# Protocol Structure

What is Garden? 🌱&#x20;

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).

How to use Garden Protocol? 🤔

In the initial stages there will be two main protocol functions available in Garden Protocol.

1. Depositing (Sowing) 🌱 Like good gardeners, users can sow and plant seeds by depositing USD-backed stablecoins which will be employed into arbitrage strategies of the protocol to generate returns for users.

&#x20; 2\. Staking (Watering)💧 Users can provide additional nutrients for the Garden by watering the plants. This comes in the form of staking the HEDGED tokens with the protocol and stakers will share in the fees that the protocol collects.

Besides the safe and high yields in stablecoins, users are also rewarded with HEDGED tokens (Garden Protocol’s governance token).
