# What is A51 Carbon? A51 Carbon is the next-generation AMM for liquidity provisioning built on Uniswap V4. Imagine an AMM for LPs where they can use any arbitrary permutation of hooks to initialize a pool that works for them. With Uniswap V4's singleton architecture and the ability to direct order flow to their AMM, projects can now experiment with new ideas, specifically in LPing. A51 Carbon will come with A51-built intents for the most popular use cases with LPs having the ability to write and execute their own logic too within their pools. A51 will take advantage of the open source hook development to offer the best-in-class intents platform for liquidity provisioning. Under the hood, Carbon comes with 10 major intent categories as [listed here](/carbon/a51-carbon/key-intents.md) with continuous updates of new use cases in each category. A51 Carbon is for those DeFi-savvy users who mostly have had bad experiences with liquidity provisioning either on AMMs directly or on [Liquidity Managers](https://defillama.com/protocols/Liquidity%20manager). --- # 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.a51.finance/carbon/a51-carbon/what-is-a51-carbon.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.