What is Aquarius?​

Aquarius is designed to supercharge trading on Stellar, bring more liquidity and give control over how it is distributed across various market pairs. The project increases available liquidity on selected markets on the Stellar network, creating a more usable DEX. Aquarius does this by introducing incentives for market makers and AMM liquidity providers on Stellar, as well as a way for the Stellar community to control where this liquidity flows. Through verifiable on-chain voting, the community selects markets where liquidity is needed making markets they care about more efficient.

What is Aquarius?​

Aquarius is designed to supercharge trading on Stellar, bring more liquidity and give control over how it is distributed across various market pairs. The project increases available liquidity on selected markets on the Stellar network, creating a more usable DEX. Aquarius does this by introducing incentives for market makers and AMM liquidity providers on Stellar, as well as a way for the Stellar community to control where this liquidity flows. Through verifiable on-chain voting, the community selects markets where liquidity is needed making markets they care about more efficient.

What makes Aquarius unique?​

• Aquarius is the first liquidity management layer integrated within the Stellar network, providing the only reward system to incentivize market makers. Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are available on Stellar and can also be incentivized alongside traditional market makers with AQUA rewards.
• The AQUA Community DAO fund creates a decentralized way for projects to acquire additional funding directly through communications with the Aquarius community, rather than from a single entity.
• The distribution of rewards, airdrops, and DAO funds is done by the Aquarius Signers Guild. This team of transaction signers are distributed across the globe and create decentralized control over the Aquarius network, with no single entity controlling the flow of rewards and payments.

AQUA token​

AQUA is the token that powers the Aquarius protocol by acting as the currency for governance and rewards throughout the whole project. Users need AQUA to take part in governance votes that shape how the protocol runs and where liquidity flows in Stellar. Aquarius rewards are paid through AQUA tokens to participants of voting, market making on selected SDEX market pairs and AMM pools.

The Aquarius ecosystem​

As well as being a liquidity management layer, Aquarius can be adopted by any project within the Stellar ecosystem for various use cases. AQUA holders are able to use the Community DAO fund to provide grants for upcoming projects that benefit both Aquarius and Stellar.

Aquarius’ creators​

Ultra Stellar was one of the original creators behind the Aquarius protocol. Ultra Stellar team uses the Stellar blockchain to power multiple platforms to help increase the use of the Stellar network. Aquarius was created as a decentralized organization to be controlled by its community. Since its inception in February 2021, the team has led the way in handing control over the protocol and key aspects of the project to the community.

Resources​

You can learn more and keep up to date with the team & community using the following links: * Website * Medium * Twitter * Discord * Reddit * Telegram