September 01, 2022

Automated Market Maker (AMM)

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What is Automated Market Maker?

An automated market maker (AMM) is a sort of decentralized exchange (DEX) technology that prices assets using a mathematical formula. Assets are valued using a pricing algorithm rather than an order book as in a typical exchange.

Understanding Automated Market Maker

The Automated Market Maker (AMM) exchange protocol is a DeFI protocol. It is essentially a market-making bot that uses a mathematical algorithm to determine the price of a given crypto pair.

Instead of depending on order books, like traditional exchanges do, AMM relies on mathematical calculations, which may vary amongst AMM protocols. Traditional market making is a feasible option for organizations that deal in large volumes since it quotes the best price and most attractive bid-ask spread on order-book exchanges. However, the decentralized nature of AMM protocols allows any user to create new or contribute to current markets.

Typically, an exchange protocol will use a proprietary formula to calculate the price of the assets in the liquidity pool. Furthermore, there are some functional differences.

The following are some of the extant AMM protocols.

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Damir is the team leader, product manager, and editor at Metaverse Post, covering topics such as AI/ML, AGI, LLMs, Metaverse, and Web3-related fields. His articles attract a massive audience of over a million users every month. He appears to be an expert with 10 years of experience in SEO and digital marketing. Damir has been mentioned in Mashable, Wired, Cointelegraph, The New Yorker, Inside.com, Entrepreneur, BeInCrypto, and other publications. He travels between the UAE, Turkey, Russia, and the CIS as a digital nomad. Damir earned a bachelor's degree in physics, which he believes has given him the critical thinking skills needed to be successful in the ever-changing landscape of the internet. 

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