# Protocol Overview

Access the value of your crypto without selling it, and let your collateral pay down the loan for you. Altitude is a non-custodial protocol that puts your deposited assets to work, automatically reducing your debt over time.

Altitude actively manages users' debt and collateral in real-time. Most lending protocols leave your unused borrowing power sitting idle. Altitude puts that capital to work earning yield that pays down your loan.

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When a user takes out a loan from the Altitude it will be optimized in the following :

1. Your debt is continuously refinanced at competitive rates across integrated protocols
2. Altitude borrows on your behalf to earn yield for you
3. The earned yield reduces your debt

One deposit. One dashboard. Capital that works while you wait.


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