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Kyber Launches Dynamic Market Maker to Optimize Liquidity Provider Fees

Leave a Comment / Byte, News / By Owen Fernau / April 7, 2021 April 7, 2021 / AMM, DEX, Kyber

Kyber Network, a decentralized exchange, launched a new product called a dynamic market maker (DMM), which the project says will optimize fees for liquidity providers (LPs). The first difference from automated market makers (AMM) is that while the 0.03% which Uniswap LPs receive is fixed, Kyber has introduced “dynamic fees” which increase during times of …

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Uniswap V3 Drop Features L2 Move and 4,000x Gain in Capital Efficiency

Leave a Comment / Dive, News / By Owen Fernau / March 23, 2021 March 24, 2021 / AMM, Protocol Upgrade, Uniswap

Uniswap has mapped out what is perhaps the most anticipated DeFi product launch of the year with its post introducing its version three (V3) iteration. The team confirmed what many hoped: following a targeted May 5th launch, a deployment to Optimism’s Layer 2 scaling solutionis “set to follow shortly after.” As Uniswap trades currently cost …

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New Aave AMM Market Allows Users to Borrow Against Liquidity Provider Tokens

Leave a Comment / Dive, News / By Owen Fernau / March 17, 2021 March 29, 2021 / Aave, AMM

Aave launched a market yesterday which will allow users to deposit liquidity provider (LP) tokens from automated market makers (AMM) and use them as collateral for borrowing. The market, called AMM Market, initially accepts deposits for 14 of Uniswap’s, and two of Balancer’s LP tokens. It has over $5M currently locked in its smart contracts …

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New AMM Saddle Had Bit of a Rocky Start

Leave a Comment / Dive, News / By Dan Kahan / January 20, 2021 January 22, 2021 / AMM, Curve, Fork, Saddle

Everybody hates slippage. That’s the problem Saddle, the freshly launched dApp “designed to enable efficient trading between pegged value crypto assets,” aims to tackle. And while the project quickly reached its initial deposit cap, it wasn’t without a couple of hiccups. Saddle is a new automated market maker (AMM) that intends to provide liquidity for …

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Bancor Aims to Eliminate Impermanent Loss With Upgrade

Leave a Comment / Byte, News / By Cooper Turley / October 14, 2020 October 14, 2020 / AMM, Bancor, DEX, Impermanent Loss, Upgrade

Bancor has unveiled the next step in their new AMM design. The 2.1 release introduces an elastic BNT supply, used to cover impermanent loss for LPs through a mechanism called Liquidity Protection. The update builds on the ability to add single-sided liquidity, or using one token to pool liquidity instead of two like Uniswap. LPs …

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