Profit versus Rebalancing?
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During 2025, an LP position in @Uniswap V2’s USDC/ETH pool (on @Ethereum) outperformed an ideal Rebalancing position by 4%.
@Uniswap@ethereum *RIP Profit-vs-Rebalancing*
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What I find remarkable here:
• The near-term evolution of these quantities is easy to estimate.
• LP position ≈ Rebalancing, since protocol fees were activated.
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The most interesting thing I saw this week was Yoink fixing the gas on a failed backrun tx for Alkemi ($20k) and then building its own block with *just* the attack *only* paying a 10% bribe to the validator.
This is surprising because a gas-fix is something trivial so 10% is a low bribe given the competition.
I think Yoink either has very sharp calculations around bribes (likely) or preferential treatment from the MEV Relay.
I know that, at least, c0feebabe would do the gas-fix and pay a high enough bribe. The only question is if the block builders wouldn't pass these bribes to the validator and that being the reason Yoink won with his own block building.
@Balancer This opens up new possibilities for DeFi composability. Stable LP tokens can now be safely used as collateral, unlocking capital efficiency across protocols.
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At @Balancer, we solved a problem in DeFi: how to safely use Stable LP tokens as collateral in lending protocols.
Balancer stable pools hold ~$300M. Using them as collateral requires tracking their price carefully to prevent manipulation.
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@Balancer Our smart contract team implemented this solution smoothly.
Bonus: we introduce an alternative method that may also be considered by lending protocols for a wide variety of use cases. It consists of using certain upper and lower prices that can be computed very efficiently.
The gradual glide means that instead of atomic jumps that create MEV opportunities, reCLAMMs smoothly transition virtual balances over time
This eliminates the buy-high-sell-low problem that kills most LP strategies
1/ @Balancer recently launched ReCLAMM: "Readjusting Concentrated Liquidity AMM."
This approach to concentrated liquidity is *price agnostic* in a way comparable to a traditional constant product AMM (CP-AMM).
@iamswastik23 No oracles, AMM self-perception only.
Exactly, we cannot know anything in advance. We can, however, make educated guesses based on the recent past and our intuition about both the future behavior of the assets and the flow the pool is likely to receive.