🧠 Advanced AMM: Concentrated Liquidity & V3

Explore Uniswap V3 range orders and capital efficiency

🚀 Advanced AMM Concepts

Beyond the basics, AMMs have complex dynamics involving slippage, MEV (Maximal Extractable Value), arbitrage, and advanced features like concentrated liquidity. Understanding these concepts helps you trade and provide liquidity more effectively.

Critical Considerations

Transaction Ordering

Miners/validators can reorder transactions within a block, enabling MEV extraction through frontrunning and sandwich attacks.

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Market Efficiency

Arbitrageurs keep AMM prices aligned with centralized exchanges, but this comes at the cost of impermanent loss for LPs.

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Capital Efficiency

Newer AMM designs like concentrated liquidity improve capital efficiency but require more active management.

🔍 Interactive: Advanced Concepts Explorer

Explore key advanced concepts that affect AMM trading:

Trade % of Pool
1.00%
Price Impact
1.00%
Est. Slippage
0.01%
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Slippage & Price Impact

Large trades move the price against you. The bigger the trade relative to pool size, the worse the execution price.

Key Detail:

Current: 1.00% of pool = ~0.01% slippage

Protection Strategies

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Slippage Tolerance

Set maximum acceptable slippage (e.g., 0.5%). If price moves beyond this, transaction reverts. Protects against frontrunning.

Trade-off: Lower tolerance = more failed transactions

Transaction Deadlines

Set time limit for transaction execution. If not mined within deadline, it reverts. Prevents executing at stale prices.

Recommendation: Use 10-20 minute deadlines for most trades
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MEV Protection

Several solutions exist to protect against MEV:

Flashbots Protect: Send transactions privately to avoid mempool exposure
CoW Protocol: Batch orders together to find better prices and avoid sandwich attacks
Smaller Trades: Split large trades across multiple transactions or use TWAP orders

AMM Evolution

VersionInnovationTrade-off
Uniswap v2Constant product formulaCapital inefficient
Uniswap v3Concentrated liquidityRequires active management
CurveStable pools with low slippageOnly for similar-value assets
BalancerMulti-asset pools with custom weightsMore complex to manage