Gearbox launches up to 10x leverage for Pendle PTs on Plasma

Gearbox Protocol has launched leveraged trading for Pendle Principal Tokens (PTs) on Plasma, allowing DeFi users to take up to 10x leverage on Pendle’s fixed-income-style positions via Gearbox credit accounts. According to the Gearbox announcement on X, Pendle PTs are now integrated into Gearbox’s leverage layer on the Plasma ecosystem, so users can borrow and deploy capital into PTs with significantly amplified exposure while keeping positions managed inside Gearbox smart contract credit accounts. This move builds on Pendle’s expansion to Plasma, where Pendle brings its core model of tokenizing yield-bearing assets into Principal Tokens (PT) and Yield Tokens (YT) into a stablecoin-centric, scalable environment. PTs function as discount-like fixed-income claims that redeem for the underlying at maturity, making them a natural fit for leveraged fixed-yield strategies. By integrating PTs, Gearbox effectively turns Pendle’s fixed-yield markets on Plasma into leveraged fixed-income products, with up to 10x credit available through Gearbox’s composable Credit Accounts that can be routed across integrated DeFi protocols. The launch matters for both protocols and the broader DeFi “yield infrastructure” stack. Pendle is already the leading on-chain yield trading venue, with its PT/YT structure enabling fixed-rate capture, rate speculation, and hedging across chains. Gearbox, meanwhile, positions itself as a leverage layer or “prime brokerage” for DeFi, providing isolated, onchain margin that can be plugged into any integrated protocol. Bringing leveraged PTs to Plasma connects a large, growing fixed-income market to a generalized leverage engine, potentially increasing capital efficiency, deepening Pendle liquidity on Plasma, and expanding the menu of rate and carry-trade strategies available to advanced users.

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