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Impermanent loss

What crypto means by it

The shortfall a liquidity provider ends up with compared to simply holding the two tokens, caused by the pool rebalancing as prices move. The name is optimistic.

What you already know this as

The opportunity cost of being contractually held to a fixed asset ratio while the market moves away from it.

Related terms

Liquidity pool AMM Yield farming

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