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Your complete guide to providing shared liquidity with 1inch

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Guides

Step by step, from your first position to closing it.

How Aqua worksShared liquidity, positions and the SwapVM engine: the mental model in five minutes.Create your first positionFrom connecting a wallet to shipping a live position, step by step.Strategy typesStraight or Curved? Pick the shape that matches your pair and goal.Fees, earnings & APRWhere fees come from, how they land in your wallet and what APR means here.Manage & closeRead coverage, top up backing and close in one transaction.Aave collateral loopsBack positions with Aave aTokens: loop mechanics, a real liquidation replayed and a planner for your own numbers.

Why Aqua

What makes shared liquidity different.

One balance. Many positions.Pooled deposits sit mostly idle. A shared balance keeps the same tokens available wherever swaps fill.Protected from JIT fee snipingEach position's fees are not shared with other LPs. There is no shared fee moment to snipe.Verified counterpartiesSwaps across the 1inch Network are routed by 1inch Resolvers, which complete the 1inch verification process.Your fees, your rangesEvery position carries its own fee and price range: capture the market on your terms.Tokens never leave your walletNo pools, no vaults, no deposits. Revoke the allowance and new fills stop.

Smart-contract risk, impermanent loss and market risk remain. Swap fees are not guaranteed.

Key terms

The vocabulary you'll meet across Aqua, explained in one line.

Shared liquidityThe same wallet tokens back many positions at the same time.Position (strategy)The terms you set for providing liquidity, stored as an immutable, hash-addressed config that the SwapVM engine executes.
AllowanceThe revocable permission that caps what a fill can move.Shared Liquidity RatioHow much liquidity the same tokens make available: availability, not leverage.
TVU (Total Value Unlocked)Liquidity that is actually usable when swaps happen, not just deposited.CoverageHow much of a position's quote its current wallet backing supports.
ShipSigning and publishing your configured positions on-chain in one action.Straight & CurvedThe two position shapes: concentrated ranges, or a curve for parity assets.
ResolverA verified market maker that routes swaps through 1inch.

Video tutorials

Watch the flows before you run them. Every video shows the exact steps you'll take in the dApp.

Open your first Aqua positionWalk through the full builder flow: pick a pair, choose a shape, set amounts, range and fee, then review and ship.Set a concentrated rangeChoose lower and upper prices deliberately. Start from the default range, adjust on the chart and weigh the tight-vs-wide trade-off.Choose your swap feeKeep the auto fee, pick a preset or set a custom one. The fee is how you win routed volume or premium-price scarce pairs.Close a positionClosing clears the config in one transaction. There is no withdrawal step, because nothing was ever deposited.
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Frequently asked questions

1inch Aqua is the shared liquidity layer for self-custodial liquidity provision. One wallet balance backs every position. Your tokens stay in your wallet until a swap fills. It is fully self-custodial: you never deposit, and you can revoke access at any time. Aqua runs on the SwapVM engine across 13 chains.

In an RFQ system, a firm prices swaps off-chain from its own inventory: you get one quote at a time, the quoting logic is hard to inspect and supplying that inventory usually means delegating custody. On Aqua, positions are on-chain programs: pricing is public and verifiable, tokens stay in your wallet and one balance can back many positions at the same time. 1inch routing treats both as liquidity sources and fills each swap at the best price it finds.

No. Aqua is self-custodial and never holds your tokens; they stay in your wallet until a swap fills. Nothing is deposited. You grant a revocable allowance so positions can quote against your wallet, and you can revoke it at any time.

The allowance is a permission you grant, with an upper limit. It is not the amount that moves, and not a guarantee that tokens are there. A swap can only move tokens that are actually in your wallet: when it executes, tokens transfer straight from your wallet, and if your balance is too low at that moment the swap simply reverts. Your real wallet balance is the binding limit; the allowance only sets the cap for what can be moved. You can revoke the allowance at any time to stop new swaps from filling.

No. Shared liquidity is not leverage. Your tokens are not borrowed and you take on no debt. The same tokens are simply made available to many positions, and a swap can only pull what is actually in your wallet. The Shared Liquidity Ratio measures availability, not exposure.

No. Swaps are not guaranteed, so swap fees are not guaranteed. Providing liquidity takes knowledge and experience.

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