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Impermanent Loss

The opportunity cost experienced by AMM liquidity providers when the price ratio of pooled tokens changes from the time of deposit. If you deposit ETH/USDC and ETH rises, you would have made more money just holding ETH. 'Impermanent' because it reverses if prices return to deposit ratios.

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