Gearbox Protocol (GEAR)

I am starting to hunt for DeFi bear market token buys that are not only mispriced, but easily capable of running 10x in the next market-wide uptrend.

I rarely look at tokens sub-$10M but being a user on @GearboxProtocol since 2022, I was shocked to see $GEAR dropped to $2.2M FDV.

+ Total transaction volume = $13B
+ 0 bad debt on Gearbox over 4 years
+ Invented DeFi Credit Accounts (better than looping)
+ Reached $400M TVL in 2024, $225M in 2025
+ GEAR down 93% YoY, down 99% since ATH in 2024
+ Annualized revenue also peaked ($56.5M) in April/May 2024 coinciding with the explosion in demand for LRTs

The current $46M TVL reflects an intentional winding down of certain GB markets, with upcoming support for RWA leverage soon, tooling not available anywhere else. I believe their tech stack is superior for "looping" (it's actually more of a DeFi prime brokerage). If they can onboard the right RWAs to Gearbox and attract lender liquidity, they could easily scale to become a leading hub of RWA leverage the next fe

RWA looping is not new, but everyone’s suddenly realizing how big the demand will be.

Great teams recognized this long before CT’s recent light bulb moment, and have been working on it, some for years!

In this upcoming mania of demand for RWAs, @GearboxProtocol should almost rebrand to RWAbox—it has the most powerful calibrated tools onchain to achieve looping exposure but ironic ly you don’t actually loop.

Instead, they give you credit accounts so you can skip the gas costs and transactions and achieve the same net exposure as RWA looping (ie 7x @avantprotocol savUSD/USDC).

Gearbox introduced Credit Accounts years ago, but they were so far ahead of the times. The demand to loop wasn’t there without reliable yield-bearing collateral and growing confidence in few stablecoins and pegged assets. But times have caught up, and thankfully they kept building on these Credit Accounts for leveraged exposure.

Gearbox has its own liquidity you borrow from, but combined with their Credit Account, they’ll allow yo