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Single Finance

Rejected
Max sleeve
Reviewed
2026-08-16 · v1
Next review
2026-11-15
Chains
Cronos · freezable, Arbitrum One · hybrid

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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.

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.

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.

ChainVerdictGradeControl constraint
CronosRejected freezable the validator set and direction are governed by one exchange company.
Arbitrum OneApproved · limits hybrid a single sequencer orders >99% of transactions and admin keys can upgrade bridge contracts on a ~7-day timelock.
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