# Aperture Finance > Intent based automation Aperture Finance was an intent-based DeFi automation platform. It let users automate concentrated liquidity positions and declare trading goals in natural language for a network of solvers to execute. Aperture Finance was an intent-based DeFi automation platform for liquidity providers and traders. Users declared the outcome they wanted, and the platform turned it into automated onchain actions executed by a network of solvers. It combined automated liquidity management with a natural-language assistant for DeFi strategies. For concentrated liquidity positions on Uniswap, PancakeSwap, and Aerodrome, it offered recurring rebalancing, auto-compounding of fees, automated closing, and limit orders. Solvers paid gas on the user's behalf and took fees in tokens the user chose. IntentsGPT translated natural-language requests into a structured intent language that solvers could fill. Aperture Liquidity Intents was the flagship, alongside IntentsGPT, the ApertureSwap exchange on Manta Pacific, and an API for institutions, with the APTR token used for staking and fee discounts. Aperture was used by liquidity providers, active DeFi traders, and institutions automating onchain strategies. Its web app was taken offline after a security incident and has not returned. - Type: Company - Sector: DeFi - Status: Inactive - Founded: 2022-02-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/aperture_finance ## Products - [IntentsGPT](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aperture_finance): IntentsGPT was an AI assistant that turned natural-language requests into DeFi actions. It translated a user's stated goal into a structured intent language that Aperture's solvers could execute onchain. It was part of the Aperture web app, which was taken offline after a security incident. (AI Agent, Inactive/Support Ended) - [Aperture Liquidity Intents](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aperture_finance): Aperture Liquidity Intents was an automated liquidity management tool for concentrated liquidity positions on Uniswap, PancakeSwap, and Aerodrome. It offered recurring rebalancing, auto-compounding of fees, automated position closing, and limit orders that earned fees while waiting to fill. Its web app was taken offline after a security incident affecting its contracts. (Yield Aggregator, Inactive/Support Ended, Main Product) - [ApertureSwap](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aperture_finance): ApertureSwap was a concentrated liquidity exchange on Manta Pacific modeled on Uniswap V3. It added native liquidity automation features and limit and range orders for liquidity providers. Its interface in the Aperture web app was taken offline after a security incident. (Decentralised Exchange, Inactive/Support Ended) - [Aperture API](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aperture_finance): Aperture API was a programmatic interface to Aperture's intent-based liquidity automation for institutions and experienced users. Through it and an SDK, developers could rebalance, reinvest, and reduce concentrated liquidity positions from their own workflows. It served the same automation that ran in the Aperture web app, which was taken offline after a security incident. (OnChain Data API, Inactive/Support Ended) ## Assets - [Aperture Finance (APTR)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aperture_finance): APTR is the governance and utility token of Aperture Finance. It is used to participate in protocol governance through staking and to pay platform fees at a discount, with tokens burned upon use. Stakers receive 20% of protocol fee revenues, while 80% is allocated to the Aperture DAO treasury. 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