For many years, users of decentralized finance have made silent compromises without realizing it. The structure of most leading lending protocols forces us to make painful choices: you either use assets for their native purposes or lend them out for yield. You cannot have both.
Think about it. The ETH you stake can earn staking rewards, but if you want to lend it on Aave or Compound, you usually have to use a liquid staking token, which may not have the same governance rights, or abstract you away from the core protocol. The liquidity provider (LP) tokens you earn from Uniswap are generating trading fees, but you cannot use them as collateral for loans. Each asset has to choose its unique function. This is a significant compromise of DeFi, a fundamental inefficiency that locks up trillions in potential value.
My excitement about Dolomite stems from the fact that it is one of the first protocols I have seen that aims to end this compromise. Its architecture is designed around a single revolutionary idea: your assets should be able to do all the work at once.
This is what they mean by users retaining their 'DeFi native rights.' When you lend assets on Dolomite, the protocol is smart enough to ensure you do not lose staking rewards, governance rights, or the underlying yield generated by that asset. It allows you to stack yields and utility in ways that were previously unattainable. That is why it can support such a vast array of unique and complex assets—over 1000, including treasury tokens like GLP or yield-generating tokens that were rejected by older protocols.
This is not just a feature; to me, it is a glimpse into the next generation of DeFi. The future of this space is not just about finding new sources of yield, but about unlocking maximum capital efficiency from the assets we already have. Older protocols treat assets as single-task employees. Dolomite views them as versatile freelancers capable of profiting from multiple jobs at once.
The headline feature may be the vast number of assets it supports, but for me, the real revolution lies in the philosophical shift. Dolomite is building a more complex and efficient money market, allowing users to finally break free from silent compromises and unleash the full potential of their digital assets. 777
