Unchained · Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Sergey Nazarov cited research indicating that 85% of liquidity in DeFi protocols is idle, meaning it's not actively facilitating trades. He explained that Aqua's intent-based approach aims to increase liquidity utilization by allowing providers to set specific trading parameters.
“We highlighted that 85% of the liquidity sits actually idle. It's it's participating in the price formation, but actually it doesn't move, um, at all in like 95% of the time in a year.”
“You define your strategy and you say, okay, I'm okay to buy this asset until this price. And I'm okay to sell it until this price.”
“And, um, this demand for more efficient, uh, on higher utilization of liquidity, um, so we came to the idea, okay, like, we have much more liquidity.”