You can't talk about perps without talking about the king: @dYdX
Wonder why $DYDX has been down only?
π π Come at the king, best not miss π π
So what did we find?
- A stablecoin farm for pro MMs
- MMs inflate volume to maximize token yield
- As stable yields compress, tokens dump
- Chicken-egg problem solved via token
πππ A Quant's review of @GMX_IO πππ
So what did we find?
- No ponzi / fake trading volume
- GLP depositors make real money
- Arb'ers make money too but LPs make more
- 1 arb'er made nearly $4.2M
- Real retail usage (and its growing)
Soon after @0xtuba nersnipped me and @0xDosa into digging through the data.
In our research we found:
1. Most volume is arb 2. Arb traders are playing a PvP ponzi 3. High funding rates = High APY ponzi 4. The protocol's aren't actually making profit 5. The protocol's can blowup
Lower ticks are assumed to be even while upper ticks are odd. This allows for code optimizations because a lower tick of one position can't overlap with an upper tick for another.
On net and gross liquidity,
Because of the above requirement for lower/upper ticks, Trident ticks only keep track of gross liquidity. Whereas UNI v3 ticks keep track of gross + net liquidity.
One less state variables means gas savings for swaps + add/remove liquidity.