# Aperture Finance

> Intent based automation

Aperture Finance helps DeFi users execute complex strategies through AI-powered intents that translate natural language goals into automated blockchain transactions.

Aperture Finance helps DeFi users execute complex strategies through AI-powered intents that translate natural language into automated blockchain transactions. With it, users can manage liquidity positions, automate rebalancing, and optimize yields across protocols. Aperture removes the technical complexity of DeFi by using chatbots to declare user goals and connecting them to a solver network for optimal execution.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Finance
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2022-02-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/aperture_finance

## Products

- [IntentsGPT](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aperture_finance): IntentsGPT provides natural language interface for DeFi operations, translating user commands into executable blockchain transactions through AI-powered intent processing and domain-specific language conversion. (AI Agent, Live)
- [Aperture Liquidity Intents](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aperture_finance): Aperture Liquidity Intents is an automated liquidity management tools for Uniswap V3 and PancakeSwap V3 positions. The platform provides recurring rebalancing, auto-compounding, automated position closure, and revenue-earning limit orders for concentrated liquidity providers. (Yield Aggregator, Live, Main Product)
- [ApertureSwap](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aperture_finance): ApertureSwap is a decentralized exchange deployed on Manta Pacific L2 offering cryptocurrency trading with integrated intent-based features and solver network optimization for improved execution. (Decentralised Exchange, Live)
- [Aperture API](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aperture_finance): Aperture API is an infrastructure providing developers and institutions with programmatic access to Aperture's intent-based DeFi services, liquidity management tools, and solver network functionality. (OnChain Data API, Live)

## 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. (Governance)

## Links

- [Main](https://www.aperture.finance)
- [Documentation](https://docs.aperture.finance)
- [Whitepaper](https://medium.com/@aperturefinance/apertures-litepaper-5c988ead5b78)
- [Blog](https://medium.com/@aperturefinance)
- [Media Kit/branding](https://www.aperture.finance/ApertureMediaKit.zip)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/ApertureFinance)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/aperture_finance)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/Aperture-Finance)

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