Toros Launches Protected Leveraged Tokens with Perpetual Options
Toros Launches Protected Leveraged Tokens with Perpetual Options
🛡️ Liquidation-Proof Leverage?
Toros, a dHEDGE brand, has introduced protected leveraged tokens using perpetual options technology. During a recent market event with $420M in liquidations, all Toros users were protected from losses.
Key features:
- Built on Flat Money's perpetual options infrastructure
- Offers leveraged tokens with married put payoff
- Provides automatic liquidation protection
- Available on Ethereum mainnet with 3x exposure to ETH and BTC
The system combines perpetual options (options that never expire) with leverage capabilities. Flat Money, another dHEDGE brand, operates the underlying perpetual options protocol, currently running on a limited whitelist.
Technical Innovation: The platform creates yield opportunities through covered call mechanisms while protecting users from downside risk.
Toros unlocked a level beyond liquidation protection for their leveraged tokens Just now $420,000,000 was liquidated Every single user on Toros was protected from liquidation But even beyond that, all protected leveraged token holders saw their losses stopped
Protection triggered on the Bitcoin Protected 2X and 3X Not only 0 liquidations, perp options stopped losses globally to Toros protected token holders
Toros leveraged tokens are now live on Ethereum mainnet. Built on dHEDGE. 3x exposure to ETH and BTC. Auto‑rebalanced. No upkeep. Catch the trend, ride the exponential move. @torosfinance
Get exponential gains with Toros now on Ethereum mainnet Deposit freely with size with $440M in available deposit liquidity, over 4 times more capacity than our largest L2 Deep, low slippage, low cost to leverage 3x BTC and 3x ETH
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