Aggregating Pools

Tips on integrating Shell-native liquidity pools

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Swap through Shell-native fractal pools

You can swap any ERC-20s by creating a path through this graph.

You can use Shell pools to swap any ERC-20 (or ERC-721 or ERC-1155) tokens, as long as there exists a viable path of AMMs.

Fractal pools can serve as a stepping stone in swapping between ERC-20 tokens. A fractal pool uses LP tokens as one or both of its reserve assets. For example:

• The two reserve assets of Stablepool are DAI+USDC LP token and USDT+USDC LP token.

• The two reserve assets for ETH+USD pool are shETH and Stablepool LP token.

Let's swap shDAI to shETH. You must deposit shDAI into the DAI+USDC pool to get the DAI+USDC LP token, then take that LP token and deposit it into Stablepool to get the Stablepool LP token, then swap that LP token to shETH using the fractal pool (ETH+USD).

Tip: Depositing or withdrawing from a pool is functionally the same as swapping. You call computeOutputAmount but with the LP token ID as the output token instead of a wrapped token.

Remember in Shell Protocol, ERC-20 (or 721 or 1155) tokens are wrapped onto a shared ERC-1155 ledger (the Ocean). Shell pools always use the Shell-wrapped ERC-1155 version of these tokens.

Shell LP tokens are also ERC-1155. They each have their own Ocean IDs, just as the Shell-wrapped ERC-20s do.

Tip: You can get the LP token ID from the LP pool contract. There is a read function called lpTokenId.

Whenever you swap from one ERC-20 token to another through Shell pools, there will be a wrap and unwrap in that transaction. For example, trading DAI for ETH would look like this:

1. wrap DAI -> shDAI

2. deposit shDAI -> DAI+USDC LP

3. deposit DAI+USDC LP -> Stablepool LP

4. swap Stablepool LP -> shETH (through ETH+USD pool)

5. unwrap shETH -> ETH

Tip: All of this can be done in one function call with doMultipleInteractions.

The fractal design makes querying the prices of token pairs somewhat complicated.

Coming soon: Sample code for finding the price between two tokens.