# Introduction

Nitron is a permissionless money market wherein users can lend and borrow assets across various blockchains such as Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, IBC Chains, and more. Nitron will also provide a minting hub for Carbon’s stablecoin, a decentralized native stablecoin for the Cosmos ecosystem.

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Nitron is powered by the CDP Module on [Carbon](https://carbon.network/).

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Please refer to the following articles for more information on:\
• [Risk Assessments](https://guide.carbon.network/features/money-market/risk-assessment)\
• [Carbon Protocol Safety Features](https://guide.carbon.network/features/money-market/protocol-safety-features)\
• [Risk Management Parameters](https://guide.carbon.network/features/money-market/risk-management-parameters)
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### **Lend**

Users can earn interest by lending out idle assets. As it is non-custodian, users can withdraw their lent amount at any point of time.

### Borrow

Users can borrow liquidity on their desired asset by taking out a low-interest loan. In order to borrow an asset, users have to lock in a certain amount of assets as collateral. There is no expiry or obligation date for users to repay the loan, as long as the loan has sufficient collateral backing.

### Mint

Users can mint Carbon stablecoin by locking in a certain amount of whitelisted assets as collateral. In order to withdraw the collateral, users must burn the stablecoin.

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Learn more about $USC [here](https://guide.carbon.network/usc/overview).
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**Click** [**here**](https://guide.dem.exchange/~/changes/REiUq5w3vfdfOKEL0jdy/nitron/how-to-use-nitron) **to learn more on how to use Nitron.**