Single Finance
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Single Finance is a three-chain leveraged-farming system, not a Cronos-only protocol. Its strategies borrow from Single lending pools, combine supplied and borrowed assets into LP positions and expose equity to utilization, debt-ratio liquidation and DEX inventory. DefiLlama measured $125,733 across Cronos, Arbitrum and Fantom on 2026-08-16. Because live Arbitrum exposure disproves the former rejected-chain premise, the version-1 leveraged-looping dossier is the exact fundamental rejection; verdict and cap remain zero.
- An exact unlevered product removes borrowing and liquidation from the client payoff and passes its own product-level review
- Exact farm, lending-pool, debt, utilization, liquidation, oracle, bot, authority, audit and incident evidence is current and a proposed-size stressed close repays all debt without forced liquidation
The research file
Mechanism and corrected perimeter
Single documents Strategies, Leveraged Yield Farming, Locked Staking and Lending Pools. A farmer supplies either or both pool assets, borrows undercollateralized assets from protocol lending pools and adds the combined amount to a DEX LP. Its official product and lending pages list Cronos, Arbitrum and Fantom, while the current survey attributes nonzero balances to all three. Cronos-only rejected-chain treatment was therefore factually false.
Leverage, liquidation and control
Debt accrues utilization-based interest and liquidation occurs when debt value divided by position value crosses the pair threshold. Published examples include up to 5x positions and thresholds from 70% to 92.5%; Arbitrum examples use 3x and 83.33%. The capital-protection bot is an execution control rather than a guarantee: liquidation can occur first and the mechanism depends on bots, DEX swaps, lending-pool cash and price inputs.
Lifecycle, accounting and exit
DefiLlama reported $125,733 on 2026-08-16, primarily Cronos with smaller Arbitrum and Fantom balances plus separately labelled staking and pool2 amounts. Closing a farm first repays debt, may remove LP inventory and swap into a selected asset; partial exits must retain minimum equity. A lender’s ibToken exit separately depends on unborrowed pool liquidity, so aggregate TVL does not prove proposed-size withdrawal capacity.
Comparison and measurable reopening test
Unlike a direct unlevered LP, Single adds borrowed principal, utilization-sensitive costs, liquidation and automation. Unlike direct lending, the farming borrower exposes capital to paired inventory and DEX execution. Reopen only for an exact chain, farm and lending pair with verified contracts, roles, oracle and bot controls, debt and utilization history, audit and incident record, and a proposed-size close that repays all debt under stressed prices and liquidity.
Sources
The claims above trace to these. Where a number could not be independently verified, the thesis says so.
- Single Finance Docs — multichain product overview · primary · accessed 2026-08-16
Supports: Cronos, Arbitrum, Fantom, strategies, leveraged farming - Single Finance Docs — leveraged yield farming · primary · accessed 2026-08-16
Supports: borrowing, LP creation, under-collateralized loan, interest, position accounting - Single Finance Docs — liquidation · primary · accessed 2026-08-16
Supports: debt ratio, liquidation threshold, maximum leverage, Arbitrum pools, liquidation fee - Single Finance Docs — lending and ibTokens · primary · accessed 2026-08-16
Supports: three-chain lending, ibTokens, utilization, interest-bearing claim, asset perimeter - Single Finance Docs — closing a leveraged position · primary · accessed 2026-08-16
Supports: deleveraging, withdrawal modes, DEX swap, partial exit, minimum equity - DefiLlama — Single Finance survey record · secondary · accessed 2026-08-16
Supports: $125,733 TVL, Cronos, Arbitrum, Fantom, leveraged-farming category
Inherited controls
The verdict above grades the protocol layer. Every position also inherits the asset it holds and the chain it settles on. The least safe layer sets the position’s grade, and the position table names which one that is.
| Chain | Verdict | Grade | Control constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cronos | Rejected | freezable | the validator set and direction are governed by one exchange company. |
| Arbitrum One | Approved · limits | hybrid | a single sequencer orders >99% of transactions and admin keys can upgrade bridge contracts on a ~7-day timelock. |