diff --git a/doc/whitepaper.md b/doc/whitepaper.md
index 7eba220..998dcb9 100644
--- a/doc/whitepaper.md
+++ b/doc/whitepaper.md
@@ -249,3 +249,5 @@ By coupling LMSR with the proportional parameterization $b(\mathbf{q})=\kappa S(
 
 ## References
 Hanson, R. (2002) [_Logarithmic Market Scoring Rules for Modular Combinatorial Information Aggregation_](https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/mktscore.pdf)
+Othman, Pennock, Reeves, Sandholm (2013) [_A Practical Liquidity-Sensitive Automated Market Maker_](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sandholm/liquidity-sensitive%20automated%20market%20maker.teac.pdf)
+Xu, Paruch, Cousaert, Feng (2023) [SoK: Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) with Automated Market Maker (AMM) Protocols](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.12732)
diff --git a/script/DeployMock.sol b/script/DeployMock.sol
index 8b81389..6dd369d 100644
--- a/script/DeployMock.sol
+++ b/script/DeployMock.sol
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ contract DeployMock is Script {
             msg.sender, // payer: this script
             DEV_ACCOUNT_7,   // receiver of initial LP
             initialDeposits,
-            10000,
+            10_000 * 10*18,
             0
         );
 
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ contract DeployMock is Script {
             msg.sender, // payer: this script
             DEV_ACCOUNT_7,   // receiver of initial LP
             initialDeposits,
-            10000,
+            10_000 * 10*18,
             0
         );
 
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ contract DeployMock is Script {
             msg.sender, // payer: this script
             DEV_ACCOUNT_7,   // receiver of initial LP
             initialDeposits,
-            10000,
+            10_000 * 10*18,
             0
         );
 
diff --git a/src/IPartyInfo.sol b/src/IPartyInfo.sol
index d7cb26c..98fca7f 100644
--- a/src/IPartyInfo.sol
+++ b/src/IPartyInfo.sol
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ pragma solidity ^0.8.30;
 import {IPartyPool} from "./IPartyPool.sol";
 
 interface IPartyInfo {
+
+    /// @notice returns true iff the pool is not killed and has been initialized with liquidity.
+    function working(IPartyPool pool) external view returns (bool);
+
     /// @notice Marginal price of `base` denominated in `quote` as Q64.64.
     /// @dev Returns the LMSR marginal price p_quote / p_base in ABDK 64.64 fixed-point format.
     ///      Useful for off-chain quoting; raw 64.64 value is returned (no scaling to token units).
diff --git a/src/PartyInfo.sol b/src/PartyInfo.sol
index 392181b..c99a68e 100644
--- a/src/PartyInfo.sol
+++ b/src/PartyInfo.sol
@@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ contract PartyInfo is PartyPoolHelpers, IPartyInfo {
         MINT_IMPL = mintImpl;
     }
 
+    function working(IPartyPool pool) external view returns (bool) {
+        if (pool.killed())
+            return false;
+        LMSRStabilized.State memory s = pool.LMSR();
+        uint256 sum = 0;
+        for( uint i=0; i<s.qInternal.length; i++ )
+            sum += s.qInternal[i];
+        return sum > 0;
+    }
+
     //
     // Current marginal prices
     //