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What is DEX exchange?
A DEX exchange is an asset trading exchange where transactions take place directly between users. This is a rather old definition, and nowadays they work a bit differently: in Ston.fi users deposit their funds into liquidity pools, providing the automated systems of the exchange with their funds, and earning a percentage from their investments, due to the difference in buy/sell rates.
Unlike centralized exchanges (CEX), decentralized exchanges do not have access to the user’s funds, which provides greater security and anonymity. No one can guarantee you that CEX exchanges can not sell your personal data, or block accounts, and DEX exchanges, fortunately for us there is no such possibility.
Ston.fi is a DEX exchange that provides anonymity, convenience and security of cryptocurrency exchange, as well as access to liquidity pools and staking programs for multiplying funds.
Let's speak about liqiudity pools and staking programs. How much can you earn in Binance's staking programs? 10 APR? 20? It's all immaterial. You can earn much more at Ston.fi. For example let's look on stable liquidity pool - TON/USDT.

67.64% Farm APR for safe tokens. That's a lot more than Binance offers. Okay, now let's figure out what a liquidity pool is.
What is a liquidity pool?
Aliquidity pool is funds fixed in a smart contract to accelerate transactions and stabilize prices. Liquidity pool providers are automated market makers (AMMs), such as STON.fi.
It’s still too complicated. Let’s make an analogy: you have 10 TON and you want to buy STON with them. At the current exchange rate (1 STON = 2.0591 TON), you would get 4.856 STON as a result of the exchange. If AMM did not exist, during the exchange you could buy out the last best offer for 1 TON at the price (2.0591 TON), and because of that, the other 9 TON would be sold at the worst and most importantly unpredictable price, let’s say 2.18 TON. STON.fi solves this problem by automatically providing an offer at the original price, and thanks to this, each of your STONs is bought at 2.0591 TON, and the amount of cryptocurrency received is known in advance.
To realize the operation described in the previous paragraph, funds are needed to create new offers at the old price for a particular user. These funds are invested by users in liquidity pools.
As a rule, users can earn on liquidity pools, so how is it that the exchange creates new offers at an unprofitable price for it?
Unfavorable price in this case is a wrong expression, because in liquidity pools the user provides the exchange with both currencies of the pair (TON/STON) in the price equivalent of 1 to 1. This means that they control both sides of the transaction, and losing on one half, they earn on the other. The user’s earnings, in turn, come from AMM commissions.

Guide to making money from STON.fi liquidity pools
Dowload a TON wallet. For example MyTon Wallet
Go to Ston.fi website. In the upper panel, select the Pools tab.

Choose the pool you like and click on it.

Click on the Connect Wallet button and follow the prompts on the screen. Only non-custodial wallets are suitable: TonKeeper, Ton Space, MyTonWallet.
After connecting the wallet, press the Add liquidity button.
Enter the amount of cryptocurrency you want to deposit into the pool. Remember that you need to have both cryptocurrencies of the pair and funds to pay for the transfer of both cryptocurrencies to the liquidity pool account.
Add liquidity and confirm transactions in the wallet.
If the pool you have selected has the Farm scroll down the pool page and provide your LP tokens (LP tokens - tokens that confirm your participation in the liquidity pool, transferred to your account automatically and hidden by the wallet) to Farm position.
Done!
Recommended reading:
https://guide.ston.fi/en/what-is-liquidity-pool
https://guide.ston.fi/en/how-to-withdraw-funds-from-a-liquidity-pool

In the beginning, USD Ethena or $USDe was built on the Ethereum blockchain, but due to the strong growth of the coin's capitalization, a massive expansion to other blockchains began. And it's not just spreading for the sake of spreading, it's necessary, as USD Ethena is currently the fastest growing USD-related asset in terms of capitalization.
USDe itself is a synthetic crypto-dollar created for digital transactions to replace $USDT, which has recently had some problems with United States legislation. They may not be particularly serious, but there are issues.
$USDC is better in this respect, but it has fully taken root only on Solana, and a huge part of its capitalization is concentrated on this blockchain, and advertising programs and special factors for the retention of coins leave much to be desired.
USDe copes with both of these problems at once, firstly, despite the huge capitalization of $7.44B it has a program Ethena Points, which attracts people to the coin and provides growth of capitalization, and the coin has no problems with the legislation.
The coin was recently added to the leading AMM of the TON blockchain - STONfi, as well as the Ethena Points program, which is currently available in the USDT/USDe pool, along with the stableswap technology, which ensures minimal slippage by using special technology to swap stablecoins.
Read more here:
ethena.ston.fi

The coin was previously not particularly attractive due to the upcoming unlocks, but now - they are behind us and the coin now makes sense for holding.
STON is the main coin of the main DEX blockchain $TON - STONfi:
> Price: $1.06
> Market cap: 1.06M
> Circulating supply: 1M STON
> Total supply: 100M STON

Staking with rewards in GEMSTON directly on STONfi is available, but in my opinion this is far from the best option available, as the price of GEMSTON is currently low.
All thanks to the support of the coin in liquidity pools on the STONfi product itself, there are several liquidity pools with special rules:
> STON/USDT
The special feature of the liquidity pool is the IL offset, which compensates up to 5.72% of non-permanent losses, which corresponds to a twofold change in the price of the coin. This ensures more stable liquidity management and risk coverage in liquidity pools.
> STON/TON WCPI
The special feature of the pool is the nonstandard ratio of tokens in the pool. Specifically in this pool tokens are distributed 70/30, which provides more complete ownership of STON with less dependence on TON.

For quite some time now, memecoins on the $TON blockchain have been quite volatile and have kept their price level. The most interesting thing about them is the supply of liquidity, as you can expect their growth for quite a long time, simply because at the moment the activity on $TON is at a rather low level.
To give you an idea, I have gathered information about the liquidity pools on the main DEX of the $TON blockchain - STONfi:
> FPIBANK | TON /// At the moment the APR is 36%, on average 54% and in moments of activity can exceed 500%. The memecoin itself is quite interesting, as it is the most prominent entry from the Blum platform.
> VILARSO | TON /// At the moment the APR is 22%, on average 32%, and in moments of activity it can reach 300%. Also quite an interesting memecoin with Blum Memepad, which is still attracting user interest.
- mur

Liquidity pools are still the most optimal places to store tokens, and on the main DEX of the STONfi blockchain, many pools also offer improved rewards through farming technology, which provides a stable daily reward that is shared among all liquidity providers regardless of the swap volumes in pools.
Here are the most interesting pools on STONfi at the moment:
> FPIBANK/TON /// FPIBANK is still the most interesting memecoin on TON at the moment, so the APR in the pool keeps around 30% in normal situations and rises up to 500% in moments of activity.
> BabyDoge/TON /// BabyDoge is a memecoin from the BSC blockchain that has its own bridges with TON and Solana. It is on STONfi APR is the highest among DEX on other blockchains, which is currently at 627%
> MAJOR/TON /// Also quite an interesting coin, the APR stays in the 30%---90% range, and the developers are not hammering away at the coin, unlike the developers of the much popular NOT

At the moment $TON is one of the best fundamental coins, due to the fact that the price is at a low level, but the development of the blockchain continues, for example recently on its main DEX added USDe - Ethena USD, a coin that is one of the strongest USD synthesized with a fairly rapid growth in capitalization.

Ethena Points are accumulated on STONfi for liquidity supply and staking, which in the future may well guarantee a good Airdrop, as well as in the USDE/USDT pool there is WCPI technology, thanks to which the pool has special rules established for interaction with pairs in which both coins are interlinked, such as TON/tsTON.

For a long time now, the usual token hold has not been particularly profitable, especially for highly volatile coins, simply because there are now many ways to combine the hold with coin multiplication.
Such options include:
Staking
I love the $TON blockchain, so I'll tell you about it. The main staking opportunity here is tsTON, which is currently the main staking token. The main interest of this token is that in addition to the main staking it can be put into a wtableswap pool on STON.fi with active farming and the main APR of liquidity pool - tsTON/TON.
Liquidity Pools
Unlike staking liquidity pools are available for absolutely all tokens available on DEX and their APR depends on swap volumes in the selected pair. Especially volatile coins with low TVL have quite high APR, for example PX/USDT on STON.fi APR is 43%.
Farming
DEX works in such a way that after liquidity providing gives new, so-called LP-tokens, for which staking is also available, which is commonly called farming. With farming liquidity providers who put their LP-tokens into a smart contract will share a fixed reward daily. For example ECOR/TON on STON.fi has more than 1000% APR.

$TON rise from $2.9 to $3.6 in less than a week, indicating that the blockchain continues to attract new people and large holders. Since liquidity is cyclical and blockchain coins have not yet had time to react to the rise of the major coin, it will be pretty good to be a liquidity provider for a while.

I've picked up some good pools on the blockchain's main DEX, STON.fi, which are performing well so far:

tsTON/TON | 9.87% APR
The main attraction of this pool is triple APR due to wstableswap technology. You can put liquidity in it in one ratio, and the best solution is to put liquidity in tsTON token to get APR from staking, which is built into tsTON. Another 2 sources of APR are classic LP-share and farming from STON.fi

TON/USDT | 17% APR
Here is some cosmic APR for the main pair of the blockchain. On other blockchains, such a pair brings at most a couple percent APR, but STON.fi has different rules, so this pool on STON.fi looks pretty good.

MAJOR/TON | 105% APR
MAJOR is the most interesting coin on the blockchain, which unlike #Notcoin continues to grow, and the APR in the pool favors holders who provide liquidity.

In addition to the tsTON/$TON pair on STON.fi was introduced wstableswap system, which provides the best conditions for pairs with coins whose prices depend linearly on each other and adapting to the market was introduced farming, the APR of which is currently 7.88%.

Also wstableswap technology allows to supply coins in any ratio, and thus tsTON/TON pool on STON.fi is very interesting, due to the fact that it summarizes three systems with good APR for this situation:

1. You continue to get rewards for staking tsTON even if it is put into the liquidity pool. Especially if you use WSS delivery and put most of the liquidity in tsTON.

2. For providing liquidity, in addition to the APR of tsTON you get the normal APR from the liquidity pool at the expense of LP-share

3. The coolest thing is farming: for liquidity providing, you get LP-tokens that can be placed in farming, and it will not interfere with other APR sources.

A long time ago, back in the days of #Notcoin listing, the above DEXs shared TVL and blockchain volumes almost equally, with a slight edge on the blue side. But, then STON.fi set off a chain of events that effectively canceled out the need for DeDust.

Blum Memepad was the core changer in my opinion. It is the largest blockchain memecoin lunchepad, and coins created on it that have reached high capitalization are migrating to STON.fi. So DeDust lost the memecoin segment of the blockchain, which is quite large at the moment.

After that, DeDust continued to live, but with each passing day, interest in it kept dropping and dropping, and meaningful updates kept passing by. At the same time, smart contracts were updated on STON.fi, and the interface became a bit faster and a bit more user-friendly, and interest among liquidity providers was maintained by high APRs, which arose due to the constant upgrading of programs.

STON.fi also introduced a great improvement - now only one token from a pair is enough to supply liquidity, and smart contracts will do the rest thanks to Arbitrary Provision.

But, the end for DeDust came recently: STON.fi has implemented Omniston protocol in beta, which aggregates liquidity from the entire blockchain, provides ZERO slippage and the best rate on the entire blockchain.

TVL currently demonstrates this perfectly:
- STON.fi's TVL is more than 3 times larger than DeDust's TVL