# Under the hood

- [Use Cases](https://docs.equilibrium.io/under-the-hood/use-cases.md): This page gives a detailed overview of services and capabilities that will be available to crypto users within the Equilibrium parachain.
- [Assets and Balances](https://docs.equilibrium.io/under-the-hood/assets-model.md): This section describes how user assets, or rather portfolios of assets, are organised within Equilibrium.
- [Risk model](https://docs.equilibrium.io/under-the-hood/risk-modeling.md): This page describes Equilibrium's approach on assessing system risk.
- [Interest rates model](https://docs.equilibrium.io/under-the-hood/interest-rate-model.md): This page describes how Equilibrium calculates interest rates on the loans in the system.
- [Margining](https://docs.equilibrium.io/under-the-hood/margining.md): This section explains how equilibrium calculates margin for user accounts when they borrow and trade on the DEX
- [Market maker pools](https://docs.equilibrium.io/under-the-hood/market-maker-pools.md): An overview of the liquidity staking for market makers


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