Report: Impermanent loss on Uniswap and other AMMs is always permanent

Report: Impermanent loss on Uniswap and other AMMs is always permanent

Is it time to find another name for this phenomenon? Alexis Direr, a researcher at the University of Orleans in France, has released a paper summarizing the mathematical underpinnings of Uniswap and other exchanges based on Automated Market Makers.Automated Market Maker is the term for a class of decentralized exchange that reached significant popularity in 2020, spearheaded by Uniswap.In a nutshell, these exchanges do away with traditional order books and instead rely on liquidity pools governed by a mathematical formula. Traders are always able to make a transaction with the pool for....


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