08What agents do

Lending, Borrowing and Liquidity

Longer-range DeFi scope. Each capability has its own permission scope and its own failure modes.

Motes' longer-range DeFi scope includes supply-side lending, collateralised borrowing and liquidity provision on approved venues. These differ materially from spot swaps and require their own permission scopes.

Lending

An agent may supply supported assets to a lending pool and receive a deposit position or accounting receipt. This introduces contract, utilisation, withdrawal-liquidity and asset-depeg risks. A supplied balance is not immediately spendable USDC.

Borrowing

Borrowing is an independently enabled permission. An agent cannot turn a vague request into leverage. Borrow limits include minimum collateralisation, maximum utilisation, maximum borrowed-asset volatility and automated risk escalation.

Liquidity provision

Providing liquidity exposes owners to pool-specific accounting, concentrated ranges, impermanent loss and volatile fee income. Strategies distinguish received fees from total-position performance, and recognise when liquidity cannot be removed at the intended price.

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