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# Dust during automation

**Dust** means small leftover token amounts that can remain after rebalancing or minting because:

* swaps can’t be perfectly exact,
* rounding occurs on-chain,
* slippage changes final amounts.

Alloc8’s Position Manager includes **refunds for unused tokens** during mint/increase to avoid overpaying, which is one common source of “dust.” 

**Key point:** dust is not “lost.” It typically remains in your **Smart Account** as small token balances.