#termmax Many people, for the first time using leverage on TermMax, find that what they hold in their hands isn’t a string of numbers—it’s an NFT. They usually just freeze for half a second. GT (Gearing Token) packages the entire leveraged position—collateral, debt size, maturity date, and the fixed interest rate that’s locked in—into a transferable certificate. This design is much more important than it looks at first glance.
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Compare it and you’ll get it. In Aave’s setup, your debt position and addresses are tightly bound. If you want to change wallets, partially hand your position to someone else, or cash out this “cheap debt” before maturity, you have to close the position and reopen it. In the meantime you get hit with slippage twice, and you’re forced to accept a new interest-rate repricing. With GT, you don’t. You transfer this NFT, and the counterparty takes over not only the collateral net value, but also the cost you originally locked.
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Last week I tried a small one: deposited 0.3 BNB as collateral, opened a 45-day USDC debt position, and simultaneously minted 1 FT + 1 XT. I sold the FT at a discount to get back the principal, and the fixed costs were locked at a bit over 8%. On the third day, the BNB price jumped. The health factor of this GT went from 1.6 to 1.9. In theory, at this point if you list it for sale, the buyer isn’t just buying the collateral net value—they’re also buying the extra value of “fixed costs of ~8% with 42 days remaining.”

The liquidation logic is also different from that of floating-rate protocols. GT’s debt is the face value of a zero-coupon bond, so before maturity it won’t randomly fluctuate with utilization. The only thing you need to watch is the collateral price. In other words, TermMax cuts two risk sources down to one: the interest-rate risk is settled and transferred to the FT buyer at the moment you open the position. What you’re left with is only price risk. That’s a meaningful simplification for anyone using leverage.

But GT has a pitfall you must remember: the maturity date is a hard constraint. If you don’t repay after the maturity time, the collateral enters the liquidation process—regardless of how high your health factor is. When I opened my first position, I almost forgot. Now my approach is to push every GT’s maturity date forward by two days and write it into my calendar; don’t rely on the protocol to remind you.

Another practical issue is that secondary liquidity is still thin. Whether your order gets filled depends on luck. So at this stage, the value of this feature is more in “I can move my position myself, and I can split it” rather than “I can sell my position anytime.”

I think the direction of turning debt positions into transferable assets is the right one.
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