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I was looking at TermMaxs leverage mechanism because one transaction leverage usually makes me suspicious. Somewhere underneath there has to be a bunch of steps happening that the UI is hiding.

And in this case, there are.

The interesting part is the flash loan.

Say you start with 1,000 USDC and want more exposure to ETH. Instead of manually borrowing, buying ETH, depositing it again and repeating the loop TermMax can flash borrow additional USDC combine it with your initial capital buy the collateral and lock the resulting position into a Gearing Token.

The clever part is what happens at the end of the same transaction.

The newly created Fixed-Rate Tokens are split into principal and interest components. The interest portion is exchanged for X Tokens, those pieces are combined to redeem the debt tokens, and those debt tokens repay the flash loan.

The flash loan doesnt remain as some permanent unsecured debt. It basically provides temporary capital to assemble the leveraged position and then gets paid back inside the transaction.

So oneclick leverage isnot really magic. Its transaction compression.

The protocol is taking a sequence that would normally require several separate actions and executing the whole construction atomically.

That makes the UX cleaner, but it doesnt remove the thing that matters most: if the collateral falls far enough, the leveraged position can still be liquidated.

So I think the better way to describe this isnt Easy leverage.

Its complex leverage made easier to execute.

Does compressing the mechanics into one transaction make leverage more accessible, or does it make it easier for users to underestimate what theyre actually taking on? @TermMax

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