D2_GLOBAL_MACRO_DESCRIPTION

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D2_GLOBAL_MACRO_DESCRIPTION = "Deposited USDG, a US dollar stablecoin, funds short-term bets on rising or falling equity indices, commodities and currencies. The [launch design](https://medium.com/@D2.Finance/globalmacro-gm-vault-on-robinhood-take-from-the-markets-that-sleep-give-to-the-one-that-never-a66b2c62f300) combines options, contracts giving the right to buy or sell at an agreed price, with [perpetual futures](https://tradingstrategy.ai/glossary/perpetual-future), contracts that track prices without an expiry date. The trading signals come from HYPE++, a separate investment strategy whose performance history does not belong to this vault.\n\n#### Lending and trading\n\nAt launch in August 2026, the principal was allocated to a USDG lending vault managed by Steakhouse on Morpho, a lending platform. A smaller allocation supported trades on Hyperliquid, a derivatives exchange. Lending income supplements trading results but introduces borrower and smart contract risks.\n\n#### Risk and withdrawals\n\nThe strategy uses **leverage**, taking positions larger than the money backing them, which magnifies gains and losses. The manager's **10% loss-limit policy per trading cycle**, called an epoch, is not guaranteed protection or a limit on losses measured from an earlier peak. Lending income may offset only part of a trading loss.\n\n**Deposits and withdrawals close during trading.** Under the [vault design](https://docs.d2.finance/docs/vault-design), the trader may take custody of funds, which must be returned before withdrawals reopen. An announced epoch-end date does not guarantee withdrawal availability.\n\n#### Announced changes\n\nThe [November 2026 update](https://x.com/D2_Finance/status/2117815338616152350) reviewed substantial funding costs, announced another trading cycle and proposed changes to the strategy. [Funding payments](https://tradingstrategy.ai/glossary/funding-rate) pass periodically between traders on opposite sides of perpetual futures and can reduce trading returns.\n\nPlans included Pendle Boros, a market for trading funding rates, and a possible split into GM 2.0 and Overnight Edge, two proposed strategy variants. These were proposals, not confirmed changes to the vault's investments.\n"

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