
Liquidity Module
the Liquidity module of the Cosmos-SDK, which serves AMM(Automated Market Makers) style decentralized liquidity providing and coin swap functions.
The module enable anyone to create a liquidity pool, deposit or withdraw coins from the liquidity pool, and request coin swap to the liquidity pool.
This module will be used in the Cosmos Hub, and any other blockchain based on Cosmos-SDK.
- The Cosmos Hub AMM should have strong philosophy of inclusiveness of users from different blockchains because its prime utility is inter-blockchain communication
- To possess such characteristics, the Liquidity module should provide most convenient ways for external users to come in and use the services provided by the Cosmos Hub
- The Liquidity module should not anticipate specific assets, such as Atom, into the process of user-flow in a forced manner. It is repeatedly proved that unnatural anticipation of native coin at unavoidable parts of process resulting in poor user attraction
Key features

Combination of Traditional Orderbook-based Model and New AMM Model
- Although new AMM model has multiple advantages over orderbook-based model,
combination of both models will create more enriched utilities for wider potential users
- We re-define the concept of a “swap order” in AMM as a “limit order with short lifetime”
in an orderbook-based exchange. Then, two concepts from two different models can be
combined as one united model so that the function can provide both ways to participate
into the trading and liquidity providing activities
- Although our first version of the Liquidity module will not provide limit order option, but
the base structure of the codebase is already anticipating such feature expansion in
near future
- Advantages of combined model
- More freedom on how to provide liquidity : Limit orders
- Combination of pool liquidity and limit order liquidity provides users more enriched trading environment
For detailed Mechanism, you can find on our recent Paper
Installation
Requirements
Requirement |
Notes |
Go version |
Go1.15 or higher |
Cosmos-SDK |
v0.41.3 |
Get Liquidity Module source code
$ git clone https://github.com/tendermint/liquidity.git
$ cd liquidity
$ go mod tidy
Build
$ make build
You can find the liquidityd
binary on build/
Install
$ make install
liquidityd
Tx
$ ./liquidityd tx liquidity --help
Liquidity transaction subcommands
Usage:
liquidityd tx liquidity [flags]
liquidityd tx liquidity [command]
Available Commands:
create-pool Create Liquidity pool with the specified pool-type, deposit coins
deposit Deposit submit to the batch of the Liquidity pool with the specified pool-id, deposit coins
swap Swap offer to the Liquidity pool with the specified the pool info with offer-coin, order-price
withdraw Withdraw submit to the batch from the Liquidity pool with the specified pool-id, pool-coin of the pool
Query
$ liquidityd query liquidity --help
Querying commands for the liquidity module
Usage:
liquidityd query liquidity [flags]
liquidityd query liquidity [command]
Available Commands:
batch Query details of a liquidity pool batch of the pool
batches Query for all liquidity pools batch
deposits Query for all deposit messages on the batch of the liquidity pool
params Query the current liquidity parameters information
pool Query details of a liquidity pool
pools Query for all liquidity pools
swaps Query for all swap messages on the batch of the liquidity pool
withdraws Query for all withdraw messages on the batch of the liquidity pool
A detailed document on client can be found here. client.md
Development
Test
$ make test
Setup local testnet
# This will execute ./scripts/localnet.sh script to set up a single testnet locally
# Note that ./data folder will contain all config, data, and keys
$ make localnet
Example of setup local testnet with test validator, user account
make install
liquidityd init testing --chain-id testing
liquidityd keys add validator --keyring-backend test
liquidityd keys add user1 --keyring-backend test
liquidityd add-genesis-account $(liquidityd keys show validator --keyring-backend test -a) 2000000000stake,1000000000token
liquidityd add-genesis-account $(liquidityd keys show user1 --keyring-backend test -a) 1000000000stake,1000000000atom
liquidityd gentx validator 1000000000stake --chain-id testing --keyring-backend test
liquidityd collect-gentxs
liquidityd start
Broadcasting Txs with cli
Example of creating test liquidity pool 1 using cli
liquidityd tx liquidity create-pool 1 100000000stake,100000000token --from validator --keyring-backend test --chain-id testing -y
Example of creating test liquidity pool 2 using cli
liquidityd tx liquidity create-pool 1 100000000stake,100000000atom --from user1 --keyring-backend test --chain-id testing -y
Example of Swap request using cli
liquidityd tx liquidity swap 2 1 1000stake atom 0.9 0.003 --from validator --chain-id testing --keyring-backend test -y
Broadcasting Txs with REST
Example of broadcast txs the new REST endpoint (via gRPC-gateway),
example of generating unsigned tx
validator=$(liquidityd keys show validator --keyring-backend test -a)
liquidityd tx liquidity swap 2 1 1000stake atom 0.9 0.003 --from $validator --chain-id testing --generate-only > tx_swap.json
cat tx_swap.json
example of signing unsigned tx
liquidityd tx sign tx_swap.json --from validator --chain-id testing --keyring-backend test -y > tx_swap_signed.json
cat tx_swap_signed.json
example of encoding signed tx
liquidityd tx encode tx_swap_signed.json
example of the output: CowBCokBCh0vdGVuZGVybWludC5saXF1aWRpdHkuTXNnU3dhcBJoCi1jb3Ntb3MxOGpreTNlNXowZHc5cTVzcmMyN2xodG5teHI4NmE2bjd5ZDdzOXIQAhgBIg0KBXN0YWtlEgQxMDAwKgRhdG9tMgoKBXN0YWtlEgExOhI5MDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDASWApQCkYKHy9jb3Ntb3MuY3J5cHRvLnNlY3AyNTZrMS5QdWJLZXkSIwohAjEHv9d3Jp39UOnp8y9UNaWa63fTxcIWz2TpSJKlIRIzEgQKAgh/GAQSBBDAmgwaQB5tHMMkxQBLTHbwytego2knU1mjqBMVRexuTx/5Xx/LTo4OUhOxtYsIf3H1onPCgOPqxU0Hu0yU6SaANfHNBxM=
example of broadcasting txs using the new REST endpoint (via gRPC-gateway, beta1)
need to enable API server for test
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --request POST --data '{"tx_bytes":"CowBCokBCh0vdGVuZGVybWludC5saXF1aWRpdHkuTXNnU3dhcBJoCi1jb3Ntb3MxOGpreTNlNXowZHc5cTVzcmMyN2xodG5teHI4NmE2bjd5ZDdzOXIQAhgBIg0KBXN0YWtlEgQxMDAwKgRhdG9tMgoKBXN0YWtlEgExOhI5MDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDASWApQCkYKHy9jb3Ntb3MuY3J5cHRvLnNlY3AyNTZrMS5QdWJLZXkSIwohAjEHv9d3Jp39UOnp8y9UNaWa63fTxcIWz2TpSJKlIRIzEgQKAgh/GAQSBBDAmgwaQB5tHMMkxQBLTHbwytego2knU1mjqBMVRexuTx/5Xx/LTo4OUhOxtYsIf3H1onPCgOPqxU0Hu0yU6SaANfHNBxM=","mode":1}' localhost:1317/cosmos/tx/v1beta1/txs
Export, Genesis State
export empty state case
liquidityd testnet --v 1
liquidityd start --home ./mytestnet/node0/liquidityd/
liquidityd export --home ./mytestnet/node0/liquidityd/
...
"liquidity": {
"liquidity_pool_records": [],
"params": {
"liquidity_pool_types": [
{
"pool_type_index": 1,
"name": "DefaultPoolType",
"min_reserve_coin_num": 2,
"max_reserve_coin_num": 2,
"description": ""
}
],
"min_init_deposit_to_pool": "1000000",
"init_pool_coin_mint_amount": "1000000",
"liquidity_pool_creation_fee": [
{
"denom": "stake",
"amount": "100000000"
}
],
"swap_fee_rate": "0.003000000000000000",
"withdraw_fee_rate": "0.003000000000000000",
"max_order_amount_ratio": "0.100000000000000000",
"unit_batch_size": 1
},
},
"mint": {
"minter": {
"annual_provisions": "130000037.646079971921585420",
"inflation": "0.130000035046079271"
},
"params": {
"blocks_per_year": "6311520",
"goal_bonded": "0.670000000000000000",
"inflation_max": "0.200000000000000000",
"inflation_min": "0.070000000000000000",
"inflation_rate_change": "0.130000000000000000",
"mint_denom": "stake"
}
},
...
pool created state export case
liquidityd testnet --v 1
liquidityd start --home ./mytestnet/node0/liquidityd/
cat mytestnet/node0/liquidityd/config/genesis.json | grep chain_id
liquidityd tx liquidity create-pool 1 100000000reservecoin1,100000000reservecoin2 --from node0 --home ./mytestnet/node0/liquidityd/ --fees 2stake --chain-id <CHAIN-ID>
liquidityd export --home ./mytestnet/node0/liquidityd/
...
"liquidity": {
"liquidity_pool_records": [
{
"batch_pool_deposit_msgs": [],
"batch_pool_swap_msg_records": [],
"batch_pool_swap_msgs": [],
"batch_pool_withdraw_msgs": [],
"liquidity_pool": {
"pool_coin_denom": "cosmos1qz38nymksetqd2d4qesrxpffzywuel82a4l0vs",
"pool_id": "1",
"pool_type_index": 1,
"reserve_account_address": "cosmos1qz38nymksetqd2d4qesrxpffzywuel82a4l0vs",
"reserve_coin_denoms": [
"reservecoin1",
"reservecoin2"
]
},
"liquidity_pool_batch": {
"batch_index": "4",
"begin_height": "12",
"deposit_msg_index": "1",
"executed": true,
"pool_id": "1",
"swap_msg_index": "1",
"withdraw_msg_index": "1"
},
"liquidity_pool_meta_data": {
"pool_coin_total_supply": {
"amount": "1000000",
"denom": "cosmos1qz38nymksetqd2d4qesrxpffzywuel82a4l0vs"
},
"pool_id": "1",
"reserve_coins": [
{
"amount": "100000000",
"denom": "reservecoin1"
},
{
"amount": "100000000",
"denom": "reservecoin2"
}
]
}
}
],
"params": {
"liquidity_pool_types": [
{
"pool_type_index": 1,
"name": "DefaultPoolType",
"min_reserve_coin_num": 2,
"max_reserve_coin_num": 2,
"description": ""
}
],
"min_init_deposit_to_pool": "1000000",
"init_pool_coin_mint_amount": "1000000",
"liquidity_pool_creation_fee": [
{
"denom": "stake",
"amount": "100000000"
}
],
"swap_fee_rate": "0.003000000000000000",
"withdraw_fee_rate": "0.003000000000000000",
"max_order_amount_ratio": "0.100000000000000000",
"unit_batch_size": 1
},
},
...
Protobuf, Swagger
you can check local swagger doc page on YOUR_API_SERVER(ex:127.0.0.1:1317)/swagger-liquidity/
if set swagger = true
from app.toml
or see on public swagger api doc
generate *.pb.go
, *.pb.gw.go
files from proto/*.proto
$ make proto-gen
generate swagger.yaml
from proto/*.proto
$ make proto-swagger-gen
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