Impermanent Loss In DeFi — The Risks Involved In Providing Liquidity

The impermanent loss also called divergent loss, is the difference between when you are holding tokens in an AMM (Automated Market Maker) Liquidity Pool and just simply holding them (i.e. HODLing) on the blockchain. When tokens are provided for liquidity in the market, they are funded to other users from a Liquidity Pool. When HODLing, the tokens are simply being held at market value. In providing liquidity, the price ofthe tokens in a Liquidity Pool can diverge in any direction. The more divergence there is, the more impermanent loss a user (i.e. Liquidity Provider) suffers. This is called impermanent because it can only be temporary. When…...