Agree, loop on
@aave. And if you use certain assets like PT-srUSDe, this entire class of problem disappears.
What happened this morning on morpho:
> 19 loopers liquidated.
> not because reUSD broke, it never moved.
So,
@pendle_fi documents two ways to price a PT.
> A linear discount curve, which its docs mark recommended for money markets and collateral pricing.
> Or a TWAP on the PT's own market price, listed for integrations that need a live market read.
This market used the second, on a pool thin enough to push. Result?
> $320k of YT buys over nine minutes moved the mark ~2.8%.
> $37m of collateral seized, $946k paid in liquidation bonuses.
> The price was most of the way back within the hour.
> The loops were already gone.
Aave takes the first path, and doesn't read the PT's own market price.
> It prices the PT as a zero coupon bond: a linear discount decaying to par at maturity, on top of the underlying feed, with a ceiling fixed in the contract at deployment.
> No trade, at any size, touches your mark.
Take PT-srUSDe-22oct2026 as the case study.
> Discount rate 3.77%, ceiling 10.22%.
> With 57 days left, the deepest the oracle can mark you down is ~1%.
> Buffer at max borrow: 2.14%. $250m of USDe sits borrowable behind it, 9.9x max leverage, 37.72% max looping APY today.
Why PT-srUSDe you ask anon?
>
@ethena runs the one of the most diversified yield engine onchain: basis trade, institutional lending, defi lending, rwa.
> srUSDe is the senior claim, junior capital takes first loss.
> Currently there's about $7.5M in junior sitting below senior
> That seniority is priced: 10.22% ceiling against 12.27% on PT-sUSDe, 93.36% threshold against 92.65%, same maturity.
> Fixed rate on top. First-loss capital underneath.
@LidoFinance's EarnUSD already runs this loop, extended through
@twynexyz's delegated credit.