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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Liquidity pool impermanent loss happens when the price of a token increases or decreases after you deposit them in a liquidity pool . This change is considered a loss when the dollar value of your token at the time of your withdrawal becomes less than its amount at the time of deposit.
Read moreHow do you get impermanent loss?
Impermanent loss happens when the price of your token changes after you deposit it in the liquidity pool . From the above example, if the price of ETH goes up to $200, you’ll now be looking at a 1 ETH per 200 DAI exchange rate.
Read moreIs impermanent loss an opportunity cost?
However, had you never added your ETH and USDT to the pool, you’d have 1 ETH worth $400 and 100 USDT worth $100. It’s a kind of opportunity cost . It’s called impermanent loss because if you don’t withdraw and the ratio in the pool returns, you won’t have lost anything.
Read moreIs 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 .
Read moreHow do you calculate impermanent loss?
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.
Read moreHow is Uniswap impermanent loss calculated?
In constant product AMMs like Uniswap v2 and SushiSwap, impermanent loss is computed by comparing the relative change in portfolio value V compared to a “holding” portfolio V_H in response to a small change P’→α P in the price of the underlying . where the range factor r = √(tH/tL).
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