# What's Really Going on When Processing Liquidity in a Uniswap Pool?

When liquidity providers add or remove liquidity in a Uniswap pool, the protocol uses internal accounting to save gas fees, among other reasons. This approach hides many details that retail users do not care about. However, if you want to become a sleuth of DeFi, it's critical to find out what's really going on behind the curtain.EigenPhi's EigenTx transaction analyzer offers a comprehensive toolset to unravel the complexities of the internal accounting procedures associated with adding and removing liquidity to a Uniswap pool. Consider yourself as a liquidity provider now. Basically, you can regard yourself as a shareholder of a bank branch. Adding your liquidity to a Uniswap pool is like adding your asset to the asset of the bank branch.

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