The early logic of DeFi lending is simple:
👉 Users use assets as collateral to exchange for liquidity of another asset.
This model addresses the essential need for on-chain financing but also brings a potential contradiction:
Collateralized assets are often "bound" and cannot participate in other ecosystems simultaneously.
Users have to make trade-offs between "returns" and "rights".
As a result, many people have begun to view DeFi lending as a form of "lock exchange", not liberation of assets, but rather a change in the form of restriction.
Dolomite's approach is quite different.
It supports over 1,000 unique assets, and more importantly, users borrowing here do not lose their native DeFi rights.
In other words, the assets you collateralize can still retain rights in governance, staking, or other protocols.
The value brought by this mechanism is not just about "earning a little more yield", but it changes the underlying logic of DeFi lending:
Assets are no longer forced to be used "in a single-threaded" manner, but instead have the potential to be used in parallel.
Long-tail assets have a stage to participate in the cycle, and the market no longer only hears the voice of leading cryptocurrencies.
User autonomy is restored, and the choice returns to the holders rather than the protocol designers.
If traditional lending protocols are like a "single-lane tunnel", Dolomite is more like a "multi-lane highway".
It allows assets to flow simultaneously on different tracks, forming a true free network.
With the development of $DOLO ecology, this model of "parallel asset freedom" may become a new trend in DeFi lending.
Future competition is not just about the comparison of TVL, but about who can better restore users' choice rights.
Dolomite's answer is:
Let every asset have the right to be used freely.
