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The Collapse of the Investment Fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC)

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Three Arrows Capital, one of the leading hedge funds in the Crypto market, is facing the risk of default. What made 3AC fall into the situation it is today. Let’s find out with Coincu what happened to Three Arrow Capital.

The Collapse of the Investment Fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC)

What is Three Arrows Capital (3AC)?

Three Arrow Capital is a venture capital fund founded in 2012 by Shuzu and Davies. Initially, the fund focused mainly on short-term transactions such as Forex trading, arbitrage, and investing in derivative products.

In 2013, the fund started paying attention to the Crypto market and invested in projects with a long-term trend.

Three Arrows Portfolio

Three Arrows Capital invests in the direction of “Eat it all, lose it all” with a high risk appetite 3AC’s portfolio spans many areas such as DEX, Lending, Base Protocol, Asset Management. capital service providers such as BlockFi, Deribit and other funds such as Multicoin Capital, Coincident Capital, etc.

The Collapse of the Investment Fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC)

Previously, Three Arrows Capital mainly invested in projects on Ethereum. However, until 2021, the fund begins to invest in other blockchains such as Solana, Avalanche, .. and projects Defi, Gaming. In which, investments in blockchain layer 1 (Solana, Avalanche,…) and Derivatives (Dydx, Perpetual) bring great profits to the fund.

Why did the Three Arrows fall?

Global financial markets fall

Global financial markets are in a tense period. Policy to raise interest rates to the highest level in decades to control inflation. Inflation in the US reached its highest level in more than 40 years. The price of oil raw materials has increased along with the tense war between Ukraine and Russia.

On the crypto side, with the nature of a large fluctuation range and the general influence of the global market, the price of $BTC did not hold the $20K and $ETH also dropped deeply at the $1K. This makes investors in the market very confused. Even large investment funds in the market are significantly affected.

The Fall of LUNA and UST

The event that started the market’s chain of tragedies came from Terra’s attractive 20% interest rate model. As the peg mechanism between LUNA and stablecoin UST failed to hold up in the downtrend market despite efforts to put BTC in the reserve fund. The Terra event has had a serious impact on many organizations, including the Three Arrows Capital.

#ThreeArrowsCapital crypto hedge fund may be insolvent.

In the past hours, 3AC wallets sold over 56,000 stETH to pay off debts.

3AC bought 10.9M locked LUNA for $559.6m – it's now worth $670.45.

UST, Celsius, 3AC. Who is next? https://t.co/Fp41tMgPvL

— Crypto Hunts (????, ????) (@cryptohunts_) June 15, 2022

We can see the Three Arrows Capital taking a heavy toll on LUNA’s deal. Three Arrows Capital’s investment of 10.9M $LUNA was worth nearly $600M, now it is only worth $670.

stETH loses peg

Three Arrows Capital as well as other funds invest in ETH. Specifically, 3AC has invested up to more than 660 million USD worth of ETH and to increase profits 3AC deposited in Lido to receive interest and get stETH.

Then, to take advantage of the liquidity of stETH, 3AC mortgaged to Aave to borrow ETH and transferred ETH to Lido for stETH ⇒ creating a loop to optimize profits. However, the market did not support this plan of 3AC and it caused stETH to lose peg seriously.

After Alameda sold off stETH causing stETH to lose its peg, 3AC also sold off to widen the liquidation threshold.

The collapse of the investment fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC)

On the afternoon of June 15, Three Arrows sold $40M worth of stETH to keep a $264 million Aave loan and $35 million Compound loan from going into liquidation.

However, the community has raised many questions about whether 3AC is still liquid. And some on-chain analysis has found some clues that 3AC is in an unstable phase

More specifically, on June 15, the wallet allegedly belonging to 3AC was liquidated on Compound.

The collapse of the investment fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC)

On June 17, 3AC was liquidated by exchanges such as FTX, Deribit and Bitmex.

FTX, Deribit and BitMEX have liquidated Three Arrows Capital’s positions, sources tell The Block. WuBlockchain’s sources also revealed that some institutions in Asia have also liquidated hundreds of millions of dollars in 3AC. https://t.co/FlhwlYmMXG

— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) June 17, 2022

And some other evidence that 3AC is moving their retail assets from different exchanges to an exchange to sell into Stablecoins. This proves that 3AC is in a very difficult situation.

This is probably the most painful thing I've ever seen.

An 18bn AUM fund now transferring 138 SUSHI to repay debt on exchanges they got liquidated on.

F in the chat for our fallen brothers pic.twitter.com/U0ohm7IDMg

— McKenna (@Crypto_McKenna) June 17, 2022

Excessive leverage

The biggest reason why 3AC is in today’s situation is the use of excessive leverage.

Leveraged staking strategy.

There are many projects and funds that have taken advantage of the mechanism of stETH from the LIDO platform to optimize profits, and so is 3AC. However, as stETH loses its peg and declines in value, it makes the borrowed assets more vulnerable to liquidation. It also leads to a chain collapse because these are high-leverage loans

Leverage assets of other projects.

Not only using its own capital, 3AC also uses capital from other projects.

Specifically, 3AC has signed a capital use contract with 8BlocksCapital company, allowing 3AC to charge high fees on their loan, but when there is a request to withdraw assets, 8BlocksCapital can withdraw at any time. However, on June 12-13, when this fund requested a withdrawal, 3AC did not respond.

1) What happened between 3AC and us and what we know so far:@zhusu @KyleLDavies

— Danny (@Danny8BC) June 16, 2022

In addition, a KOLs on the market, the DeFi Edge, said that some projects such as Protocol X and others have used 3AC’s fund management service with an interest rate of 8%. And currently, these projects do not communicate with 3AC.

3AC invests in different seed rounds of companies.

The protocol raises money usually in USDC / USDT.

Well, the treasury is usually sitting around doing nothing.

So a common deal 3AC did with their protocols is "manage" their treasury.

— The DeFi Edge ????️ (@thedefiedge) June 16, 2022

Influence on the market

Involved in lending platforms

Three Arrows Capital is considered one of the top funds in the Crypto market with an asset value of up to $18B. This fund loves to use leverage, simply understood that if 3AC wants to buy 10 billion USD of BTC with 5x leverage, they can borrow 8 billion USD in BTC from lenders and use their 2 billion USD.

Therefore, when they run into trouble, it will also have a significant impact on the lending platforms they used to borrow from. Specifically, certain websites like Genesis, BlockFi, Maple Finance,…

List of Crypto Corps with exposure to Celcius & 3AC that you can still withdraw your funds from:

– Maple Finance (Cel)
– Tether (Cel – Tether says they're safe)
– Blockfi (3AC)
– Genesis (3AC – Genesis does Gemini's lending)
– Deribit (3AC – major lender/liquidity provider)

— SimpX (@simpfluencerX) June 16, 2022

We can imagine, when 3AC’s assets were liquidated, they were forced to pay their debts. Otherwise, their assets will be liquidated. When their loans are too large to be sold off the market will make the market continue to decline.

But this case is more complicated, because 3AC borrows from many different lenders. If 3AC’s position causes lenders to lose money, other investors panic because the market drops withdraw at the same time such withdrawal pressure will cause lenders to panic because they also depend on big borrowers like 3AC .

The projects 3AC has invested

For projects in the years 2019-2021 and 3AC lead round investments. There will be no small impact. Because the majority of tokens of these projects have already been paid. If 3Ac goes bankrupt, they will be forced to sell their investment assets (specifically, tokens from the projects they invest in) to pay off their debt. This will greatly affect these projects and may lead to project collapse.

For Projects invested in 2022, will not have too much impact because often the tokens of these projects will not be paid to private or seed investors. However, this will also create a negative impact on the users of these projects.

Verdict

From the above event, we can draw some lessons as follows:

  • Don’t put too much faith in investment funds. In essence, investment funds have unique investment approaches. Additionally, they have a different investment strategy than we do. As a result, we must consider if an investment fund’s investment philosophy aligns with our own. and should only make reference to their portfolio based on their performance and reputation as investors.
  • Understanding macroeconomics, to know the impact of economic policies on financial markets. From there, it is possible to develop appropriate investment strategies for each different time.
  • Always have backup plans. The market will have events that we cannot expect, such as Terra crashing, stETH losing peg or Three Arrows Capital going bankrupt. Therefore, there must always be plans for the worst-case scenario in the market to protect your investment capital.

Above is Coincu’s entire analysis of the Three Arrows Capital investment fund and why this fund is on the verge of bankruptcy.

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or ideas about the project, please email [email protected].

DISCLAIMER: The Information on this website is provided as general market commentary and does not constitute investment advice. We encourage you to do your own research before investing.

Ken. N.

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