In brief
1inch has opened Aqua to all users across 13 EVM chains, eight months after a developer-only release.
Providers approve a wallet balance rather than depositing into a pool, and tokens move only when a swap fills.
Every swap is executed by a verified counterparty, which 1inch calls a first for a liquidity venue.
1inch has opened Aqua, its shared DeFi liquidity layer, to all users, eight months after releasing it to developers only. "he protocol went live on Tuesday across 13 EVM chains, among them Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain. A front end had originally been slated for the first quarter.Billed as "the foundation for scalable, capital-efficient DeFi," Aqua works as a registry rather than a pool. A provider approves a token balance and creates positions that draw on it. Tokens are never deposited into a contract; when a swap matches a position's terms, the protocol pulls them and returns proceeds and fees atomically. Approvals are set per token and per chain, and can be revoked.
