Why does the same round trip leave one $1,000 position $69.23 ahead of another?
The short version
Price runs from 100 to 125, then slides back to 100. A traditional rebalance leaves your $1,000 at $835.74. A snuggle leaves it at $904.96.
The gap comes from a few plain rules: no swap, no slippage, no swap to sandwich. Here is each principle, what it does, and what it can't do. All figures are illustrative, not a promise, and trading fees earned are left out.
The principles
Nine rules, one small picture each
1 · Zero swap fees
No swap, so no swap fee
A snuggle re-places your range using only the token you already hold. Nothing is traded, so no swap fee is paid.
2 · No slippage
Liquidity goes beside the price, not through it
A swap moves the price against you as it fills. A snuggle adds liquidity just past the price, so there is no price impact to pay.
3 · No sandwich of a snuggle's swap
No swap for bots to sandwich
A snuggle has no swap to squeeze. It is still a public transaction and pool prices can still be pushed, so the vault checks the 30-minute average price (TWAP) before placing your range.
4 · Keeper-paid gas
Automatic snuggles: the keeper pays the gas
When Auto Snuggle moves your range, our keeper sends the transaction and pays its gas. Press Snuggle now yourself and you sign it, so you pay the network gas.
5 · No lock-up
Withdraw any time, even during a pause
There is no waiting period and no approval step. Withdraw cannot be paused: it keeps working even while the vault is paused. Your position lives on-chain — on the chain where you opened it — so you can withdraw directly from the vault contract at any time, even if the QuantumPools site or team is gone.
6 · Auto Snuggle
Out of range and past your delay, then it snuggles
With Auto Snuggle on, the keeper checks about every 1 to 3 minutes, best effort. It snuggles only once price is out of range and your delay has passed.
7 · Fees
No charge for the action. 15% of fees collected, capped at 30%
Every $100 of trading fees collected
$85 stays with you$15
Dashed line: the 30% hard cap. The rate can never pass it.
What each action costs
Action
Our charge
Gas
Deposit
None
You pay, when you sign
Withdraw
None
You pay, when you sign
Harvest fees
None
You pay, when you sign
Auto-compound (at a snuggle)
None
Keeper, on an automatic snuggle
One-sided, limit-order style range
None
You pay, when you sign
Automatic snuggle
None
Keeper
Snuggle now (manual)
None
You pay, when you sign
What we do take: 15% of the trading fees collected, never your deposit, hard-capped at 30% in the contract. Details in Performance & Fees.
8 · One-sided ranges
A one-token deposit works like a limit order
Deposit one token and it opens a range just past price. Nothing is swapped. It earns nothing until price enters it, and the keeper leaves it alone until then.
9 · Auto Hedge
Optional, off by default
Positions holding WETH show a Hedge on/off switch. Today it is a paper (simulated) ETH short: no real order is placed. See the app for details.
The centrepiece
Lock the loss in, or let price come back to you
Your $1,000 sits at 100 in a 90–110 range. Price runs to 125, so your DELL sells on the way up at an average of $104.88. Now there are two ways to move.
Back at 100: what the $1,000 is worth
Just holding what went in
$1,000.00
Snuggle
$904.96
Traditional rebalance
$835.74
The rebalance buys back at the top and pays to swap. The snuggle buys back only if price comes back, and lower.
Worked example
One round trip, worked out
$1,000 at 100 in 90–110 holds 4.7558 DELL + $524.42 USDG. At 125 it is all USDG: $1,023.21, while just holding would be $1,118.89. That $95.68 gap already happened on the way out.
Traditional rebalance
swap $490.48 × 1.5% = $7.36 → 3.8650 DELL at 125 range 112.50–137.50 rest at √(112.50 × 125) = $118.59 at 100: 8.3574 DELL = $835.74 vs holding: −$164.26
Snuggle
swap: none, $0.00 1,023.21 USDG waits range 102.27–125.00 fill √(102.27 × 125) = $113.07 at 100: 9.0496 DELL = $904.96 vs holding: −$95.04
Price never comes back? At 125 the snuggle keeps $1,023.21 and the rebalance $1,015.86: the same $95.68 loss, plus $7.36 of swap costs. The rebalanced range sits around price and can earn fees there; the snuggle range earns nothing until price enters it.
Swap cost = the live pool's 1% fee + 0.5% assumed slippage. Snuggle range: same width, top edge at price. Fees earned left out. Illustrative, not a promise.
Try it
Run your own round trip
$1,000 in, price runs up, then pulls back. Change one thing at a time.
Just holding
$1,000.00
at 100.00
Traditional rebalance
$835.74
swap cost $7.36
Snuggle
$904.96
swap cost $0.00
Snuggle vs rebalance
+$69.23
fees earned left out
Sold on the way up at $104.88 · snuggle range 102.27–125.00, fill $113.07 · rebalance range 112.50–137.50.
Opens on the worked example. Set pullback to 0 for the case where price never comes back. Swap cost: 1% fee + 0.5% assumed slippage.
Solana · in development
Same principles, built for Raydium's pools
QuantumPools on Solana is in development. It is not live, it has not been audited, and you cannot deposit on Solana today.
The design keeps every rule above for Raydium's concentrated-liquidity pools (CLMM). A snuggle still needs no swap. The details differ.
Filled dots are recorded; hollow ones came too soon.
Tick arrays. Raydium stores liquidity in tick arrays of 60 ticks each.
The average-price check. Raydium's price record only adds an observation when at least 15 seconds have passed since the last, so the check is built around that rhythm.
Positions are NFTs. Each position is held as an NFT, and pool tokens can be Token-2022 tokens.
Swaps. Where a swap is needed, it would route through Jupiter. A snuggle needs none: the keeper never swaps.
Honest limits
What a snuggle is, and what it is not
What it is
A way to move your range with no swap: no swap fee, no slippage, no swap to sandwich.
A patient buyback: if price comes back, you rebuy at the range's average, not the top.
What it is not
A loss eraser. The $95.68 happened when price left the range.
A promise price returns. In a trend, the snuggle range earns nothing.
Risk-free. It is public, pool price risk remains, and you pay gas on what you sign.
Leaving a range alone has no swap cost either, and a full return undoes its loss, but it earns nothing while out. The vaults are audited by Hashlock and public deposits are open on the live venues (Robinhood Chain, Base and BNB Chain): see Audit & Security.
What to do with this
You now know what each rule does, and where it stops.
Next, watch one snuggle step by step, from price leaving your range to the new range landing.