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  • Welcome to Mars Protocol
  • Getting Started
    • How to set up a Wallet
    • Connect your wallet
    • Using a Credit Account
  • Credit Accounts
  • Perpetual Futures (Perps)
    • Perps Vault (Counterparty Vault)
    • Funding Rate Mechanism
    • Price Impact
    • Open Interest Caps
    • Vault Solvency Protection
    • Health Factor
    • Liquidations
  • Spot & Margin Trading
  • Lending & Borrowing
  • Leveraged Yield Farming
  • High Leverage Strategies
  • Managed Vaults
    • Creating a Vault
      • How to Resume Vault Creation
    • Managing a Vault
    • Depositing into Vault
  • Risk Methodology
    • Asset Listing
    • Protocol Risk Framework
    • Perps Risk Framework
      • Maximum Leverage & LTVs
      • SkewScale
      • Open Interest Caps
      • Maximum Funding Velocity
      • Mitigating Risks of Static Parameters
    • Deposit Caps Risk Framework
  • Governance
    • MARS Token
  • Smart Contracts
    • Address Provider
    • Account NFT
    • Credit Manager
    • Health
    • Incentives
    • Oracle
    • Params
    • Red Bank
    • Rewards Collector
    • Swapper
    • Zapper
    • Perps
  • Brand kit
    • The Mars Brand
  • Legal
    • Mars FUD Bible
    • Terms of Service
    • Privacy Policy
    • Cookie Policy
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Welcome to Mars Protocol

A next-generation DeFi leverage platform designed to maximize capital efficiency through its innovative Credit Account system.

Last updated 24 days ago

The Mars Protocol empowers users with sophisticated trading tools and yield opportunities while maintaining a balanced ecosystem for both risk-takers and risk-reducers.

What is Mars Protocol?

Mars Protocol is a Gen3 DeFi leverage protocol that introduces Credit Accounts - an all-in-one position management primitive enabling leveraged trading across a wide array of strategies and assets.

Whether you're a high-leverage trader or a yield-seeking investor, Mars Protocol provides the infrastructure to meet your goals.


Core Concepts

Credit Accounts

The backbone of Mars Protocol. Credit Accounts allow users to:

  • Trade with leverage across on-chain and off-chain assets

  • Use any supported asset as collateral

  • Combine multiple positions in a single margin account

  • Hold and trade any on-chain asset

Versatile Trading Options

With Credit Accounts, users can access a wide range of strategies:

  • Spot Trading

  • Margin Trading

  • Lending & Borrowing

  • Leveraged Yield Farming

  • High-Leverage Tactics

  • Managed Vaults

  • Perpetual Futures (Perps)

Cross-Collateralization & Risk Management

  • Cross-Collateralization: Any asset in your Credit Account can act as collateral

  • Cross-Margined Perps: Perpetuals are seamlessly integrated into the Credit Account, enabling unified risk across positions


Who Is Mars Protocol For?

Mars Protocol serves two major user groups, balancing their needs in one unified marketplace:

Speculators (Risk Takers)

  • Leverage power users

  • Seeking advanced trading instruments

  • Benefit from fee reductions and optimized UX

Investors (Risk Reducers)

  • Yield-seekers focused on capital preservation

  • Use Mars Protocol for risk-managed, passive yield strategies

  • Enjoy improved risk-adjusted returns


Why Mars Protocol?

Mars Protocol is designed to power a robust and dynamic DeFi ecosystem by:

  • Supporting both aggressive traders and conservative investors

  • Leveraging smart risk architecture via Credit Accounts

  • Innovating in cross-margining and collateral flexibility


Explore Mars Protocol

Whether you're here to trade, earn, build, or govern - we have all informations here for you. Dive deeper into the ecosystem:

Getting Started


Core Features


Risk & Governance


For Developers


Ready to explore the cosmos of DeFi leverage? Mars Protocol is your gateway to capital-efficient strategies, active governance, and powerful financial tools — all in one unified system.

Begin your journey with an overview of the protocol and how to get up and running:

– The heart of Mars Protocol

– Trade Perps with cross-margining

– Flexible trading with leverage

– Capital-efficient lending markets

– Amplify farming strategies

– Looping for experienced power users

– Let pros manage strategies for you or run strategies for the community

– Learn how risk is measured and mitigated

– Shape the protocol’s future

– Technical deep dive into how Mars works under the hood

Getting Started
Credit Accounts
Perpetual Futures
Spot & Margin Trading
Lending & Borrowing
Leveraged Yield Farming
High-Leverage Strategies
Managed Vaults
Risk Methodology
Governance
Smart Contracts & Dev Docs