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Borrowing

Borrowing operations and portfolio management strategies in the Polkadot ecosystem.

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Last updated 1 year ago

Borrowing tokens is an important component of Decentralised Finance (DeFi) operations and a very popular feature of Decentralised exchanges (DEXes). Borrowing protocols empower users to to increase the overall value of their portfolio during market movements.

In the Polkadot ecosystem, this constant spread of value across parachains and external ecosystems is optimised by novel which assist borrowers in defining their strategies.

leverage their existing assets
clearing house mechanisms
A view of how XCMP interconnects Parachains offering DeFi services in the Polkadot ecosystem.
The Polkadot Relay chain has onboarded more than 12 in its ecosystem.
DeFi parachains