Liquidity Providers: The Good, the Bad, and Its Wonderfully Bizarre Future
Humans and DeFi share a common trait: They both need liquid to survive. In the case of humans, we require water. In the case of DeFi, it requires liquid funds to facilitate trades, automated market makers (AMMs), and to expand the offerings of the platform. But what exactly is liquidity in the context of DeFi, […]
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Directional liquidity pooling is a new way for liquidity providers to add liquidity to exchanges while avoiding impermanent loss. Modern decentralized exchanges (DEXs) mainly rely on liquidity providers (LP) to provide the tokens that are being traded. These liquidity providers are rewarded by receiving a portion of the trading fees generated on the DEX. Unfortunately, while liquidity providers earn an income via fees, they’re exposed to impermanent loss if the price of their deposited assets changes.Directional liquidity pooling is a new method that is different from the traditional....
PRESS RELEASE. Singapore, Singapore / April 4th / – TrueUSD (TUSD) and Balancer (BAL) Automated Market Maker (AMM) partnered up with Polygon to offer liquidity providers with TUSD and BAL rewards from a stablecoin pool incentive program last November. The program incentivizes liquidity providers to add TUSD-DAI-USDC-USDT liquidity to the Polygon ecosystem. In return for adding liquidity, providers will receive BAL, TUSD, and MATIC, an outstanding opportunity for liquidity providers to gain exposure to three different assets while providing liquidity to the ecosystem. The program is....
Decentralized liquidity aggregator, brokerage, and crypto lending platform Orion Protocol have launched its liquidity mining program on Uniswap’s AMM. It will distribute weekly rewards to the providers of liquidity for the ORN/ETH pool. Rewarding Uniswap Liquidity Providers with ORN Innovative Defi platform Orion Protocol has recently made liquidity mining available to users on the most popular DEX, Uniswap V2. Every week, 30,000 of the project’s native ORN tokens will be distributed among users who deposit […]
A recent study of Uniswap v3 pools revealed that on average, almost half of the liquidity providers are losing money due to impermanent losses. Recent research shows that impermanent losses have become an increasing issue for liquidity providers on Uniswap v3. A Nov. 17 report by Topaz Blue and the Bancor Protocol found that 49.5% of liquidity providers on Uniswap v3 have incurred negative returns from impermanent loss (IL). The report highlighted that Uniswap v3 generates the highest fees of any automated market maker (AMM) today, but IL surpasses those earned fees. The research surmised....
Launched in 2018, Uniswap is a decentralized exchange protocol that allows users to swap between any two ETH-based tokens. Apart from providing a simple platform to liquidity providers, Uniswap has made the whole process of providing liquidity and earning trading fees a lot simpler. Uniswap liquidity providers earn trading fees on every trade made on […]