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Story: Bancor (BNT) Dealing with Small Gains and Larger Losses of Liquidity Providers

By Steven Anderson

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Understanding Impermanent Loss

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Bancor provides for an automated decentralized exchange with its on-chain liquidity Protocol. Without Liquidity there is no freer or fairer economy.

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For clarity, when people invest their money in a token type, they are contributing to the liquidity pool of the token.

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Bancor is considered to be less risky for liquidity providers.  Before understanding the liquidity provider risk, it is important to understand, what is liquidity provider…

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The important thing to understand is that when a token is invested in a liquidity pool, the investors expect that “its value if raises with the pool” can be cashed out. 

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The first thing to understand is that, every kind of token is backed by projects and the developer activity and the acceptance of the project and the interest of the people to…

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The value of one kind of token might relatively increase or decrease in value with respect to another.

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So, there will be a relative growth in token value between two different token ecosystems.  So, when the value of the token raises in value while in the pool, any user will…

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All participants contributing to the rise in value of token need an economic incentive.  CoinTelegraph previously reported this as a new approach which uses economic incentives…

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