Aqua Unleashes Unified DeFi Liquidity Across 13 Chains

1inch has unveiled Aqua, a new protocol designed to pool liquidity across multiple decentralized finance venues. The problem it addresses is that liquidity often gets fragmented by protocol, making routing less efficient and leaving some pools underutilized.

Aqua works by letting liquidity providers authorize one or more strategies tied to a single wallet inventory. Rather than depositing assets permanently into any specific liquidity pool, the protocol keeps funds in the wallet until trades are settled, using atomic settlement to prevent overextension.

1inch plans to deploy Aqua across multiple chains, including Ethereum and several L2 and alternative networks. The protocol's generalized onchain registry and wallet-backed strategy system are intended to make liquidity coordination more uniform across chains.