Liquidity providers deposit funds into Aperture and receive trading fees from traders (supply-side fees).

Aperture is a non-custodial DeFi exchange protocol built on Manta Pacific (originally a fork of Uniswap). Aperture was founded by Gao Han, Lian Zhu, and Peiqian Li in 2021.

Aperture team & investors own and govern the protocol. They do not currently take a cut of the total trading fees paid by traders (revenue). Aperture's investors include ParaFi Capital, Arrington XRP Capital, Costanoa Ventures and Divergence Ventures.