IDEX's ‘hybrid liquidity pool’ aims to tackle some of DeFi’s biggest problems
DeFi’s tremendous growth hasn’t come without obstacles, as the nascent industry still struggles with high costs, failed trades and front-running. IDEX, a San Francisco-based decentralized exchange, has unveiled new protocol upgrades designed to solve two of the biggest issues with decentralized finance, or DeFi — slippage and front-running. The exchange claims that its Hybrid Liquidity protocol solves these challenges by combining an order book and trading engine with the liquidity pools of an automated market maker, or AMM. “The novel exchange design protects users from the most glaring....
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The platform seeks to provide solutions to drawbacks on traditional DEX platforms, most notably front-running and slippages. IDEX, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) based in San Francisco, has announced the upcoming launch of its v3 Hybrid Liquidity DEX on Polygon.The hybrid model will merge traditional order book functionalities with automated market maker (AMM) liquidity pools in a bid to cultivate higher financial returns for the services liquidity providers, as well as provide typical investing tools such as stop-losses, limit orders and real-time execution.According to the....
PRESS RELEASE. Using the latest Developments on the Decentralized Finance Market Alium introduces the Hybrid Liquidity Model, allowing users to trade almost any crypto using the Liquidity available both on Alium and the rest of the DeFi market.
Hybrid liquidity allows traders to use both Liquidities available on Alium and on most of the major exchanges using the algorithm to pick the best price available all in one place. This makes Alium a perfect DeFi hub with quite a few Networks (BSC, HECO, MATIC, ETH, FTM, and METIS) already available and even more coming.
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In what may become an industry standard, unused liquidity from Balancer will be deposited into Aave, significantly increasing depositor yield In the latest feat of decentralized finance (DeFi) money lego magic, lending platform Aave and automated market maker (AMM) Balancer have teamed up on a hybrid liquidity-and-lending feature that may significantly fatten depositor yields.In a blog post today, Balancer CEO Fernando Martinelli unveiled plans for the project, dubbed the Balancer V2 Asset Manager. In essence, the integration will allow users to earn two forms of return on their deposits:....
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