In the simplest terms, impermanent loss occurs when you deposit assets into a pool and suffer a loss when you withdraw them at a later date compared to just holding these assets throughout this period. As such, you don’t actually have to lose money for impermanent loss to occur .
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An important starting point for the in-depth studies was the realization that the risk of impermanent loss can be reduced by minimizing divergence in tokens pair prices . If prices between tokens remain constant for AMM, liquidity providers can trade with less fear of losing their funds.
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If Investor A had left the initial 1 ETH and 100 DAI in a crypto wallet, the value of their assets at the new market price would be $300. The impermanent loss in this example can be calculated by subtracting $282.82 from $300 . The impermanent loss is $17.17.
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