Why It Matters in DeFi

DeFi has made high-yield assets more accessible, but turning those yields into amplified returns remains unnecessarily difficult.

Crypto-native yield-bearing assets offer attractive returns from staking, fees, or liquidity provision. However, leveraging them by looping typically requires manual multi-step processes: borrowing stablecoins, swapping, depositing again, and repeating. This process is time-consuming, gas-expensive, prone to slippage errors, and is just simply annoying to do. Naturally, unwinding the loop means you would have to do this a second time in the opposite direction.

High-quality RWAs generally provide even more stable, predictable yields, but most DeFi protocols simply don't support them for lending or borrowing at all, let alone offer any form of leverage. Users are left holding idle assets in their wallets.

Zona removes both barriers in one place:

• •ZonaLend brings secure lending and borrowing to both crypto-native assets and RWAs, with reliable oracles and risk controls so these assets can finally participate fully in DeFi.
• •ZonaLoop adds one-click looping, letting you amplify yields or price exposure on any supported asset (both crypto-native or RWAs) without complicated manual repetition.

Zona gives you a single, efficient platform to lend, borrow, and leverage - unlocking higher compounded returns across the full spectrum of assets.