# 2.2.3 Main use cases

The ability to seamlessly hold new assets (without selling or reorganizing a portfolio) gives dApp consumers, merchants, and developers new superpowers:&#x20;

● Without having to wait for an order to complete, or without requiring off-chain behavior, dApps can borrow tokens to use in the Ethereum ecosystem, such as to buy computing power on the Orbits network. ● Traders can finance new ICO investments by borrowing Ether, using their existing portfolio as collateral. ● Traders looking to sell a token short can borrow it, send it to an exchange, and sell the token, benefiting from the decline in overvalued tokens
