1️⃣ If you think switching protocols fixes idle liquidity, the data says otherwise.

The numbers cover the newest and most efficient designs. The newest AMM architecture idles at about 30%, essentially the same as the previous generation. Even stablecoin pools run close to 30% idle, because their ranges are set almost peg-tight and price still slips out.

Idle liquidity is not a quirk of one AMM version. It shows up everywhere concentrated liquidity is used.

We're building for exactly this.

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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?

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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.

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

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.

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.

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: