What is a liquidity lock?

A liquidity lock takes the LP tokens that represent a pool's liquidity and places them in a separate contract that will not release them until a set date. Because pulling liquidity requires holding those LP tokens, locking them makes it impossible for the team to drain the pool in the meantime — closing off one of the most common rug-pull routes.

The value of a lock is that it is verifiable by anyone. Rather than trusting a promise that liquidity will stay put, you can read the lock contract directly and see how much is locked and exactly when it unlocks. A long, transparent lock signals that the team has tied its own hands; a token whose liquidity is unlocked, or locked for only a few days, deserves more caution regardless of what the marketing says.

Sally provides on-chain liquidity locks on Base and BNB Smart Chain with public, on-chain proof — the locked amount and unlock date are readable on-chain and surfaced transparently, and a lock can be embedded so visitors verify it without leaving your site. For a project, that turns 'trust us' into something a sceptical buyer can confirm for themselves; for a buyer, it is one of the strongest available signals that the pool cannot simply vanish.