In most AMMs, becoming a liquidity provider means taking on dual-sided exposure: depositing both assets in a trading pair, accepting the volatility of both sides, and eating the consequences of impermanent loss. This design, while capital-efficient in theory, requires LPs to actively manage risk and rebalance exposure. It also leaves them vulnerable to adverse selection, sandwich attacks, and toxic order flow.

Darklake flips this paradigm.

Single-sided liquidity pools let LPs deposit just one asset, such as USDC or SOL. The pool then uses this inventory to fulfill encrypted swaps routed through Darklake’s blind slippage protocol. For the LP, this means exposure to one asset and no impermanent loss. Trade intent becomes the driver of a new source of protected yield; one that isn’t reliant on volume alone.

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Every trade on Darklake is encrypted at the edge. The swap path, the slippage tolerance, and the order size are all sealed in a zero knowledge proof.

• Traders post a hash commitment to their desired execution
• Darklake matches encrypted intent with single-sided liquidity
• If the real-time price breaches slippage, the trade auto cancels
• If it clears, it executes. Fully private. Fully fair.

This creates a fundamentally different LP environment. Trades are only allowed if they meet encrypted criteria. No MEV bot sees your slippage. No arb sees your size.

This is more than simple theoretical improvement; it’s a practical one.

Most LPs earn from volume. More trades mean more fees. Here’s where the design becomes asymmetric in LPs’ favor when trading on Darklake.

Because trades are protected from MEV and visible orderflow leakage, users are willing to set wider slippage tolerances. In traditional AMMs, that would be reckless. Bots would extract it instantly. In Darklake, it becomes a yield premium.

The protocol ensures the trader is never filled beyond their defined min_out. But if that trade executes? The LP captures a spread that would otherwise have gone to arbitrage bots or sandwichers.

Darklake doesn’t fight MEV, but instead, lets the yield flow back to LPs.

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This mechanism is only possible through our dual-path single-sided routing architecture. Darklake matches encrypted swaps by sourcing liquidity from unpaired token pools—e.g., USDC-in and SOL-out.

Each leg of the trade is filled independently, but the execution is atomic. Settlement occurs only if both halves of the swap validate against the encrypted min_out. This ensures LPs are not exposed to toxic flow, and traders maintain absolute slippage integrity.

The result: silent execution that preserves capital on both ends of the trade.

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Consider a Telegram sniper executing a time-sensitive buy on a thin SOL memecoin pair. They’re willing to tolerate 2.5% slippage for the opportunity, but only if filled within that range.

In a conventional AMM:

• That information is visible in the mempool.
• Bots pre-position and sandwich the trade.
• LPs get bad fills, traders get frontrun, and value leaks to extractors.

In Darklake:

• The trader’s slippage tolerance is encrypted.
• No one, not even Darklake, knows the min_out.
• The trade executes only if the fill is provably within bounds.

LPs win by capturing the spread. The sniper gets execution without broadcast. MEV is left with nothing.

Darklake tracks MEV protection in real-time through a live GDP ticker (Gross DeFi Protection) quantifying the USD value that stays in the ecosystem instead of being siphoned off by extractors.

The GDP becomes a measure of structural yield defense, or how much liquidity has been preserved through encrypted execution. LPs can now measure not just what they’ve earned, but what they’ve kept.

Paired with pool-level APY dials, the system becomes a feedback loop:

• Traders opt into encrypted slippage for execution integrity.
• LPs earn wider spreads with zero leak.
• GDP increases as the system scales.

For traders, Darklake represents a preservation of choice.

Because every trade is gated by proof, execution only happens if your encrypted terms are met. If the market moves unfavorably, the transaction is reversed without any exposure.

No more failed trades stuck in mempool limbo. No more partial fills. No more slippage betrayal.

In Solana’s low-latency environment, it’s a fairer way to trade.

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Single-sided pools are now live on Darklake.

• LPs can allocate idle capital, USDC, SOL, and more, without pairing, without impermanent loss, and without leak.
• Traders can route swaps with total execution integrity.
• Referrers and agents can drive volume into the system and earn a slice of MEV-protected GDP.

Darklake is the first real implementation of protected, single-sided liquidity. Not a workaround. Whether you’re a silent whale, a Telegram bot, or a DAO treasury, this is infrastructure that defends your execution and amplifies your yield.

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