Borrow Mode lets your vault assets support a borrowed balance. Your available borrowing amount and liquidation risk both change over time as asset prices, interest, and your position change so we have tools in the app to help you clearly understand your borrow position health and your risk of liquidation, and to make that risk visible and easy to track in real time.
The app shows the key numbers you need to monitor your position:
Borrowed: the current value of your outstanding loan, including accrued interest.
Available to borrow: the additional amount the app currently permits you to borrow.
Health Factor: a measure of how close the position is to liquidation.
Collateral: the assets in your vault that are enabled and eligible to support your loan.
Borrow Position Health Bar
When you're using Borrow Mode, you'll see a visual bar that represents how much you've borrowed relative to your collateral.
The bar fills as your borrowed amount increases
The closer the bar gets to the liquidation point, the higher your risk
If your risk becomes elevated, the bar will turn red
If the bar is red, you should consider adding funds or repaying part of your borrowed balance.
Viewing Borrow Details
Clicking Details opens the Borrow Position view, which shows:
Your total borrowed amount
Your total collateral value
Your current loan-to-value (LTV)
Your liquidation threshold
This view helps you understand exactly how close you are to liquidation at any moment.
Risk Alerts and Banners
If your borrowed amount approaches your liquidation threshold, you'll see a banner at the top of your vault.
Yellow banner indicates elevated risk
Red banner indicates high risk and requires immediate attention
These banners prompt you to take action by adding collateral or repaying your borrow balance. As your risk increases, both the banner and the borrow bar will visually reflect that change.
Two different limits: borrowing capacity and liquidation risk
It is important to distinguish these concepts:
Borrowing Capacity
Each supported collateral asset has a collateral factor (also called an LTV, or loan-to-value limit). This determines how much borrowing power that asset can provide.
For each eligible asset, the app values the asset in USD and applies its collateral factor. The position's borrowing capacity is based on the combined result, less the amount already borrowed.
In simplified form:
Available to borrow = current borrowing capacity − current debt
This is why two vaults with the same total dollar value can have different available-to-borrow amounts: their assets may have different collateral factors.
Health Factor
Health Factor measures liquidation risk. It uses the protocol's liquidation-risk weighting for each eligible collateral asset. This is separate from the collateral factor/LTV used to show borrowing capacity. In simplified form:
Health Factor = risk-adjusted collateral value ÷ total debt value
The risk-adjusted collateral value applies the liquidation threshold to each eligible collateral asset. The total debt value includes your outstanding borrowed amount and accrued interest. A higher Health Factor means more room before liquidation; a lower Health Factor means the position is closer to liquidation.
How to read your Health Factor
Above 1.00: the position is above the liquidation threshold.
At or below 1.00: the position may become eligible for liquidation.
Higher is safer: a larger buffer helps absorb collateral-price declines, increases in debt from interest, or changes in the value of borrowed assets.
The app may also apply a minimum Health Factor requirement to a new borrow or a withdrawal that would reduce collateral. This is a protective borrowing constraint; it is not the same as the liquidation threshold. The exact amount you can borrow is determined from the current on-chain configuration, prices, position balances, applicable risk limits, and available liquidity at the time of the transaction.
Why your available-to-borrow amount can be lower than a headline LTV
A collateral factor is not a promise that you can borrow that percentage of your vault's total displayed value. Your actual available amount can be lower because:
only assets enabled as collateral contribute borrowing power
different assets have different collateral factors and liquidation thresholds
you may already have debt outstanding
accrued interest increases debt over time
the position must continue to satisfy its required Health Factor after the transaction
oracle prices update the USD value of both collateral and debt
protocol-level limits or available liquidity can reduce the amount that can be borrowed at that moment
For this reason, the Available to borrow amount shown in the app is the current amount to rely on — not a manual calculation from one asset's headline LTV.
What can change your risk
Your Health Factor and borrowing capacity can change even if you do not take action. Common causes include:
the price of your collateral decreases
the value of your borrowed asset increases relative to your collateral
interest accrues on your borrowed balance
collateral is added, removed, enabled, or disabled
applicable risk parameters or oracle prices update
Managing your position
You can generally improve your risk position by:
Repaying debt- lowers the denominator in the Health Factor calculation.
Adding eligible collateral - can increase borrowing capacity and the Health Factor.
Avoiding withdrawals that materially reduce collateral while you have an outstanding loan.
Keeping a buffer - do not treat the maximum available amount as a target if you want protection against market moves and interest accrual.
Checking your position regularly - use the Borrow Position Health Bar and Details view to catch a shift toward red early. If your borrow bar is moving toward red, treat it as a signal to act.
What happens if a position is liquidated
If the Health Factor reaches the liquidation threshold, the position may be eligible for liquidation. A liquidator can repay part or all of the outstanding debt and receive collateral according to the protocol's applicable liquidation rules and incentive.
Liquidation is designed to restore the health of the position, but it can result in the sale or transfer of collateral and may incur a liquidation bonus. The exact outcome depends on the position, assets, prices, liquidity, and protocol rules at the time.
If your collateral is liquidated, you'll see the liquidation event recorded as a transaction in your history, and that transaction will indicate the repayment came from your collateral assets so there's a clear, transparent record of what occurred.
Important notes
All USD values, borrowing capacity, and Health Factor shown in the app are dynamic.
The app's displayed amount is an estimate based on current conditions; the final transaction is validated on-chain.
Collateral factors/LTVs and liquidation thresholds serve different purposes. Do not use an LTV alone to estimate liquidation risk.
Borrowing carries risk. Consider your own risk tolerance and maintain a buffer appropriate for the volatility of your collateral.
Learn more
To learn more about how collateral works and how borrowing and liquidation are calculated, see: