Growing liquidity on Aquarius
The path to a liquid asset on Aquarius — Asset Registry whitelisting, pool creation, and the two liquidity tools, bribes and Pool Incentives, compared.
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The path to a liquid asset on Aquarius — Asset Registry whitelisting, pool creation, and the two liquidity tools, bribes and Pool Incentives, compared.
If you issue a token on Stellar, Aquarius is the toolset for making it liquid — so that people can buy, sell, and swap it with minimal slippage, and market makers and liquidity providers have a reason to support your markets.
Deep liquidity is what turns a token into a usable asset: tighter spreads, stabler prices, better swap routes across the network, and more confidence for holders and integrators. Aquarius gives projects two complementary tools to get there, both permissionless.
Get your asset whitelisted. AQUA emissions and protocol-level incentives only flow to markets where every asset is approved in the Asset Registry. Approval happens through a governance vote — the registry page describes the process and what information to include in your proposal.
Make sure a pool exists. Anyone can create a liquidity pool for your asset on Aquarius — volatile, stable, or concentrated, whichever fits your market.
Attract liquidity with one or both of the tools below.
Both tools let you spend your own budget to grow liquidity — the difference is who you pay:
Pool Incentives reward liquidity providers directly. You fund a reward stream for a specific pool over a period you choose — immediate, precise, and independent of voting outcomes.
Bribes reward voters. You attach a weekly reward to your market; ICE holders vote for it; the votes direct AQUA emissions from the protocol to your market's liquidity providers. Bribes have a multiplier quality — your budget attracts votes, and the votes unlock protocol rewards on top.
Who receives it
Liquidity providers in your pool
Voters on your market
What it unlocks
Direct extra yield in your pool
Votes → AQUA emissions for your market
Minimum size
100,000 AQUA-equivalent per day
100,000 AQUA-equivalent per week
Cadence
Any period from 1 day
Weekly rounds (collected Sundays)
Reward token
Any token traded on Aquarius
Any Stellar asset
They combine well: Pool Incentives deliver immediate yield, while bribes build the voting support that sustains AQUA emissions week over week.
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