**[Aurora](https://twitter.com/auroraisnear) Ecosystem Highlights: DeFi** There are a lot of great DeFI projects on the [Aurora](https://twitter.com/auroraisnear) ecosystem, let us introduce you to some of them! First up is the 2nd largest lending protocol on the [Near](https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol) ecosystem - [Bastion Protocol](https://twitter.com/BastionProtocol) **Key Points** ➡️ [Bastion Protocol](https://twitter.com/BastionProtocol) is decentralized lending and borrowing, & joined Aurora back in March 2022 ➡️ It heavily focuses on developing composability, tokenomics, algorithmic risk optimization, and UX. ➡️ It has features like, Realms (hub-and-spoke isolated markets), interest rate swaps, increased receipt tokens utility and yield-on-yield, lockdrop, and single-sided staking. ➡️ It is also the only lending protocol that uses Flux’s official, decentralized, high-quality Amberdata oracles, aggregated from multiple centralized and decentralized exchanges. ➡️ With Bastion, you can: - Supply assets to earn interest - Put assets up for collateral - Borrow assets - Leverage long (using borrow) - Short assets (using borrow) ➡️Main motive behind building on Aurora enables it to create an autonomous interest-rate engine with superior capital efficiency, low slippage swaps, fast transactions, ultra-low fees, precise liquidations, and harness the underlying UX benefits of [Near Protocol](https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol). ➡️It's vision is to be the liquidity hub of Near Protocol, to avoid unproductive and composable cTokens. Read more about cTokens [Here](https://bastionprotocol.gitbook.io/official/how-bastion-works/ctokens) ➡️Bastion will continue to develop, expand, and continue to serve the We3 ecosystem. Get Started with: - [Mobile Guide](https://bastionprotocol.gitbook.io/official/using-bastion/mobile-guide) - [Desktop Guide](https://bastionprotocol.gitbook.io/official/using-bastion/desktop-guide) [Source](https://twitter.com/auroraisnear/status/1630538375919996929?s=20) 💚 [Aurora Twitter](https://twitter.com/auroraisnear) | [Telegram](https://t.me/auroraisnear) | [Blog](https://aurora.dev/blog) | [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/auroraisnear) | [Community Dashboard](https://auroradao.club/) 💚