How are fees paid in Uniswap?

Uniswap charges a 0.30% fee on all trades which is added to the reserve pool . When a liquidity provider burns their pool tokens to reclaim their stake of the total reserve, they receive a proportionally distributed amount of the total fees accumulated while they were staking.

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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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