The ability to trade an amount of an asset without a large delay or adverse price effect.
The small swap quote looks fine; increase the amount and the same thin pool suddenly shows much worse execution.
Distributing token incentives to participants who provide liquidity or perform qualifying protocol activities.
A pool pays trading fees and a temporary reward token incentive; you track the two separately as the liquidity-mining program approaches its end.
Assets held under a protocol’s rules to support activities such as swaps or lending.
You deposit two tokens into a swap pool and later find that your position contains a different mix because traders have used the pool.
A participant who supplies assets for a protocol’s trading, lending or other liquidity needs.
You earn part of a pool’s trading fees as an LP, then compare the position’s value with simply holding the original tokens.
A loan’s value relative to its collateral value, often expressed as a percentage.
With $400 of debt against $1,000 of collateral, your current LTV is 40%; you check the protocol’s separate borrowing and liquidation limits.
A token representing a liquidity provider’s claim on a pool or liquidity position.
After depositing into a Uniswap v2 pool, your wallet receives LP tokens that represent your share of that pool.
A blockchain's production network, where its assets and transactions have their normal economic role.
"Testing went fine. This deployment is on mainnet, where the transactions and assets have their production role."
An asset's reference price multiplied by its estimated circulating supply.
My dashboard uses 10 million circulating tokens at a reference price of 2 to calculate a 20 million market cap.
An instruction to trade promptly against available liquidity under a venue's execution rules.
Your market buy fills at the best ask, then reaches higher asks because the first level cannot cover the whole amount.
The stated upper limit on how many asset units can exist under the applicable rules.
"The cap is the ceiling, not today's circulation." The token still has fewer circulating units than its issuance limit.