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$30 million of swap volume in 3 days. New record high for 1inch Aqua.
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1️⃣The CLARITY Act will wait until September.
The US Senate did not take up the crypto market-structure bill before its August recess, and the window to pass it this year is narrowing: after the November midterms, moving major legislation becomes much harder.
For DeFi, the stakes go beyond one vote. The current text includes safeguards for software developers and self-custody, and it recognizes that non-custodial software is not a traditional financial intermediary. Some of these protections were narrowed in earlier amendment rounds, which makes preserving the remaining language even more important.
1inch Senior Legal Counsel Maylea Ma argues that an imperfect but protective framework still beats regulatory uncertainty. Agency guidance can flip with a new administration, while legislation is much harder to reverse. In her words:
"The alternative to imperfect-but-enacted is not perfect-but-enacted. It is no law at all."
What happens if the bill stalls and why September becomes the real test – Maylea's full breakdown is on the blog:
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Two weeks of 1inch Aqua: $68.8 million in swap volume.
Shared liquidity works. $100 million next.
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Aqua incentives Q&A live this Thursday: the 1inch team and Merkl answer payout questions on air.
If your rewards show zero, that's the first question on the list. The session covers how the incentive program pays out, when claiming opens and what makes positions fill.
Thursday, August 13, 16:00 UTC on X. Questions go in the replies under the live post, so that's the place to drop yours.
Set a reminder and join:
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1️⃣Locked liquidity is not the same as working liquidity. You can add tokens to a pool, watch TVL grow and still have capital that spends most of its time doing nothing.
Classic AMM pools tie deposits to a single venue. Tokens committed to one pool cannot back trades anywhere else, and they only see activity when that specific pool trades.
1inch Aqua approaches liquidity differently. Tokens stay in your wallet and multiple positions can reference the same balance at once, moving only when a swap actually fills. Instead of measuring how much capital is locked away, Aqua is built around how much value is unlocked: capital actively available for execution across markets.
The new blog post breaks down both models side by side, including why fee distribution in pooled AMMs favors timing over long-term participation:
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Aqua incentives Q&A goes live in one hour.
The 1inch team and Merkl answer payout questions on air: rewards showing zero, claiming timelines, what makes positions fill. Drop yours in the replies under the live post.
16:00 UTC on X:
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1️⃣Fees compensate for risk - but not every risk is worth taking. Volume, APY and "stable" pairs can hide the real economics of an LP position.
Impermanent loss is how AMMs rebalance, not a protocol failure. Arb flow can pad volume while still extracting value from LPs. Depegs turn quiet stable pools into concentrated downside. Protocol risk, emission-funded yields and leftover unlimited approvals sit outside the fee number.
1inch Aqua doesn't remove market risk. It changes one custody piece: liquidity quotes against balances in your wallet, so assets aren't deposited and locked in a pool until a swap fills.
How to assess those trade-offs, and what Aqua changes in the risk equation:
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🦭 We've joined SEAL Safe Harbor. Security has always come first at 1inch.
Now users get an extra layer of protection: authorized whitehats can help rescue funds during active exploits.
https://1inch.com/blog/post/how-white-hat-hackers-help-secure-defi
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1️⃣Your app can now pay for 1inch API access one call at a time.
1inch Business supports pay-per-call access via x402. There is no upfront plan. Your app or agent pays for exactly what it calls, request by request, in USDC on Base. Pricing starts at $0.00018 per call.
Payment happens automatically. The code runs, calls the API and covers its own bill as it goes.
https://business.1inch.com
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$100,000 spread across three vault strategies means three separate allocations. Each strategy works with only part of your capital, regardless of where trading demand actually appears.
That is the trade-off behind liquidity vaults and managers. They automate real work: adjusting positions as markets move, shifting capital between price ranges and rebalancing concentrated positions. What they don't change is where the capital lives. Once assets enter a vault, they are committed to that one strategy, and moving to a better fit means withdrawing, reallocating and redeploying.
1inch Aqua is built around a different assumption. You approve your token balance once, and multiple positions can reference that balance at the same time, while your assets stay in your wallet until a swap fills. Instead of dividing capital before knowing where activity will appear, the same balance can back several markets at once.
Automation and shared liquidity solve different problems, and they can combine: automated strategies could eventually run on top of shared liquidity. As with any form of liquidity provision, Aqua positions carry market risk and fees are not guaranteed.
The new blog post compares the two models in detail, including where vaults still help and what changes when liquidity is shared:
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$100 million+ in swap volume crossed on 1inch Aqua. Launch day closed at $67K.
All of it through positions that stay in your wallet and fill through 1inch routing.
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1️⃣ "We are the infrastructure"
Who is 1inch Aqua built for? 1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz takes 40 seconds to answer – and the answer reaches well beyond DeFi natives. A cut from his latest interview.
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Deciding which way to shift your price range on 1inch Aqua?
It comes down to two things.
See how one balance backs multiple positions on Aqua: 1inch.com/aqua
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1️⃣ When a DeFi exploit starts, funds move in minutes.
The people who can stop it are often white hat hackers: security researchers who act to protect funds, not to steal them. Until now, stepping in meant legal risk. Touching someone else's smart contracts is unauthorized access, whatever the intent.
1inch has joined the SEAL Whitehat Safe Harbor Agreement, adopted through 1inch DAO governance. It gives white hats a clear framework: intervene only during an active exploit, contact the 1inch security team immediately, return recovered funds within 72 hours, and face no legal action from 1inch. Successful rescues earn a bounty of up to $500,000, paid separately after the recovered funds are returned in full.
The new blog post explains how the agreement works and why DeFi security is shifting from prevention alone to active defense:
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Why choosing your range on 1inch Aqua is the most important decision you can make when creating a position.
1inch.com/aqua
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We're co-hosting 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0 on August 25.
Eight early-stage teams pitch to VCs and domain experts, five minutes each, then judge questions. The reward pool runs past $150,000, and our part of it is a custom 1inch API plan worth $5,000.
Registration is open if you want to watch:
https://luma.com/mie9hpvt
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A higher daily reward per $1K deposited can make one Aqua track look like the obvious choice. That number alone can be misleading.
See what to check before choosing a track on Merkl.
https://1inch.com/aqua/incentives
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When your plan quota runs out, your Swap API calls stop.
x402 pay-per-call on 1inch Business keeps them running. $0.00024 per call, with zero infrastructure fee on top of the per-call price. Settled in USDC on Base.
Pay only for what you use.
https://business.1inch.com/portal/documentation/payment-methods/x402
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Coinbase Tokenized Stocks are live on Base.
1inch is one of the first aggregators to route trades across them, from day one.
Excluding the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Singapore, Switzerland and other restricted jurisdictions
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"I got sandwiched by providing liquidity."
1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz shares his own LP story: a Uniswap position, a price-impact setting left too high and a bot that jumped in before every big trade to catch the fees.
Pooled AMMs share one fee pot, and that is what makes the move possible. On 1inch Aqua each position has a single owner and no shared pot, so there is nothing to slip into.
57 seconds on where LP fees actually go.
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Pooled AMMs share one fee pot. A bot can front-run a big swap by a block, grab the liquidity for that moment and skim fees off the LPs already sitting there. Up to 44% of LP fees, gone.
1inch Aqua is JIT protected by design. One owner per position, nothing external slips in, no shared fee to snipe.
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1 · 644 · ReplyPooled AMMs share one fee pot. A bot can front-run a big swap by a block, grab the liquidity for that moment and skim fees off the LPs already sitting there. Up to 44% of LP fees, gone.
1inch Aqua is JIT protected by design. One owner per position, nothing external slips in, no shared fee to snipe.
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😇Unlimited approval: that's what the dApp sets today when you approve a token for Aqua, the shared liquidity layer. Fair question: does it actually need to be that big?
It doesn't. Aqua works with any allowance. Fills spend it as they execute; if it covers less than your position size, the uncovered part doesn't trade.
An approval authorizes; it doesn't move funds. Tokens sit in your wallet and leave only when a swap fills against one of your positions.
One mechanic to know: if an open position needed more than your wallet held, tokens you add later can be used to fill it too. Keep that in mind when topping up a wallet with open positions.
Two ways to revoke: in the dApp when you close a position, or anytime through revoke.cash. That's also the place to check your approvals.
Aqua has been audited by eight independent teams including OpenZeppelin, Hexens and Decurity, but it's new. Smart-contract risk remains.
Your open positions are in the dApp: http://1inch.com/aqua
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1️⃣ $82.28M in eligible volume in one week: Aqua Season 1 epoch 3 is settled.
The numbers for Aug 18–25 (UTC):
· $82.28M in eligible volume
· 22,935 swaps
· 284 makers
· 625,000 1INCH + 62,500 USDC distributed (≈$120K)
ETH & LSTs led with $34.24M in volume, stablecoins came right behind at $33.44M.
Rewards are distributed weekly, pro rata to eligible volume. The current epoch runs until Sep 1.
Season 1 details and claiming: https://1inch.com/aqua/incentives
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1️⃣A Dutch auction that never dropped its price. Two separate researchers found it, from two separate angles, while Aqua was still pre-launch – and it is the clearest example of what a bug bounty is for.
Dutch auctions on Aqua start high and decay until a taker fills the order. Except the decay never ran. Xmanuel found that the decay factor was declared as a uint32, a number type too small for the 18-decimal precision the formula expected. The value was silently truncated and every decay curve came out flat. Bz went deeper and found that both balance instructions behind the auctions were non-functional. Makers who thought their orders were pricing themselves down over time were actually posting static limit orders, exposed for their whole lifetime to takers with better information. Both reports were paid as separate findings.
The only High of the half was sharper. Z3rco showed that MakerTraits hook flags are encoded one way and interpreted another during execution. A taker who crafted the encoding carefully could redirect maker funds inside a normal-looking swap. The report came with a working proof of concept. It was paid and resolved, and the fix is linked in the report.
None of this waited for launch. The bounty opened while Aqua was pre-launch: between January and June, 217 researchers filed 472 reports. Nine findings were paid and resolved: one High, one Medium, seven Low. Eight are broken down publicly, each with its commit.
Aqua is audited by eight independent teams including OpenZeppelin, Hexens and Decurity. The bounty runs on top of the audits, for what they might miss.
The full report walks through all eight public findings: https://hackenproof.com/blog/1inch-bug-bounty-report-h1-2026
The program is still open and critical findings pay up to $100,000: https://hackenproof.com/programs/1inch-aqua
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