Hello fellow #saturdaysavers...
Welcome to my #saturdaysavers post, it is a club activity where all of us here sharing our saving goals and saving updates. If you are not familiar with this #saturdaysavers stuff, you can scroll down to my footer post, it has more information there.
Today I make a provocative subject again, I hope this won't be a bad habit for me. It is about liquidity pools, and I think many people act like fools because they do not have a deep understanding about this.
It started on Monday when I visited @gwajnberg live show on Hive Learner about Invesment on Hive. Well you can cross check my words here on this post: https://inleo.io/@baby-panda/heart-to-heart-session-or-monday-live-or-episode-121-or-invited-host-afrikens
There was some interesting comments there on the discord, one of them which I would re-explain here was something sound like this:
Why can't I find pools for some tokens I want on Hive Engine?
Now lets fast forward a few days later, this time on The Brotherhood discord. The end result was this: https://inleo.io/@brofund/we-have-pools-galore
Honestly I do not think that is anything near a good idea, however this is solely my personal perspective. I did not jump into the discussion, argumentation or debate, because unlike in Hive Learner which I am one of the above average size people, on The Brotherhood I am a krill. With people like Marky and Solo were there, my opinion would only be an opinion, which they had gone through as experience before.
So the best thing I came up was to hide and hear what they talked... although it was a one sided decision of each sides of course.
Now the third one, as I posted this #saturdaysavers post on cent community, it would not have completed if I do not mention @anadolu post, which the last or recent one is this: https://inleo.io/@anadolu/monthly-reward-pool-and-liquidity-pools-report-july-2025-7qg
I like following his projects, he is doing some DEFI project on hive engine through some pools. It is not about being right or wrong there, but you can learn and try to figure out things from his data. Those are good projects, not in term of making you money or profits, but more like to understand how those pools run.
Now back to the main topic here, things that I have answered in Hive Learner.
What Is a Pool
I always say that A Liquidity Pool is like a money changer or money store. In market, transaction is processed by sending the token from the seller to the buyer. So this is similar to peer to peer transaction but the market becomes the operator.
In Liquidity pool, it becomes the middle man. Seller sends token to money store, money store sends it to buyer. And the stores get the fee. Why people do this way? As the same as the name, it is for liquidity, so sometime you want to sell something but the buyers aren't there, or you want to buy but none sells it. Or perhaps the buyers and sellers are there but they need only a few peanuts. That's where the pools come in handy.
Why Some Tokens Have No Pools
Simple, I said above it is like a store or money changer right? You need to set it up, to pay for the operations, and to put some volume into it. Bottom line for most cases, it doesn't worth the cost!
The pool owners and contributors (someone who chips in the tokens) for most of the case, they lose money
We Get Rewards There, Right?
All participants or contributors in liquidity pools get some fee from the swap. The fee is actually a peanut, so do not think too highly about it.
But how about the pool rewards? those are fund that are dumped into it as rewards, so people paying other to participate in the pool. It is already an expense from the pool owners or sympathizers. They pay for those in hope that many will be lured in to join chipping in some fund into the pools.
The higher APR it will be more attractive but from other perspective it will be more costly. Usually high APR comes from the pool that demands more liquidity, due to transaction or price volatility of the tokens.
Can We Get Profits From Pools?
Definitely you can, but it is not something that guaranteed. From Anadolu post, there are many pools and all of them have lucrative APR, but I believe and I am very sure, that a couple of them are already losing money there. The APR can not fight the inflation of the token price.
So back to the question, can we get profit? Yes we can if we get into pools in right time and get our in right time too. Being a diamond hand chipping in huge amount and expect permanent residual income from APR is definitely not the right way... of course this is my opinion, not a valid certified financial advice.
why Fools?
I use the word FOOLS because personally I dislike people who blindly jump into pools expecting to get profits from it without any deep dive about the pool and the related tokens. I think it is ok to call them fools.
Don't get it wrong, I like BRO tokens, however making many pools which each have small amount of liquidity are far from being a solution for cashing in or out. And setting those pools, better we use the fund to do something better for the projects.
Anyway this is my opinion only, don't take this too hard.
PRIMARY TARGET : HBD SAVING
My primary goal is to grow my $HBD Saving, to reach 5.000 $HBD Saving in this year, 2025. That is an ambitious target regarding I started 2025 with 0 $HBD. Mathematically this means I need to get $95 HBD every week.
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Same as last week, I see nothing to talked here. I need to fix my real world condition first which makes me unable to save any. Let's hope all things will get better in a few months ahead, so I can start saving $HBD again.
SECONDARY TARGET : HIVE POWER (HP)
Hive Power (HP) is very important for all Hivers who plan to stay long on this blockchain. For 2025, my secondary goal is to have 13.500 Hive Power (HP). It's not a big target and I want to make as many people realize that it is important to grow your Hive Power.
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Another successive week with more than 100 HIVE POWER Growth! So today I have reached 12.584 HP and it is something that I believe a good rate for HP growth.
I believe the recent drop in HIVE price keeps my HP growth stable above 100 HP per week. Yes INLEO support plays great part too, but still I do not expect it will be stable on 120 HP per week.
In general I still keep my old reward pattern, which I keep one post a week for full 100 Hive Power rewards. I really want to up the frequency, regarding HIVE price is lower and maybe get lower later, but still I need HBD alot to support my real life.
So I decide to keep things going on as they are right now. With that being said, it closes my post for this week. Happy Saving guys!
CLOSURE
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Saturday Savers Club is for anyone who wants to make some saving in any currency for any purpose. The Club is a supportive group of people who every week making some post about our saving plan and update. Some even share tips and techniques or maybe sharing their fun in the process.
For further information and if you want to join into this club, you can do your own research on @eddie-earner. We are waiting for any of you out there to make this club bigger and more exciting.
See you next Saturday...
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