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Paradigm Team Outline Efficient AMM Design for Large Trades

Byte, News / By Owen Fernau / July 29, 2021 July 29, 2021 / AMM, DeFi, DEX, Ethereum Gas Costs, Exchanges

Paradigm research partners Dave White, Dan Robinson and Uniswap founder Hayden Adams have cooked up another trading protocol. The decentralized exchange, called TWAMM, which stands for time-weighted average market maker, aims to help traders execute large orders, quickly, at low gas prices and without negatively affecting price. In traditional finance, traders will often employ brokers …

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Sushi Introduces Its Next Generation AMM Trident

Byte, News / By Dan Kahan / July 20, 2021 July 20, 2021 / AMM, Automated Market Maker, DeFi, Liquidity Providers, Sushi, Sushiswap

Sushi has officially announced their next generation automated market maker (AMM) Trident. While SushiSwap started out as a fork of Uniswap, the announcement explicitly states that Trident is a new AMM “and not a fork.” Trident will focus on capital efficiency (ie: the ratio between invested capital and return) and integrate Sushi’s many products. Trident …

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Kyber Launches Dynamic Market Maker to Optimize Liquidity Provider Fees

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

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

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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