🌀 Liquidity Pooling. Part 2

👾What Are The Risks of Liquidity Pools?

Liquidity pools do, however, introduce the risk of impermanent loss during extreme price fluctuations. This is when the total dollar value of the deposited tokens is at a loss from liquidity provision compared to just holding, as the price of the assets in the pool changes. If these assets have a lower value at withdrawal, then the loss will become permanent though less volatile pool assets are less exposed to this risk. Despite the risk, it is important to note that liquidity provision is often still profitable despite impermanent loss — offset by the pool rewards received, depending on the trading volumes.

DEX liquidity pools don’t require the large volume of buyers and sellers that centralized exchanges need to execute trades but smaller pools are still exposed to slippage risk if large orders are executed compared to the total liquidity in a pool. This is mainly a user issue, and platforms will often warn traders before executing trades that will result in high slippage. It’s much less of a risk with highly liquid pairs but ultimately large trades will require correspondingly large liquidity pools.

đź’°Why Do People Use Liquidity Pools?

Comparisons get drawn with staking and the passive income generation opportunities available from existing holdings of favored tokens, without having to sell them too early. In reality, more active management is required, with farmers needing to understand the trade-offs to optimize profits.

Arguably, the best liquidity pooling opportunities are in periods of low volatility, where the risk of impermanent loss is minimal, and rewards can compensate for otherwise stagnant market price action.

As the ecosystem is interconnected, liquidity providers can also compound liquidity mining and yield farming opportunities, using the pool and governance tokens generated on other platforms to generate further yield, without withdrawing their initial token pair deposits.

Participants will also provide liquidity to access governance tokens of projects they wish to support, use liquidity pools to take advantage of new liquid staking opportunities on top of existing staking returns, and leverage lending protocols to deposit borrowed funds while also generating a yield, among other utilities.

đź§  Capturing the Potential Of Decentralized Finance

Given that defi currently makes up just 5% of total crypto market value, there’s a lot of room for growth in the sector, boosting the potential of the increasing number of liquidity pool integrations along with it.

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