Liquidity here means making markets, not depositing into a pool β you post an offer ladder and
run the maker side of trustless atomic swaps, earning the spread on the flow you capture. Model it against
the live market before you commit a single coin.
Obscura network height
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live Β· refreshes every 20s
Your scenario
Volume the market would do at competitive pricing. Your spread then scales how much of it fills.
βOBX
Spendable OBX backing your offers. Two-sided making also needs paired-coin inventory.
H/s
You provide the OBX you mine. A smaller hashrate mines less, so provides less β but earns the same % premium on it.
Tighter β more fills, less each. Wider β fewer fills, more each.
You must be online to fill β offline swaps stall into the refund path.
One-sided (like auto-liquidity). Your OBX depletes as it sells β the daily rate holds only while you keep sourcing OBX (mining or buy-back).
Projected earnings
β
projected net earnings / day Β· paid in proceeds
β β of capital / month Β· early-provider rate
compresses as makers add depth Β· Β±25% price band
Flow you'd captureshare of daily volumeβ
Fills / dayβ
Volume filled / dayβ
Gross spread / dayβ
Swap fees / day0.001 OBX Γ fillsβ
Net / dayβ
β
What you're taking on
Price exposure β you hold the proceeds coin between fillsCapital locked ~20 h if a taker aborts a swapOffline = zero fills (uptime matters)Griefing wastes time, never fundsAuto-selling leaves a public on-chain link that can deanonymize your miningCapture drops as others add depth or tighten spreads
How being a provider works
01
Post an offer ladder
Your node signs and gossips a set of OBX swap offers, each stepped away from mid by your spread. No on-chain cost.
02
Run the maker side
When a buyer fills a rung, your node funds the OBX, confirms their payment, co-signs the claim, and sweeps the proceeds β all trustless.
03
Keep the spread
You receive more than mid would give. That difference, minus a 0.001 OBX fee, is your profit β realized every fill.
Get started (run a maker node)
Being a provider means a node online 24/7 with inventory. Auto-liquidity posts the ladder for you:
# installs a node that mines OBX and auto-posts a liquidity ladder
curl -fsSL https://obscura-protocol.space/install.sh | sh -s -- \
--clearnet --mine \
--seeds 188.166.153.86:18080,139.59.183.15:18080,92.113.148.61:18080
Spread: OBX_AUTO_LIQUIDITY_LADDER_STEP (default 1.2%/rung)Rung size: OBX_AUTO_LIQUIDITY_CHUNK_OBX (default 5)Max tied up: OBX_AUTO_LIQUIDITY_MAX_FRACTION (default 0.5)Two-sided: needs extra setup β see the maker guide
Before you commit: you need OBX inventory (mined or bought) and real uptime β a browser tab can't
settle swaps, and an offline node fills nothing. Keep a durable data directory (a crash mid-swap can otherwise
freeze your proceeds), and know that auto-selling mined OBX leaves a public on-chain link that can deanonymize your mining.
Honest note: these are projections against an addressable volume you set β earnings scale with real
swap flow, they are not a fixed yield, and there is no protocol reward β the spread is the entire liquidity
premium (your mining income is separate and carries its own power/hardware cost, shown gross). Today's live
volume is shown above; on a young network it is thin. Being a provider is market-making, with the risks listed.
Model & assumptions: fills follow a demand curve
acceptance = eβs/sβ with taker price-tolerance
sβ = 3%, so the profit-optimal spread is s* = sβ. Capital turnover assumes a
~10-min happy-path lockup and a ~20-h lockup on the ~8% of swaps that abort (β ~14Γ/day, not the naΓ―ve 180Γ).
We show net OBX/day as a Β±25% band (proceeds are held in the paired coin) rather than an
annualized APR, because annualizing daily market-making returns overstates them. The monthly figure is an
early-provider rate: it's high because you'd be one of the only makers, and it
falls fast as others add depth (raise "competing depth" to see it). And note:
one-sided selling depletes your OBX β a sustained daily rate needs two-sided
making or continuous replenishment. Capture-share by depth and sβ are heuristics, not yet calibrated to live fills.
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Obscura liquidity provider Β· non-custodial atomic swaps Β· read-only live data via the node RPC not financial advice Β· projections are illustrative, not guarantees