In this article, I want to tell you about the STON.fi DEX. If you want to learn more about each section, follow the relevant links or look for articles in my profile. What is STON.fi? STON.fi is an AMM DEX exchange built on the TON blockchain. What is a DEX? DEX (Decentralized Exchange) is a decentralized exchange where users can trade cryptocurrency directly with each other without intermediaries like centralized exchanges (CEX). All operations are conducted via smart contracts on the blockchain. Key benefits of DEX: When using a DEX, your tokens remain in your wallet, and you have full access to them.DEXs are not controlled by governments and operate independently. What is an AMM DEX? AMM DEX (Automated Market Maker Decentralized Exchange) is a decentralized exchange that operates based on automated market makers. Instead of a classic order book like on centralized exchanges (CEX), AMM uses smart contracts and liquidity pools to execute trades. (Read more in the Liquidity Pools section). Benefits of STON.fi 🚀 ● Low Fees. STON.fi charges a 0.3% fee per transaction. Of this, 0.2% is returned to the liquidity pool and distributed among liquidity providers, while 0.1% goes to STON.fi. ● Minimal Slippage. STON.fi is the #1 DEX on TON in terms of liquidity, ensuring minimal slippage during trades. ● Built on the TON Blockchain. The platform leverages TON, one of the most advanced blockchains today, offering low fees and high TPS (transactions per second). ● Integration with Telegram. Trade directly from Telegram using the @STONfi_bot, seamlessly integrated with the messenger. ● Compatibility with TON Wallets. STON.fi supports all TON wallets, including TON Space. ● User-Friendly Interface. The platform features an intuitive and easy-to-navigate design. Achievements 🏆 STON.fi’s TVL is $150,000,000 (DefiLlama), accounting for 50% of TON total TVL. The all-time high TVL of STON.fi was $370,000,000!!! According to CryptoRank and DappRadar, STON.fi ranked 5th among the most popular decentralized exchanges across all blockchains. Over the past month, more than 430,000 users have used the platform. STON.fi has twice secured the top spot in the DYOR Dapps DEX ranking. Problems of DeFi ⚠️ Lack of Cross-Chain Compatibility The lack of compatibility between different blockchains complicates asset transfers across networks, limiting users’ access to new trading and investment opportunities. Risk of Asset Loss Transferring crypto assets between blockchains requires trusting third-party custodians or exchanges, which can be vulnerable to hacks and attacks. This puts funds at risk and may lead to financial losses. High Costs and Delays The process of converting crypto assets is often expensive and slow, adding further challenges for users. STON.fi aims to address all these issues! Goals of STON.fi 🎯 STON.fi mission is to make access to financial services simple and fair for everyone, regardless of their location. STON.fi aims to create a decentralized platform for cross-blockchain trading that provides a secure and reliable way to trade cryptocurrencies without restrictions imposed by banks or centralized exchanges. STON.fi seeks to solve the problem of cross-blockchain swaps by implementing a Request for Quote (RFQ) protocol based on DeFi using Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLC) to execute such trades. This solution eliminates the need for additional layers, intermediaries, or third parties. This approach minimizes user risks associated with security breaches and significantly speeds up transactions.
Let’s explore the features that are already available on STON.fi. Token Swaps 🔄 You can swap tokens on the TON blockchain, allowing you to participate in numerous projects. Guide on how to swap tokens Liquidity Pools 💧 Liquidity pools are reserves of tokens provided by users so that others can trade cryptocurrency on decentralized exchanges (DEX). Instead of searching for a buyer or seller, users simply exchange tokens with the pool, and liquidity providers earn fees for their contributions to these pools. This enables trading without centralized intermediaries. Guid on how to Provide Liquidity on STON.fi Everything About Providing Liquidity on STON.fi
Farming 🌱 Farming is designed to ensure that a specific liquidity pool has sufficient funds. This allows users to trade tokens in larger volumes without worrying about price impact.In farming, you can earn significantly higher rewards compared to just providing liquidity, which motivates liquidity providers to supply liquidity. To add your assets to farming, you first need to provide liquidity to the corresponding pool with the Farm tag and then add this liquidity (LP tokens) to farming. How to Farm on STON.fi Everything About Farming on STON.fi Staking 💎 Staking the STON token on STON.fi gives you voting rights in the DAO governance protocol. For staking, you will receive the ARKENSTON NFT and GEMSTON tokens, depending on the amount and duration of your STON tokens staked.Currently, the DAO governance protocol is under development. How to Stake on STON.fi Everything About Staking on STON.fi and How DAO Works on the DEX
Conclusion: DeFi platforms are far from perfect and have their own challenges. STON.fi aims to address these and become the DEX of the future — a cross-chain DEX with zero trust, providing secure, fast, and transparent digital asset trading. If you liked my article, send your applause. And if you want to read more of my articles, make sure to subscribe! 🙌 STON.fi social networks:
The DEX STONfi has finally launched its long-awaited DAO! => DAO allows the STONfi community to create proposals and vote for changes on the exchange. => To become a DAO member, you need to stake your STON tokens and lock them for a chosen period.
So what’s the airdrop about🤯❓ The DAO is currently in a two-week testing phase, and I strongly recommend joining it. If you create a proposal, vote, and comment, you’ll receive an exclusive NFT once the testing period ends. STONfi has already hinted that they’ll value users who hold this NFT — which likely means an upcoming airdrop🎁.
Personally, I think they’ll distribute STON tokens around New Year’s, possibly locked in staking — or maybe not at all.
STONfi has already given a good airdrop for an NFT, a campaign on Galxe, and has always rewarded ambassadors well, so I’m participating! => Especially since the cost is less than $5
How to join❓ Stake 1 STON for 24 monthsCreate a proposal, vote, and comment
EVAA/USDT – 200% APR🚀 100% APR comes from the pool itself and another 100% from the farming program that runs until November 3. Positives for the EVAA token👇: ◉ Very good buying price ($17.5M MC) ◉ Listed on the BNB Chain ◉ Team members, investors, and KOLs will receive their tokens next year ◉ Protocol revenue (≈$3M) will go to the DAO treasury, which may be used for EVAA token buybacks and burns tsUSDe/USDe – 0.31% APR🚀 The APR isn’t high, but you also earn around 5.5% APY from tsUSDe. Keep in mind the pool’s weights are 75% tsUSDe and 25% USDe, so it turns out quite solid. Additionally, you get👇(Guide): ◉ Airdrop from TON, which is ending soon ◉ Airdrop from Ethena — Season 4 recently ended, and Season 5 farming has already started. If you join, make sure to delegate your rewards from your TON wallet to your EVM wallet.
PX/USDT – 20% APR🚀 The APR might seem small, but for the current market, it’s actually great. Positives for the PX token👇: ◉ Very good buying price ($7M MC) ◉ Token burn event this quarter ◉ New Notpixel tournament coming this quarter For those who think the tournament doesn’t matter — remember that during the last one, PX price doubled! And this time, the market cap is even lower. I don’t know exactly what will happen, but I’m expecting a few potential Xs! I might even make another guide like last time — that one turned out really well.
On a DEX, unlike a CEX, when swapping tokens you lose money not only on fees.
You also lose on price impact📉 if the pool doesn’t have enough liquidity for your swap. It is exactly in such moments that the liquidity aggregator on TON — OMNISTON — helps. If you see high price impact when swapping tokens on STONfi — go to the swap settings and turn on OMNISTON✅. OMNISTON lets you use liquidity from all DEXs on TON and finds the best swap rate📈 through different resolvers. This way your price impact drops to the lowest possible level at the moment🙃. If you don’t believe it, check the comparison of swaps without OMNISTON and with OMNISTON below. MAJOR=>USDT
📊53% of all trading volume on TON happens on the DEX STONfi — but few people know about its token STON😌!
Let’s fix that, and I’ll quickly walk you through it👇:
Price: $0.70 MC: $26M Liquidity: $1M CEX: KuCoin
The STON token is already over 2 years old, but its main utility still hasn’t launched👇.
STONfi DAO🤠 To be part of the DAO, you’ll need to stake STON tokens. This gives you the ability to participate in votes about changes to the exchange. The DAO itself isn’t live yet, but you can already stake your tokens — and for that, you’ll also receive another token from STONfi: GEMSTON.
Deflationary tokenomics💸 According to the STONfi Whitepaper, part of the trading fees on the exchange will be converted into STON, and a portion of them will be burned.
This buyback + burn combo ensures a deflationary effect📈.
Is it worth buying STON now🤔? I don’t know — it depends on the state of the TON blockchain. If TON starts gaining popularity again, then definitely yes.
🥉V3 pools Even though concentrated liquidity technology lets you significantly boost your APR, this one is the least interesting for me in this list. It’s already available on TON through the smaller DEX TONCO. Still, when V3 pools arrive on STONfi, APR there will definitely be higher thanks to the exchange’s popularity. 🥈DAO Plenty of small projects on TON already had/have DAO governance, but it’s nowhere near as interesting as the upcoming DAO from STONfi. Since STONfi is the largest exchange on TON, any changes — like delisting a token — will heavily affect that token. And the DAO will have the power to make such decisions. There could also be bigger moves, like adding an entirely new blockchain to the exchange. 🥇Cross-chain The most important one is, of course, OMNISTON cross-chain. The developers are promising almost fully decentralized cross-chain swaps, where the only centralized element will be the quotes (RFQ), needed for faster and better swap rates. The swaps themselves will run through smart contracts on both blockchains, which guarantees your tokens can’t be frozen. In the smart contract there are only two possible outcomes: a successful cross-chain swap or, if unsuccessful, the tokens automatically return to the user’s wallet.
The main liquidity aggregator on TON — OMNISTON has successfully passed the first stage of its audit by TonTech🚀!
Specifically🤔, OMNISTON’s escrow contracts were audited, which guarantee the atomicity of every swap.
They work like a “vault”🔒, holding user funds until the other side meets the required swap conditions.
If the other side doesn’t send tokens into this “vault” within a set time, the user’s funds are automatically returned to their wallet🔀.
This is especially important for the future of OMNISTON☝️, when it stops being just a liquidity aggregator on TON and becomes the main cross-chain technology connecting TON with other blockchains📊.
Earlier, STONfi’s v2 pool smart contracts were already audited by Trail of Bits.
Hidden risks in looping strategies x a ready-made looping strategy for the TON/USDT pool!
👉Recently, STONfi was integrated into EVAA, which now makes it possible to build looping strategies with the TON/USDT pool. [Read more in my previous post] The idea of our looping strategy is to put LP tokens from the TON/USDT pool as collateral on EVAA, then borrow new TON and USDT tokens, add them back into the pool, and repeat🔄 — increasing your APR with every cycle. The maximum you can borrow is 79% LTV — but never do this🧐! At that level, you’re way too close to liquidation (7% Health Factor / 86% LTV). And don’t forget: you’re not borrowing LP tokens, you’re borrowing the tokens themselves. Because of this, your Health Factor will gradually fall. Why will it fall🤔👇? Collateral decreases📉 When TON rises or falls, impermanent loss in the pool makes LP tokens lose value. For example, if TON doubles in price, the gap between collateral and debt (LTV) shrinks by about 5.7%. Debt increases📈 When you borrow tokens, your debt grows because of Organic APY. Right now, it’s 3% for TON and 6% for USDT — but these rates aren’t fixed and can rise! That’s why you shouldn’t borrow at 79% LTV — over a year or even sooner, the gap between collateral and debt could shrink by more than 7%, leading to liquidation🥲. I think the optimal approach for this looping strategy is to borrow at around 60% LTV. How many cycles you do depends on your capital, since you’ll also be spending quite a bit on blockchain fees💸.
I’ve noticed🤔 that many people don’t understand why OMNISTON cross-chain is needed if there are already other cross-chain solutions on TON🧐.
The truth is simple🎯: all other cross-chain solutions on TON use some kind of centralized intermediary during swaps.
🔹These can be wrapped tokens, centralized liquidity pools, validator federations, relayers, bridge operators, or their own oracles.
OMNISTON doesn’t use any of that🥲 — everything happens directly through smart contracts on both blockchains. The only centralized element is the RFQ, which only provides a quote for the swap🔄 and doesn’t affect the security of the exchange itself.
That’s exactly why OMNISTON can be considered the cross-chain DeFi solution of the future🚀!
UTYA and CHERRY, the legendary Telegram sticker tokens, launched farming pools on STONfi!
💠UTYA (MC $21M) is tied to the DUCK sticker pack — which happens to be the most popular sticker pack on Telegram. 💠CHERRY (MC $2M) is tied to the HOT CHERRY sticker pack, also quite popular. Both tokens recently launched farming pools on STON.fi👇: 🔥UTYA/TON – 314% APR 🏆Rewards: UTYA + TON 🔓Lock-up: None ⏳Farming period: until September 10 🔥CHERRY/TON – 690% APR 🏆Rewards: CHERRY + TON 🔓Lock-up: None ⏳Farming period: until September 10 To add liquidity to farming, simply enable the farming option when providing liquidity☝️. If you only have TON tokens, enable Arbitrary Provision — it will automatically perform the necessary swaps to provide liquidity🔄. I see two green flags in these farming pools💚: there’s no token lock-up, and half of the rewards are distributed in TON. That’s not something you see often🧐. Personally🤔, I like CHERRY more, since I don’t think DUCK has much room left to grow.
DeFi projects on TON aren’t standing still — they keep evolving.
The thing I’m most looking forward to right now is the creation of cross-chain swaps🔄 between the TON and TRON blockchains by the DEX STON.fi via OMNISTON, which for now works only as a liquidity aggregator on TON🌐. The main point of this protocol is to enable cross-chain swaps without using bridges or other centralized intermediaries🧐. The only intermediaries in the swap will be smart contracts on both blockchains⚙️. In addition to creating cross-chain swaps between TON and TRON, there will likely also be a liquidity aggregator📊 on the TRON blockchain similar to the current OMNISTON on TON, which finds the best quotes from different resolvers💹. Resolvers on TRON will most likely include the top current aggregators there: Bitget (Bitget Swap), OKX (OKX DEX), and Houdini Swap. It’s also possible that on TRON, STON.fi will build out an entire DEX infrastructure🤔. As the CEO of STONfi mentioned in an interview, STON.fi’s global goal is “to become the main source of liquidity for DeFi on blockchains🚀.”
Are impermanent losses smaller in WCPI pools on the DEX STONfi?
We all know impermanent loss is the most annoying thing in pools😵. But few people think about the fact that impermanent loss changes depending on the pool’s token ratio⚖️. For example☝️, on STON.fi there’s a WCPI STON/TON pool with a 75%/25% ratio, and there’s also a standard STON/TON pool with a 50%/50% ratio. So, where are impermanent losses smaller🧐👇? In a standard 50/50 pool: 🔹50% change – 2.02% 🔹3× – 13.39% 🔹5× – 25.46% In a 75/25 pool, where the 75% share token changes: 🔹50% – 1.42% 🔹3× – 8.81% 🔹5× – 16.40%
In a 75/25 pool, where the 25% share token changes: 🔹50% – 1.62% 🔹3× – 12.26% 🔹5× – 25.23%
In a 75/25 pool, where both tokens move (one rises, the other falls): 🔹50% – 5.18% 🔹3× – 25.76% 🔹5× – 41.15% As we can see, weighted pools significantly reduce impermanent loss 📉 — but only in cases where one asset moves while the other stays almost still, or moves in the same direction📈. That’s why I’d choose the WCPI STON/TON pool, since both tokens are likely to grow in parallel🚀.
Is it worth holding liquidity in the TON/USDT pool on STONfi?
I think everyone has some $TON and $USDT sitting in a wallet or on an exchange, which isn’t very profitable — so you probably want to put them to work🙂⛏️. On the DEX STON.fi, there’s a TON/USDT pool with 14% APR, and here’s why I think holding liquidity there is a good idea🙃👇. As we know, the only real drawback of pools is impermanent loss📉, which happens when the price changes from the moment you added liquidity. In short👇: 2x price change → 5.72% loss 3x price change → 13.4% loss 4x price change → 20% loss Put simply, if TON doubles or halves, you lose 5.72%. If it triples, you lose 13.4%. Right now, the pool’s APR covers impermanent loss even if TON grows 3x🚀. Plus, don’t forget that impermanent loss doesn’t factor in the trading fees you earn while providing liquidity — and the portion of those fees in TON will also grow if TON’s price rises📈. This means the APR could go from 14% to about 21%, turning that 13.4% loss into a net +7% profit. You can also reinvest your liquidity monthly📊, which would boost that 21% to around 23%. That way, with a -13.4% impermanent loss, you’d still end up with a net profit of about +9.6%. So, if you’re a TON believer❤️🔥, the TON/USDT pool on STONfi might be a perfect fit for you. If you don’t know how to provide liquidity, watch my video. I also recommend reading this article to fully dive into liquidity provision.
It lasted a full 51 days, during which the prize pool grew from 1M PX to 8M PX📈, since 10% of every pixel purchase went into the rewards.
From this, it’s easy to calculate the total tournament trading volume — about 70M PX📊. In my opinion, that’s an excellent result for a token that 70% of the TON community was hating on🥱. Future of the PX token🤔 First, it’s important to understand that tournament prizes will be distributed over the next two weeks, so we shouldn’t expect a quick pump from the token☝️. Still, I’m bullish on PX because this year we still have👇: ◉ Token burn events ◉ A $5M buyback ◉ The 3rd Notpixel tournament in Q4 The token’s current market cap is $11M, and in my view, that’s very low for a project connected to DOGS and Notcoin🧐. Personally🤨, I’ve bought PX at the current price and I’m expecting at least a 3x by the time the 3rd tournament starts.
You can also add tokens to the PX/USDT pool on the DEX STONfi — it offers 30–40% APR, which isn’t huge but is still better than Notpixel’s official staking where your tokens are locked😟.
And if you don’t want to take risks at all🙄, I highly recommend putting stablecoins in the tsUSDe/USDe pool — this way, you participate in the airdrops from Ethena and TON Foundation and also earn 10% APY from tsUSDe🤗. More details can be found on ethena,ston,fi or by checking my earlier post about it in my profile🤫.
Telegram users from the U.S. can now use TON wallet!
TON’s U.S. expansion is going strong — users there can now swap crypto directly inside Telegram via TON wallet🤔. TON wallet is a non-custodial TON wallet built right into Telegram, and you can create it through the Telegram bot “wallet”⚒️. On top of that, TON wallet has integrated OMNISTON🌐 — the liquidity aggregator for the entire TON ecosystem, built by the DEX STON.fi.
This means all swaps in TON wallet are powered by OMNISTON, giving users the best possible rates on TON📶. In the future🧐, OMNISTON will also integrate other blockchains to enable atomic cross-chain swaps with zero trust required. The first blockchain is likely to be TRON — so get ready for TON 🔁 TRON swaps!