Assets

You may need the following assets to use Granite as a Borrower or Liquidity Provider.

• STX tokens for transaction fees

  • STX tokens are available on

    • CEXs: Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Bybit, and other venues

      • See more at CoinGecko Markets

    • DEXs: Alex, Bitflow, Velar

    • In wallet onramps with Leather & Xverse

• BTC if you plan to borrow

  • To use Granite, you'll need to bridge BTC to sBTC using the sBTC Stacks Bridge.

  

  • Another option is in-wallet swaps with Leather.

  
• Stablecoins, if you plan to provide liquidity

  • Liquidity pools in Granite primarily use USDCx, a stablecoin issued by Circle's Xreserve contract, issued on the Stacks Blockchain.

    • You can also bridge USDCx from a variety of cross-chain stablecoins with Allbridge's core stableswap pool.

  • Granite has a legacy pool using asUSDC, a bridged USDC asset issued by Allbridge. We will close this market in 2026 to fully support USDCx markets. For users who need to access aeUSDC, please swap assets using the Bitflow Dex.