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Maverick is a capital-efficient AMM whose Dynamic Distribution engine auto-shifts concentrated liquidity as price moves (modes: Right/Left/Both/Static), reducing manual rebalancing for LPs.
Dynamic-distribution AMM with automated liquidity modes.
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Automated liquidity 'modes' move concentrated positions with price, blending CLMM efficiency with hands-off LPing.
Maverick's core automated market maker. It lets liquidity providers place liquidity in arbitrary concentrated distributions and natively automates the movement of that liquidity to follow price, removing the manual re-balancing or metaprotocol tooling that other concentrated-liquidity AMMs require.
Four LP behaviors relative to price. Mode Right follows price upward (bullish directional bet); Mode Left follows price downward (bearish); Mode Both shifts liquidity in either direction to stay concentrated around price (well suited to correlated/stable pairs); Mode Static holds a fixed distribution like a classic concentrated position.
A mechanism that lets protocols add token rewards to specific dynamic-distribution positions, directing incentives to targeted price ranges and liquidity shapes rather than across an entire pool.
Non-transferable vote-escrowed MAV obtained by locking MAV. veMAV balance grants governance voting power and the ability to direct protocol incentive emissions toward particular pools or positions.
The v2 architecture introduces Programmable Pools, where a designated smart-contract 'accessor' controls state-changing functions. This enables permissioned/KYC pools, dynamic fees, single-sided liquidity, and AI-driven per-transaction parameter optimization on top of the Maverick AMM. Deploying Programmable Pools is permissionless.
2,000,000,000 MAV (fixed)
Binance Research — Maverick (MAV)Maverick AMM launched on Ethereum mainnet on 2023-03-08
Binance Research — Maverick (MAV)~$17M across a $8M strategic round (Feb 2022) and a $9M strategic round (Jun 2023)
BusinessWire — $9M round led by Founders FundHow Maverick Protocol maps onto established TradFi structures, and where it diverges.
Automated / algorithmic market making desk
Maverick Protocol
Like a professional market-making desk, Maverick continuously repositions inventory around the prevailing price to keep quotes tight and capital productive.
TradFi analogue
Maverick performs this repositioning automatically on-chain through smart-contract 'modes' rather than via a discretionary trading desk, and any user can supply liquidity permissionlessly rather than the activity being restricted to a licensed intermediary.
Maverick Protocol
Protocol / core development team The company and team building Maverick Protocol, a capital-efficiency-focused DeFi AMM. Backed by investors including Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, Jump Crypto, Circle Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund and Coinbase Ventures across rounds in 2022 and 2023.
Strategic
2022-02-15$8M
Key milestones: launches, upgrades, exploits and governance events.
$8M strategic round led by Pantera Capital
ExecutedMaverick announced an $8M strategic round led by Pantera Capital with Jump Crypto, Circle Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund and others participating.
SourceMaverick AMM launches on Ethereum mainnet
ExecutedThe Dynamic Distribution AMM went live on Ethereum mainnet, reaching roughly $6M TVL in its first week per Binance Research.
SourceDedaub PoolPosition audit report
ExecutedDedaub published its audit of Maverick's PoolPosition contracts, covering position accounting, management and rewards mechanisms.
Source$9M strategic round led by Founders Fund
ExecutedMaverick completed a $9M strategic round led by Founders Fund, with Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures and Apollo Crypto participating.
SourceMaverick v2 announced
ExecutedMaverick introduced v2 with Programmable Pools, enabling dynamic fees, permissioned/KYC pools, single-sided liquidity and AI-optimized parameters.
SourceBoth concentrate liquidity, but Uniswap V3 leaves LPs to manually re-set ranges (or rely on third-party managers). Maverick's Dynamic Distribution AMM automatically moves liquidity to follow price on-chain via its Right/Left/Both/Static modes, so a position can stay concentrated around the market price without active management.
Right (liquidity follows price up), Left (follows price down), Both (follows price in either direction, useful for correlated/stable pairs), and Static (a fixed distribution that does not move).
MAV can be locked for non-transferable veMAV, which confers governance voting power and lets holders direct incentive emissions to specific pools or positions.
Maverick v2 adds Programmable Pools: liquidity pools fronted by an 'accessor' smart contract that controls state changes, enabling dynamic fees, permissioned/KYC pools, single-sided liquidity and AI-optimized parameters. It expanded Maverick's multi-chain footprint (for example a Scroll deployment in mid-2024).
Maverick launched on Ethereum mainnet and zkSync Era, and has since expanded to additional EVM chains including BNB Chain, Base and Arbitrum, with v2 deployments such as Scroll.
