Reminds me of a convo w/ in the early days of Uniswap where we discussed professional market makers getting outcompeted by passive pooled LPs that would happily accept much lower margins :)
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Out of curiosity -- how much margin do you think professional MMs make on an average trade, in bps?
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I would assume some hilariously tiny amount! The point isn’t the margin per trade, it’s the return on invested capital
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> it’s the return on invested capital
Got some bad news for you about AMMs... :D
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That’s exactly the point Hayden is making!
Professional market makers make much higher returns on their capital than liquidity providers make on Uniswap.
Their margin is our opportunity
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I don't think this is the right framing.
Are you implying that AMM LPs are willing to accept a % fee that is so low that sophisticated MMs (and other competing AMMs) just won't bother participating in the market?
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The following image demonstrates how sophisticated MMs can eat into AMM fees until it is no longer viable to overcome impermanent loss.
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No—my point is that AMMs can deploy way more capital because LPs are OK with modest returns and are guaranteed their fair share of fills.
Retail investors, too, are better off trading against an AMM, because liquidity doesn’t tactically dry up.
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I agree that professional market makers undercutting the spread do ruin this nice equilibrium!
The solution to this, as for so many other problems, is to have all trading in the world go through Uniswap
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you should see what happens when a country implements 30bp fees.
(basically retail ends up gambling on options and everyone else trades futures since spot is too expensive.)
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The market doesn’t believe 30 bps is too expensive. If true the useage wouldn’t be there.
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it wasn't there! until people started paying $3m per day for people to use it.
transmining is a powerful tool. CeFi realized this a year ago and went through a fad where everyone talked about fcoin and coinbene and other venues.
then the yield dried up.
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That’s the question. What happens when there is no more yield.
Generally another project emerges. And another and another and another.
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but retail is willing to pay for it now. are you saying without incentives there won’t be enough liquidity providers and retail will stop trading on AMMs because of higher slippage?
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also everyone might stop because they're no longer getting yield for e.g. buying USDT with half their ETH and then staking both.
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Uniswap was doing $100-200m in volume before Sushiswap was announced
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