1) While I, as active liquidity provider, am excited about sophisticated options for LPs in $UNI v3, I'm also concerned that too much complexity will only serve few in the know and leave the majority of (passive) LPs behind.
2) Although I haven't conducted a survey to justify my thesis, I'm quite convinced that the majority of current LPs don't actively manage their pools. This is based on my observations and pushed me to share a set of "advanced" strategies for active LPs:
3) Uni v3 feature to provide liquidity only for a given range (+ other options) will be useful for professional market makers who will likely eat lunch of passive LPs. If passive LPs earn less, they may look for alternative simple solutions.
4) The most desired scenario for each token holder is to be fully exposed to the price increase of the token while earning passive income from holding. You don't want to have less of your token when its price goes up which happens in the case of AMM like Uniswap and Sushiswap.
5) With Uni v3, if you decide to provide liquidity for a given price range only, you can end up not having your favourite token at all. It happens when its price goes above the upper limit of the range. Your pool will only contain the other (cheaper) token from the pair.
6) So providing liquidity for a price range can be good for LPs who actively manage their pool and are indifferent to tokens in the pool. It is a great feature for professional market makers but not really for diamond-hand hodlers like, for example, $LINK marines.
7) So what is the best AMM for $LINK marines and other strong hodlers and token enthusiasts? The one which guarantees no impermanent loss and passive income without complex management? It's @Bancor $BNT
8) To sum up, I'm happy that AMMs evolve from simple x*y=k formula into more complex designs but I still think that features provided by @Bancor are more beneficial for the majority of users. Congrats $UNI for innovations but I'm still more bullish on $BNT.
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1) If you don't like reading long blog posts with project updates but prefer to get a bullish thread with a summary of news pumping your favourite token, I'm here to serve. It's $BNT time again after the March release of Bancor Progress Update. blog.bancor.network/bancor-progres…
2) "In the last month, the total value locked in the Bancor Protocol has more than doubled, exceeding $1.6 billion. Bancor broke into the top 10 projects by TVL and now generates the fifth highest revenue of any protocol on Ethereum." - no commentary is needed - bullish $BNT.
3) $BNT circulating supply reported by CoinGecko & CoinMarketCap is overstated. When you deposit single-sided liquidity, @Bancor mints BNT into the pool to match it. This BNT is protocol-owned, largely remains in the pool earning fees and is eventually burned.
1) Although in a bull market narratives drive prices more than fundamentals, it's always wise to look at your portfolio from a bear market perspective and pay attention to traditional valuation metrics adapted to DeFi. @tokenterminal is a place to go. Let's play a bit with AMMs.
2) The most common metric used to compare protocols is Price to Sales ratio (P/S). It's a relation of a protocol's market cap to its revenue so it indicates how the market values the asset relative to its revenue and expectation of future growth.
3) In terms of AMMs revenue represents total fees paid by traders to liquidity providers. In other words it's the amount users are willing to pay to use the protocol. For better comparison market cap is fully diluted (FDV), i.e. it assumes all tokens are in circulation.
1) I've been trying to raise awareness of superior @Bancor dex for some time but my reach on Twitter is so low that I literally twitted for myself with the aim to quote it when market realises I was right. I think this time has come.
2) In my opinion @Bancor is the most innovative AMM on the market and $BNT is substantially undervalued. The core features include:
- Single-sided liquidity (you can add liquidity for your token only)
- Impermanent loss protection
- Low trading fees (0.2% vs 0.6% on Uni or Sushi)
3) More features are coming:
- Leveraged liquidity on staked $BNT (borrow against staked $BNT for better capital efficiency)
- Layer 2 on Arbitrum for faster and cheaper transactions
- Cross-chain bridge to Polkadot & other chains