What is impermanent loss in yield farming?

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.

We call this loss “Impermanent Lose”. It’s technically impossible to reduce 0 , but under %1 loose rate is perfect value, as well as over %5 lose is alarm about your losses. Let’s explains some examples. Notes: If you use USDT or other stable coins, price change should be 0.

Impermanent loss is a phenomenon that occurs to LPs on AMMs when the spot price of the assets they have added to a liquidity pool changes . Since liquidity providers pair two assets together to form a position, the ratio of coins in the position changes when asset spot prices change.