Uniswap v3 & Concentrated Liquidity

Concentrated Liquidity (v3) Calculator

Calculate Impermanent Loss and Capital Efficiency for Uniswap v3 positions. See how narrowing your price range increases your fee-earning power but also your risk.

Position Bounds

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Why Concentrate?

In v2, your money is spread from $0 to infinity. In v3, you focus it. A range that is 10% wide can earn 20x to 50x more fees than a standard pool, but price moves hurt more.

Capital Efficiency
10.4x
v3 vs Standard Pool
Impermanent Loss (Scenario)
-2.21%

Relative to HODL 50/50

Target LP Value$10,366
HODL 50/50 Value$10,600

Strategic Tip: Concentrated liquidity is a trade-off. A narrower range earns more fees but requires frequent rebalancing and carries higher IL risk. Most professionals target a range that covers 10-20% of expected price volatility.

Mastering Uniswap v3 Liquidity

What is Concentrated Liquidity?

In traditional AMMs (like Uniswap v2), liquidity is distributed uniformly along the entire price curve. This is inefficient because most trading happens within a narrow price range. Uniswap v3 allows LPs to concentrate their capital within a custom price range, providing more liquidity where it's needed and earning significantly higher fees.

The Multiplier Effect

By narrowing your range, you are essentially "leveraging" your capital. A range that is 10% wide provides as much liquidity as 20x to 50x more capital in a standard pool. This means 50x more fee revenue, but your Impermanent Loss also compounds 50x faster.

Managing Your Range

  1. Broad Range: Safer, less maintenance, lower fee earnings. Good for volatile assets.
  2. Narrow Range: High fee earnings, high IL risk, requires constant monitoring. Best for stable assets.
  3. Out of Range: If the price leaves your range, your position stops earning fees and is converted 100% into the asset that has decreased in value.

Key Concept:

Providing concentrated liquidity is essentially selling Volatility. You want the price to bounce back and forth inside your range without ever leaving it.

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