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# Introducting Garden Protocol

Garden is a Defi protocol which allows users of the crypto world to gain access to arbitrage strategies on USD-pegged stable coins. The returns on the arbitrage strategies are enhanced through financial engineering principles brought from traditional finance.

Garden uses the Hedged token ($HEDGED).