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The Rise of Prop AMMs on Solana
This leads us into our topic of prop AMMs....Prop AMMs The concept of a “prop AMM” may seem like a contradiction....AMMs by design are open, deterministic systems....Prop AMMs operate completely opposite....What emerges is a bifurcated AMM landscape....The concept of a "prop AMM" may seem like a contradiction.
24 Min
Spot Exchange
Jul 2025
Lyra: A Next Generation Options AMM
Competitive Landscape: Options AMMs The main options AMMs include Lyra, Premia, Hegic, and Dopex....Premia is a promising AMM offering American options with competitive prices....Dopex is a hybrid AMM and DOV....With a two-sided AMM like Lyra, a trader that believes the AMM is overpricing volatility can sell those...options back to the AMM.
23 Min
Options
Sep 2022
Elixir: Democratizing Liquidity Provisioning in the Age of Orderbooks
As gas costs continue to compress and the inherent flaws of automated market makers (AMMs) come to light...This emerging paradigm will not be dominated by AMMs but rather, order-books....This led to the subsequent advent of the concentrated liquidity AMM under Uniswap v3....Recent research suggests that due to LVR, LPs on AMMs may not actually be profitable.
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Orderbook
Oct 2024
Key Takeaways: Ultimately, like Airlines, AMMs sell a commodity: liquidity....is difficult as customers mostly care about execution While liquidity is a moat, given the fact that AMMs...and retail investors alike are content to continuously subsidise new competitors, it’s unclear how AMMs...of AMM governance tokens...
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DeFi
Aug 2020
The Future of On-Chain Liquidity
...with AMMs by utilizing their CoWs, auctions, or RFQ features....AMMs altogether....Conclusion On-chain liquidity was popularized by AMM designs, more specifically, the XYK AMM model....AMM: UniswapX is asking a lot of its passive LPs....AMMs have been affected significantly by IL and JIT liquidity.
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Spot Exchange
Sep 2023
The Power of Algo Pools: Astroport's Passive Liquidity Solution
These AMM designs are XYK, Stableswap, and PCL....Stableswap (blue line): The stableswap AMM design integrates elements of both constant sum AMM and constant...product AMM....constant sum AMM....Since AMMs provide liquidity at stale prices, this is usually not the case.
18 Min
DeFi
Jul 2024
Paradex: Reimagining On-Chain Markets from First Principles
...first in the crypto exchange landscape, most others focus on one slice (just trading fees, or just AMM...This would prevent the common issue of projects buying a lot of tokens at tops and then having no ammo...If we analogize to the evolution of exchanges: first-gen DeFi (Uniswap, etc.) was an innovation (AMMs...
53 Min
DeFi
Sep 2025
The Shift to Layer 2: A Potential Disruption Catalyst for the AMM Ecosystem
Currently all significant AMMs (automated market makers) reside on Ethereum layer 1 and life has been...As discussed in our previous daily Are Airlines the AMMs of Crypto, as the number of AMMs grew and liquidity...Can AMMs provide a mechanism to link their pools on different layers?
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Layer 2 / L2
Nov 2020
Decentralized Forex, Vesta Farms, Friktion Volts
DFX Finance is an AMM designed for forex swaps between multiple fiat-backed stablecoins....DFX Finance is an AMM designed for forex swaps between multiple fiat-backed […]...
5 Min
AMM
Jun 2022
The Year Ahead for DeFi 2025
The flagship AMM design showcasing the power of Valantis is the HOT AMM, built by the Arrakis Finance...Arrakis HOT AMM The Hybrid Order Type (HOT) AMM stands out due to its intent-centric design, which focuses...Orderbook DEXs Onchain trading has two competing systems: Orderbooks and AMMs.
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DeFi
Dec 2024
Crypto Options: An aging dinosaur or overlooked behemoth?
Lastly, Premia V3 pioneered the hybrid orderbook/AMM model, combining range orders (Uniswap V3 style...The Current Players: Crypto Options Competitive Landscape With the three AMM structures laid out, it’...Derive’s dominance seems to stem from being the first to market with a functioning options AMM in 2021...
36 Min
Macro & Markets
Nov 2025
Market Musings - Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on ATH’s Door
As gas costs continue to compress and the inherent flaws of automated market makers (AMMs) come to light...This emerging paradigm will not be dominated by AMMs but rather, order-books....emerging protocol – Elixir Network – aims to preserve the democratization of liquidity provisioning that AMMs...
14 Min
Macro & Markets
Oct 2024
Prediction Markets: A World Truth Engine in Beta
Automated Market Makers (AMMs): Early crypto-native platforms heavily relied on AMMs, often using algorithms...One of the key turning points had been Polymarket’s migration from an AMM to an order book. ...Hence we see the recurring element of AMM adjacent designs for user generated markets.
50 Min
DeFi
Oct 2025
Trader Joe's Novel Take on Concentrated Liquidity
Trader Joe’s v1 DEX is a fork of Uni v2 that utilizes the x*y=K (XYK) automated market maker (AMM) model...invariant within each price bin allows traders to enjoy zero-slippage swaps, unlike other constant product AMM...
9 Min
AMM
Mar 2023
ETHCC: One Year Later, Have we Made Progress?
AMMs More than anything, the AMM camp seems to come from a place of ideology — If we don’t preserve the...Moreover, less profitable LPs means less AMM liquidity....Put simply, LVR is a huge issue for AMMs....CoW Swap’s CoW AMM (f.k.a. function-maximizing AMM) stood out at ETHCC as a clever LVR-aware AMM design...Will AMMs survive?
31 Min
DeFi
Jul 2024
Convex Wars, OpenSea Recovery, & NFT Endorsements
Simply put, Curve’s stablecoin AMM rewards its liquidity providers with CRV, which can be 1) sold to...Simply put, Curve’s stablecoin AMM rewards its […]...
5 Min
Vaults
Jan 2022
State Of Token Markets
...emissions ve-lock helps but emissions dilute MET
 4.6x Solana DEX volumes are 90% off peak Prop AMMs...share HYPE "House of finance" AAVE "Onchain credit primitive" $ 42M buybacks,
 95% dist UNI "AMM...
Other
Jun 2026
Heads or Thales: Exploring the Potential of Positional Parimutuel Markets
Thales vaults operate across the Thales AMM and Overtime....Conversely, the AMM suffers significant losses when a user places a longshot parlay (requiring the AMM...It is important to note that this chart is just Overtime AMM volume, not the parlay AMM....The performance of the options AMM should improve over time.
26 Min
Options
Jan 2023
The Launchpad Wars: Pump.fun, Raydium, and the Future of Solana's Memecoin Economy
By launching PumpSwap, their own AMM for trading graduated tokens, they’ve executed a textbook vertical...into Raydium’s pools, they became a massive source of trading volume and fee generation for Raydium’s AMM...All new tokens graduating from its launchpad would migrate their liquidity to PumpSwap, Pump’s own AMM...
16 Min
DeFi
May 2025
Maverick Takes Aim at the DEX Landscape
Maverick AMM Design Maverick differs from most other AMMs with its use of liquidity bins....Mode Static Mode Static serves as Maverick’s “normal” mode, operating similarly to existing AMMs....They may become the dominant trading pair on AMMs, and potentially the dominant collateral type for options...
11 Min
AMM
Jun 2023