The key to DeFi being both innovative and safe stems from the same source: Give developers an easy way to create and interact with assets and make assets and their intuitive behavior a native feature. Any asset created should always behave predictably and in line with common sense financial principles.

In the asset-oriented programming paradigm, creating an asset is as easy as calling a native function. The platform knows what an asset is: .initial_supply_fungible(1000) creates a fungible token with a fixed supply of 1000 (beyond supply, many more token configuration options are available as well) while functions such as .take and .put take tokens from somewhere and put them elsewhere.

Instead of developers writing complex logic instructing smart contracts to update lists of variables with all the error-checking that entails, in asset-oriented programming, operations that anyone would intuitively expect as fundamental to DeFi are native functions of the language. Tokens can’t be lost or drained because asset-oriented programming guarantees they can’t.

This is how you get both innovation and safety in DeFi. And this is how you change the perception of the mainstream public from one where DeFi is the wild west to one where DeFi is where you have to put your savings, as otherwise, you’