I think smart collateral and smart debt unlock two distinct use cases The first is for active market makers. A key factor for their profitability is cost of capital per unit of liquidity provided. Hence capital efficiency is everything for them. Smart collateral and smart debt massively increase that efficiency, reaching levels we haven't seen before. It's a new primitive because this kind of composability can only exist in DeFi and couldn't exist in tradfi. I even believe this newly enabled capital efficiency will make it much more attractive for market makers to actively provide liquidity on Fluid AMM rather than on CLOB markets. This kind of composablity and through extension capital efficiency cannot exist on CLOBs. The second use case is for the passive borrower. This user simply wants to minimize borrowing costs and in exchange for that lowered cost is comfortable holding their collateral in either WBTC or cbBTC, and their liability in stables like USDC or USDT for example
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It's not hard to see the loans (smart debt) becoming the deepest AMM pools in the long run. A lot more demand for borrowing than for pure DEX LP-ing. Total *stablecoin* borrow amount on major DeFi lending protocols on Mainnet is hitting ATH each day and is now over $11b. Currently below 2% of this stablecoin debt is utilized as trading liquidity. This is actually why I believe combining lending with DEXs is going to win, not just because of trading fees effecntively lowering borrow rates, but even more due to enabling significantly lower price impacts for onchain swaps. Note: Same assumption goes for non-stable debt.
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