# Hub settings

Hub settings is where you connect and fund your hub, see what it holds, label each channel, and set the assets, policies, limits and whitelist the desk works within.

> Part of the SQRL documentation, section "SQRL Markets".
> Rendered page: https://docs.sqrl.tech/markets/hub

**Required permissions:** View balances (`VIEW_BALANCES`) to open; each tab notes what it needs to change.

Tabs: **Overview** · **Assets** · **Policies** · **Limits** · **Whitelist**.

## Overview

* **Setup**: Fund the hub · Connect merchants and wallets · Assign the channels. See [Connecting your hub](/markets/getting-started/connecting-your-hub).
* **Node**: the hub's address and network, and when it last reported (every minute).
* **Liquidity by asset**: In reserve · Can pay out · Can take in.
* **Channels**: every channel with **Assign**, **Change** and **Close**.
* **Matching**: how fully the hub answered recent payment requests: In full, With less, or Not answered.
* **Pools**: each AMM pool's price against what the pegs say.
* **Node payments**: Settled, Failed, Arriving and In flight.

## Labelling a channel

**Required permissions:** Manage liquidity (`LIQUIDITY_MANAGE`).

1. Select **Assign** on an unassigned channel, or **Change** on a labelled one.
2. Answer "Who does this channel pay?": a merchant, or choose **Rail**, **Routing** or **Bridge**.
3. Save.

Only merchant channels count toward [runway](/markets/liquidity).

## Funding the hub

Select **Fund the hub** for the hub's on-chain address and QR code. Funds arrive in reserves, ready to commit to channels.

Read [Assets](/markets/hub/assets) and [Policies, limits and whitelist](/markets/hub/policies-and-limits).