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(window.webpackJsonp=window.webpackJsonp||[]).push([[5],{102:function(e,t,i){"use strict";i.r(t),i.d(t,"frontMatter",(function(){return o})),i.d(t,"metadata",(function(){return s})),i.d(t,"rightToc",(function(){return c})),i.d(t,"default",(function(){return d}));var n=i(2),r=i(6),a=(i(0),i(146)),o={id:"advantages",title:"The DODO Advantage",sidebar_label:"The DODO Advantage"},s={id:"advantages",isDocsHomePage:!1,title:"The DODO Advantage",description:"Overview",source:"@site/docs/advantages.md",permalink:"/docs/docs/advantages",editUrl:"https://github.com/DODOEX/docs/edit/master/docs/advantages.md",sidebar_label:"The DODO Advantage",sidebar:"someSidebar",previous:{title:"Introduction to DODO",permalink:"/docs/docs/"},next:{title:"Core Concepts",permalink:"/docs/docs/coreConcept"}},c=[{value:"Overview",id:"overview",children:[]},{value:"High Fund Utilization",id:"high-fund-utilization",children:[]},{value:"Single Risk Exposure",id:"single-risk-exposure",children:[]},{value:"No Impermanent Loss",id:"no-impermanent-loss",children:[]},{value:"Next Generation of Liquidity Provision",id:"next-generation-of-liquidity-provision",children:[]}],l={rightToc:c};function d(e){var t=e.components,i=Object(r.a)(e,["components"]);return Object(a.b)("wrapper",Object(n.a)({},l,i,{components:t,mdxType:"MDXLayout"}),Object(a.b)("h2",{id:"overview"},"Overview"),Object(a.b)("p",null,"DODO is powered by a ground-breaking algorithm called ",Object(a.b)("strong",{parentName:"p"},"Proactive Market Maker (PMM)"),". PMM leverages price oracles to retrieve accurate market prices of assets as input. It then aims to provide sufficient liquidity near the market price for every asset. The result is that liquidity decreases rapidly when far away from the market price. The following graphs compare the price curves of DODO (PMM) and Uniswap (AMM)."),Object(a.b)("p",null,"With everything else fixed, it is clear that the PMM curve is significantly flatter than the AMM curve near the market price, indicating higher fund utilization and lower slippage. Prices provided by PMM are more favorable than AMM."),Object(a.b)("p",null,Object(a.b)("img",Object(n.a)({parentName:"p"},{src:"https://dodoex.github.io/docs/img/dodo_curve.jpeg",alt:null}))),Object(a.b)("p",null,"As the market price changes, AMM passively relies on arbitrage trading to change prices. On the other hand, PMM proactively shifts the price curve in the same direction to ensure that the section in the vicinity of the market price remains flat. This ensures the constant provision of sufficient liquidity."),Object(a.b)("p",null,Object(a.b)("img",Object(n.a)({parentName:"p"},{src:"https://dodoex.github.io/docs/img/dodo_curve_move.jpeg",alt:null}))),Object(a.b)("p",null,"PMM outperforms AMM solutions in several important aspects."),Object(a.b)("h2",{id:"high-fund-utilization"},"High Fund Utilization"),Object(a.b)("p",null,"As seen in the above graphs, PMM, like AMMs, provides liquidity in the price range of zero to positive infinity, but the PMM price curve is significantly flatter in the area near the oracle (market) price. That is, most of the funds are gathered near the market price, which allows for more active, frequent trading, increasing fund utilization."),Object(a.b)("h2",{id:"single-risk-exposure"},"Single Risk Exposure"),Object(a.b)("p",null,"In the price curves above, each price curve consists of two parts: the bidding side to the left and the asking side to the right. These two parts may have different depth, or liquidity, resulting in what is known as the ",Object(a.b)("a",Object(n.a)({parentName:"p"},{href:"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid%E2%80%93ask_spread"}),"bid-ask spread"),"."),Object(a.b)("p",null,Object(a.b)("img",Object(n.a)({parentName:"p"},{src:"https://dodoex.github.io/docs/img/dodo_segment.jpeg",alt:null}))),Object(a.b)("p",null,"In PMM, the asking liquidity is solely determined by the amount of base token in the pool, and the bidding liquidity is solely determined by the amount of quote tokens in the pool. It allows the base and quote pools to have different sizes, and thus allows liquidity providers to deposit any amount of either quote or base tokens, rather than both (like Uniswap). DODO Liquidity providers deposit what they already have, nothing more."),Object(a.b)("div",{className:"admonition admonition-note alert alert--secondary"},Object(a.b)("div",Object(n.a)({parentName:"div"},{className:"admonition-heading"}),Object(a.b)("h5",{parentName:"div"},Object(a.b)("span",Object(n.a)({parentName:"h5"},{className:"admonition-icon"}),Object(a.b)("svg",Object(n.a)({parentName:"span"},{xmlns:"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg",width:"14",height:"16",viewBox:"0 0 14 16"}),Object(a.b)("path",Object(n.a)({parentName:"svg"},{fillRule:"evenodd",d:"M6.3 5.69a.942.942 0 0 1-.28-.7c0-.28.09-.52.28-.7.19-.18.42-.28.7-.28.28 0 .52.09.7.28.18.19.28.42.28.7 0 .28-.09.52-.28.7a1 1 0 0 1-.7.3c-.28 0-.52-.11-.7-.3zM8 7.99c-.02-.25-.11-.48-.31-.69-.2-.19-.42-.3-.69-.31H6c-.27.02-.48.13-.69.31-.2.2-.3.44-.31.69h1v3c.02.27.11.5.31.69.2.2.42.31.69.31h1c.27 0 .48-.11.69-.31.2-.19.3-.42.31-.69H8V7.98v.01zM7 2.3c-3.14 0-5.7 2.54-5.7 5.68 0 3.14 2.56 5.7 5.7 5.7s5.7-2.55 5.7-5.7c0-3.15-2.56-5.69-5.7-5.69v.01zM7 .98c3.86 0 7 3.14 7 7s-3.14 7-7 7-7-3.12-7-7 3.14-7 7-7z"})))),"note")),Object(a.b)("div",Object(n.a)({parentName:"div"},{className:"admonition-content"}),Object(a.b)("p",{parentName:"div"},"The design is intuitive, because when you take an asking order, you take liquidity providers\u2019 base tokens and the quote tokens are irrelevant."))),Object(a.b)("h2",{id:"no-impermanent-loss"},"No Impermanent Loss"),Object(a.b)("p",null,"But what about impermanent loss, i.e. how does PMM ensure that liquidity providers get what they deposited when they withdraw their tokens? The answer is by encouraging arbitrage trading. When individual traders buy base tokens, PMM slightly increases the price to make it more profitable for arbitrageurs to sell base tokens. In PMM, arbitrage trading makes sure that the number of tokens in the pool is always roughly equal to the number of tokens deposited by liquidity providers. This scheme effectively mitigates impermanent loss for liquidity providers, making liquidity provision on DODO a low-risk affair."),Object(a.b)("h2",{id:"next-generation-of-liquidity-provision"},"Next Generation of Liquidity Provision"),Object(a.b)("p",null,"Liquidity is the most important resource in the DeFi world, because it is the foundational element in all DeFi projects. There are two major proven approaches to decentralized liquidity provision today:"),Object(a.b)("ul",null,Object(a.b)("li",{parentName:"ul"},"Algorithmic market makers (e.g. Uniswap)"),Object(a.b)("li",{parentName:"ul"},"Orderbook-based order matching (e.g. dYdX)")),Object(a.b)("p",null,"However, they are both flawed."),Object(a.b)("ul",null,Object(a.b)("li",{parentName:"ul"},"Compared to centralized exchanges, algorithmic market makers cannot provide sufficient liquidity for mainstream assets. In addition, for niche, long-tail assets, AMM can only provide very basic liquidity support"),Object(a.b)("li",{parentName:"ul"},"Orderbook-based order matching relies on human market makers to mirroring centralized exchanges liquidity. Effective market makers are expensive, and very few DEX teams can afford them. In addition, this kind of liquidity is difficult to be filled by smart contracts due to the human elements involved, significantly limiting the number of use cases for DeFi practitioners")),Object(a.b)("p",null,"PMM is also an algorithmic market maker algorithm, but it fundamentally differs from other approaches by mitigating and eliminating their disadvantages and amplifying their advantages. 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