Liquidity is one of those DeFi concepts that sounds simple until you see what happens without enough of it.
A liquidity pool is where assets are placed so users can swap between them without needing a traditional order book.
On @ston_fi, these pools provide the liquidity that makes swaps possible.
But having liquidity is not enough.
The depth of that liquidity matters.
If a pool is small and someone makes a large swap, that trade can change the pool's token ratio significantly.
That creates higher price impact.
A deeper pool can generally absorb larger trades with less movement in the pool price.
This is why two tokens can have similar market prices but very different trading experiences.
The displayed price tells you what an asset is worth.
Liquidity tells you how much of that asset the market can actually absorb.
For anyone using a DEX, liquidity is therefore not just a number on a dashboard.
It directly affects execution.
And that is why understanding liquidity is one of the first steps toward understanding DeFi.
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