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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How do I stop impermanent loss?

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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What is impermanent loss on Pancakeswap?

The threat of Impermanent Loss comes when there is a sizeable change in the price of one or both assets staked by the farmers into a liquidity pool . When it happens, oftentimes the loss outweighs the reward they receive from fees. When you stake CAKE as an individual asset in any of the eligible pools on pancakeswap.

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