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    Liquidity pools

    Liquidity pools are funds of crypto used to facilitate trades.

    Geoffrey Lyons

    By Geoffrey Lyons

    Published on Nov 22, 2024

    Last modified on Feb 26, 2026

    Liquidity pools are funds of crypto used to facilitate trades.

    They play an essential role in the operations of crypto marketplaces that don’t have a central body coordinating transactions, also known as decentralized exchanges.

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    “Liquidity” + “pool”

    In a liquidity pool, crypto is pooled together by various people. This crypto is then used by a decentralized exchange (DEX) as a source of liquidity.

    Liquidity is the ready availability of tradable assets. You can think of it as a measure of how easy it is to complete trades on a marketplace.

    Imagine Lisa is an exotic fruit trader who attends three fruit markets with varying degrees of liquidity:

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    It takes two to tango

    Liquidity pools are typically stocked with two cryptocurrencies or “trading pairs”, which provide liquidity for anyone who wants to swap one for the other. For example, a liquidity pool might contain Ethereum (ETH) and Tether (USDT), or Solana (SOL) and USD Coin (USDC).

    What if someone wants a coin that isn’t part of a trading pair? Most DEXs will link different liquidity pools together in order to facilitate this.

    Diving in

    Let’s see how a liquidity pool works in action.

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