I was a bit confused when cleaning up my wallet last week. Those U.S. Treasury tokens with a 4% APY were just sitting there gathering dust, and the generative art NFTs I impulsively bought last year—I have no idea what they're for now. One is as stable as a fixed deposit, the other is basically just a profile picture. These two things seem to be on completely different wavelengths.

Then I tried something: I put them both into a collateral pool in a certain protocol. Surprisingly, everything suddenly clicked.

**Mixing Things Up Is the Real Deal**

I used to think assets had to be categorized: Treasury tokens are for stability, NFTs are for playing with concepts. But now I see there’s no need to be so rigid. Once I used those Treasury tokens as collateral, the NFTs could also participate and provide risk premiums, and the whole portfolio came alive. It’s like two people who have nothing in common suddenly teaming up to cook—one handles the heat, the other does the seasoning, and together they create something new.

These assets no longer operate separately; they're starting to work together.

**Liquidity Is Grown, Not Given**

Before, if you wanted to utilize asset value, you basically had to use them as collateral on a lending platform to borrow money—it felt like taking on debt. But this time, minting stablecoins with collateral felt totally different—the assets themselves didn’t move, but it’s like a clone of them went off to work elsewhere.

Last week, I used the minted coins to join a music royalties token liquidity pool with a 22% APY. The amazing thing is that part of the yield is ultimately backed by my “conservative” Treasury tokens. Conservative assets and high-volatility assets collaborating within the same framework—this