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FlowX V3

Rejected
Max sleeve
Reviewed
2026-08-16 · v1
Next review
2026-11-16
Chains
Sui · freezable

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FlowX V3 is a concentrated-liquidity exchange on Sui where LPs choose a token pair, fee tier and active price range. The 2026-08-16 survey measured about $0.09M of Sui pool inventory. Trading changes the position’s token mix and an out-of-range position can be entirely one asset, so the version-1 AMM-LP dossier controls regardless of fees, farming rewards or protocol size.

The research file

Mechanism applicability

FlowX documents V3 as a Sui concentrated-liquidity market maker. An LP selects a pair, price range and fee tier; liquidity is active only while market price remains inside the chosen interval, with the position represented as an NFT. Swaps earn fees but consume one reserve into the other, and narrower ranges concentrate both fee exposure and adverse conversion.

Control and exit applicability

The published mainnet package and pool-manager architecture execute swaps, positions and fee accounting, while protocol administration controls enabled fee tiers. An LP can decrease liquidity and collect the assets then represented by the position, not the deposited mix. Exit therefore depends on pool depth, slippage, token behavior, Sui settlement and contract or interface availability.

Current observation and perimeter

The DefiLlama API read on 2026-08-16 classified FlowX V3 as a DEX and reported approximately $0.09M entirely on Sui. The observation is specific to the V3 concentrated-liquidity adapter and does not combine FlowX V2 balances or treat incentive-token value as pool liquidity.

Why the class rule decides

FlowX V3 LPs provide market-making inventory whose composition changes as traders move price through their range; leaving the range can make the position one-sided. Farming rewards and custom ranges alter compensation and sensitivity but do not remove that loss channel. Reopen only for a separately measured FlowX product whose return and exit do not depend on pooled trading inventory.

Sources

The claims above trace to these. Where a number could not be independently verified, the thesis says so.

Inherited controls

The verdict above grades the protocol layer. Every position also inherits the asset it holds and the chain it settles on. The least safe layer sets the position’s grade, and the position table names which one that is.

ChainVerdictGradeControl constraint
SuiRejected freezable freeze and seizure are demonstrated: standing validator deny lists began freezing the Cetus exploiter’s ~$162M within about 80 minutes, and a Foundation-organized vote later moved the frozen funds without the owner’s keys.
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