# The Goal The DEX is built to foster the entire Metis ecosystem. We endeavor to achieve the following: * Support builders by providing tools that help them launch, bootstrap liquidity, create partnerships, and gain exposure to the wider Metis ecosystem. * Create a sustainable DEX that drives protocol rewards to builders, liquidity providers, token holders, and contributors for making long-term commitments to growing Metis and Hercules. * Create sticky liquidity using an innovative dual-token framework and real yield model for a self-reinforcing incentive structure. * Provide sophisticated asset management tools to protocols and users alike, and abstract away those tools to the extent practicable. * Offer multiple layers of composability that allows other protocols to build on top and actively expand the network activity, especially after the [Metis Decentralized Sequencer ](https://www.metis.io/blog/the-first-ever-decentralized-sequencer-is-live)upgrade. * Provide permissionless tools to allow projects, big and small, to utilize our protocol's tools to best suit their needs.