Journey of a DeFi Power User
summary
A market-making firm describes concrete DeFi experiments: liquidity on Uniswap V2 fat tails loses beyond ~30%, concentrated ranges on Uniswap V3 and multi-call atomics shrink exposure and raise fee capture, perpetuals built on top of V3 (prep.com) enable leveraged strategies, and oracle-based pools like GMX shift risk to LPs and enable interest-rate-swap-style ranges. Hosting RPC nodes and reading mempool data yields microsecond execution versus 10–600 ms via providers. A stress test on Volts triggers a real protocol default, showing these approaches can break or protect capital.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00DeFi power user journey
- 1:14AMMs and liquidity basics
- 2:38Ways to provide liquidity
- 3:20Uniswap V2 liquidity risks
- 4:24Concentrated liquidity strategies
- 5:47Composability and derivatives
- 6:28Carbon protocol spreads
- 7:11Oracle market making (GMX)
- 8:15Interest rate swaps in DeFi
- 9:38Key DeFi considerations
- 9:59Data latency and RPC setup
- 11:24Execution quality benefits
- 12:49Protocol risks and testing
- 13:52Protocol vulnerability case
- 14:12DeFi options market trends
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