Unchained · Wednesday, September 2, 2026
1inch has introduced Aqua, a new shared liquidity platform designed to address the issue of concentrated liquidity sitting idle in DeFi. Aqua allows liquidity providers (LPs) to back multiple positions with the same token balance, enabling them to keep tokens in their wallet for swapping. This innovation aims to increase activity and liquidity depth across various market conditions and pairs.
“$540 million. That's how much concentrated liquidity sat idle in a given week in the first half of this year.”
“But there's a solution. 1 inch Aqua is the new shared liquidity platform.”
“It lets LPs back multiple positions with the same token balance and keep their tokens in their wallet to swap.”
“That means more activity across deeper liquidity.”