What is pool weight in defi?

Pool Weights. The weight of each pool determines what proportional share of each block’s Bao reward it gets . The standard base weight of 250 for ETH main net and 750 for xDai was used. Projects were scored higher or lower than that based on factors including liquidity, volatility and income potential.

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What impermanent loss is?

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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How are Uniswap fees calculated?

Swapping fees are immediately deposited into liquidity reserves. This increases the value of liquidity tokens, functioning as a payout to all liquidity providers proportional to their share of the pool. Fees are collected by burning liquidity tokens to remove a proportional share of the underlying reserves .

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