I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1035 - The Liquidity Pool Lowdown - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, May 28, 2025

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 6 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Diesel/Liquidity pools are a service and an area of investing that many people don't seem to understand very well, so I wanted to elucidate a few important points about them, to hopefully make the subject a bit easier to understand. Liquidity pools are an extremely important service for any DeFi ecosystem, because they allow for the quick and easy swapping between one token and another, as well as creating price stability between the token pair. They can also be very profitable investments, though there are just a few important things keep in mind, however.

So very simply, the pools that have the highest liquidity, also usually have the highest trading (actually swapping) volume, and pay out the highest pool fees (generated from people swapping tokens). Conversely, the pool with the lowest liquidity tend to have the lowest trading (swapping) volume, and therefore the lowest genrated fees. There's a bit of a catch with this, though, because generally the higher the liquidity and swap volume a pool has, the more assets are required to add to the pool before the payout threshold for daily rewards and/or pool fees is reached. Because of that, for people just getting into diesel/liquidity pools, who often don't have a large amounts of assets to add into them, a good balance needs to be found between higher liquidity and swap volume on the one hand, and ease of entry in terms of the reward/fee thresholds, on the other.

As an example, I presently have 812.592 DEC/80.74682890 SPS in the DEC:SPS pool, which is fourth in terms of swap/trade volume, and third in terms of pool fees earned, and even at this level of liquidity, pool fees are not yet being earned, which is wild. If it weren't for the fact that I can claim a good flow of SPS in Splinterlands (under the 'pools' tab) hourly, keeping my assets in this pool wouldn't make sense at my present level of liquidity.

By contrast, in the PKM:SPS pool, which has significantly lower liquidity and swap volume, I presently have 732.902 PKM/79.40102954 SPS, so approximately the same value, and yet I am already earning pretty nice daily rewards and pool fees. It also helps that this pool pays out both SPS and DEC as daily rewards, which I can then use to add to the DEC:SPS pool. So while the DEC:SPS pool pays out far better pool fees overall, due to its much higher liquid and swap volume, I'm going to need a whole heck of a lot more liquidity before those sweet pool fees begin to be generated. For the top two pools in swap volume and pool fees earned, the SWAP.HIVE:DEC and SWAP.HIVE:SPS, I'd need even more liquidity than for the DEC:SPS pool, which is pretty crazy to consider.

So it's a bit of a game find the best pools for particular amounts of assets available to invest. I keep testing all sorts of pools with different levels of liquidity, to see which ones will give me enough leverage/traction to begin generating rewards and/or pool fees first. Once I find those lower-liquidity, early-fee generators, I begin focusing more resources there. Since the 'best pools' depends on how much we have of what, even if I told you which pools would generate the best returns, there would still have to be a bit of testing that you'd need to do to hone in on the most useful pools at any particular time, based on your available resources. I hope that this little liquidity pool lowdown was helpful and useful for y'all!

Yesterday, Wednesday, I left the Flow House, after finshing my Hive tasks, just a little before 2:30PM, putting my attention first on some photography for these posts, and then a bit of sunbathing on the trampoline in the Peanut Lawn. Once I got a good bit of wonderful sunshine, I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, and then I got my machete and collected a wheelbarrow full of assorted edible foliage for cow-milking food. With that completed, I took a shower, stopped by the Landing to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and then I made my way back to the Flow House, to gently dive into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. Even though I had a fair number, I was thankfully able to get through them all by a little after 10:30PM, and after some asset management and pool analysis, I went to bed around 12AM. I woke up just after 6AM, having slept fairly well, doing more asset management, beginning on this post, getting out of bed around 7AM to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1PM, so a good time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a bit later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao), and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's iteration of this post! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

2025 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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