Liquidation is the hidden fault line beneath every DeFi market.
MakerDAO felt it.
Aave felt it.
Solend felt it.
Venus felt it.
ANA closes that fault line forever.
By anchoring credit to ANA’s immutable floor, Nirvana eliminates the forced unwinds, cascading liquidations, and systemic chaos that define legacy DeFi lending. Where other systems punish volatility with liquidation, ANA transforms collateral into a foundation of certainty.
In today’s protocols, credit is fragile. Borrowers can deposit assets and borrow against them, but they also risk liquidation the moment market prices cross an arbitrary threshold. The design unfortunately creates systemic fragility in DeFi which has repeatedly detonated across protocols:
MakerDAO Black Thursday (2020): Zero-bid auctions erased ~$8M of user collateral in a single day
Venus Protocol (2021): Volatility cascaded into ~$200M liquidations and ~$100M of unrecoverable debt
Solend Whale Crisis (2022): A single account neared liquidation, forcing governance into emergency seizure proposals
Aave CRV Event (2022): Liquidations spiraled into $1.6M of bad debt despite functioning mechanisms
In every case above, there was a failure of risk management that resulted in substantial liquidations and, consequently, loss of capital for borrowers. It resulted in auctions jamming, oracles slipping, and even governance panic, all at the expense of the common user.
ANA makes liquidation mathematically impossible.
Because ANA is floor-collateralized, loans are only ever issued against the floor value (which can mathematically never go down) instead of market prices. Since ANA will never be worth less than its floor value, the common fragility risks in DeFi lending (such as cascading liquidations from falling collateral prices) cannot arise with ANA.
That means:
Even if ANA trades far below its highs, the loan remains fully secured
There is never a threshold where collateral can be seized or auctioned
Borrowing costs are fixed at a one-time origination fee
To better understand ANA’s architecture, consider the following scenarios:
During the 2020 ETH price crash, MakerDAO’s liquidation auctions became stuck due to skyrocketing gas fees. Some auctions even cleared at zero bids, wiping out user collateral and resulting in approximately $8M in losses. The system’s reliance on auctions and external actors turned a simple ETH price crash into a complete structural failure.
Another good example is found in 2022, when a large trader used Aave to short CRV by borrowing against it. When the market moved against them, cascading liquidations resulted in $1.6M in bad debt, despite the liquidations functioning as designed.
In contrast to either scenario above, ANA does not expose the protocol to collateral price depreciation from liquidations or bad debt. Because loans are limited to the floor, the debt is always fully collateralized by definition. Regardless of what happens to ANA’s market price, it cannot become insolvent. There is no dependency on keepers, no oracle trigger, and no pathway to zero-bid outcomes.
The key takeaway: where DeFi depends on oracles, keepers, and auctions, Nirvana depends on math. The protocol-owned reserves establish a floor that rises with adoption and remains constant. Credit becomes structural, not situational.
Liquidations define DeFi today. They erase collateral, create cascades, and destabilize protocols, resulting in unwanted taxable events and losses.
Nirvana rewrites this design by rooting credit in an immutable floor.
The result is leverage without forced loss. Borrowing without systemic fragility.
A safer form of credit that is not threatened by potential liquidations.
Enter Nirvana.Finance
Liquidation is the hidden fault line beneath every DeFi market.
MakerDAO felt it.
Aave felt it.
Solend felt it.
Venus felt it.
ANA closes that fault line forever.
By anchoring credit to ANA’s immutable floor, Nirvana eliminates the forced unwinds, cascading liquidations, and systemic chaos that define legacy DeFi lending. Where other systems punish volatility with liquidation, ANA transforms collateral into a foundation of certainty.
In today’s protocols, credit is fragile. Borrowers can deposit assets and borrow against them, but they also risk liquidation the moment market prices cross an arbitrary threshold. The design unfortunately creates systemic fragility in DeFi which has repeatedly detonated across protocols:
MakerDAO Black Thursday (2020): Zero-bid auctions erased ~$8M of user collateral in a single day
Venus Protocol (2021): Volatility cascaded into ~$200M liquidations and ~$100M of unrecoverable debt
Solend Whale Crisis (2022): A single account neared liquidation, forcing governance into emergency seizure proposals
Aave CRV Event (2022): Liquidations spiraled into $1.6M of bad debt despite functioning mechanisms
In every case above, there was a failure of risk management that resulted in substantial liquidations and, consequently, loss of capital for borrowers. It resulted in auctions jamming, oracles slipping, and even governance panic, all at the expense of the common user.
ANA makes liquidation mathematically impossible.
Because ANA is floor-collateralized, loans are only ever issued against the floor value (which can mathematically never go down) instead of market prices. Since ANA will never be worth less than its floor value, the common fragility risks in DeFi lending (such as cascading liquidations from falling collateral prices) cannot arise with ANA.
That means:
Even if ANA trades far below its highs, the loan remains fully secured
There is never a threshold where collateral can be seized or auctioned
Borrowing costs are fixed at a one-time origination fee
To better understand ANA’s architecture, consider the following scenarios:
During the 2020 ETH price crash, MakerDAO’s liquidation auctions became stuck due to skyrocketing gas fees. Some auctions even cleared at zero bids, wiping out user collateral and resulting in approximately $8M in losses. The system’s reliance on auctions and external actors turned a simple ETH price crash into a complete structural failure.
Another good example is found in 2022, when a large trader used Aave to short CRV by borrowing against it. When the market moved against them, cascading liquidations resulted in $1.6M in bad debt, despite the liquidations functioning as designed.
In contrast to either scenario above, ANA does not expose the protocol to collateral price depreciation from liquidations or bad debt. Because loans are limited to the floor, the debt is always fully collateralized by definition. Regardless of what happens to ANA’s market price, it cannot become insolvent. There is no dependency on keepers, no oracle trigger, and no pathway to zero-bid outcomes.
The key takeaway: where DeFi depends on oracles, keepers, and auctions, Nirvana depends on math. The protocol-owned reserves establish a floor that rises with adoption and remains constant. Credit becomes structural, not situational.
Liquidations define DeFi today. They erase collateral, create cascades, and destabilize protocols, resulting in unwanted taxable events and losses.
Nirvana rewrites this design by rooting credit in an immutable floor.
The result is leverage without forced loss. Borrowing without systemic fragility.
A safer form of credit that is not threatened by potential liquidations.
Enter Nirvana.Finance
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