FTX also has futures, so yea, you have a very good point. That is why I mentioned gamification all of these factors have to be taken into consideration when taking a long or short position.
CREAM has a short supply which I emphasize is temporary (less than 200K, MAX supply is 9M), There's a lot of $CREAM rewards being created and being deployed to yield farmers and
all of the people that support or use the CREAM platform (i.e. depositing any crypto gets you a "distribution APY", shorting (borrowing) any crypto gets you a "distribution APY" payable weekly) which again is part of the tokenomics (also known as ponzinomics in DeFi). I don't short cryptos, but as I mentioned there's incentives to lock up the supplies of CREAM which could cause a short-squeeze as the borrow rates can shoot up very high and cause liquidation of collateral(s). This is all part of the Tokenomics/gamification of DeFi.
It's easy to understand this with pictures (see below). As you can see, sushi (and YFI) has a very low borrow APY which is due to a high liquidity/availability of tokens on the platform compared to utilization rate. The higher the borrow rates, the higher the chance of a short squeeze. There's incentives to borrow $CREAM and lock tokens to be used for yield-farming in LP's. CREAM has the highest borrow rate on the CREAM platform of all the tokens supported for the Lending/Borrowing operations. The next highest borrow rate is yCRV
By the way, part of the gamification, I think you're aware of it is to deposit a crypto of value for collateral, borrow a token, say YFI, deposit it to be used as collateral, then borrow again, maybe repeat 2-3x. Extreme risk of liquidation but it's all part of the game. It's tempting on the CREAM platform to get the "distribution APY" on both the deposits and the borrows. Someone posted a carry-trade strategy on CREAM, but I didn't look into it more, as it is, I'm already at the limit of my risk-tolerance on CREAM, and looking to de-risk in the next couple of days by removing Eth/Weth...
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