Buying A Condo With Abracadabra

Now, if you’re not in the market for something as “big” as real estate, you might be wondering: “this sounds cool, but how does it apply to me?” 

Well, the point is that this same process and strategy works for practically any significant purchase you might make. Now, you can buy ...

Abracadabra makes it easy to set the exact LTV you want, and even take on additional leverage. (risky!)

Now, a 90% loan to value ratio would be very risky, as the platform will automatically liquidate your position if the price drops more than 10% – effectively closing out the loan and lea...

Well, Curve.Finance has the perfect product for you. Tricrypto2 is a yield-generating position that maintains equal exposure to BTC, ETH, and the stablecoin USDT. That means if Bitcoin and Ethereum each fall by 30%, the Tricrypto2 position will only be down 20%, and vice versa. It gives investors...

First off, Abracadabra charges a 0.5% borrow fee up-front that adds $3600 to my outstanding loan balance.

The 0.5% borrow fee is the same for every collateral type on Abracadabra, while the other parameters vary depending on the collateral pledged.

The interest rate on the loan is f...

But that’s not even the best part. The collateral I put up for the loan (all loans in DeFi are overcollateralized – more on that later), still generates yield while I’m borrowing against it. 

You heard that right. I’m being paid to take out the loan, and my collateral is currently...

Wealthy people have been borrowing against their assets – deferring taxes and remaining invested – for generations through accounts and personal brokers at the likes of JP Morgan or Goldman Sachs. Now, anyone can do it, and in a fraction of the time. That’s the real magic behind DeFi.

So, the yield on my collateral pays for the interest on the loan, HOA fees, and property taxes with an additional $11k/month left over*, which I can use to start paying down the loan principal.

It gets better. As I pay down the loan principal, the 3.5% interest charge starts to go down (as...

Unrelated to the loan but still relevant, my HOA fees are $860 per month and property taxes come out to around $1000 per month.

So, my total carrying cost of the loan + home expenses are  $3970/month

Meanwhile, the yield on my collateral of $1.2M in Tricrypto2 (necessary fo...