Gate Ventures, the venture capital arm of Gate.com, today announced its strategic investment in 3F, a one-click RWA leverage solution that enables tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) to serve as collateral in decentralized lending markets, delivering differentiated and durable yields to stablecoin depositors.
This investment underscores Gate Ventures' ongoing commitment to foundational DeFi infrastructure that expands on-chain capabilities and accelerates the seamless integration of real-world assets into open financial systems. As stablecoins increasingly decouple from crypto market cycles and solidify their role as the dominant settlement layer, providing leveraged exposure to RWAs marks a critical step toward unlocking structurally resilient yield sources that endure across market conditions.
Positioned as a powerful leverage engine for the RWA ecosystem, 3F enables capital-efficient access to high-tier yields across private credit and structured financial products. It reduces friction from fragmented legal frameworks and settlement cycles, helping investors unlock the full utility of tokenized assets. By transforming traditionally illiquid instruments into composable on-chain liquidity, 3F strengthens the bridge between institutional-grade credit and decentralized finance.
Expanding DeFi's Yield Capabilities
3F provides a simple one-click leveraged exposure solution for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). Users select an RWA vault, set their desired leverage ratio, and the protocol automatically handles bridge facilitation, borrowing on Morpho and position management — all within the DeFi environment.
Through this architecture, 3F acts as a unified borrower across multiple RWA collateral markets. Every leveraged position contributes to pooled, programmatic borrow demand, providing transparent and counter-cyclical yields to stablecoin depositors. This approach delivers superior capital efficiency and scalability compared to manual looping strategies, while maintaining full on-chain transparency and robust risk parameters.
By combining efficient lending mechanics with automated RWA leverage, 3F creates fast, permissionless access to real-world-anchored yields. This allows retail depositors, institutions, and yield integrators (such as CEXs and wallets) to participate without managing complex positions or additional infrastructure.
How 3F Creates Value for the Ecosystem
3F delivers clear and differentiated value to multiple participants across the DeFi ecosystem:
For leveraged users: One-click access to RWA leverage exposure without the need to manually manage complex positions, resulting in significantly higher capital efficiency.
For stablecoin depositors: Through 3F-powered RWA-collateralized lending vaults, users gain access to transparent risk parameters, no lock-up periods, high liquidity, and stable yields — markedly improving the cycle resilience of their returns.
For institutions and the broader ecosystem: Support for permissioned access, whitelisted front-ends, and custom integrations makes it suitable for institutional capital deployment. Simultaneously, 3F acts as a unified borrower, injecting high-quality, programmatic borrow demand into decentralized lending markets.
Unlocking Durable Yields for Stablecoins through RWAs
Stablecoins have emerged as one of the most important pillars of the digital asset ecosystem, serving as the primary medium for trading, payments, and liquidity settlement across global crypto markets. However, most stablecoin yield today still relies on crypto-collateralized borrowing, which remains inherently cyclical.
3F is designed to extend stablecoin yield generation by enabling native leverage on tokenized RWAs directly within lending vaults. By introducing programmatic looping demand anchored to real-world credit markets, the platform allows stablecoins to earn structurally differentiated and resilient yields across market cycles.
This capability paves the way for a new generation of DeFi applications, including counter-cyclical lending vaults, diversified risk curators, and institutional-grade yield products built directly on real-world collateral. As tokenized RWA markets scale from billions toward trillions, infrastructure connecting stablecoin liquidity with RWA leverage will become increasingly vital.
Strategic Alignment with Gate Ventures
Gate Ventures invests in foundational infrastructure that expands the capabilities of decentralized networks and accelerates the development of open financial systems. The investment in 3F aligns closely with our long-term strategy, particularly in RWA integration, scalable yield infrastructure, and next-generation DeFi primitives that bridge traditional finance with on-chain markets.
Real-world assets represent one of the largest untapped opportunities in DeFi. Gate Ventures believes projects like 3F can effectively bridge this gap by enabling durable borrow demand, counter-cyclical yields, and scalable liquidity within established decentralized lending protocols.
Supporting the Next Generation of DeFi Infrastructure
Through this investment, Gate Ventures will work closely with the 3F team to support ecosystem development, strategic partnerships, and global market expansion.
By combining efficient lending rails with scalable RWA leverage and stablecoin yield infrastructure, 3F is well-positioned to play a meaningful role in the next phase of DeFi evolution — shifting from crypto-native collateral toward real-world-anchored, cycle-resilient financial primitives. Gate Ventures looks forward to supporting the 3F team as they build infrastructure that broadens the DeFi ecosystem and creates new opportunities for users, institutions, and yield seekers worldwide.
About Gate Ventures
Gate Ventures, the venture capital arm of Gate.com, is focused on investments in decentralized infrastructure, middleware, and applications that will reshape the world in the Web 3.0 age. Working with industry leaders across the globe, Gate Ventures helps promising teams and startups that possess the ideas and capabilities needed to redefine social and financial interactions.
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About 3F
3F is a vault protocol built on Morpho that provides one-click leveraged exposure to tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). Users select a vault, set their leverage, and the protocol handles the rest — coordinating bridge financing, borrows on Morpho and position management while delivering differentiated yields to stablecoin depositors.
3F serves both retail users seeking high-liquidity, no-lockup yields and institutions requiring permissioned flows and custom integrations.
