What is Liquidity pool?

Definition

A liquidity pool is a smart contract holding two or more assets that traders swap against. Depositors earn a share of trading fees and take on the pool’s price exposure.

In practice

Supplying liquidity is not passive income. If the pooled assets diverge in price, a provider can end up worse off than simply holding them, an outcome usually called impermanent loss. Fee income has to outrun that gap for the position to make sense.

Liquidity pool on Dapping

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