ShadowSwap is a Decentralized exchange based on automated market makers (AMM), Which has become the standard and the most convenient way to exchange crypto tokens.

Shadowswap is a decentralized exchange ecosystem based on the AMM Model(Automated Market Maker) that builds on top of the solid foundations of the Core Network. Our goal is to create a trusted platform that enables users to exchange native Core tokens in a truly decentralized fashion with no intermediaries or single points of failure.

We aimed to leverage the Core Network Scalability, Security, Decentralization, and Lower transaction fee to bring the best product to the Core Ecosystem. Our target is to become an infrastructure solution that enables and augments other projects as well.

From the beginning, we have defined and followed our stepping stones and values when building this product Comparing and eliminating errors made by previous AMM Dex. This guarantees that the shadows are committed to providing a lot of features which include:

Affordability

• Core fees are much smaller than on other ecosystems like Ethereum, and the Binance smart chain.

Anonymity

• Anyone with CORE can interact with the Shadowswap smart contract. We impose no other requirements in order to be as anonymous as CoreDao is.

Security

• Code will be thoroughly audited, and its critical parts will be open source on GitHub to be verified by anyone.

Trust

• Nobody has a higher priority, and everyone is equal. Anyone can track and verify Transactions on the Core Blockchain Explorer.

Participation

• Anyone can participate in any of the Shadowswap Ecosystem products.

Crypto projects can partner with Shadowswap to:

• List their tokens on our decentralized exchange.

• Receive advisory services from our team.

• Network with our robust partnership ecosystem.

• Co-market with us to acquire new users.

• Create Yield Farms to incentivize users to add liquidity for their token on our exchange.

• Raise capital through Initial Dex/Farm Offerings.

• List NFTs Collections on the Marketplace.

Features at Shadowswap

Shadowswap builds on the frontier of Decentralized Finance, providing users with an innovative and unique trading experience that is seamless, accessible, and empowering leveraging the high scalability of the Core Blockchain for users to experience the flow of Decentralized Finance Exclusive to the Core Blockchain.

Trade

• Fast and Cheap Token Swaps with our automated market maker (AMM) exchange.

Farm

• Deposit your Liquidity Pools Tokens into Farms and earn Bonus rewards.

Stake

• Stake your SHDW Tokens with our Shadow pool system, and earn SHDW or more exotic Tokens from Core ecosystem projects.

IFO/IDO

• Visit Shadow Launchpad to participate in exclusive launch events for newly issued Tokens on the Core blockchain.

NFT Market

• Shadow puppets NFTs will be available with different utilities.

Bridging

• Moving Tokens between Blockchains e.g Eth, OP, Aptos, Bsc and more

We are not limited to these features we have more features lucking in the shadows

Mission

Our ultimate goal is to be a stepping-stone to the elimination of Centralized Exchanges as well as be one of the best Decentralized Exchanges in the crypto space while leveraging Core Blockchain Scalability, Security, and Decentralization pushing forward the Core Network while promoting the adoption of the Network and Helping Products/Projects Settle in with ease including having access to the sverse lab resources to build out products. Core Blockchain will be the guiding light of this mission and we hope to be the torch bearer.

Guides: Jump right in

Follow our handy guides to get started on the basics as quickly as possible:

ShadowSwap Product Features: Dive a little deeper

Learn the fundamentals of Product to get a deeper understanding of our main features:

Setup a Wallet & Add Core Network

You need to install a wallet to test on Core Chain TestNet. We recommend using MetaMask which is the most well known crypto wallet in the world. You can google the steps to install a wallet and set up accounts, here is an example: https://geekflare.com/finance/beginners-guide-to-metamask/

Full guide Below

User Guide for Core TestNetCore Documents on Notion

Getting Started as a Developer

User Guide for Core TestNetCore Documents

Crypto moves fast, and we move fast too.

Pivoting is a way of life.

As a result, we set our development priorities in accordance with changes in the market and the availability of developer resources because we don't publicly commit to certain timetables.

Phase 1

In this initial phase, we are focusing on building and deploying the Dex on mainnet. This includes the token release(Airdrop and Token Sale included), Farms and pool deployment(with initial farm setup for SHDW/CORE and Pool for SHDW token), Bridge Release, integrating wild range support for ecosystem token.

Phase 2

In the second phase, We are Setting up the Shadow Treasury with all the initial funds necessary(SHDW and CORE initially) with Address made public for verification, Set up more Revenue stream for the Shadow Treasury. Partnerships with ecosystem projects, AMAs and Community Events.

Phase 3

In the Third phase, the sverse lab will being development of the Lending protocol and NFT AMM Market as the same pace with resources divided into each protocol to hesitant the development of both and Development updates will be dropped weekly. Shadow NFT Update( NFT Preview)

Phase 4

in the Fourth phase, other shadowswap features will be released such as Voting, Info analytics for shadowswap and more.

Ongoing/Recurring

• Testnet Network Integration ✔

• Zap Features Integration ✔

• Farms and Shadow Pools Integration and testing ✔

• IFO/IDO Feature alpha testing ✔

• ShadowSwap Testnet Release ✔

• UI/UX, Performance Upgrades & Bug Fixes

• Bridging

• Lending & Borrowing Protocol

• Voting

• Info Analytics

• Shadow NFT Overview

Lurking in The Shadows

• AMM NFT Marketplace

  • NFT Collectibles

  • Buy & Sell whitelisted NFT collections

  • NFT drops

• Lottery Integration

• Dex V2 UI Upgrade (Completly Overhauled UI)

Done

Trade

• Exchange of Tokens

• Zap Feature

• Charts & other trading features on-site

• Liquidity(adding and removing)

• Major performance upgrades

Earn

• Shadow Staking with SHDW Side Pool - Flexible SHDW staking on the side of locked staking

• Core Pools, Farms

• APR/APY Calculator v2

• Harvest all function

ShadowSwap is an Automated Market Maker (AMM), and the Exchange is at the heart of ShadowSwap.

The ShadowSwap Exchange offers several features that support decentralized trading:

Swapping/Trading

ShadowSwap lets users trade without the need to go through a Centralized Exchange. Everything you do on ShadowSwap is routed directly through your own wallet—no need to trust someone else with your coins!

Liquidity Pools

You can only swap tokens on ShadowSwap if there is enough liquidity for those tokens. If nobody has added much liquidity for the token or tokens you want to swap, it will be difficult, expensive, or impossible to do so.

Providing liquidity will get you LP Tokens, which will earn you rewards in the form of trading fees for making sure there's always liquidity for the exchange to use.

ZAP features also allow you to be able to add or Remove liquidity from a side of the pool e.g CORE/USDT you can add more CORE to the pool by using the zap feature without needing USDT.

Yield Farming

Yield farming lets users that are providing liquidity earn SHDW rewards by locking their LP tokens into a smart contract. The incentive is to balance out the risk of impermanent loss that comes along with locking in your liquidity.

Initial Dex Offerings (IDOs)

An Initial Farm Offering is an event that lets users buy into a limited-time offer to purchase new tokens from Core Ecosystem. The IFO price is usually very generous.

Decentralized exchange is where you can trade one Token for another. There will be thousands of Cryptocurrencies on the Core blockchain and using ShadowSwap Dex, you can discover and trade them with as little as one click and fast transaction execution.

To Trade a Token on the Decentralized Exchange, there must be Liquidity. The liquidity provided to the Exchange comes from Liquidity Providers ("LPs") who stake their tokens in "Pools". In exchange, they get LP (Liquidity Provider) tokens, which can also be staked to earn SHDW tokens in the "farm".

When you make a token swap (trade) on the exchange you will pay a 0.3% trading fee, which is broken down as follows:

0.20% - Paid to liquidity pools in the form of a trading fee for liquidity providers.

0.05% - Sent to the ShadowSwap Treasury.

0.05% - Sent towards SHDW buyback and burn.

In addition to Trading tokens, ShadowSwap users can also add liquidity to the DEX itself by contributing equal amounts of two tokens (a token pair) to create liquidity provider (LP) tokens.

How does a liquidity pool work?

Shadowswap charges a 0.3% fee for all trades, of which 0.20% is added to the liquidity pool of the token pair that was traded on.

A liquidity pool (LP) is a pool of two tokens, e.g. CORE and SHDW tokens. This pool is what allows users to exchange between the two tokens automatically.

Users can earn a share of the trading fees by depositing a pair of tokens into the LP (also known as "adding liquidity"). Users will receive an LP token, representing their share of the LP.

Liquidity pools are created by pairing together two different crypto tokens and depositing them into a smart contract. ShadowSwap currently uses the constant product formula for our automated market (AMM) and liquidity pools, ensuring that assets are always deposited in an equal 50/50 split based on the current value of those assets and that all liquidity pools only ever have two tokens in them.

Liquidity pools are often referred to as "trading pairs," because you are combining two tokens to create a liquidity provider token. A liquidity pool of two assets allows you to swap (trade) between those two tokens.

For example:

• 10 LP tokens are representing 10 SHDW and 10 USDT tokens.

• 1 LP token = 1 SHDW + 1 USDT

• Someone trades 10 SHDW for 10 USDT

• Someone else trades 10 USDT for 10 SHDW.

• The SHDW/USDT liquidity pool now has 10.015 SHDW and 10.015 USDT.

• Each LP token is now worth 1.00015 SHDW + 1.00015 USDT.

Additionally, if you want to dig deeper into the math behind our AMM (the constant product formula) check out Binance's walkthrough here.

What Is an Automated Market Maker (AMM)? | Binance AcademyBinance Academy

Pool APR

Pool APR is the yield you accrue by adding liquidity to a Pool. You earn 0.25% of all trades on this pair proportional to your share of the pool. Fees are added to the pool, accrue in real-time, and can be claimed when you withdraw your Liquidity.

Providing liquidity is not without risk, as you may be exposed to impermanent loss (IL).

Simply put, the impermanent loss is the difference between holding tokens in an AMM and holding them in your wallet.

If the prices of the two tokens revert back to the same prices when you added liquidity, you won't suffer any IL.

Impermanent Loss (IL)

Providing Liquidity to a Pool does come with the risk of Impermanent Loss.

So what is Impermanent Loss?

Impermanent Loss occurs when the price ratio of the supplied token pair changes. As a simple rule, the more volatile the assets are in the pool, the more likely it is that you can be exposed to impermanent loss. As the AMM dictates that the total liquidity must remain the same, the ratio is readjusted in order to establish an equilibrium.

The ‘impermanent’ part of IL is an apt description, as the value of the token may yet return to its initial price if it is left in the pool. If the price realigns, then the IL no longer exists, however, if the investor withdraws their funds from the liquidity pool, then the loss is realized fully.

Impermanent loss is caused by a bidirectional change in the value of either one or both tokens within a pair.

The more volatile the underlying tokens are in the pool, the more likely you are to experience Impermanent Loss

Impermanent Loss is not permanent and is only realized when you withdraw from a Liquidity Pool.

Check out Binance Academy's detailed walkthrough on impermanent loss to learn more:

Impermanent Loss Explained | Binance AcademyBinance Academy

Getting set up to trade

Before you can trade, you will need a Core Chain-compatible wallet. You can learn how to get one here. You will also need to have some Core tokens to trade with.

Trading on the ShadowSwap exchange

1. Go to the exchange page here.

2. Connect your Core Chain-compatible wallet by clicking Connect Wallet (you can also Connect in the top right-hand corner).

3. Choose the token you want to trade from the dropdown menu in the "From" section. The default setting is CORE.

Whichever token you choose, you will need to make sure you have some to trade with. Your balance is shown above the token dropdown menu.

4. Choose the token you want to trade to in the "To" section as above. Next, type an amount for your "To" currency by clicking inside the input box.

Your "From" currency amount will be estimated automatically. You can also type your "From" amount and have the "To" amount estimate automatically if you like.

5. Check the details, and click the Swap button.

6. A window with more details will appear. Check the details are correct.

When you are ready, click the Confirm Swap button. Your wallet will ask you to confirm the action.

7. Done! You can click View on CoreScan to see your transaction details on the explorer. and also add token information to wallet if its not imported before.

Go to the Liquidity page here.

Add Liquidity

1.Click 'Add Liquidity'.

2.Select the tokens you wish to add liquidity and enter the amount.

3.Check the details, and click 'Supply'.

4.Check the details, and click 'Confirm Supply'.

5.Confirm the transaction in your wallet.

Remove Liquidity

1.Select the Liquidity Pool to remove.

2.Click 'Remove'.

3.Select the percentage you want to remove or click detailed to enter exact amount to remove.

4.Check the details, and click 'Enable'.

4. After Enabling then click 'Remove'.

More information Soon

What is Zap?

Zap enables simple liquidity provision. Add liquidity with only one token and one single click, without manual swapping or token balancing.

• Add liquidity with only one token: You can add liquidity using only one token in the trading pair. Zap will automatically perform swaps using the one token you provide and automatically balance the trading pair to a 50/50 split before adding liquidity.

• Add liquidity with an imbalanced number of tokens in the trading pair: You can add liquidity even if the number of tokens you provide in the trading pair is not perfectly balanced with the current pool. For example, 30:70, which differs from the default pool weight of 50:50. Zap will automatically rebalance the tokens into a 50/50 split before adding liquidity.

• Remove liquidity and choose what token(s) you want to receive: When removing liquidity, Zap allows you to receive only one token in the trading pair. Zap will automatically perform swaps before returning your tokens.

Enable Zap

By default, the Zap feature is turned on for every user. If you don’t see the new Zap UI when adding or removing liquidity, please enable it in the settings panel. You can bring up the settings panel by clicking the cog icon.

Zap In (Add Liquidity)

Visit the Liquidity page, and choose “Add Liquidity”.

Pick the trading pair you want to provide liquidity to by selecting two input tokens, checkout Liquidity guide to learn more.

Click the “Add Liquidity” button to proceed.

If the token in the trading pair you are adding liquidity to has a balance in your wallet. The checkbox for that token will be automatically checked. If you have both the tokens have a balance in your wallet, both checkboxes will be checked.

Zap using one token

You can add liquidity using only one token in the trading pair. Simple check only one checkbox for the token you wish to use. Zap will automatically swap half of the checked tokens into another token in the trading pair before adding liquidity. You will see a warning message indicating which token will be converted.

Zap using two tokens with imbalanced amounts

If both tokens are checked, the amounts of the input tokens don't match a 50/50 split. Zap balancing will be introduced. You will see a message of “Some of your Token A will be converted to Token B”.

Proceed with Zap

When you click “Supply”, the details of the Zap will be shown and await you to confirm.

You will see:

1. How many LP tokens you will receive.

2. What are the input tokens, and the number of tokens you are committing.

3. How the input tokens are traded in order to match a 50/50 split.

4. The slippage tolerance you are using.

Zap out (Remove Liquidity)

Zap also enables you to receive one single token in the trading pair when removing liquidity.

1. Visit the Liquidity page.

2. Click on the pair you want to remove liquidity under “Your Liquidity".

3. Click “Remove”. A new pop-up will appear.

Under the “You Will Receive” section, you can uncheck the token you don’t want to receive. Zap will automatically swap and convert 100% of the returns into the checked token when removing liquidity.

Yield Farming

With Shadowswap Yield Farms, users can stake liquidity provider (LP) tokens to boost earning power through native token rewards.

Yield Farms allow users to earn SHDW while supporting ShadowSwap by staking LP Tokens.

What is Yield Farming?

Yield Farming is the process of using Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols to generate Interest on your Cryptocurrency Assets. There are various forms of Yield Farming, such as Providing Liquidity, Staking, or Lending and each option comes with different user considerations before participating. For the purposes of this page, we will focus on Yield Farming by Providing Liquidity.

How Yield Farms Work

ShadowSwap Yield Farms is designed to primarily incentivize users to provide liquidity for their favorite DeFi projects. Users who create and stake their liquidity provider tokens in a Yield Farm will earn SHDW utility tokens.

As a DeFi platform, liquidity is crucial to a healthy ecosystem. More liquidity available to ShadowSwap means more users can trade hundreds of their favorite tokens at low fees. Therefore, it’s in everyone's best interest to encourage liquidity for popular trading pairs on ShadowSwap, because popular trading pairs require more liquidity and generate more trading fee revenue.

For more info on liquidity provider (LP) tokens visit the Liquidity section.

Yield Farm APR

Yield Farm APRs are determined by three primary factors: the price of the input LP token, the price of the reward token (i.e., SHDW), and the amount of input LP tokens in the pool. Let's look at how changes to these three factors affect the APR of a Yield Farm.

• If the price of the input LP token increases, the APR will decrease, because each input LP token is worth relatively fewer reward tokens.

• If the price of the input token decreases, the APR will increase, because each input LP token is worth relatively more reward tokens.

• If the price of the reward token (SHDW) increases, the APR will increase, because the total value of the reward tokens received for the same number of input LP tokens has increased.

• If the price of the reward token (SHDW) decreases, the APR will decrease, because the total value of the reward tokens received for the same number of input LP tokens has decreased.

• If the number of input LP tokens staked in a Yield Farm increases, the APR will decrease, because the same amount of reward tokens are distributed against more input LP tokens.

• If the number of input LP tokens staked in a Yield Farm decreases, the APR will increase, because the same amount of reward tokens are distributed against fewer input LP tokens.

Benefits of Yield Farming

• Yield Farming can be a lucrative way to earn extra rewards, such as Trading Fees or Tokens.

• Improve your asset’s capital efficiency by utilizing Idle Tokens sitting in your Wallet.

• By Yield Farming you are also supporting the Defi Ecosystem you are participating in.

What are Shadow Monsters Pools?

Shadow Monsters Pools are the simplest way to earn free tokens on Shadowswap. Stake SHDW, and earn free tokens. It’s really that easy.

Shadow monsters Staking Pools allow users to stake their Shadow(SHDW) to earn Shadow(SHDW) tokens or tokens from partner projects. These assist partners in bootstrapping adoption by distributing a portion of their tokens to SHDW token holders.

Staking Pools

Staking Pools allow users to stake the SHDW utility tokens they've purchased, converted, or earned through yield farming, to earn more SHDW or tokens from partner projects.

Each Staking Pool has an input token and a reward token. Within the Dex, the input token for every Staking Pool is SHDW. The reward tokens are either SHDW or a token from a Shadowswap partner project.

A few important things to note about Shadowsap Staking Pools:

1. You can stake as many SHDW tokens as you want.

2. You can unstake some or all of your tokens at any time.

3. Rewards are accumulated each block.

4. Rewards are not auto-compounded back to the Staking Pool.

5. You can harvest the rewards at any time, or add them back to the staking pool to increase your return.

Earning Rewards

On the Staking Pools page, you'll see an APR listed next to each pool. This is the amount of reward tokens that will accrue while your input tokens are staked, expressed as a percentage of the amount of staked input tokens, calculated at current rates.

Clicking on the calculator icon next above the APR will pull up a new window, showing the current rate of return based on how long you were to stake SHDW in that pool.

If all other factors remain the same, the more input tokens you stake into a pool and/or the longer you leave them staked, the more reward tokens you could earn.

Harvesting Rewards

Users can harvest reward tokens out of a Staking Pool at any time in one of two ways. Stakeholders can either withdraw them back to your wallet or compound them back into the Staking Pool.

Selecting "Harvest" will send the earned tokens back to your wallet without re-staking them into the pool. The staked balance will remain in the smart contract.

Stake SHDW, earn SHDW

ShadowSwap staking pools comes with two staking options: flexible staking or fixed-term staking.

What’s the difference between “Flexible” and “Fixed-Term” staking?

With both, you can simply stake your SHDW tokens to earn more SHDW tokens with no deposit fees. Flexible staking allows users to stake SHDW and earn rewards with the ability to unstake whenever they please. Fixed-term staking allows users to maximise their yield and earn even more SHDW by locking their staked SHDW for a period of time they choose, earning a linearly boosted yield compared to flexible staking.Flexible staking and fixed-term staking are both part of the same pool to allow users easy migration between the two staking options. However, when you do fixed-term staking, there is an option to perform flexible SHDW staking on the side.

Flexible Staking

Stake your SHDW and forget about it! SHDW rewards will be automatically distributed and included in your staking balance, minus a small fee. If you have SHDW staked in flexible staking

• ✅ Add more SHDW to flexible staking

• ✅ Harvest rewards any time

• ✅ Withdraw any time (fees apply for the first 72 hours, see below)

• ✅ Convert all staked SHDW in flexible to fixed-term staking

• ❌ Add SHDW to fixed-term staking if you have any SHDW in flexible staking

• ❌ Convert part of the staked SHDW in flexible to fixed-term staking

Unstaking fee

• 0.1%
 if you unstake (withdraw) within 72 hours.

• Only applies within 3 days of manually staking.

• After 3 days, you can unstake with no fee.

• The 3-day timer resets every time you manually stake more SHDW in the pool.

• This fee only applies to manual unstaking: it does not apply to automatic compounding.

Performance fee

• 2%, subtracted automatically from each yield harvest.

• For example, if the harvest were 1 SHDW, then 0.02 SHDW would be subtracted as the performance fee.

The SHDW collected via the unstaking fee and performance fee will be burned every week .This is a good thing for SHDW holders because it reduces the overall amount of SHDW tokens in existence.

Fixed-Term Staking

Stake your SHDW for a fixed amount of time to maximize yields and receive additional benefits! SHDW rewards will be locked along with the staked SHDW until the staking duration ends.

• No performance fees

• The longer you lock, the higher the boost applied to the yield! Always offering a higher yield compared to flexible staking!

• SHDW rewards will unlock, along with your staked SHDW, when your lock duration expires

• Once staked in fixed-term staking, you cannot withdraw until the end of your lock duration.

• 🎁 Enjoy benefits such as:

  • 🗳️ Boosted voting power: vSHDW​

  • 🚜 Boosted farm yields: bSHDW [Coming later on]​

  • 🛍️ IFO private sale entry [Coming Soon]

  • ✨ Priority access or special events

If you have SHDW locked in fixed-term staking

• ✅ Add more SHDW to lock

• ✅ Extend the lock period

• ✅ Perform flexible staking on the side

• ❌ Harvest rewards

• ❌ Withdraw before the lock ends

1. Go to the Pools page here.

2. Connect to your metamask or other preferred wallet wallet by clicking the Connect button (top right-hand side).

3. Choose your wallet and connect.

4. Choose the SHDW Shadow pool and click the Enable button. Your wallet will ask you to confirm the action.

5. The Enable button should now be replaced with Flexible and Locked. Click the button to bring up the staking menu.

6. For Flexible Staking simply press Flexible, which will present a new window, enter the amount of SHDW you wish to stake, click Confirm and confirm the transaction in your wallet.

Want to convert your flexible staking to fixed-term staking to earn more SHDW? Simply click Convert to Lock and choose how long you want to lock your SHDW.

1. Go to the Pools page here.

2. Connect to your metamask or other preferred wallet wallet by clicking the Connect button (top right-hand side).

3. Choose your wallet and connect.

4. Choose the SHDW Shadow pool and click the Enable button. Your wallet will ask you to confirm the action.

5. The Enable button should now be replaced with Flexible and Locked. Click the button to bring up the staking menu.

6. For Fixed-Term Staking simply press Locked, which will present you with a new window, enter the amount of SHDW you wish to stake and for how long you want to lock your SHDW for.

Below that, you will find a summary of your position, including yield, lock duration, and unlock date and time. Double-check to make sure you are okay with the lock duration and amount staked, click Confirm and confirm the transaction in your wallet.

Extending your lock staking duration

Changed your mind during the lock staking duration? No problem. You can always extend the time of your locked SHDW by simply clicking "Extend" and choose how much time you want to add on top of the initial lock duration. Remember, the longer you lock, the higher your yield will be boosted. The maximum locking duration is 52 weeks.

A user's new extended lock duration = initial lock duration + added duration

Example:

A user staked 1,438.45 SHDW in fixed-term staking with an initial lock duration of 10 weeks on 7th May 2023.

On 18th June 2023 (6 weeks later, 4 weeks until the user's SHDW unlocks), the user decides they want to add 5 weeks to their lock duration.

1. Navigate to the SHDW Shadow Pool and click Extend.

2. Select the duration you would like to add (5 weeks in this example). Note that your new lock duration will equal your initial lock duration of 10 weeks plus the added 5 weeks for a new lock duration of 15 weeks.

3. Double-check to make sure you are okay with the new extended lock duration and click Confirm.

Please note that you can not shorten the locking period nor withdraw your SHDW prematurely.

Adding more SHDW to your lock

You can easily do that by renewing your fixed-term staking position. Simply click "Add SHDW" and choose how much SHDW you want to deposit.

Please note that adding more SHDW to an existing lock resets your staking term based on the remaining lock duration, essentially “renewing” your fixed-term staking position. This results in a lower yield boost because your new lock duration is lower than your initial lock duration.

Example:

A user staked 1,438.45 SHDW in fixed-term staking with an initial lock duration of 10 weeks on 7th May 2023. On 18th June 2023 (6 weeks later, 4 weeks until the user's SHDW unlocks), the user decides they want to add 100 SHDW to locked balance.

1. Navigate to the SHDW Shadow Pool and click Add SHDW.

2. Select the amount of SHDW you would like to add to your locked balance (for this example, we are adding 100 SHDW which is our max wallet balance). Note that your yield boost is lower than the initial yield boost because it is calculated using a 4 week lock duration instead of the initial 10 week lock duration.

2.1. Alternatively, users can check the box next to "Renew and extend your lock to keep similar benefits." to maintain a similar yield boost setting the lock duration equal to the initial lock duration (in this example, 10 weeks).

3. Double-check to make sure you are okay with the added SHDW amount and the lock duration and click Confirm.

FAQ

What lock duration can we choose?

You can choose from 1-52 weeks. What do you prefer?

What variables affect the new SHDW Shadow Pool yield %s (Flexible and Fixed-Term Staking options)?

Since flexible staking and fixed-term staking options are part of the same pool, the following variables affect the yield% (APR/APY) of both:

• Total SHDW staked in flexible staking and fixed-term staking (the sum of both). The more SHDW staked, the lower the APR/APY.

• Total locked SHDW in fixed-term staking. The more SHDW locked means more yield boosts, resulting in fewer SHDW rewards for others (especially flexible staking).

• The average lock duration of all SHDW locked in fixed-term staking. If the average lock duration increases, APR/APY will decrease.

Can I harvest the rewards during the locked period?

No. You can harvest the rewards only when the locked duration is ended. This is based on the yield/return we are providing as well as the technical implementations.

Can I extend the lock duration?

Yes. Extending the lock duration adds more time to your initial lock duration. When choosing to extend your lock duration, note:

New extended lock duration = initial lock duration + added duration

Can I remove my SHDW from Fixed-Term staking via contract if I change my mind?

No. Your SHDW cannot be removed or withdrawn from fixed-term staking at any point in time until your lock duration ends and your SHDW is unlocked.

What is the "SHDW Locked" amount?

The "SHDW Locked" amount is a user's initial locked SHDW balance plus SHDW rewards to date.

SHDW Locked = Initial locked SHDW balance + SHDW rewards

When adding more SHDW to fixed-term staking, the "SHDW to be locked" amount is the user's initial locked SHDW balance, SHDW rewards to date, and the SHDW being added.

Can the Fixed-Term Staking SHDW pool APR change after I lock my SHDW?

Yes, the fixed-term staking SHDW pool APR is variable, just like the old SHDW pools. The fixed-term staking SHDW pool APR is not fixed and is dependent on:

• Total SHDW staked in the SHDW pool (the sum of both Flexible + Fixed-Term Staking).

• The average lock duration of all SHDW locked in fixed-term staking.

• A yield boost (similar to a multiplier) calculated from a user's initial lock duration. The longer you lock your SHDW, the higher the yield boost.

For example, if you lock your SHDW for 52 weeks, your yield boost will be larger than if you lock your SHDW for 26 weeks. The yield boost increases linearly the longer you lock your SHDW.

Can I vote if my SHDW is locked in the Fixed-Term Staking pool?

Yes!

Can I use both the Flexible Staking SHDW pool and the Fixed-Term Staking SHDW pool at the same time?

Yes, when you are doing fixed-term SHDW staking. A flexible SHDW staking side-pool will automatically appear for you to choose from.

Is there a fee for converting Flexible Staked SHDW to Fixed-Term Staked SHDW?

No. There are no additional fees for moving SHDW from flexible staking to fixed-term staking, only gas fees.

Shadow AMM NFT Marketplace is a new marketplace protocol that changes the way we think about NFT's Liquidity and Trading. This changes how users perceive NFTs as a whole while users hold a series of NFTs they cannot sell immediately due to low liquidity. it is an AMM protocol for NFTs, which means that users buy from or sell into liquidity pools instead of directly trading between themselves. If you're familiar with Uniswap, it's a similar concept but for NFTs

The ShadowSwap AMM Marketplace is a minimal, gas-efficient AMM protocol for facilitating NFT (ERC721s) to token (CORE or other Tokens) swaps using customizable bonding curves. Liquidity providers (LPs) can deposit into single-sided buy or sell pools, or provide both sides with a spread to capture fees.

The base unit of the protocol is the Pair Contract which can hold NFTs, tokens or both. End users then interact with Router Contract to swap across multiple pools and manage their approvals on one contract.

How can this Benefit The Shadows and Core Ecosystem.

the marketplace contributes to the growth and vitality of NFTs on Core ecosystem by providing increased liquidity, decentralization, accessibility, and innovation to the NFT market.

Architecture

How Does Shadowswap Work?

Here's how it works: 1. Liquidity providers deposit NFTs and/or CORE (or an ERC20 token) into liquidity pools. They choose whether they would like to buy or sell NFTs (or both) and specify a starting price and bonding curve parameters. 2. Users can then buy NFTs from or sell NFTs into these pools. Every time an item is bought or sold, the price to buy or sell another item changes for the pool based on its bonding curve. 3. At any time, liquidity providers can change the parameters of their pool or withdraw assets.

What Is A Liquidity Pool?

A pool, or liquidity pool, is a smart contract that allows you to instantly swap between two assets. On shadowswap, the most common type of pool is an NFT<>CORE pool, which means that anyone holding NFTs from that collection can instantly swap them for CORE, or vice versa.

Pools use a bonding curve to determine the relative price at which one asset is traded for another. The more an asset is bought from the pool, the more expensive it becomes. Conversely, the more an asset is sold to the pool, the cheaper it becomes.

Ideally, a pool contains some amount of both assets, enabling users to swap back and forth between them. However, it's also possible to create a pool with just one asset, meaning that users will only be able to buy that asset from the pool.

A bonding curve is a mathematical formula which defines the relationship between an asset's price and its supply. Bonding curves are a key feature of automated market makers since they are used to algorithmically adjust asset prices.

shadowswap supports three types of bonding curve: linear, exponential, and XYK (constant product).

Linear

With a linear bonding curve, the price of an NFT is increased by a flat amount (called delta) every time an item is bought from the pool. Conversely, the price of the NFT is decreased by that same flat amount every time an item is sold to the pool.

For example, a liquidity provider may create an NFT<>CORE pool with a Start Price of 1 CORE and a delta of 0.1 CORE. Assuming they provide enough liquidity, the price of an NFT will increase to 1.1 CORE after one item is purchased from the pool. After a second item is purchased, the price will increase to 1.2 CORE, and so on and so forth. At any point, if an NFT is sold to the pool, the price will decrease by 0.1 CORE.

Exponential

With an exponential bonding curve, the price of an NFT is increased by a certain percentage (also called delta) every time an item is bought from the pool. Conversely, the price of the NFT is decreased equivalently every time an item is sold to the pool.

To calculate the equivalent decrease, convert the percentage to a decimal index (e.g. for 50%, the index would be 1.5) and divide the price by this number.

For example, a liquidity provider may create an NFT<>CORE pool with a Start Price of 2 CORE and a delta of 50%. Assuming they provide enough liquidity, the price of an NFT will increase to 2 + 50% = 3 CORE after one item is purchased from the pool. After a second item is purchased, the price will increase to 3 + 50% = 4.5 CORE, and so on and so forth. At any point, if an NFT is sold to the pool, the price will be divided by 1.5.

XYK (Constant Product)

With an XYK curve, the price of an NFT is adjusted every time an item is bought from or sold to the pool, such that the product of two virtual reserves remains constant after every trade. These virtual reserves correspond to the number and value of NFTs the pool will buy or sell.

An additional concentration parameter allows liquidity providers to adjust (i.e. tighten or loosen) XYK curves.

Stay Tuned For More Information

Ticker: SPN

Contract Address: TBA

Chain: Core Chain (CRC721)

What are Shadow Puppet NFTs

Shadow Puppets NFTs (SPN) are generated sets of unique, rare, immutable, 3D, and digital Shadow figures. Which you can control to grow your finances and comes in limited supply, can be staked in SPN mining, or traded/Swapped in the NFT AMM marketplace and more use cases to come. Shadow Puppets will start the NFT DeFi Season on Core Network. More information here:

Futher Information to be released. Stay Tuned

Aside the Shadowswap and other Products within, the shadows still have some exciting surprises in the Shadows waiting to come out, When we reach a certain stage it will be revealed. Stay Tuned Shadows

SHDW

• Ticker: SHDW

• Contract Address: TBA

• Contract Address Testnet

• Chain: Core Network (Satoshi plus consensus)

What is SHDW

SHDW coin is the platform token of Shadowswap. It has various utilities such as purchasing NFTs, staking (Farm and pool), governance, participating in the various products on the shadow ecosystem, and more integrations to come.

The Summary

Earn Shadow(SHDW) from Farms and Shadow Pools, win it in the lottery, or buy it on the exchange, then explore its use cases:

1. Stake it in Shadow Pools to earn free tokens

2. Use it in Yield Farms to earn more SHDW

3. Powers Shadow Ecosystem(Shadowswap, NFT AMM Marketplace)

4. Participate in IFO Token Sales

5. Vote on proposals relating to the Shadowswap ecosystem

But that's not all -- there are much more surprises in the Shadow

In Details

Check below to discover the SHDW Token Economics

Shadow token is capped at 100M with series of Deflationary Mechanisms with no more than 100m minted and also balancing between scarcity, sustainability and value accrual

Total Supply

100,000,000 SHDW

TOTAL_FEE = 0.003
LP_HOLDERS_FEE = 0.002 TREASURY_FEE = 0.0005 BUYBACK_FEE = 0.0005

Emission rate

Per block

Distribution

The distribution may be changed through future governance.

Deflationary Mechanics

As well as the above, SHDW is also burned in the following ways:

• 0.05% of every trade made on ShadowSwap

• 100% of SHDW performance fees from IFO's

• 50% of Minting fees from INO's is used to buy SHDW for burning

• 2% of fees from NFT AMM Marketplace is used to buy SHDW for burning

• 2% of every yield harvest from all the flexible staking positions in SHDW pool

More burning ways will be added with the features launched.

Main contracts

The following links will take you to the Core Scan page for ShadowSwap's main smart contracts.

• ShadowSwap: Main Staking Contract/ShadowChef

• ShadowSwap: Shadow Pool

• ShadowSwap: Factory v2

• ShadowSwap: Router v2

• ShadowSwap: Shadow Token

• ShadowSwap: NFT Market (SOON)

• Others:

  • Zap

  • IFO Contracts

SVerseSVerse Lab

SVerse Lab is a Laboratory for Research, Experiments, and Development of products. SVerse Lab is a fully focused Blockchain studio that consists of a talented set of people such as Artists, Game Developers, Solidity/Blockchain Developers, Animators, 3D/2D Designers, Sound Developers, UI/UX designers, Front-end Devs, and Engineers. Fully focused on building the next Bleeding Edge game on the Satoshi chain and taking on game development, Decentralized apps, NFTs across Blockchains, and helping promising projects in launching. The Lab features are listed below:

• Blockchain Game Development

• Art/NFT

• Launchpad/Incubator

• Decentralized Dapps.

Shadow Lab Members

SVerse Labs is a fully focused Blockchain studio that consists of a talented set of people Solidity developers, UI/UX Designers, Back-end Developers, Artists, game Devs, animators, 3D/2D Designers, and Sound Developers. Fully focused on building quality products and maintaining them on the core network.

Check Out The Positions You Can Apply For Below.

General Information

• Salary range: Competitive, negotiable

• Position: Full-time or Part-time

• Location: Remote

• Time-zone preference: Any

Your Responsibilities

• Design, scope, and estimate complex frontend products/upgrades.

• Envision and develop features to help grow ShadowSwap.

Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in building responsive/adaptive web applications with JavaScript/Typescript.

• Experience in React JS.

• Ability to write structured and clean code.

• Experience with Javascript testing tools.

• Some experience with GraphQL.

• Experience working with Web3 and a decentralized application frontend.

• Ability to work independently and innovate.

Good to have

• Understanding of Solidity.

How to apply

Email Sverselab@gmail.com with your resume!

General Information

• Salary range: Competitive, negotiable

• Position: Full-time or Part time

• Location: Remote

• Time-zone preference: Any

Your Responsibilities

• Build smart contracts in Solidity for the Core Chain

• Design, scope, and estimate complex contract based on requirements given.

• Envision and develop features to help grow ShadowSwap.

• Identify and advocate for team-wide areas of improvement and best practices.

Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering.

• Understands and applies Solidity patterns to solve common problems.

• Understands gas optimization the tradeoff between efficient code and readable code.

• Knows how to write migrations and deploy code to EVM-compatible networks.

• Familiar with Truffle, Waffle, Remix and Hardhat, and the pros and cons of each framework.

  • Specifically familiar with Hardhat and Remix as this is the framework used by ShadowSwap.

• Possesses exceptional judgment, problem-solving skills, and an analytical mindset.

• Understands engineering best practices such as continuous integration.

• Ability to work in areas outside of your comfort zone and motivated by personal growth.

• Be able to work autonomously.

• The candidate should be independent enough to make important technical decisions on their own.

• The candidate should be driven and innovative.

How to apply:

Email Sverselab@gmail.com with your resume!

General Information

• Salary range: Competitive, negotiable

• Position: Full-time

• Location: Remote

• Time-zone preference: Any

Your Responsibilities

• Elevate ShadowSwap's brand and presence through social media.

• Work with community managers to develop campaigns and community competitions.

• Reach quickly to respond to users and followers across all platforms.

• Utilize sentiment analysis, engagement, and other metrics to develop social strategy and marketing plans.

• Collaborate closely with our extensive team of community managers and community admins to nurture ShadowSwap's amazing community.

Requirements

• Experience in social media marketing.

• Experience working with graphic design software and creative teams to create engaging social posts and other materials.

• Excellent written English. Other language ability very welcome.

• Demonstrable hands on experience in content management.

• Be crypto native. Know your way around DeFi, NFTs, and have your Shadow firmly covering grounds.

• Be creative. Be fun. Be sociable. . Connect with the community.

• Ideally already a ShadowSwap user. Experience with yield farming, lending protocols etc. a must.

How to apply

Shoot your CV/Resume to us at Sverselab@gmail.com