I noticed that many people avoid providing liquidity simply because they don’t understand how to properly calculate risk and profit🤔. As a result, they choose staking with long lock periods or just hold their tokens.

So how do you calculate risk when providing liquidity🤔?

The only additional risk you face when holding liquidity in a pool is impermanent loss📉.

Impermanent loss happens when the price of the tokens in the pool changes relative to each other.

For example☝, if you provide liquidity to the MAJOR/TON pool on STONfi and MAJOR doubles or drops in price while TON stays the same, you’ll lose 5.7% of your assets. But if MAJOR returns to its original price, the losses disappear.

Here’s a quick table for reference👇:

2x = 5.7%

3x = 13.4%

4x = 20%

5x = 25.5%

Now that you know what impermanent loss is, you can calculate the risk of holding liquidity in a pool.

Let’s say I want to provide liquidity to the MAJOR/TON pool with an 84% APR on STONfi. I believe both tokens will mostly grow together, and their relative price changes won’t exceed 2x. So, 84% - 5.7% = 78.3% APR — taking all risks into account.

In this case, the APR is high enough to fully cover any losses🔥.

As a bonus tip: with a high APR like this, it’s worth reinvesting rewards to turn APR into APY📶. To do that, you need to withdraw and re-add your liquidity at least once a month. Then 78.3% APR turns into 121% APY. Just keep in mind that this will cost around 12 TON per year in gas fees, so it only makes sense for large amounts.

How to earn instead of losing on STON.fi liquidity pools?


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