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- Perp House Vaults
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- docs.gains.trade
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Scored 65 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in September 2026.
gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC)
House vaults for gTrade
Perp House Vaults
#5 Overall
Ranked #5 of 9 perp house vaults in the published ranking
65
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) right for you?
Look elsewhere if these come first
- How much has this vault already lost when a trader won — and can I check that number myself, today, for free?6/10 here; Ostium OLP scores 7
- When one trader's win is bigger than the pool, who pulls the plug — a rule I can read, or a vote I'll never hear?7/10 here; Ostium OLP scores 8
- Who eats the loss before I do — and if I try to leave first, how much do they take?6/10 here; the category best is 9
- Is the number they advertise what I actually earned, or does it quietly leave out what the traders took from me?6/10 here; Jupiter JLP scores 9
Not yet tested for your country. Markets it lists: Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, Middle East & North Africa, Canada, Australia. Restricted: United States.
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The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best perp house vault shows where it lands for you.
What will gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Your stake
- $32k
- Expected gross yield
- 5%
How safe is gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC)?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC)
Compare all 4- 3Ostium OLP5 points above · stronger on verifiable loss of record (7 against 6)70
- 4Velocity Insurance Fund1 point above · stronger on pool protection mechanism (8 against 7)66
- 6Jupiter JLP4 points below · stronger on fee versus pnl honesty (9 against 6)61
For your setup
Find out if gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) fits you
The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) lands for you, which criteria your answers weight up, and which stated needs the record does or does not meet. The published rank stays beside it.
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Why this rank
Why gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) ranks #5
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (20.1 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
326+6.146.08#4/9Loading evidence…
287+6.277.09#5/9Loading evidence…
246+4.615.09#2/9Loading evidence…
166+3.076.09#5/9Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−1behind Velocity Insurance Fund, #4
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 63–67 and ranks #4–#5
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC)’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
How much has this vault already lost when a trader won — and can I check that number myself, today, for free? 6 → 7 on its ladder · passes Velocity Insurance Fund+167#5 → #4
When one trader's win is bigger than the pool, who pulls the plug — a rule I can read, or a vote I'll never hear? 7 → 8 on its ladder · passes Velocity Insurance Fund+167#5 → #4
Who eats the loss before I do — and if I try to leave first, how much do they take? 6 → 7 on its ladder · passes Velocity Insurance Fund+167#5 → #4
Is the number they advertise what I actually earned, or does it quietly leave out what the traders took from me? 6 → 7 on its ladder · passes Velocity Insurance Fund+166#5 → #4
How much has this vault already lost when a trader won — and can I check that number myself, today, for free? 6 → 3 on its ladder · Jupiter JLP passes it−359#5 → #6
When one trader's win is bigger than the pool, who pulls the plug — a rule I can read, or a vote I'll never hear? 7 → 4 on its ladder · Jupiter JLP passes it−360#5 → #6
Who eats the loss before I do — and if I try to leave first, how much do they take? 6 → 3 on its ladder · Jupiter JLP passes it−361#5 → #6
Smallest climb: “How much has this vault already lost when a trader won — and can I check that number myself, today, for free?” 6 → 7 passes Velocity Insurance Fund, #4.
Strengths
0 from the score dataWhere it leads
No scored criterion is at or within one point of the category best, so no strength can be stated from the data.
Tradeoffs
4 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- How much has this vault already lost when a trader won — and can I check that number myself, today, for free? — 6/10 against a category best of 8/10
- When one trader's win is bigger than the pool, who pulls the plug — a rule I can read, or a vote I'll never hear? — 7/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Who eats the loss before I do — and if I try to leave first, how much do they take? — 6/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Is the number they advertise what I actually earned, or does it quietly leave out what the traders took from me? — 6/10 against a category best of 9/10
Record watch-outs
- The lock gets longer exactly when you most want out, and on the flagship vault it is already at maximum. A gUSDC depositor faces the 3-epoch (roughly nine-day) withdraw path because collateralizationP() read 97.83% on 2026-09-28, must then catch the withdraw window inside that specific epoch or start over ('NO! This is important. You may only withdraw your funds during your designated withdraw epoch'), and is doing so with no per-trade profit cap standing between them and one winning trader - the operator's own integrator docs label the old cap 'deprecated; Maximum PNL % is no longer enforced'. Meanwhile the vault page still tells them 'This has proven to be the case for 2+ years'.
Competitive position
Where gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#3 / 912.0 of 20 · best 14.0
Published criteria#4 / 915.1 of 30 · best 19.1
Friction#1 / 92.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 93.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 98.3 of 18 · constant here
Where gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) leads
- Who eats the loss before I do — and if I try to leave first, how much do they take?#2 / 9
Where it trailsNo criterion in the bottom third of its pool.
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Velocity Insurance Fund#4 of 9 · score 66 · 1.0 point ahead
gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) leads on
- How much has this vault already lost when a trader won — and can I check that number myself, today, for free?6 vs 5
- Who eats the loss before I do — and if I try to leave first, how much do they take?6 vs 3
Velocity Insurance Fund leads on
- When one trader's win is bigger than the pool, who pulls the plug — a rule I can read, or a vote I'll never hear?8 vs 7
Largest single reason Velocity Insurance Fund is ahead: availability (+5.2 display points).Scenario cost: Velocity Insurance Fund has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Jupiter JLP#6 of 9 · score 61 · 4.0 points behind
gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) leads on
- When one trader's win is bigger than the pool, who pulls the plug — a rule I can read, or a vote I'll never hear?7 vs 3
Jupiter JLP leads on
- Is the number they advertise what I actually earned, or does it quietly leave out what the traders took from me?9 vs 6
Largest single reason gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) is ahead: published criteria (+4.2 display points).Scenario cost: Jupiter JLP has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Ostium OLP#3 of 9 · score 70 · 5.0 points ahead
gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) leads on
- Who eats the loss before I do — and if I try to leave first, how much do they take?6 vs 5
Ostium OLP leads on
- How much has this vault already lost when a trader won — and can I check that number myself, today, for free?7 vs 6
- When one trader's win is bigger than the pool, who pulls the plug — a rule I can read, or a vote I'll never hear?8 vs 7
- Is the number they advertise what I actually earned, or does it quietly leave out what the traders took from me?8 vs 6
Largest single reason Ostium OLP is ahead: published criteria (+4.2 display points).Scenario cost: Ostium OLP has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
81 vs 65 · gap 16.0Why GMX GM / GLV pools ranks above gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC)
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 16.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisGMX GM / GLV poolsGap share
Availability · 23% weight12.014.0−5.2, worse
Published criteria · 35% weight15.119.1−10.4, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisGMX GM / GLV poolsPoints
How much has this vault already lost when a trader won — and can I check that number myself, today, for free? · w3268−2.05, worse
When one trader's win is bigger than the pool, who pulls the plug — a rule I can read, or a vote I'll never hear? · w2879−1.79, worse
Is the number they advertise what I actually earned, or does it quietly leave out what the traders took from me? · w1669−1.54, worse
Net6581−16.0
Your scenario
gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) is not priced for this scenario
The operator's cut of the rewards your stake earns — not a fee on the stake itself. Gross yield is your assumption, not ours. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
commission/yr · default scenario — set your own
Your stake · your input$32k
Expected gross yield · your input5%
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 28 September 2026.
commission/yrCost is stated as commission/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDCategory medianNot priced0 of 9 rows priced
Cheapest pricedNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter
9 of 9 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 28 September 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessOne point from changingrank #4 to #5 across one-point re-runs
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 28 September 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
How much has this vault already lost when a trader won — and can I check that number myself, today, for free?strength 6 · weight 32Report an error—28 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.When one trader's win is bigger than the pool, who pulls the plug — a rule I can read, or a vote I'll never hear?strength 7 · weight 28Report an error—28 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Who eats the loss before I do — and if I try to leave first, how much do they take?strength 6 · weight 24Report an error—28 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Is the number they advertise what I actually earned, or does it quietly leave out what the traders took from me?strength 6 · weight 16Report an error—28 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Control failure (gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) 7/10): a key or vote changes the rules, freezes or mints.Scored by When one trader's win is bigger than the pool, who pulls the plug — a rule I can read, or a vote I'll never hear? · 28%
- Insolvency failure: the firm or issuer that owes you cannot pay.Scored by How much has this vault already lost when a trader won — and can I check that number myself, today, for free? · 32% (gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) 6/10)Scored by Who eats the loss before I do — and if I try to leave first, how much do they take? · 24% (gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) 6/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Contract failure, Oracle failure, Regulatory failure, Execution failure, Exit failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Is the number they advertise what I actually earned, or does it quietly leave out what the traders took from me? (16%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- From https://
docs .gains .trade /gtrade-leveraged-trading /fees-and-spread .md, fetched 2026-09-28: trading fees are "distributed as follows", with "Vault (Liquidity Providers): 15% for underwriting trades"; open trades also pay "a borrowing fee, which goes into the overcollateral layer of the corresponding gToken vault". The live keyless feed https:// backend-arbitrum .gains .trade /trading-variables returned "gTokenFeeP":"15000" the same day, which backend.md defines in 1e3 precision, so the depositor share agrees with the docs. The same docs list still prints "Governance (DAO): 76%" and "Trigger Keepers: 4%" while the live feed returns govFeeP "84999" and triggerOrderFeeP "0"; the depositor line is correct and two of the others are stale. No deposit, withdrawal, management or performance fee to the staker is published on https:// docs .gains .trade /liquidity-farming-pools /gtoken-vaults .md; the exit cost is time, "1, 2, or 3 epochs" depending on collateralization.gTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) — official pricing page ↗ · 28 September 2026 - Prices published in
- USDgTrade gToken Vaults (gDAI / gUSDC) — official pricing page ↗ · 28 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Arbitrum, Base, Polygon, ApeChain, MegaETH, Solana
- Markets served
- europe, asia, latam, africa, mena, ca, au
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- United States
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- BOTH kinds of language are present and they are different things. (1) A REAL MARKET RESTRICTION, which is why 'global' is not used: https://
gains .trade /terms-of-service (HTTP 200 on 17 August 2026, 'Last updated 1 November 2023') opens with 'ATTENTION: USE OF THE SITE FROM OR IN THE UNITED STATES OR UNITED STATES TERRITORIES, OR BY PERSONS WHO ARE US PERSONS OR CURRENTLY OR ORDINARILY LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES OR A UNITED STATES TERRITORY, IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED, REGARDLESS OF THE USER'S IP ADDRESS. UTILIZING A VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK OR OTHER METHOD TO CONCEAL A USER'S UNITED STATES RESIDENCE IS ALSO STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND MAY RESULT IN PERMANENT BLOCKING OF USE OF THE SITE IN CONNECTION WITH BLOCKCHAIN ADDRESSES SUSPECTED OF BEING TIED TO A UNITED STATES RESIDENCE.' The same document requires the user to warrant they are not 'located, ordinarily resident, organized, established, or domiciled in the United States or any territory of the United States or any country where use of the Gains Network Smart Contract Systems, Host Blockchains, or related activities is illegal, prohibited, or requires a permit or license.' (2) SEPARATELY, the ordinary sanctions representation that nearly every crypto ToS carries and which is NOT a regional footprint: the user warrants they are not 'identified on any list of prohibited parties under any law or by any nation or government ... such as the sanctions lists maintained by Panama, the United Nations Security Council, the U.S. government (including the U.S. Treasury Department's Specially Designated Nationals list and Foreign Sanctions Evaders list), or the European Union (EU) or its member states.' Worth flagging for a buyer: this ToS is not linked from the gains.trade homepage footer (no legal links render there), /terms, /tos, /legal and /disclaimer all return 404, and the document still describes vault liquidity as 'stablecoin' deposits 'currently DAI' though gUSDC is now ~7x the size of gDAI - the geographic restriction is real and binding on its face, but it is buried and nearly three years stale.
Legal entity on file: Gains Network, placed in 2 products. Only confirmed entities are shown; nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
12 methodology entries
- 28 September 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 65, #5 of 9. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.7Forty-one more products are offered only where their own quoted terms serve- fixed 141 country exclusions on 31 rows, each the name of a country the row's own quoted terms exclude: for example Mercuryo Hungary, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia and Morocco; Gemini Custody the United Kingdom, Australia and the EU after its wind-down; Backed xStocks the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Nigeria, the Philippines and Venezuela.
- changed Thirteen rows list the only countries their terms serve: Coins.ph the Philippines, Spritz bill pay, Brex, Unchained, WisdomTree, Franklin BENJI and AnchorWatch the United States (with its territories for AnchorWatch), PRYPCO Mint the UAE, N26 crypto seven EU countries, Gemini Tokenized Stocks the EU, XNET the US, Canada and the UK, Coldbit Steel and MetaMask Card the countries they list.
- changed Published (no-country) orders do not move. Country results change: in India six categories each lose one row (bill pay, cards, off-ramps, P2P, seed backup, tokenised real estate), and bill pay there has no row confirmed available, so it shows the published order marked as such; country pages list 23 fewer rows (24,357 to 24,334). The grounding test now matches full country names in any case, which shows seven earlier exclusions were quoted all along: the named debt of unquoted exclusions falls from 40 to 33 pairs.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt perp_house_vaults:gains_gtoken_vaults:2026.10.18:cb4c5a285099
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