How Oxbow works
Everything you need to create, trade and check a stock-paired pool.
A pool for any token, priced in a stock
Oxbow creates a liquidity pool that pairs a token already on Solana with a tokenized stock, SOL or USDC. Traders buy your token with the pair asset, and the pool sets the price automatically from what's inside it.
You don't launch a new token. You bring an existing mint, choose what to pair it with, deposit both sides and pick whether the liquidity is burned, locked or left unlocked.
Drag to see a trade move the price
Every pool holds two reserves. A buy takes your token out and puts the stock in, so each next token costs a little more. The product of the two reserves stays constant.
Check the liquidity before you buy
Whoever supplied a pool's liquidity can pull it out unless it's burned or locked. Every pool on Oxbow carries one of these labels.
Liquidity was sent to a dead address. Nobody can ever withdraw it.
Locked in a time lock. The creator gets it back when the countdown ends.
Only part is locked. The rest can be withdrawn at any time.
The creator can withdraw everything at any time. Trade with care.
What liquidity providers risk
When you supply liquidity, the pool keeps your deposit split 50/50 by value. If your token and the stock move apart, the pool sells the one that rises and buys the one that falls. You end up with less than if you had simply held both. This gap is called impermanent loss.
It becomes permanent when you withdraw. Trading fees offset it, and burned or locked liquidity can never be withdrawn, so its loss never becomes final for anyone.
Stock tokens follow stock market hours
Pools trade around the clock, but the stocks behind the tokens don't. When the US market is closed (nights, weekends and holidays) a stock token's price feed stops moving. Pool prices can then drift from the stock, and jump when the market reopens.
Stock tokens also follow their issuer for splits, dividends and trading halts. When an issuer announces one, Oxbow shows the notice on the stock and on every pool paired with it. Check the issuer’s own documentation for the details.
What the safety checks look at
Every pool shows checks from on-chain data before you trade: who can mint or freeze the token, whether it charges fees or runs code on transfers, how concentrated the holders are, how old the token is, whether its ticker is used by another token, and whether its creator has pulled liquidity before.
Checks catch common traps, not every scam. Always compare the mint address with the project’s own channels.
What it costs
Creating a pool costs a one-time setup in SOL, plus your deposit. Trading fees on every swap go to liquidity providers, not to Oxbow.
| Item | Cost |
|---|---|
| Network rent | 0.03 SOL |
| Raydium CPMM setup | 0.15 SOL |
| Meteora DAMM v2 setup | 0.02 SOL |
| Orca Whirlpools setup | 0.01 SOL |
| Oxbow fee | 0.1 SOL |
| Trading fee per swap, paid to LPs | 0.25% to 5% |
Questions
Do I need to own the token's mint?
No. Anyone holding a token can create a pool for it. Buyers see who created each pool and who holds its liquidity.
Which stocks can I pair with?
Any stock token on the verified list. Oxbow only lists stock tokens whose issuer publishes a price feed and that have enough liquidity to route trades.
Can I take my liquidity back?
If you left it unlocked, yes, any time. If you locked it, when the lock ends. If you burned it, never. In every case you keep collecting trading fees.
Where does my pool trade?
On the venue you picked: Raydium, Meteora or Orca. Aggregators like Jupiter route trades into it automatically.
Can I lose money supplying liquidity?
Yes. Besides the token itself falling, impermanent loss reduces your deposit when the two prices drift apart. See "What liquidity providers risk" above.
Who can use Oxbow?
Stock tokens are not offered to residents of some countries. Check the Terms and the stock issuer’s rules for where you live.