# Liquidity Lockers

To understand what liquidity lockers are, first you have to be familiar with concepts of liquidity pools.

If you are not, we recommend watching [this video](https://youtu.be/cizLhxSKrAc).

## What is a liquidity locker?

Developers listing their tokens on decentralized exchanges are granted LP tokens when they initiate a pool. These LP tokens, once in their possession, can be transferred like any other tokens on the blockchain they have been minted on, or bridged to another one.

A liquidity locker allows the developer to store these LP tokens in a smart contract, revoking his permission to move these LP from a start date to an end date. 

For a deeper dive into this topic, we recommend having a read of [our medium article](https://unicrypt.medium.com/liquidity-locking-overview-112329ecfaaa) about liquidity locking.