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Aquarius Guide
  • 👋Welcome to Aquarius
  • Developers
    • Integrating with Aquarius
    • Aquarius Soroban Functions
    • Code Examples
      • Prerequisites & Basics
      • Executing Swaps Through Optimal Path
      • Executing Swaps Through Specific Pool
      • Deposit Liquidity
      • Withdraw Liquidity
      • Get Pools Info
      • Claim LP Rewards
      • Add Fees To Swap
        • Deploying a New Fee Collector
        • Executing Swaps with Provider Fees
        • Claiming & Swapping Accumulated Fees
  • Ecosystem Overview
    • 🌐What is Stellar?
      • What are Lumens (XLM)?
      • What are Anchors?
      • What are Trustlines?
      • How much are network fees on Stellar?
      • What are network reserves?
      • Where to trade Stellar assets?
    • 🧮What is Soroban?
  • AQUA tokens
    • ♒What are AQUA tokens?
      • AQUAnomics
      • AQUA Wallets
      • Where can I buy AQUA?
  • ICE
    • 🧊ICE tokens: locking AQUA and getting benefits
    • ICE boosts - how to maximize LP rewards
  • Aquarius AMMs
    • 💱What are Aquarius AMMs?
      • Pools
        • Creating a Pool
        • Deposit & Withdraw Liquidity
      • Swap
      • System limitations
        • Aquarius AMM: Limitations in Support for Fee-on-Transfer, Rebasing, and Deflationary Tokens
        • Aquarius AMM: Token Address Migration Limitations and Mitigation Strategy
  • My Aquarius
    • 👤My Aquarius
      • Main Overview
      • Balances
      • My Liquidity
      • SDEX Rewards
      • Liquidity Votes
      • Governance Votes
      • Airdrop #2
      • ICE Locks
      • Payments History
  • Aquarius AQUA Rewards
    • 🗳️Aquarius voting
      • Aquarius voting: asset Flag Restrictions
    • 🪙SDEX Rewards
    • 🤖Aquarius AMM Rewards
  • Bribes
    • 🎁What are bribes?
      • What are the advantages of protocol level bribes?
  • Aquarius Governance
    • 🧑‍⚖️Aquarius Governance: Community-Led Decision Making
  • Airdrops
    • 1️⃣The Initial Airdrop
      • Am I Eligible For the Initial Airdrop?
      • How can I see if I am eligible?
      • What are Claimable Balances?
      • How is the Initial airdrop distributed?
      • Where can I find more information?
    • 🌠Airdrop #2
      • How could I have been eligible for Airdrop #2?
      • How can I see if I am eligible?
      • When was the Airdrop #2 snapshot?
      • Were there any CEX's taking part?
      • How big was Airdrop #2?
      • How will the airdrop be distributed and for how long?
      • Could I have increased my potential reward?
      • Where can I find more information?
  • Signers Guild
    • 📜What is the signers guild?
      • What percentage of the AQUA supply will be controlled by the Signers Guild?
      • Who will be in the Signers Guild?
      • How does the Signing process work?
      • What will be expected from a guild member?
      • How can I sign up for this position?
      • What are wallets that Guild members will manage?
      • How can I learn more about this?
  • Guides
    • ❔How to use AQUA Locker tool and get ICE tokens
    • ❔How to vote for markets on Aquarius
    • How to create bribes
    • ❔How to use Aquarius Governance
      • How to make a governance vote
      • How to create a proposal
    • ❔How to earn SDEX rewards
    • ❔How to earn AMM rewards
  • Technical Documents
    • 📜Audits
    • 🪲Bug Bounties
    • 🛄Claimable Balances
    • 🗳️The Aquarius Voting Mechanism
    • 🎁SDEX v2 proposal & algorithm
    • ⏩ICE Boost Formula
  • Useful Links
    • Aquarius Home
    • Liquidity Voting
    • Liquidity Rewards
    • Aquarius Bribes
    • ICE locker
    • Aquarius Governance
    • Airdrop #2
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  1. ICE

ICE tokens: locking AQUA and getting benefits

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Last updated 2 months ago

ICE tokens are a frozen version of AQUA, designed to give loyal AQUA holders more flexibility, increased voting power, and additional benefits within the Aquarius ecosystem.

Key Facts About ICE

Benefits of ICE

  • No Voting Restrictions: ICE votes can be withdrawn at any time, making it easier to rebalance votes. Users can also retrieve ICE immediately after a governance proposal concludes.

Note: Due to the migration to Soroban, ICE boosts have been temporarily disabled and are expected to return in Spring 2025.

Limitations of ICE

  • ICE "Melts" Over Time: Your ICE balance gradually decreases as the AQUA unlocking date approaches. The protocol reclaims ICE from your wallet and votes. To maintain your balance and voting power, you can earn more AQUA through rewards and bribes and lock additional AQUA.

  • Non-Transferable: ICE tokens cannot be sent, bought, sold, or deposited anywhere.

Locking AQUA into ICE

Locking AQUA occurs entirely at the protocol level on Stellar. When using the locker tool, a claimable balance is created and sent back to the user’s wallet. Only the wallet owner can reclaim the locked AQUA, effectively unfreezing ICE after the selected lock period expires.

Security Note: Locking AQUA using the Aquarius Locker is completely safe. The tokens remain securely stored on the Stellar blockchain, and only the original owner can reclaim them later.

ICE Utility Tokens

Users who lock AQUA receive four additional non-transferable tokens in their Stellar wallets, specifically designed for use within the Aquarius ecosystem:

ICE

  • Tracks how much AQUA a user has locked in their wallet.

  • Determines the distribution of upvoteICE, downvoteICE, and governICE.

  • Does not have a direct operational use—it simply remains in the user's balance.

upvoteICE & downvoteICE

  • Help determine which markets qualify for the Aquarius reward zone.

  • Markets must hold at least 0.5% of total votes in the Aquarius liquidity voting system to qualify for SDEX & AMM rewards.

  • These tokens empower the community to decide which markets should receive liquidity incentives.

governICE

By receiving these four separate ICE tokens when locking AQUA, users can simultaneously participate in all aspects of the Aquarius ecosystem. In contrast, those who only hold AQUA (without locking) can engage in either liquidity voting or governance voting, but not both at the same time.

Dual Voting Capability: Unlike AQUA, ICE tokens can be used simultaneously for both and .

Increased Rewards: Holding ICE can enhance rewards for participating in SDEX & AMM liquidity incentives. The more ICE an account holds, the higher the potential rewards boost for providing liquidity in selected markets. Eligible markets for liquidity rewards can be found at .

The process of converting AQUA into ICE tokens takes place on the Aquarius website: . Users can choose how much AQUA to lock and for how long—the longer the lock period, the more ICE tokens they receive. To achieve the maximum 10x boost, AQUA must be locked for at least three years. For more details, refer to the Locker tool guide.

Used for upvoting and downvoting markets at .

Used for voting on governance proposals at .

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