A liquidity pool is a smart contract holding two assets that users can swap between. The assets are deposited by liquidity providers, people who lock their tokens in the contract in exchange for a share of the fees every swap generates.
When someone swaps Token A for Token B on a DEX like Ston.fi they are not trading against another person. They are trading against the pool. The pool always provides a price using a formula based on the current ratio of the two assets. Buy Token A and the ratio shifts, Token A becomes more expensive, Token B becomes cheaper. The formula does this automatically with every trade.
Liquidity providers earn because every swap pays a fee. On Ston.fi that fee is 0.2% of the swap amount. That 0.2% distributes to everyone providing liquidity in the pool proportional to their share. If you own 1% of the pool's total liquidity you earn 1% of every fee generated.
The catch is impermanent loss. When the price ratio between the two assets in your pool changes the pool automatically rebalances against you accumulating more of the declining asset and less of the appreciating one. When you withdraw your position reflects that rebalanced ratio rather than what you deposited. The difference between what you would have held and what you actually hold is impermanent loss.
Whether providing liquidity is profitable depends on whether the fees earned exceed the impermanent loss accumulated over the holding period. Pools with high trading volume relative to their total liquidity generate more fees per dollar deployed. Stable pairs where the price ratio rarely changes produce less impermanent loss.
Reading both numbers together before entering any pool is the starting point for evaluating whether the position makes sense. Explore STONfi pools → https://app.ston.fi/pools $BTC #BTC Price Analysis# #Meme Alpha# $SOL
Omniston is the cross-chain execution protocol built by Ston.fi's development team. It is what powers every swap between TON and the ten chains currently supported in STONfi's cross-chain interface. Understanding what it actually does not just what it is called, is the most useful thing anyone new to TON DeFi can learn before making their first cross-chain move.
The core idea is straightforward. When you submit a cross-chain swap on STONfi you are not sending instructions to a bridge. You are expressing an intent, I want to receive this asset on this chain in this amount. Omniston broadcasts that intent to a network of professional liquidity providers called resolvers. Resolvers compete to fill the intent through a Request for Quote process. The one who offers the best rate wins the order.
The resolver who wins does not just promise to deliver. They lock the destination-side assets in a Hashed Timelock Contract before the user's source-side assets commit. Both contracts share the same cryptographic condition. When the condition is met both sides settle simultaneously. The user receives exactly what was quoted or both sides return to their starting position automatically through the timelock. There is no execution path where both parties lose funds.
This is why quote certainty is the defining property of Omniston swaps. The amount shown at confirmation is the amount that arrives. The resolver committed to delivering it. The HTLC structure enforced that commitment cryptographically rather than through trust.
Omniston currently connects TON to TRON, Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Robinhood Chain, and X Layer. It is also integrated into TONCO, My Wallet, TractionEye, Predict, Gramstox, Gram Store, and a growing list of TON products. Try Omniston →https://app.ston.fi/swap?mode=cross-chain #BTC Price Analysis# #Macro Insights# $ONDO #Altcoin Season# $LTC
"USDT on Bitcoin. It's coming home." That's the actual line from Ardoino, and the phrasing matters, Tether wasn't founded on Bitcoin rails originally, this framing treats it as a return rather than a new expansion.
Per multiple reports today, Tether has been working on bringing USDT to Bitcoin through Taproot Assets, the Lightning Network, and RGB, three genuinely different approaches to issuing assets on top of Bitcoin's base layer rather than needing a separate chain entirely. This isn't Tether abandoning Ethereum or Tron, where the overwhelming majority of USDT supply and volume already lives, it's adding Bitcoin as another settlement rail alongside those.
Worth being precise about what this actually changes and what it doesn't. Crypto Rover's framing on this seems accurate, USDT on Bitcoin isn't Bitcoin becoming a dollar system, it's the dollar using Bitcoin as a rail, a distinction that matters because it doesn't touch Bitcoin's own monetary policy or supply, it just gives stablecoin transfers another network to settle on, one with genuinely deep liquidity and security assumptions behind it.
My honest read: this is still an announcement of intent and direction, Ardoino confirmed it's coming, not that it's live with a specific date attached. The technical building blocks, Taproot Assets and RGB specifically, are real and have been in development for a while, so this isn't vaporware, but there's a real gap between "confirmed direction" and "shipped product" that's worth keeping in mind before treating this as already operational.
What I'm watching: an actual launch timeline or testnet activity, and whether Lightning specifically sees measurable stablecoin volume once this goes live rather than staying a theoretical use case. $USDT#Altcoin Season# #BTC Price Analysis# $BTC
BTC is actually down 2.88% today , moving in that direction rather than away from it. Worth updating the read on that alone.
Max pain theory holds that price gravitates toward the strike where the most option contracts expire worthless, benefiting sellers, as market makers hedge their books into expiry. It's a genuinely debated mechanic though, not a reliable predictive tool, and a $10,000 gap this large going in is unusual enough that I'd have treated the pull toward it as weak, until today's move.
What still argues against a full drag toward $75,000 specifically is the standing positioning. BTC call open interest sits at $9.61 billion against $6.52 billion in puts, a put to call ratio around 0.68, genuinely lopsided bullish, with the heaviest call concentration at $90,000 and $100,000, both well above current price. That's a book positioned for continuation, working against the max pain pull, not with it. Today's red candle doesn't erase that positioning, it just means price and options flow are pulling in opposite directions right now.
My honest read: this is genuinely two forces in tension, not a settled direction. Today's decline shows real downward pressure exists, but the option book itself is still betting heavily on upside above $90,000. Large expiries tend to produce real volatility as positions close or roll, the actual settlement direction isn't decided by either force alone. What I'm watching: whether this pullback continues toward max pain into Friday, or whether it's a temporary dip inside a book still positioned for $90,000 and higher. $BTC #Bitcoin Price Prediction: What is Bitcoins next move?#
$18.1 billion in BTC and ETH options expire Friday, and BTC is trading nearly $11,000 above the max pain level tied to this event. Worth flagging that gap directly, if max pain is genuinely $75,000 while spot sits at $86,000 plus, that's an unusually wide dislocation, and I'd want that number confirmed before treating it as settled.
The scale itself checks out cleanly. Deribit data puts BTC open interest at $16.13 billion, ETH at $2.16 billion, lining up with Coinbase's own $18.1 billion combined estimate. Positioning is genuinely lopsided toward calls, BTC call open interest sits at $9.61 billion against $6.52 billion in puts, a put to call ratio around 0.68, and that skew has reportedly gotten more pronounced in recent flow, not just the standing book. Call concentration is heaviest at $90,000 and $100,000 on BTC, spread between $3,000 and $4,000 on ETH.
What that positioning tells you matters more than the dollar figure. A call heavy book with strikes clustered above current price reflects traders betting on continuation, not necessarily predicting it. Max pain theory suggests price gravitates toward the strike where the most contracts expire worthless, benefiting option sellers, but it's a debated mechanic, not guaranteed, and large expiries typically bring real volatility as positions get closed or rolled rather than a clean pin to one level.
My honest read: the size and directional skew here are real and well documented, genuine bullish positioning heading into Friday. But I'd want that $75,000 max pain figure specifically verified before repeating it, since it doesn't reconcile with where BTC is actually trading right now.
What I'm watching: how price behaves relative to the $90,000 strike specifically as Friday's settlement approaches, since that's where the heaviest call concentration actually sits. $BTC #BTC Price Analysis# #Altcoin Season# $ETH