Reservoir documentationProtocol proposal · Updated 8 Sep 2026
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LIQUIDITY

Pools & ownership

How protocol capital and user positions can coexist without sharing ownership of principal.

6 min readProposal & demo documentation

What is a liquidity pool?

An automated market maker holds liquidity for two assets and lets traders swap between them. A liquidity position specifies capital and, for concentrated liquidity, the price interval over which that capital participates. Fees depend on the actual swaps served by active liquidity.

Reservoir proposes markets such as USDG / RESERVE and NVDA / RESERVE. A stock ticker alone does not verify the asset: the live application must identify canonical token addresses on the correct chain.

The pool is shared. Principal is not.

OwnerSource of principalFee destination
ProtocolThe liquidity allocation of creator feesProtocol reward accounting after costs
Community LPA user’s deposited assetsThat user’s position fee balance

What a direct deposit should give you

The live implementation creates a V3 position NFT owned directly by your wallet. It does not transfer your position to the protocol treasury. Your LP fees belong to that NFT.

The wallet owner can collect tokens and remove liquidity through the position manager independently of this website. Reservoir’s live interface supports full withdrawals and exact token approvals. The currently deployed demo uses local example positions.

Why TVL share is only an approximation

Real concentrated-liquidity fee attribution depends on active liquidity, ranges and fee growth. Two positions with the same dollar value can earn different amounts. A position outside its active price range may earn no swap fees.

The demo deliberately uses equal-value deposits, fixed prices and equivalent full-range positions. Under those simplified assumptions, dollar share represents liquidity share. Do not use the demo formula as a production concentrated-liquidity calculation.

ILLUSTRATIVE ACCOUNTINGDemo position share = your position value ÷ (protocol position value + your position value)

The example markets

Six candidate markets appear in the app: USDG, NVDA, AAPL, TSLA, MSFT and SPY, each paired with RESERVE. Their fixed protocol positions total $240,000. Your local demo deposits are shown in addition to that amount.

A uniform 0.30% swap fee and $328,000 combined sample daily volume produce $984 of illustrative gross LP fees per simulated epoch. These are scenario inputs, not observed market data.

Community fees are not diverted

The demo assumes no additional management or performance fee on a personal LP position. That is an example policy, not a promise of final launch pricing. Any future protocol charges must be disclosed separately before deposit.

Primary sources

External documentation was checked on 8 September 2026. Availability and contract details must be verified again before launch.

Uniswap liquidity overviewRobinhood canonical token contracts