Gearbox Protocol
Compliant on-chain credit infrastructure for tokenised real-world assets.
Gearbox Protocol is a DeFi lending infrastructure platform that provides institutional-grade credit services—including margin, prime brokerage, and portfolio loans—for tokenised real-world assets. It uses segregated accounts to enforce compliance rules, jurisdiction filters, and per-user risk limits without requiring wrappers or bypassing issuer controls. The protocol has been live since 2021 and has processed over $12 billion in transaction volume with no security breaches.
Gearbox uses segregated accounts that act as standard wallets with native enforcement of token whitelists, transfer rules, and compliance actions, enabling tailored credit and risk management per instrument.
Institutional allocators, asset issuers, and DeFi participants working with tokenised real-world assets
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- unknown
- Company
- Gearbox Protocol
- Launched
- 2021
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