Foundations

This page explains how blockchain foundations partner with Bolt to establish durable, professional liquidity infrastructure for their ecosystems.

What Bolt Is

Bolt Liquidity is market infrastructure, not a liquidity incentive program.

Bolt enables professional market makers to deploy capital early using a managed, oracle-priced execution venue that is compatible with DEX aggregators and designed to persist without ongoing subsidies.

Bolt replaces paying for liquidity with durable market structure.

The Challenge Foundations Face

Many ecosystems encounter the same liquidity challenges:

• Liquidity incentives are expensive and temporary

• Markets deteriorate once incentives stop

• Retail LPs cannot sustain price discovery

• Professional market makers wait for mature markets

• Aggregators route away due to poor execution

The result is high incentive spend, weak market durability, and poor long-term outcomes.

Bolt’s Approach

Bolt provides a managed, oracle-priced execution venue that allows professional market makers to operate early with predictable risk and clear incentives.

Traditional incentive programs:

• Pay for volume

• Are emissions-heavy

• Are short-lived

• Rely on retail LPs

• Produce unpredictable outcomes

Bolt:

• Pays for structure

• Is emissions-light

• Is designed to persist

• Is driven by professional market makers

• Delivers deterministic execution

What Foundations Get

Credible Liquidity From Day One

• Participation from professional market makers

• Deterministic, oracle-anchored pricing

• Tighter spreads and lower slippage

• Aggregator-compatible execution

This improves price discovery, market optics, and institutional confidence.

Lower Long-Term Incentive Spend

• Markets that persist without perpetual emissions

• Incentives applied selectively rather than continuously

• Reduced governance and reputational overhead

Faster Ecosystem Flywheel

Better execution quality leads to increased routing, usage, and builder adoption across wallets, aggregators, and DeFi applications.

Partnership Models

Infrastructure Partnership

The foundation funds Bolt deployment and market maker onboarding.

• Funded from ecosystem or infrastructure budgets

• Used to support market maker access and early operations

Market Maker Sponsorship

The foundation partially sponsors market maker participation with defined performance expectations.

• Market makers manage liquidity and risk

• No direct liquidity emissions

• Markets persist after sponsorship concludes

Ecosystem Pool Bootstrapping

Launch core and ecosystem-specific trading pairs with Bolt and selected market makers.

• Transparent rules

• Clear KPIs

• Defined governance and sunset conditions

What Foundations Are Not Funding

• Guaranteed trading volume

• Artificial TVL

• Trader subsidies

• Perpetual incentive commitments

Foundations are funding durable market infrastructure.

Governance and Transparency

Bolt is designed to be governance- and audit-friendly and provides:

• Deterministic pricing rules

• Clear fee structures

• Observable execution behavior

• Measurable performance metrics