At this point every token should have liquidity providers incentives.

I have seen this sentence on twitter I believe.

Uniswap has open the gates for the masses to become liquidity providers (LPs) or market makers as they are also known.
Just think about this for a second. The market maker option was available to the few CEXs (centralized exchanges) only (at least in Crypto). Now everyone can be that on Uniswap. Me, you and the neighbor next door 😊.

Even more there is a plethora of markets to choose from. BTC-ETH, ETH-USDT, ETH-WHIVE or ETH-WLEO 😊. Each of them has a different APR per year. This APR changes daily, so don’t think its written in a rock.

The launch of WLEO would simple not bit possible without Uniswap. The WLEO case shows that a group of people can gather around a project that they think is worth, provide liquidity on Uniswap and let the world know about the project.

Liquidity providers incentives

The liquidity providers incentives are the next step in the Uniswap game and the ability everyone to be a market maker. Its almost a no brainer.

This of course is attracting some bad actors in the game offering 400% APR on the token etc.

But if made right it can be massive. We are already seeing different models popping out all over the place. There is incitive for HODLing liquidity longer, the more you hold the more you get, some are flexible adjusting the incentives according to the market conditions etc.

A whole new game theory of liquidity incentives is starting to come in place. A hundred of tokens are popping up with one single purpose, staking, yield farming etc. Get tokens to get even more tokens. The sole purpose and use case of the token. Although staking and yield farming is a bit different than liquidity providers incentives. Or as it knows these days liquidity mining.

I think at some point every token will have a build in inflation for the liquidity providers.

Having a great project and community around it is still at the core. No tokenomics can replace that. But having a great tokenomics on top of that is a great boost.

Giving out incentives to LPs for a project with community around it have even better. There is someone to give incentives to in the first place.

Uniswap the king?

Uniswap just become the 1st DEX/DeFi project with 2B TLV (total locked value). There is almost 1B of bitcoin wrapped on the ETH network now. Most of it goes to Uniswap.

In some of my previous posts I have already said that the Uniswap concept of liquidity providing and swapping is almost revolutionary. The only thing that is now on the CEXs side is ease of use and inertia. People are used to them. Also, maybe fees 😊. But if you trade in the thousands of dollars, and the most volume comes from these players, paying a $1, or $5 fees is almost negligible. Most of the volume comes from large traders.

Another important thing that people like a lot is orders. Guess what making orders is on Uniswap roadmap. Uniswap will continue to develop and improve. A bit better UI will also be great 😊.

Competition?

Uniswap is open source. Everyone can fork it and make their project. That what sushi did. They were the first to add governance token, leading to massive liquidity transfer to Sushi. But since its open source, Uniswap then add the governance token and came on the top again.

CEXs listings or deeper liquidity on Uniswap?

This is an interesting position for a token’s owners. You see CEXs usually ask for money when they list the token.

Having the Uniswap option, one can ask himself is it worth it to pay the exchange to list my token, having a ride for a week or two and then come back.

Instead giving the money to a CEX, one can give this money to liquidity providers giving them more incentive to stay around and building a better position on this great new market.

Of course, it’s better to be listed on more markets, especially on the largest ones, (top 5) but the second-grade exchanges might be loosing their battle.

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For sure nobody can guarantee anything about the future.
But as things stand, I think Uniswap is on the road of becoming a goliath.
The liquidity mining games will continue as tokens will keep on trying new ways to attract liquidity in their pool.

What do you think?

All the best @dalz

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