DeFi looping The crypto native way of trading

Create levered (re)staking positions

The most popular liquid staking and restaking assets from ETH and BTC ecosystems are available on Contango and can be looped with high leverage. Most of the LRT pairs make you accrue their own loyalty points too.

Farm points and rewards

All rewards, airdrops or points offered by the underlying markets will be accrued by traders on Contango. This means that you will often find an instrument that rewards you for opening a position, either on correlated assets like wstETH/ETH, or non-correlated ones like ETH/USDC.

Lever up on Pendle’s PTs

Principal Token (PTs) from Pendle represents the principal portion of an underlying yield-bearing asset. They normally trade at a discount, and looping them against their underlying asset or a stablecoin lets you amplify potential gains.

Go long or short like a perp at low funding

Looping non-correlated pairs like ETH/USDC is identical to trading perps on other defi protocols. But on Contango you tap into a massive underlying liquidity (around $60B across spot and lending markets) and you benefit from implied funding rates that are the best in the industry. Contango rates are 3x lower and less volatile than market leaders, like Binance and dYdX (full study).

Arbitrage interest rates

Traders have always profited from arbing rate differentials across lending markets: on Contango you can do so by simply opening delta-neutral positions or, in the case of stable pairs, by opening just one leg on the dedicated USD Farming tab.