Automated Market Maker (AMM)

Uniswap is a family of non-upgradeable exchange protocols whose control surfaces expanded from v1's fixed AMM to v4 hooks, Unichain, and DUNI. UNI governs treasury and fee decisions, while the current burn mechanism reduces supply without giving holders a direct claim on protocol revenue.

PancakeSwap turned a BNB Chain AMM into a multichain product family and used CAKE to subsidize liquidity. Its current 400M cap and burns are governance policy layered over an uncapped, MasterChef-owned token contract; holder votes do not equal product ownership.

AERO pays Base liquidity providers through weekly issuance; veAERO voters decide which gauges receive it and collect pool fees and incentives. Team and council permissions shape that market, while the announced Aero merger remains forthcoming.

CRV is the emission and governance asset around Curve’s family of AMMs. Locking CRV creates decaying veCRV voting power that directs gauges and fee policy; it does not create ownership of pool reserves, the Curve software organization, or a guaranteed revenue stream.

Pendle turns a yield-bearing position into an SY wrapper, an expiring PT principal claim and an expiring YT yield claim. Its markets are immutable, while newer SY adapters and Router V4 can be upgraded; meanwhile sPENDLE is replacing vePENDLE, so plain PENDLE alone promises neither principal nor fixed fee income.

Raydium is a family of Solana liquidity programs, while RAY is a separate SPL token. Pool fees can fund RAY purchases, but bought tokens go to a protocol address rather than creating a holder fee claim; upgrade and fee-config powers remain with multisigs.

1inch began as a route finder, then added signed limit orders and Fusion resolver auctions. Its biography separates useful software from authority: 1INCH can create governance power, but does not itself own the router, treasury, interface operator or resolver business.

Magma Finance's MAGMA is the nine-decimal Sui coin 0x9f854b3ad20f8161ec0886f15f4a1752bf75d22261556f14cc8d3a1c5d50e529::magma::MAGMA, not the older Mantle project with the same name. One billion units and a frozen TreasuryCap make token supply legible; DEX packages remain upgradeable and admin-gated, while the public SDK still leaves ve(3,3) governance and distribution package IDs blank.

Orca combines a concentrated-liquidity AMM, an ORCA governance mint, xORCA fee buybacks and two Whirlpools deployments. LP fees follow position range; token fees follow contested allocation documents; mutable program and mint authorities remain live beside an immutable-code option.

Sushi began in August 2020 from Uniswap V2 code and developed into a multichain exchange with liquidity pools, aggregation and cross-chain routes. Its Ethereum SUSHI token supports incentives and documented voting arrangements; it grants no company shares or fixed redemption right.

VVS Finance opened beside Cronos mainnet in November 2021 and used a no-private-sale, high-emission farm program to pull liquidity into a new chain. xVVS later redirected part of swap fees to stakers and V3 replaced passive full-range pools with chosen price bands. The unresolved fact is supply: live totalSupply is 101.636 trillion although current documentation calls 100 trillion a fixed maximum.