# Guides Overview

Don't miss a beat with all of our tailored step-by step guides to steer you into the right direction.

At Pine we are constantly innovating and providing new features to make buying, borrowing, selling or lending not only easier, but also more flexible and fun making the Pine Platform the premium and most complete NFT-backed loan platform.

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**Borrowing**\
Own an NFT? See how to get liquidity here by taking out a loan instantly in a permission-less way.\
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📜 Text Guide: [borrowing](https://docs.pine.loans/pine-guides/borrowing "mention")\
📺 Video Guide: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUzjTMpvY7Q ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUzjTMpvY7Q)

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**Lending**\
Looking for yield for your digital assets? Or, if you are an NFT project founder, do you want to provide additional utility for your holders? Whatever reason you might have to become a lender, you will find all the details below.

1. **NFTs**\
   📜 Text Guide: [lending-nfts](https://docs.pine.loans/pine-guides/lending-nfts "mention")\
   📺 Video Guide: TBA
2. **SFTs**\
   📜 Text Guide: [lending-sfts](https://docs.pine.loans/pine-guides/lending-sfts "mention")\
   📺 Video Guide: TBA

**Pine Now Pay Later**\
Looking to buy a brand new NFT, but you're short on liquidity or prefer to reduce price risk by only paying a portion of the price up-front? Pine Now Pay Later makes it easy, letting you take out a loan instantly!\
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📜 Text Guide: [pine-now-pay-later](https://docs.pine.loans/pine-guides/pine-now-pay-later "mention")\
📺 Video Guide: TBA

**Staking & Burning**\
Looking to earn passive yield on your $PINE tokens? We support Staking & Burning! 💚

📜 Text Guide: [staking-and-burning](https://docs.pine.loans/pine-guides/staking-and-burning "mention")\
📺 Video Guide: TBA

**Governance Voting**\
When staking and burning you automatically accumulate Pine Governance Units. As we are a fond believer of decentralization, we encourage everyone to participate in proposals and use your voting power for the greater good of Pine 🌲

📜 Text Guide: [governance-voting](https://docs.pine.loans/pine-guides/governance-voting "mention")\
📺 Video Guide: TBA

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Also check out our [general](https://docs.pine.loans/faqs/general "mention") FAQs section or join our Discord to get support directly from the team at [**https://discord.gg/pineprotocol** ](https://discord.gg/pineprotocol)