Pool Party is a DeFi platform that enables social investing with self-custody. Users can follow strategies, fund creators, and grow their portfolios together while maintaining full control of their assets.

Do I need to transfer my funds to Pool Party?

No. Pool Party is 100% self-custodial. Your funds remain in your wallet until they're deposited into a strategy's audited smart contract.

No KYC is required to use Pool Party. The platform is completely permissionless and decentralized.

How are strategy creators rewarded?

Strategy creators earn performance fees based on the success of their strategies. This aligns their interests with investors' success.

Is it safe to invest through Pool Party?

Pool Party prioritizes security with multi-layer architecture, smart contract audits, bug bounties, and AI-powered real-time monitoring.

Is automated liquidity provision better than manual?

Neither is better in every case. Manual LP gives full control and no strategy fee, but requires monitoring and disciplined rebalancing. Automation keeps positions in range without you watching charts, at the cost of a fee and trusting a strategy contract. Wide-range passive positions need little management either way.

What does automated LP actually automate?

The management loop: monitoring whether the price is in range, rebalancing the range when it drifts, and harvesting and compounding fees. It does not remove impermanent loss or market risk; it removes the manual labor and the emotional timing decisions.

When does manual LP make sense?

When the position needs little management: stablecoin or correlated pairs, wide ranges, or full-range positions. Also when you actively want to express a view on ranges and are willing to monitor. For tight ranges on volatile pairs, the management burden grows quickly.

Comparison

Automated vs manual liquidity provision

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The difference is who runs the management loop. Manual LP means you monitor, rebalance and compound yourself. Automated LP delegates that loop to a strategy contract with pre-defined rules. The market risk is the same in both.

Side by side

	Automated	Manual
Time required	Minutes to set up, then hands-off	Ongoing: monitoring and rebalancing are on you
Staying in range	Rebalanced by rules, also while you sleep	Depends on your attention and discipline
Rebalancing decisions	Systematic, pre-defined rules	Discretionary; emotion and hesitation cost money
Compounding	Harvested and reinvested on schedule	Manual harvests, easy to postpone
Costs	Strategy/performance fee + gas	No strategy fee; you still pay gas per action
Control	You choose the strategy, not each action	Full control of every parameter and timing
Trust surface	Strategy contract (verify it on-chain)	Only the DEX contracts you already use

What automation cannot do

Being honest about the limits: automation does not remove impermanent loss, does not guarantee the strategy outperforms holding, and adds a contract between you and the pool, which is why the contract being verifiable on-chain matters. What it removes is the part where results depend on you noticing, deciding and executing at 3am. The full management loop is described in LP position management.

When each one fits

Manual fits: stablecoin or correlated pairs, wide or full ranges, small positions where a fee is not worth it, and people who enjoy the hands-on work.
Automation fits: tight concentrated-liquidity ranges, volatile pairs, and anyone whose position is large enough that idle out-of-range time costs more than the fee.

How Pool Party fits

Pool Party is the automated side of this table, on Base where gas is cheap enough for systematic rebalancing, with self-custody and strategy contracts you can verify on BaseScan. Creators earn a performance fee, so they are paid on results rather than activity. Launch the app.

Frequently asked questions

Is automated liquidity provision better than manual?: Neither is better in every case. Manual LP gives full control and no strategy fee, but requires monitoring and disciplined rebalancing. Automation keeps positions in range without you watching charts, at the cost of a fee and trusting a strategy contract. Wide-range passive positions need little management either way.
What does automated LP actually automate?: The management loop: monitoring whether the price is in range, rebalancing the range when it drifts, and harvesting and compounding fees. It does not remove impermanent loss or market risk; it removes the manual labor and the emotional timing decisions.
When does manual LP make sense?: When the position needs little management: stablecoin or correlated pairs, wide ranges, or full-range positions. Also when you actively want to express a view on ranges and are willing to monitor. For tight ranges on volatile pairs, the management burden grows quickly.