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Guides, FAQs and videos on shared liquidity. How to provide liquidity without deposits, straight from your wallet.

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Guides

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

How Aqua worksOne wallet balance backing many positions. Shared liquidity, explained.Create your first positionPick a pair, set your range, sign. No deposit needed.Strategy typesXYC, concentrated and pegged. When to use each.Fees, earnings & APRWhere the fees come from and what the numbers mean.Manage & closeTrack fills, adjust ranges, close one or all positions.

Why Aqua

What makes shared liquidity different. With the receipts.

Protected from JIT fee snipingYour position's fees are yours alone. No bot can insert liquidity into it to snipe the fee moment.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)An immutable, hash-addressed config 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.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 mirrors a verified scenario.

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.Tour the Aqua overviewRead status, coverage and earned fees for every position, and find where each management action lives.Close all positions (EOA)Wind down every position of the connected wallet. Closes run in sequence from an EOA and batch into one signature from a Safe.
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Frequently asked questions

Your positions share one wallet balance, so a swap fills against your available tokens. After a fill, your other positions quote against the tokens that remain in your wallet. Tokens move only when a swap fills.

You collect swap fees when swaps fill against your positions, minus the protocol-fee share that goes to the 1inch DAO (see "Is there a fee on Aqua positions?"). Swap fees are paid into your wallet and automatically count toward your position's liquidity. You are solely responsible for any taxes that apply to what you earn in your jurisdiction.

Yes. You can provide liquidity on 1inch Aqua from a smart-contract wallet and from an MPC wallet.

Yes. Use the Aqua SDK to open and manage positions programmatically. Aqua SDK and SwapVM SDK are live in the 1inch/sdks repository on GitHub.

There is no fixed cap you sign up for. What a swap can pull is bounded by the tokens in your wallet and the allowance you grant, so you stay in control of your exposure. If you move or spend those tokens, your positions simply have less to draw on: a swap can never pull more than what is actually in your wallet.

In the dApp, swaps that fill your liquidity are routed by 1inch Resolvers, the KYC-verified network that routes swaps through 1inch. Calling the contracts directly gives you more control. To restrict it, you can add a Conditional Access rule to your position that requires takers to hold a specific NFT. The check runs on-chain first, so unauthorized takers are rejected before anything else runs. This covers cases like institutional gating, NFT-gated liquidity, loyalty-token holders, or DAO-member access.

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