Aquarius Submission For Stellar Community Fund #23

Aquarius is thrilled to announce our participation for a second time in the Stellar Community Fund. With this latest grant, we are aiming to finalize Aquarius AMMs built on Soroban, a smart contract layer designer for the Stellar network. With our main contracts now complete and under auditing, we aim to launch Aquarius AMMs during phases 1 and 2 of the Soroban launch around the end of February 2024. What is Aquarius? Aquarius has been operating as a Liquidity Incentive Distribution protocol for the Stellar network since 2021, designed to incentivize market-making and liquidity provision on Stellar’s native DEX and AMMs. Our core aims are to attract substantial liquidity to the Stellar network, focus that liquidity on selected markets, which can enable larger asset exchanges at better rates across Stellar. We achieve these aims by distributing our AQUA tokens as hourly incentives to Stellar DEX and AMM liquidity providers, helping encourage growth. Aquarius also incorporates a govern