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How liquidity works

Understand the pool, the assets you provide and the position you receive.

The pool holds two assets

A pool lets traders exchange one asset for another under its contract rules. Providing liquidity makes your assets available to that market in exchange for a share or position.

For example, a PONS / ETH pool and a PONS / USDG pool are different markets. A token can also have multiple markets against the same quote asset, with different fees or contract versions.

PONSETH
Your walletBoth pool assets
Uniswap
Selected poolVerified contracts
PONSETH
Your positionOwned by your wallet

A position records your share

A V2 position is represented by fungible LP tokens. V3 and V4 positions use NFTs that identify the pool, price boundaries and position liquidity.

The position belongs to the receiving wallet. Moving the LP tokens or NFT changes who owns it, and importing an existing position into Flea does not move it.

VersionOwnership recordRange
V2LP token balanceAcross the pool curve
V3Position NFTChosen at creation
V4Position NFTChosen at creation; hook rules may apply

Your token amounts can change

Trading changes the pool balances and therefore the assets represented by a position. With concentrated liquidity, a price outside your boundaries can leave the position entirely in one asset.

The amount you withdraw can differ from what you deposited, and fees may not offset a fall in value or the difference from simply holding the tokens.

Providing liquidity is different from buying

A standard Flea deposit uses the two assets required by the pool. Entering only one amount asks Flea to calculate the other; it does not instruct an automatic swap.

A new position is also separate from a launchpad’s original locked liquidity, so it has its own ownership and withdrawal terms.