Why do LP tokens lose value?

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 LP farm?

LP farms. In an LP farm, a user deposits crypto into a smart contract that programmably facilitates a liquidity pool . Such a pool functions as a decentralized trading pair between two, or sometimes more, cryptocurrencies, and the trading is made possible by the crypto supplied by LPs.

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