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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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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