct rsETH exposure. LTVs on collateral with indirect Aave exposure has been adjusted conservatively, so lenders stay protected even in a contagion scenario.

On Saturday, KPK took the following precautionary steps:
• rsETH quotas set to zero, blocking any new exposure
• Borrowing paused on tETH, PT-DETH, DETH and the Beefy-wrapped Balancer v3 pools that rely on Aave for liquidity (osETH/WETH, rETH/WETH, tETH/wstETH)

Over the weekend, a large withdrawal from the Gearbox WETH pool pushed utilisation to 100%, driving borrow rates sharply higher. Some Beefy-wrapped borrowers are temporarily unable to close their positions, as closing requires unwrapping aEthWETH to plain WETH, which Aave is not currently servicing. This has kept rates elevated.

In response, KPK has queued a change in the timelock that flattens the WETH pool's interest rate model. Once live (~14:00 UTC, 21 April), the maximum borrow rate drops to approximately 5% APY, bringing all affected strategies back to positive carry. All collateral without Aave exposure can still be unwound normally. The wstETH pool is unaffected, with utilisation there still normal.

We are monitoring closely and will post further updates. If you have questions about your position, reach out directly.

[Gearbox Protocol @GearboxProtocol]

Gearbox curators have no direct exposure to rsETH and the protocol continues to operate safely.

In response to recent developments, @kpk_io has proactively restricted the creation of any new exposure to rsETH. Out of caution, borrowing against tETH and DETH has been paused as well.

Any indirect exposure to kpk markets poses no risks to lenders and is limited to active loans backed by Balancer v3 LP tokens, which partly see underlying TVL deposited into Aave. The LTV on these positions ensure solvency even under highly adverse scenarios affecting the underlying Aave pools.

kpk is actively monitoring the developments closely and users can reach out to them in case of any specific questions. Gearbox protocol continues to operate as expected.

[blocmates. @blocmates]

DeFi has always been “figure it out yourself” finance.

Finding yield is easy, but everything that comes after is not. Too many steps, too many apps, too much friction.

So how the hell do we fix that?

We sat down in Cannes for an ecosystem roundtable with @lifiprotocol, @LidoFinance, @GearboxProtocol, and @jumperapp to chat about why the system still feels broken and what might fix it.

[Treehouse @TreehouseFi]

9️⃣ Leveraged LP Strategies on Gearbox

tETH–wstETH Balancer LP positions can now be deployed on @GearboxProtocol to unlock additional leveraged yield exposure.

https://t.co/RoZUThJ0Id

[KPK @kpk_io]

Scaling DeFi Cannes starts soon 🇫🇷

Doors open at 4PM and merch won't last long. Don't say we didn't warn you 👀

See you there with @eulerfinance, @GearboxProtocol, @Anchorage and @redstone_defi.

[DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth @DeFi_Dad]

There are currently 3 pools for lending stablecoins on @GearboxProtocol at high rates (7.6-10.8%).

USDC on Ethereum Mainnet = 7.66%
AUSD on Monad = 9.59%
USDC on Monad = 10.87%

The reason I like to lend on Gearbox is because after $12.8B in transaction volume, the protocol still holds a very impressive bad-debt-free track record since launching in 2021. This is one major reason why users keep lending and farming on Gearbox.

But where does organic demand to leverage farm come from? Because Gearbox Credit Accounts are superior to all forms of looping elsewhere.

Gearbox leverage farming is NOT looping.

+ Borrowers receive real credit for the full duration of their position by opening Credit Accounts.
+ Borrowers don’t receive a one-block flashloan because they don't need it to automate manual loops.
+ Looping is inefficient, where you repeatedly lend, borrow, and swap as you pay slippage to wind up or do the reverse when you unwind.
+ Gearbox instead batches all of your actions from borrowing to the final swap in a single txn at no added cost. If you were to compare actual looping automation elsewhere using flashloans, you'd see significantly higher transaction fees for all that's required vs the simpler, more gas-efficient way Gearbox Credit Accounts handles creating a leveraged position.

Many of us often misuse the term "looping" when describing leverage farming strategies on Gearbox but it's due to the fact that looping is an easy point of reference.

So if you understand the benefits of leverage farming (excluding the downsides of creating/unwinding a looping position), that's why borrowing rates stay relatively higher on Gearbox with $71M TVL today.

And that's why I monitor lending opportunities on Gearbox, because they're consistently higher and you're protected against bad debt.

See for yourself: https://t.co/zPvQFP8lt0

[Gearbox Protocol @GearboxProtocol]

@RobAnon Soon 🔜

[Rob Montgomery🦞 @RobAnon]

https://t.co/GqvkcJKGgk

[Tulipa Capital @tulipacapital]

Tulipa Capital is actively monitoring the ongoing Resolv/USR exploit.

Our vault positions do not hold exposure to the affected assets or markets.

To our Gearbox users: we have disallowed position increases on the relevant assets and will take further protective action if the situation warrants it. Tulipa Capital is committed to ensuring lenders are fully protected.

We will continue to monitor as Resolv works toward a recovery plan.

@GearboxProtocol

[Portals.fi | DeFi Explorer @portals_fi]

"You can do it in one hop: Mint RWAs with leverage directly on tokenization platforms." ☝️

🆕 @GearboxProtocol DeFi Drop 🎙️ episode is LIVE

🔐 Credit accounts: DeFi's margin account
🏦 No-code markets for institutions
🔮 Prediction: DeFi TVL $200B by June 2026

Don't miss it ⚙️

[KPK @kpk_io]

Scaling DeFi returns during @EthCC. 🇫🇷

Thanks to our sponsors @eulerfinance, @GearboxProtocol, @Anchorage and @redstone_defi for making it possible.

Featuring speakers from leading DeFi protocols and institutional teams.

March 31 · Cannes

[infiniFi @infiniFi]

Introducing the Chapter Takeover curated by Tulipa Capital.

For the next week the infiniFi points page transforms into a boosted Gearbox Chapter & so do the point multipliers.

infiniFi Points Boost Multiplier:

• 13.5x for siUSD
• 9x for liUSD 1wk