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Liquidity

How easily you can trade an amount without moving the price a lot.

Liquidity is not a virtue score. It is whether there are willing buyers and sellers near the current price. A token can have a pretty chart and still be hard to exit. Thin liquidity plus a large sell is how “down 90%” happens in an afternoon.

In DeFi, providing liquidity to a pool is a job with its own risks, including the price of the two assets drifting apart. It is not a savings account.

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