# Liquidity Pool Participation SportsIcon also offers staking and liquidity provision programs to encourage platform users to ensure the $ICONS token’s stability. With SportsIcon, users can stake their assets to secure the network and earn rewards, in addition to providing liquidity to a DEX to earn exchange fees. Each time liquidity is deposited in a pool on a DEX, special tokens called Liquidity Pool tokens are issued to the source address directly proportional to the amount of liquidity they added to the pool. Every time trading takes place the fee that is charged is distributed proportionally to all LPs (liquidity providers) in the pool at that given time of the trade. Liquidity Pool tokens can be held by the user, traded or staked themselves, creating a secondary derivatives market for the assets. These multi-layer uses are a core part of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and make up a large part of the rapidly expanding yield farming industry. As a crypto asset, $ICONS can be used for many of these purposes (depending on the programs available). More than just NFTs, SportsIcon introduces new users to the incredible world of DeFi and the opportunities that it holds. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.sportsicon.com/whitepaper/liquidity-pool-participation.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.