# Problem: Bootstrapping your liquidity

As a project, you may be facing hurdles and high costs when considering options like other AMMs/DEXs and Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools:

* Problems getting whitelisted
* High listing costs (2%+ of listing volume)
* Your liquidity pool must be incentivized with a high APY by the project itself to attract enough new liquidity

"Self-Bootstrapping" of liquidity leads to: 

* Token inflation 
* Dilution of existing token holders 
* Permanent sell pressure on your token 
* High costs 
* A negative feedback loop driving liquidity and price down

 Not a comfortable situation to be in!

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