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In this article, I want to tell you about the STON.fi DEX. If you want to learn more about each section, follow the relevant links or look for articles in my profile.
What is STON.fi?
STON.fi is an AMM DEX exchange built on the TON blockchain.
What is a DEX?
DEX (Decentralized Exchange) is a decentralized exchange where users can trade cryptocurrency directly with each other without intermediaries like centralized exchanges (CEX). All operations are conducted via smart contracts on the blockchain.
Key benefits of DEX:
When using a DEX, your tokens remain in your wallet, and you have full access to them.DEXs are not controlled by governments and operate independently.
What is an AMM DEX?
AMM DEX (Automated Market Maker Decentralized Exchange) is a decentralized exchange that operates based on automated market makers.
Instead of a classic order book like on centralized exchanges (CEX), AMM uses smart contracts and liquidity pools to execute trades. (Read more in the Liquidity Pools section).
Benefits of STON.fi 🚀
● Low Fees. STON.fi charges a 0.3% fee per transaction. Of this, 0.2% is returned to the liquidity pool and distributed among liquidity providers, while 0.1% goes to STON.fi.
● Minimal Slippage. STON.fi is the #1 DEX on TON in terms of liquidity, ensuring minimal slippage during trades.
● Built on the TON Blockchain. The platform leverages TON, one of the most advanced blockchains today, offering low fees and high TPS (transactions per second).
● Integration with Telegram. Trade directly from Telegram using the @STONfi_bot, seamlessly integrated with the messenger.
● Compatibility with TON Wallets. STON.fi supports all TON wallets, including TON Space.
● User-Friendly Interface. The platform features an intuitive and easy-to-navigate design.
Achievements 🏆
STON.fi’s TVL is $150,000,000 (DefiLlama), accounting for 50% of TON total TVL.
The all-time high TVL of STON.fi was $370,000,000!!!
According to CryptoRank and DappRadar, STON.fi ranked 5th among the most popular decentralized exchanges across all blockchains. Over the past month, more than 430,000 users have used the platform.
STON.fi has twice secured the top spot in the DYOR Dapps DEX ranking.
Problems of DeFi ⚠️
Lack of Cross-Chain Compatibility
The lack of compatibility between different blockchains complicates asset transfers across networks, limiting users’ access to new trading and investment opportunities.
Risk of Asset Loss
Transferring crypto assets between blockchains requires trusting third-party custodians or exchanges, which can be vulnerable to hacks and attacks. This puts funds at risk and may lead to financial losses.
High Costs and Delays
The process of converting crypto assets is often expensive and slow, adding further challenges for users.
STON.fi aims to address all these issues!
Goals of STON.fi 🎯
STON.fi mission is to make access to financial services simple and fair for everyone, regardless of their location. STON.fi aims to create a decentralized platform for cross-blockchain trading that provides a secure and reliable way to trade cryptocurrencies without restrictions imposed by banks or centralized exchanges.
STON.fi seeks to solve the problem of cross-blockchain swaps by implementing a Request for Quote (RFQ) protocol based on DeFi using Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLC) to execute such trades. This solution eliminates the need for additional layers, intermediaries, or third parties. This approach minimizes user risks associated with security breaches and significantly speeds up transactions.

Let’s explore the features that are already available on STON.fi.
Token Swaps 🔄
You can swap tokens on the TON blockchain, allowing you to participate in numerous projects.
Guide on how to swap tokens
Liquidity Pools 💧
Liquidity pools are reserves of tokens provided by users so that others can trade cryptocurrency on decentralized exchanges (DEX). Instead of searching for a buyer or seller, users simply exchange tokens with the pool, and liquidity providers earn fees for their contributions to these pools. This enables trading without centralized intermediaries.
Guid on how to Provide Liquidity on STON.fi
Everything About Providing Liquidity on STON.fi

Farming 🌱
Farming is designed to ensure that a specific liquidity pool has sufficient funds. This allows users to trade tokens in larger volumes without worrying about price impact.In farming, you can earn significantly higher rewards compared to just providing liquidity, which motivates liquidity providers to supply liquidity.
To add your assets to farming, you first need to provide liquidity to the corresponding pool with the Farm tag and then add this liquidity (LP tokens) to farming.
How to Farm on STON.fi
Everything About Farming on STON.fi
Staking 💎
Staking the STON token on STON.fi gives you voting rights in the DAO governance protocol. For staking, you will receive the ARKENSTON NFT and GEMSTON tokens, depending on the amount and duration of your STON tokens staked.Currently, the DAO governance protocol is under development.
How to Stake on STON.fi
Everything About Staking on STON.fi and How DAO Works on the DEX

Conclusion:
DeFi platforms are far from perfect and have their own challenges. STON.fi aims to address these and become the DEX of the future — a cross-chain DEX with zero trust, providing secure, fast, and transparent digital asset trading.
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STON.fi social networks:

Twitter - @ston_fi Telegram - @stonfidex Reddit - r/STONFi

Here are the guides on how to get them. If you have free stablecoins, these airdrops are just for you🚀.
Airdrop from Ton Foundation🧙
To participate, you need to buy tsUSDe tokens (available on STON.fi) and hold them in your wallet. For this, you receive 10% APY in $TON for holding them for 16 weeks, rewards are paid weekly. Additionally, you get the tsUSDe rate itself — currently 6.7% APY.
Criteria👇:
• You must hold at least 10 tsUSDe and 10 TON in your wallet.
• Maximum deposit per wallet is 10,000 tsUSDe.
Airdrop from Ethena🕵️
Here your task is to farm points for which the drop will eventually be given.
You can farm points just by holding tsUSDe in your wallet, but providing liquidity to the USDT/USDe and USDe/tsUSDe pools on STON.fi gives 6 times more points📈.
To receive this airdrop, I recommend holding tokens specifically in the USDe/tsUSDe pool, as any impermanent losses that may occur are completely covered by the pool’s APR. At the same time, you get 6.7% APY from tsUSDe, and the pool itself is weighted USDe(25%) / tsUSDe (75%) which is very convenient for farming this reward.
‼️It’s very important to delegate your rewards in advance from your TON wallet to your EVM wallet. You can do this on Ethena’s official website in the “Delegation” tab. Final rewards will be sent specifically to your EVM wallet on the Ethereum blockchain.

If you want to focus on the airdrop from Ton Foundation, then just hold tsUSDe in your wallet. That way you participate in both airdrops, though to a lesser extent in Ethena’s. But don’t forget to delegate your rewards!

In the future☝️, when you want to withdraw your USDe from staking (tsUSDe), you should not swap but specifically unstake them with a 7-day lock to avoid losing extra yield. You can do this here - (ethena,ston,fi).
#BTC $NOT $DOGS #Telegram

What is NotGames🤔?
NotGames is basically Steam, but inside #Telegram , made for Telegram-based games. It includes player profiles, inventories, and most importantly — a marketplace (not live yet) that will allow users to trade skins, collectibles, and more with each other. All trading will be done on the $TON blockchain via NFTs.
Void, Notpixel, Disk Trickster are already part of NotGames🎮, and Lost Dogs and Hitoku will join soon.
Various fees on NotGames will be paid in the $NOT token. This introduces a new utility⚙ for the token and is expected to significantly increase its value.
If you're already a #NOT token holder, I’d recommend not just holding it in your wallet like everyone else, but instead putting it in the NOT/TON pool on STON.fi with 40% APR📈 — it’s the best way to maximize your holding.
How to earn instead of losing on STON.fi liquidity pools?

#notcoin #notgames

I’ve researched all the ways to earn from it — even without joining the competition 🧐.
Join the tournament🎮
Notpixel is giving away 1,000,000 PX (worth $100,000), split across five prize categories. But based on current info, I see real potential in just one of them.
Personally, I’m interested in the category for the top 512 players who buy the most 1 PX-priced pixels. This category gets 20% of the total prize pool.
It’s basically low risk📉 if you buy pixels at the right time and in the right spots. I’d recommend focusing near the center of the canvas. The canvas starts at 128x128 and expands to 1024x1024 as pixels sell out, so buying for 1 PX will be easy — especially if you start early.
Why is it low risk☝️? Because when you buy a pixel for 1 PX early on, another player will likely buy it for 2 PX. You get 1.5 PX back (after a 25% fee), so you’re already profiting.
Rewards in this category will range from 1124 PX (for 1st place) down to 246 PX (for 512th place) — and may be higher📈, since 10% from every trade goes into the prize pool.
Invite friends🗣️
Referrers get 10% of the commission from each trade. If your friend sells a pixel for 100 PX, you get 10 PX. The best part is that old referrals count too — so if you’ve ever shared your Notpixel link on #Telegram, now’s a good time to remind followers about the tournament.
Provide liquidity🧐
The easiest and most passive way to earn during the tournament is to provide liquidity for PX pairs on the DEX STON.fi. PX already pumped 20% on tournament hype🚀, boosting volumes — which means more fees and higher APR for LPs. I recommend the PX/USDT pool — it’s showing 135% APR, and the tournament hasn’t even started yet. The pool averaged a steady 75% APR last month, so it might be a solid long-term hold too.
How to earn instead of losing on STON.fi liquidity pools?

#BTC #TON $TON $NOT

XAUt0 is already trading on the DEX STON.fi, so you can buy the token directly there🚀. Liquidity pools XAUt0/TON and XAUt0/USDT have also been launched. At the moment, there's not much liquidity in them, but token swaps are fast and error-free.
The XAUt0 token currently has a market cap of 143K on the $TON blockchain.
In general☝️, gold tokenization in crypto has gone almost unnoticed, even though it’s such a useful tool for diversifying your portfolio. In fact, anything can be tokenized — gold is just the most obvious example.

How about tokenizing art, cars, or wine?
#GOLD #Tokenization

with a prize pool of 1,000,000 $PX.
The tournament hasn’t started yet, but here’s what we know so far👇:
Players will compete by buying pixels on a canvas. Each pixel starts at 1 PX. After every sale, the price of that pixel doubles — this is enforced by the smart contract.
You can’t control the sale or the price of your own pixel — anyone can buy it at any time.
The 1,000,000 PX (~$100,000) prize pool will be distributed as follows👇:
🔹1% — goes to the owner(s) of the most expensive pixel(s).
🔹10% — shared between the last 512 pixel buyers when the tournament ends.
🔹20% — goes to the 512 players who end up holding the most pixels.
🔹30% — goes to the 512 players who bought the most 1 PX-priced pixels.
🔹39% — split between 16 squads (64 top players each) with the most total pixel owners. Switching squads resets your squad leaderboard progress.

All pixel purchases and sales happen on the $TON blockchain via NFTs. When someone buys a pixel, the previous owner receives 75% of its sale price.
The remaining 25% is split as follows👇:
🔹10% — Tournament Bank (increasing the prize pool).
🔹10% — Referrers who invited you to Notpixel (lifetime).
🔹5% — Burn.
There is no official launch date yet☝️, but I expect it to happen within the next 10 days.

If you’d rather sell shovels than dig for gold🧐, you can provide liquidity to the PX/USDT pool on DEX STON.fi. It’s returned 77% APR over the past month and it’s likely to rise even more📈during the tournament, as most volume is expected to flow through this pair rather than PX/TON.
How to earn instead of losing on STON.fi liquidity pools?
What are liquidity pools and how do they work?

#Notpixel #Notcoin #TON

To make money from STON.fi liquidity pools, you need to understand all the factors that affect a pool’s APR. With this knowledge, you can decide whether providing liquidity is worth it.
Volume📊
Trading volume in a pair is key to APR. But be careful: volume might spike for a day due to news and then drop. Always check the average APR over the past month for a more stable picture. If your goal is to farm while APR is temporarily high, shorting the token might help hedge risk if you care only about APR and not token price.
Fee💸
Swap fees in pools range from 0.04% to 1% and are shown in each pool. The higher the fee, the more you earn from each swap, meaning higher APR. This is a key factor for steady high APR.
Liquidity 💧
 Some pools have very little liquidity, which can boost APR, while others are overhyped with too much liquidity, resulting in low APR not worth the risk.
Reinvesting💰
You can turn APR into APY by reinvesting your liquidity monthly. Withdraw and redeposit it to compound your earnings. Use an APR to APY calculator. STON.fi doesn’t charge fees for adding or removing liquidity. You only pay TON network fees, around 2 TON/year under normal conditions.
Impermanent loss 📉
 Always consider potential impermanent loss. When I provide liquidity, I try to estimate the direction of token prices and subtract expected loss from APR to get a net APR including risks.
Use the STON.fi impermanent loss calculator. Search on Google: "STON.fi impermanent-loss-calculator".
Example🔍

I like the PX/USDT pool with a 75% average monthly APR and a 0.7% swap fee. Liquidity is lower ($42k) than PX/TON ($840k), which boosts APR. If I reinvest monthly, 75% APR becomes 97.38% APY.
Since USDT is stable, I only consider PX volatility. I believe PX will 2.5x from $0.084 this year. I enter this into the impermanent loss calculator.

Then, I subtract 8.72% potential loss from 97.38%, giving me 88.66% net APY with risks included.
Keep in mind APR fluctuates and even a monthly average isn’t perfect. But here, APR more than covers the risks, so I believe it’s worth providing liquidity. 
Note: I didn’t include $TON network fees in the reinvesting estimate.

Other guides👇
What are liquidity pools and how do they work?
#TON #Telegram #STONfi #Pool #DEX

Liquidity pools are needed for automated trading on DEX. Liquidity providers supply liquidity to the pools after which this liquidity is used for trading📊.
For example on DEX STON.fi there is a NOT/TON pool if you provide liquidity to this pool you become a liquidity provider. And if someone swaps tokens in this pair NOT➜TON or TON➜NOT they will use your liquidity and pay a fee💸 and part of these fees you will receive.

Impermanent loss😓
Impermanent loss occurs if from the moment you provided liquidity to the pool the assets have changed their value significantly relative to each other .
For example you provided liquidity to the NOT/TON pool and NOT went up or down 2 times while TON didn’t change its value in that case you will lose 5.72% of your assets. If NOT returns to its previous value the impermanent loss will disappear.
If the assets move in opposite directions for example NOT drops📉 and TON rises📈 then the impermanent loss will increase even faster. But if they rise or fall together impermanent loss will not occur.
To clearly understand how much you can lose due to impermanent loss try the impermanent loss calculator from STON.fi. In Google search: «STON.fi impermanent-loss-calculator».
Impermanent loss cannot occur in liquidity pools with equally valued assets in the pair. For example: tsTON/TON, USDe/USDT.

Other guides👇

How to earn instead of losing on STON.fi liquidity pools?

How to provide liquidity on STON.fi ?

#TON $TON $NOT $DOGS

I’ve noticed that many people don’t understand how to properly analyze pool yield and the potential risks. Because of this they just hold tokens in their wallet or stake them with long lockups missing out on the chance to earn extra profit📈.
So here’s a quick guide for you on liquidity pools using STON.fi the DEX on $TON as an example🧙‍♂️.
Profit
First it’s important to know that liquidity providers earn profit from the fees collected when users swap tokens in a given pair🔁. Your income depends on the trading volume in your pool and the fee percentage you get per swap. You can see the fee rate directly in the pool.
Also if more liquidity is added to the pool your APR will drop and vice versa. That’s why it’s best to look at the average APR over at least one month☝️.
RISK
The only additional risk you take when providing liquidity is impermanent loss. It happens when one token in the pair moves significantly in price compared to the other📊. For example if you provide liquidity to the NOT/TON pool and NOT drops or rises 2x while TON stays flat you lose about 5% of your assets. If $NOT returns to its original price that loss disappears.
🕹️ Play around with an impermanent loss calculator online to better understand these risks.
But if you choose the right pool the APR can easily cover those risks. Let’s look at an example👇.
Example

The PX/USDT pool has decent volume and a 0.7% swap fee. Because of this the average APR over the past month is 79% . I believe that #PX token has 2x growth potential🚀. So 79% minus a potential 5% impermanent loss equals 74% net APR. And if reinvest rewards every month you can realistically get up to 100% APR(APY).
By the way this pool is much more profitable than #Notpixel official staking which offers 24% APY😅.
To reinvest your rewards you need to withdraw all your liquidity and redeposit it. STON.fi doesn’t charge any fee for doing this.
Best liquidity pools on STON.fi
Drop your questions in the comments👇!
#TON

Out of that, $3.3 billion came from CEXs and $2 billion from bridges.

To put it simply, the root cause of these hacks is centralization. For bridges, this usually involves the collateral that backs wrapped tokens💸. Since early 2023, bridges with wrapped tokens have lost popularity, which is why the number of hacks has also decreased.
So what makes DEXs secure, and what can replace bridges🤔?
Take DEX STON.fi as an example. All trades on it are executed through smart contracts on the blockchain. If the contract is written correctly, it can’t be hacked — unless someone hacks the $TON blockchain itself.
STON.fi is also actively developing cross-chain swaps without bridges or wrapped tokens. Instead, it uses HTLC and RFQ👇.
◾HTLC ensures atomic swaps — either both users receive tokens or neither does.
◾RFQ eliminates slippage by locking in the trade price in advance.
This setup removes all centralized elements from the system. All swaps happen peer-to-peer through smart contracts, giving users strong security and full control📈.
#DEX #CEX #defi
#BTC #ETH