# Improvements to Mint & Swap

In the Array protocol ecology, Mint represents production, and Swap represents exchange. Unlike ordinary Defi protocols, which place users in a perfectly competitive market and encourages everyone to pursue their own interests. Array is application-oriented and diverts production projects on the DEGA platform to form a positive Feedback loop, and achieve the highest economic efficiency under this equilibrium.

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