Model-Free Hedging of Impermanent Loss in Geometric Mean Market Makers

21 Pages Posted: 4 Apr 2023

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Masaaki Fukasawa

Osaka University

Basile Maire

Desma Eight, LLC; Quantena

Marcus Wunsch

ZHAW School of Management and Law

Date Written: March 23, 2023

Abstract

We consider Geometric Mean Market Makers – a special type of Decentralized Exchange – with two types of users: liquidity takers and arbitrageurs. Liquidity takers trade at prices that can create arbitrage opportunities, while arbitrageurs align the exchange’s price with the external market price. We show that in Geometric Mean Market Makers charging proportional transaction fees, Impermanent Loss can be super-hedged by a model-free rebalancing strategy. Moreover, we demonstrate that in such a DEX, the exchange rate is of finite variation, so that loss-versus rebalancing (the shortfall of providing liquidity versus the corresponding constant-weights portfolio) vanishes.

Keywords: digital currencies, automated market makers, Impermanent Loss, decentralized exchanges, divergence loss

JEL Classification: D47, D53, C02

Suggested Citation

Fukasawa, Masaaki and Maire, Basile and Wunsch, Marcus, Model-Free Hedging of Impermanent Loss in Geometric Mean Market Makers (March 23, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4397904 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4397904

Masaaki Fukasawa

Osaka University

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Basile Maire

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