Orphic liquidity is an active liquidity management and designeted market-making platform that manage tailored liquidity strategies across all key concentrated liquidity AMMs (CLMMs).
Orphic offers institutional-grade market-making solutions for on-chain liquidity. Orphic aggregated liquidity management across all key DEXs and blockchains into a single platform, giving users a suite of tooling and analytics.
Uniswap V3 Concentrated Liquidity
In Uniswap v3, concentrated liquidity refers to a feature that allows liquidity providers (LPs) to concentrate their funds within specific price ranges or "ticks" in the trading pair's price range. This is a departure from the traditional approach in earlier versions of Uniswap, where liquidity was evenly spread across the entire price range.
Concentrated liquidity offers several advantages for LPs. By focusing their liquidity within specific price ranges, LPs can potentially capture more trading fees during volatile market conditions when price movements are concentrated within those ranges. This can lead to increased capital efficiency and higher returns for LPs.
To implement concentrated liquidity, LPs specify the price range they want to provide liquidity for by selecting the tick spacing and the number of ticks they want to cover. Each tick represents a specific price point, and by choosing a narrower tick spacing, LPs can provide liquidity to a more granular and specific range of prices. The number of ticks determines the size of the price range the LP wants to cover.
The introduction of concentrated liquidity pools has brought forth a fresh concern for liquidity providers (LPs), which is known as impermanent loss. Addressing impermanent loss poses a significant challenge, resulting in increased complexity and risk for the typical user engaging in liquidity provision.
When concentrated liquidity was first implemented, there was a notable absence of analytics to assess the performance and profitability of LP positions. Additionally, there were no standardized metrics available for quantifying impermanent loss.
To tackle the complexities arising from concentrated liquidity, various protocols have emerged, such as Concentrated Liquidity Managers (CLMs) or Concentrated Liquidity Market Makers (CLMMs). These protocols are specifically designed to address the unique challenges posed by concentrated liquidity.
It's important to note that different liquidity managers have varying priorities, with some concentrating on specific aspects of concentrated liquidity, while others offer comprehensive solutions covering a wide range of functions.
Concentrated liquidity in Uniswap v3 offers LPs more control over their capital allocation and allows them to optimize their returns based on their risk appetite and market expectations. However, it also requires LPs to actively manage their positions and adjust their liquidity as market conditions change to maintain the desired concentration.
The Orphic strategy
When specific triggers are met, the liquidity ranges are automatically adjusted for rebalancing. These ranges can be established for a specific pair, and rebalancing is triggered when the price moves a certain percentage in either direction.
Into the selection of triggers we consider variables like the pool price change over time, liquidity available, swap fee in the specified pool, pair volatility, traded volume, competition, among others.
One important aspect is to consider the gas fees generated by rebalancing in the pool and the time the investor locks its tokens in the strategy. As gas fees could be high depending on the chain, our strategy considers a locking period for the assets in the strategy to ensure that the profits are higher than the fees consumed.
Our team also analyzes the different pools available through concentrated liquidity and find the most utility efficient.
Our strategy works in Uniswap V3 for now but we will soon apply it into other DeFi protocols and blockchains as we mature.
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