To be honest, I’m always wondering about new use cases for web3 and improvements that can be made on current DeFi, and I know many of you think the same.
Why not have a quick talk about that? (grab a coffee)
Now, what if I told you that you could swap with near 0 fees on Ethereum? Without any slippage or price impact? What if we combine this solution with L2s?
Introducing Kromatika, or what I see as “The most innovative solution against Ethereum swap fees”.
Links to Kromatika:
1 - Uniswap v3
To understand Kromatika, you first have to understand Uniswap V3. Uniswap is the leading DEX and one of the biggest DeFI protocols that exist today. The V3 of Uniswap introduced many interesting and innovative features (multiple fee tiers, improved Uniswap Oracles…). But we’ll focus on one of them. Learn more here
Example for the DAI/USDC LP
Example for ETH/DAI LP
Concentrated liquidity makes higher capital efficiency
Kromatika dApp
Now you know more about concentrated liquidity and range orders.
But what does Kromatika bring to the table after all?
Basically, Kromatika does all the steps users have to do in Uniswap V3 range orders on their behalf. The protocol automates the process of removing the liquidity after your price range has been hit.
From a user’s perspective, the only interaction is to select a token and place a limit order on Kromatika. The rest is done by the protocol itself, reducing the steps by a lot.
How does it work?
Kromatika uses Chainlink Keepers to monitor everyone’s position so that when a user’s target is hit, the amount deposited gets automatically swapped then sent to the user’s wallet.
Keepers will simply check 24/7 if your target price is reached or not. If it is, then they will remove your liquidity (which has already been swapped for the desired token), and send the intended swapped mount + swap fees directly to your wallet.
$KROM token is the token users pay as service fees to Kromatika. (They cover Chainlink keepers fees and network fees). This means $KROM has an intrinsic value, being a utility token. Service fees are also inverse proportional to the $KROM price, as Keepers fees and network fees do not grow (in the quantity of ETH).
What are the benefits of using Kromatika rather than other DEXes?
The core team is composed of three people, who are all developers.
Why not have a quick talk about that? (grab a coffee)
Now, what if I told you that you could swap with near 0 fees on Ethereum? Without any slippage or price impact? What if we combine this solution with L2s?
Introducing Kromatika, or what I see as “The most innovative solution against Ethereum swap fees”.
Links to Kromatika:
1 - Uniswap v3
To understand Kromatika, you first have to understand Uniswap V3. Uniswap is the leading DEX and one of the biggest DeFI protocols that exist today. The V3 of Uniswap introduced many interesting and innovative features (multiple fee tiers, improved Uniswap Oracles…). But we’ll focus on one of them. Learn more here
- Uniswap V2 vs V3 & Concentrated liquidity
- Before, on V2, users who provided LPs had their liquidity evenly spread across all theoretically possible prices ($0 to infinity, as the upward price growth of an asset, is potentially unlimited). This was to ensure that whatever the price was at, swaps were technically possible.
- Unfortunately, this was not optimal, especially for Uniswap V2 stablecoin pools (Ex: DAI/USDC).
- As they are dollar-pegged, the vast majority of swaps occur in a +/- 1% price variation from $1 ($0.99-$1.01 price range).
- This means that provided liquidity in that pool will most likely never be used outside of that price range. Nobody wants to sell 1 USDC for $0.97 as much as nobody wants to buy 1 DAI for $1.03.Thus, this unused liquidity generates no swap fees and providers receive smaller, unoptimized rewards.
- The DAI/USDC pool example makes the flaws of V2 easier to understand.
Example for the DAI/USDC LP
- Uniswap V3’s Concentrated liquidity
- In V3, liquidity is not evenly spread on the whole price curve. Instead, users can manually choose the price range they want to “concentrate” their LPs.
- Example: Imagine you are putting liquidity in the ETH/DAI pool. You’re putting 1 $ETH and 4000 $DAI. You choose to concentrate your liquidity in the $3800-$4200 price range. This simply means that whenever someone swaps $ETH for any amount of $DAI between 3800-4200 $DAI, you get to earn the fees from that swap. If $ETH is traded outside the 3800-4200 $DAI range, then you get 0 fees.
- In V3, liquidity is not evenly spread on the whole price curve. Instead, users can manually choose the price range they want to “concentrate” their LPs.
Example for ETH/DAI LP
- This improves capital efficiency, as every user can set their own LP strategy, and target a specific price range to fit their personal analysis.
Concentrated liquidity makes higher capital efficiency
- Uniswap V3’s Range orders
Now that you know more about the concept of concentrated liquidity, understanding range orders should be easier.
Users only deposit 1 single asset instead of 2, at a price range of their choice. This price range has to be above the current market price.- If this market price is hit, then the token will be sold against the other underlying asset.
- Example: Take the DAI/USDC pool. The current $USDC market price is 1.001 $DAI. Imagine you put 1M $DAI at the price range of 1.002-1.003 $USDC.When the price of $DAI reaches your price range, your $DAI will instantly be converted into $USDC and you’ll also earn fees for that exact transaction, as you’re providing liquidity.
- Do not mistake this for limit sell orders. To transform range orders into limit sell orders, users have to manually remove their deposited single asset liquidity as soon as it gets converted (when the price range is hit).
- Example: You provided $DAI, your tokens got converted into $USDC, which means that your price range has been hit.
- However, if the market price goes down again, it re-triggers your price range thus reconverting your $USDC into $DAI (remember, you are providing liquidity which is concentrated in your target price range, you are not limit selling, you do that to earn swap fees).
- This means that to do limit selling on Uniswap V3, users have to constantly monitor their LP position and the current market price, and that is negative for UX.
- If this market price is hit, then the token will be sold against the other underlying asset.
Kromatika dApp
Now you know more about concentrated liquidity and range orders.
But what does Kromatika bring to the table after all?
Basically, Kromatika does all the steps users have to do in Uniswap V3 range orders on their behalf. The protocol automates the process of removing the liquidity after your price range has been hit.
From a user’s perspective, the only interaction is to select a token and place a limit order on Kromatika. The rest is done by the protocol itself, reducing the steps by a lot.
How does it work?
When placing a limit order on Kromatika, you are placing a range order on Uniswap v3.
Kromatika uses Chainlink Keepers to monitor everyone’s position so that when a user’s target is hit, the amount deposited gets automatically swapped then sent to the user’s wallet.
Keepers will simply check 24/7 if your target price is reached or not. If it is, then they will remove your liquidity (which has already been swapped for the desired token), and send the intended swapped mount + swap fees directly to your wallet.
$KROM token is the token users pay as service fees to Kromatika. (They cover Chainlink keepers fees and network fees). This means $KROM has an intrinsic value, being a utility token. Service fees are also inverse proportional to the $KROM price, as Keepers fees and network fees do not grow (in the quantity of ETH).
What are the benefits of using Kromatika rather than other DEXes?
- Krom provides liquidity (Kromatika limit order = doing LPs)
- You earn additional fees through Kromatika’s limit orders
- Other projects such as 1inch have also implemented limit orders, but they are simple swaps that are triggered at a target price (as they are doing it over Uniswap V2, not V3).
- Not everyone wants to spend ETH at each TX. Lots of people want to stack this token, so paying in $KROM is better in that sense.
The core team is composed of three people, who are all developers.
