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The Liquidity
Must Flow

Where capital is held · where it moves · where it stays

$35 billion sits in lending markets right now, and it is growing. Liquidity is the commodity everything else runs on — and like every commodity, it is worth more where it moves than where it is stranded. Most of it sits still not from loyalty but because moving is expensive: gas, complexity, the fear of breaking a working position. The obstacle isn't the protocols. It's the cost of passage. We open the route, then earn the stay — measured by what remains after incentives stop, never by what we can rent for a week.

Live — DefiLlama public API, refreshed on this page Pre-launch — unlocks when our own metering ships
Liquidity Held
six reservoirs · over 7d
Flowed Through Us · 30d
routed by Barter · aggregator
Flowed Through Us · 24h
Autopilot adds
Liquidity Rerouted
NOT STARTED
needs: attribution engine + refi router
01

The Reservoirs

live · api.llama.fi

Where the liquidity is currently held. These are well-built products with real users — which is exactly why they are worth learning from. Read this on the Ethereum tab. All-chain totals show six growing reservoirs and no opening; at chain granularity the real movement appears — capital that is already looking for passage.

02

The Passage

three stages · each one earns a longer stay
STAGE 01
Aggregator
passage costs nothing
We already win the fill on six venues, so trying us moves no capital and risks nothing. The only promise here is a better price, shown in basis points saved.
Volume routed · 7d
live · DefiLlama aggregator adapter
STAGE 02
Lending
still water starts earning
Leftover balance enters a fixed rate with a maturity. Duration appears — and with it a reason to stay that isn't a reward: a rate that was chosen and is still running.
Swap → Lend conversion
PRE-LAUNCH
unlocks with the Conduit meter
STAGE 03
Autopilot
it never leaves your wallet
Balances earn where they already sit, self-custody, withdraw any time. Nothing to unwind means nothing to fear — which is why this is the step people keep.
Volume facilitated · 7d
live · in-wallet liquidity
03

Instruments

calibrated · awaiting first cohort
Retention Curve
The number that decides whether this worked. If the lines converge after incentives taper, we earned real users. If the incentivized line falls away, we rented capital. Shown here is our underwriting model — 30% retention, deliberately pessimistic, not a measurement.
ORGANIC · model 71% at day 60 INCENTIVIZED · underwritten at 30%
Budget & Quality
Two dials that can stop the programme. Both read zero until the incentive ledger opens.
Budget Runway
NOT OPEN
days of spend left · alert under 21
Incentive-Chasing Share
NO COHORT
capital likely to leave at taper · watch over 0.40
Verified Share
NO ROSTER
quality-adjusted vs reported wallets
04

Navigator's Log

flow readings + build status