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What Is DeFi Liquidity? How Liquidity Pools and AMMs Work

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2026-04-23
What Is DeFi Liquidity? How Liquidity Pools and AMMs Work

DeFi liquidity explained for builders and enterprises: how liquidity pools replace order books, how the x·y=k AMM formula works, and what Uniswap v4 hooks change about custom liquidity logic.

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