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1️⃣Fees compensate for risk - but not every risk is worth taking. Volume, APY and "stable" pairs can hide the real economics of an LP position. Impermanent loss is how AMMs rebalance, not a protocol failure. Arb flow can pad volume while still extracting value from LPs. Depegs turn quiet stable pools into concentrated downside. Protocol risk, emission-funded yields and leftover unlimited approvals sit outside the fee number. 1inch Aqua doesn't remove market risk. It changes one custody piece: liquidity quotes against balances in your wallet, so assets aren't deposited and locked in a pool until a swap fills. How to assess those trade-offs, and what Aqua changes in the risk equation:

Aqua incentives Q&A goes live in one hour. The 1inch team and Merkl answer payout questions on air: rewards showing zero, claiming timelines, what makes positions fill. Drop yours in the replies under the live post. 16:00 UTC on X:

1️⃣Locked liquidity is not the same as working liquidity. You can add tokens to a pool, watch TVL grow and still have capital that spends most of its time doing nothing. Classic AMM pools tie deposits to a single venue. Tokens committed to one pool cannot back trades anywhere else, and they only see activity when that specific pool trades. 1inch Aqua approaches liquidity differently. Tokens stay in your wallet and multiple positions can reference the same balance at once, moving only when a swap actually fills. Instead of measuring how much capital is locked away, Aqua is built around how much value is unlocked: capital actively available for execution across markets. The new blog post breaks down both models side by side, including why fee distribution in pooled AMMs favors timing over long-term participation: Blog | X | YouTube | 1inch Wallet | Help Center

Aqua incentives Q&A live this Thursday: the 1inch team and Merkl answer payout questions on air. If your rewards show zero, that's the first question on the list. The session covers how the incentive program pays out, when claiming opens and what makes positions fill. Thursday, August 13, 16:00 UTC on X. Questions go in the replies under the live post, so that's the place to drop yours. Set a reminder and join:

Two weeks of 1inch Aqua: $68.8 million in swap volume. Shared liquidity works. $100 million next.

1️⃣The CLARITY Act will wait until September. The US Senate did not take up the crypto market-structure bill before its August recess, and the window to pass it this year is narrowing: after the November midterms, moving major legislation becomes much harder. For DeFi, the stakes go beyond one vote. The current text includes safeguards for software developers and self-custody, and it recognizes that non-custodial software is not a traditional financial intermediary. Some of these protections were narrowed in earlier amendment rounds, which makes preserving the remaining language even more important. 1inch Senior Legal Counsel Maylea Ma argues that an imperfect but protective framework still beats regulatory uncertainty. Agency guidance can flip with a new administration, while legislation is much harder to reverse. In her words: "The alternative to imperfect-but-enacted is not perfect-but-enacted. It is no law at all." What happens if the bill stalls and why September becomes the real test – Maylea's full breakdown is on the blog:

$30 million of swap volume in 3 days. New record high for 1inch Aqua.

1️⃣Added liquidity to Aqua and see zero rewards? Here's the timeline. Incentive seasons run in weekly cycles: A season runs for one week. Your positions accrue rewards the whole time. The season ends. Totals lock. Claiming opens. Collect your rewards directly on Aqua or on Merkl while the next season keeps counting. Zero mid-season means the count is in progress, nothing is broken.

1️⃣Running several Aqua positions from one address means one allowance covers all of them. Sub-wallets fix that. How it works: 1. Create a sub-wallet from your provider profile and fund it with the balance you want behind those positions. 2. Approve the allowance on that sub-wallet only. That approval caps what any fill from those positions can move, and it stays revocable. 3. Ship positions from the sub-wallet. They quote against its balance only. Split by strategy: stablecoin positions in one, ETH in another, experiments off to the side. One sub-wallet's allowance has nothing to do with the others. Worth knowing: a sub-wallet is a smart contract you deploy and control, so smart-contract risk applies.

Ondo tokenized stocks trade on 1inch 24/7, weekends and US market holidays included. Ondo runs an off-hours session for these assets, so they stay tradable when the US market is closed. On 1inch that means you can swap them any day on the dApp, with intent-based execution handling the pricing. The lineup keeps growing: AAPLon, DRAMon, GLWon, METAon and MSFTon are the latest additions. One thing to know: liquidity is thinner while traditional markets are closed, so spreads can be wider than on a weekday. How the off-hours session works, including per-asset limits: https://docs.ondo.finance/ondo-stocks/off-hours-trading Available in eligible regions only. Not financial advice.

Why does most LP capital sit idle, and what changes when one wallet balance backs many positions? 1inch CPTO answered both at Stanford Blockchain - the full recording is now online. The link below starts right at her segment (2:25:00 into the session):

1️⃣Concentrated liquidity was a real step forward for DeFi: instead of spreading assets across the whole price curve, LPs choose a range where trading actually happens. More fees per dollar, less dead weight. But it came with three costs. Every new strategy splits your balance into another deposit. Ranges go stale when the market moves, so keeping up means monitoring, gas and stretches of earning nothing. And JIT bots still snipe fees from long-term LPs right before large swaps. 1inch Aqua keeps the range-based approach and changes what sits behind it. Positions reference your wallet balance through shared liquidity: assets stay in your wallet until a swap settles, and the same balance can back several positions at once instead of being pre-divided. Positions are still range-based and exposed to market risk, and fees are not guaranteed. If you've LPed concentrated pools before: what cost you more, stale ranges or the gas spent chasing them? Full breakdown

How do you create several positions from one token balance? A short walkthrough of the core Aqua mechanic. Assets stay in your wallet until a swap settles. Positions are range-based and carry market risk; fees are not guaranteed. Blog | X | YouTube | 1inch Wallet | Help Center

1️⃣The first $113,000 in 1inch Network x Merkl Aqua incentives are now ready to claim. Week one: • 102 unique makers • 957 positions • 14,455 fills • $2.581 million in volume Were you part of it? Claim on your Merkl dashboard or at 1inch.com/aqua • 80+ markets across Ethereum, BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain • rewards are given for swap volume, not allocation • from a total of 10M 1INCH + 500k USDC • claimable weekly Supported by the 1inch Network and operated by Merkl. Full list of programs: https://app.merkl.xyz/programs/1inch-aqua Disclaimer: Not financial or investment advice, and not a recommendation or inducement to buy or sell any digital asset. Campaign operated by Merkl.

USDY, Ondo's yield-bearing dollar token backed by short-term U.S. Treasuries, is now live on BNB Chain, and you can swap it on 1inch. The launch includes native minting, instant mint/redeem and a cross-chain bridge to other supported networks. Available in eligible regions only. Not financial advice. Blog | X | YouTube | 1inch Wallet | Help Center

Creating a position on 1inch Aqua, step by step. The screencast walks through the full flow: approve your tokens, choose a pair, set your fee and price range. One thing many miss: token approval is only the first step, the position itself is set up in the builder after it. Assets stay in your wallet until a swap settles, and the same balance can back several positions. Full guides: 1inch.com/aqua/learn Blog | X | YouTube | 1inch Wallet | Help Center

Aqua on the ETHGlobal Lisbon stage – 1inch CPTO Holly Atkinson on what shared liquidity actually enables for LPs. The pitch is the same one we've been unpacking here all week: liquidity that works from your wallet instead of sitting locked in pools. 24 seconds, straight to the point 👇

You've heard what Aqua can do. Here's how to set up your first position, step by step. Blog | X | YouTube | 1inch Wallet | Help Center

1️⃣ Your tokens can back several liquidity positions at once, without leaving your wallet. That's shared liquidity, the model behind 1inch Aqua, and today we published a plain-language explainer on how it works. The short version: classic LPing means depositing tokens into a pool. Each deposit is locked to one pool, one pair, one range. Want to cover five markets? Split your balance five ways and guess where the volume lands. Shared liquidity replaces deposits with approvals. You approve your wallet balance once, and multiple positions reference it at the same time. If a swap matches one of your positions, tokens move wallet to wallet at settlement. No swap – nothing leaves your wallet, and the approval can be updated or revoked anytime. A side effect worth knowing: because positions are no longer pool deposits, just-in-time bots, which snipe fees from regular LPs right before big trades, get substantially less room by design. As with any liquidity provision, market risk applies and fees are not guaranteed. The full explainer walks through the mechanics step by step. Question for LPs here: one flexible balance across many markets, or a dedicated deposit per pool where you control exactly what sits where? Blog | X | YouTube | 1inch Wallet | Help Center