Why Aqua

Here's what you get when you provide liquidity on Aqua: one shared balance behind every position, JIT-protected fees, verified counterparties, per-position fee control and self-custody.

5 min readUpdated July 2026

One balance. Many positions.

Positions quote against the tokens in your wallet, so the same balance backs many positions across pairs at the same time: no pre-splitting liquidity into pools that may never see volume, and tokens move only when a swap fills. Read the shared liquidity deep dive.

Protected from JIT fee sniping

Each position belongs to one LP. Its fees are not shared with other LPs, and no external liquidity can be inserted into it. There is no shared fee moment to snipe. Read the JIT deep dive.

Verified counterparties

Swaps across the 1inch Network that fill your liquidity are routed by 1inch Resolvers: market makers and arbitrage traders that complete the 1inch verification process. Positions can add Conditional Access, an on-chain NFT check that gates who can fill. More for institutions.

Your fees, your ranges

Every position carries its own fee and its own range. Undercut market fees to win volume or premium-price scarce pairs. Adjusting means closing and reopening, and tokens never move on close.

Tokens never leave the wallet

No pools, no vaults, no deposits. Works from a plain EOA, an MPC wallet or a smart-contract wallet. The allowance is revocable at any time.

Shared liquidity The idle-liquidity numbers, and how one shared balance raises utilization. JIT protection The attack in numbers, and why Aqua positions can't be sniped. For institutions Verified counterparties, Conditional Access and Safe-based operations. Aqua vs AMMs & RFQ Custody, reuse, pricing, fee capture, approvals and transparency, side by side. Aqua vs staking & restaking Custody, penalties, exits and earnings, next to staking and restaking. The replay The same $10,000 replayed for a year: a Uniswap v3 pool next to an Aqua strategy. Security & audits Key management, the allowance cap, revoke steps and the eight audits.