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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Is impermanent loss permanent?

The price change is called an impermanent loss because prices can always go back to the initial exchange price in the future. The impermanent loss is cancelled if your asset is priced the same as the initial deposit price. The loss only becomes permanent if you withdraw your funds from the liquidity pool .

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What is impermanent loss?

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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