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> > 2. Accessible market-making: The ability to provide capital to a decentralised exchange to operate as an automated market-maker. > Yes, this is a great way
by shawabawa3 5y ago
> > 2. Accessible market-making: The ability to provide capital to a decentralised exchange to operate as an automated market-maker.
> Yes, this is a great way of solving a problem crypto created for itself - illiquid markets for jars of air that is. In classical markets you can just buy shares in a market maker. Crypto's biggest market makers are centralized - Alameda Research and Cumberland/DRW. The latter is also a massive market maker in classical markets.
Buying shares in a market maker is absolutely worse than directly market making yourself - you can't pick and choose your markets, you are paying for staffing overhead of the company, you are paying a stock exchange and broker fees.
Therefore automated market-making is something crypto does better than a classical solution.
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- arcticbull 5y agoOk, but is there any reason that you think a decentralized AMM would be more efficient than an equivalent centralized system vended by NASDAQ? Of course not, the latter would be faster and cheaper. It just doesn't exist yet. The former is boat anchored to the blockchain making it infinitely less efficient and more expensive. You're just describing an opportunity that exists in classical markets. No reason someone couldn't build it, faster, and more efficiently. Blockchain is an inefficiency and a liability.