Liquidity Pools
Providing liquidity.
What Is a Liquidity Pool?
A liquidity pool is the reserve of two (or more) tokens locked in an AMM smart contract that traders swap against.
Without liquidity there is nothing to trade against, so pools are the foundation of every DEX.
Liquidity Providers (LPs)
A liquidity provider deposits tokens into a pool to enable trading and earn a share of the fees.
Anyone can become an LP — you simply supply both tokens of the pair in the correct ratio.
All lessons in this course
- DeFi Overview
- Automated Market Makers
- Liquidity Pools
- Building a Simple Swap