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# Deposits

This section will breakdown the three core cases of asset deposits on Balancer Protocol.

Balancer Protocol allows users to invest in pools in a variety of ways. *Proportional deposits* yield no price impact and follow the ratios the pool is already in.

*Single Sided Deposits* permit users to deposit into a pool with only one of the assets. A price impact due to shifting the internal relationship of the tokens will be accounted in this scenario.

*Multi-token Deposits* are when a user deposits the tokens they have in an unproportional way. Not a single asset but multiple in a non-proportionate way.

See examples of each deposit type in the following pages:

* [Proportional Deposits](/learn-about-balancer/fundamentals/white-paper/deposits-and-withdrawals/deposits/proportional-deposits.md)
* [Single Sided Deposits](/learn-about-balancer/fundamentals/white-paper/deposits-and-withdrawals/deposits/single-sided-deposits.md)
* [Multi-token Deposits](/learn-about-balancer/fundamentals/white-paper/deposits-and-withdrawals/deposits/multi-token-deposits.md)