# Why Kim?

By [Kim Exchange](https://paragraph.com/@kim-exchange) · 2023-10-24

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Kim is an ecosystem-focused, community-driven DEX built on and for Mode.

Kim has been built as a highly efficient and customizable protocol, allowing both builders and users to leverage our custom infrastructure for deep, sustainable, and adaptable liquidity. Kim moves beyond the traditional design of DEXs to focus on composability and leveraging Mode’s unique design for building a cooperative.

### **Our objectives**

*   To provide the Mode ecosystem with a wide range of innovative features, enabling them to have an extremely high degree of flexibility and control over their own liquidity
    
*   To support new protocols launching on Mode, providing the tools that enable them to launch, bootstrap liquidity, and sustain their growth
    
*   To make available to all permissionless tools allowing projects of all sizes to leverage our protocol in whatever way suits their needs
    
*   To deliver state-of-the-art functionality that can be easily integrated, built upon, and leveraged by other protocols within the ecosystem
    

### **Feature-rich AMM**

Kim’s AMM is based on a dual AMM able to support both volatile (UniV2) and stable (Curve-like) swaps.

As well as this, we're also introducing dynamic directional fees for our trading pairs: this allows different fees to be set for each pool, and also to have different fees depending on the direction of the swap (buying/selling).

These innovative AMM features allow us to provide pool configurations that are much more customized and tailored to the specific trading pairs.

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*Originally published on [Kim Exchange](https://paragraph.com/@kim-exchange/why-kim)*