Impermanent loss (IL) is the risk that liquidity providers take in exchange for fees they earn in liquidity pools . If IL exceeds fees earned by a user when they withdraw, it means the user has suffered negative returns compared with simply holding their tokens outside the pool.
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What Is Impermanent loss? Simply put, impermanent loss is the difference between holding tokens in an AMM and holding them in your wallet . It occurs when the price of tokens inside an AMM diverge in any direction. The more divergence, the greater the impermanent loss.
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Impairment loss assesses the current value of their assets against what they would be worth if left sitting pretty in an exchange . The loss only becomes permanent if a provider decides to withdraw their liquidity for good.
Read moreHow do you deal with impermanent loss?
If you want to avoid impermanent loss altogether, make two stablecoins liquid . For example, if you provide liquidity to USDT and USDC, there will be no risk of impermanent loss since stablecoin prices are meant to be stable.
Read moreHow does impermanent loss occur?
Impermanent loss happens when the price of your token changes after you deposit it in the liquidity pool . … But since you’ve deposited it into the liquidity pool, you’re stuck with the original price, resulting in a 50% impermanent loss.
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Impermanent loss (IL) is the risk that liquidity providers take in exchange for fees they earn in liquidity pools . If IL exceeds fees earned by a user when they withdraw, it means the user has suffered negative returns compared with simply holding their tokens outside the pool.
Read moreCan you lose money on Uniswap?
A new study by Bancor, a decentralized trading protocol, has shown that more than 50% of Uniswap liquidity providers are losing money due to a phenomenon known as impermanent loss (IL).
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