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Efficient LP via Skate AMM

In traditional multi-chain ecosystems, liquidity is fragmented across networks — each AMM on each chain maintains its own reserves, positions, and fee accruals. This fragmentation lowers capital efficiency: liquidity often sits idle on quieter chains, and the same price ranges must be funded multiple times across networks. Skate AMM removes this inefficiency through a unified liquidity state hosted on the hub chain. When liquidity is added on any periphery chain, it becomes part of the same global pool, contributing to the shared price curve that governs all connected markets. As a result, LP capital is utilized across chains rather than confined to one.

How Efficiency Improves

  1. Global utilization of liquidity
    Liquidity provided on one chain earns from trading activity on all chains.
    Even if local volume is low, that liquidity remains productive as part of the global pool.
  2. Reduced redundancy
    Instead of replicating depth at the same price points on multiple networks, Skate aggregates all positions into one canonical price curve.
    This means less total liquidity is required to achieve the same effective slippage and price stability.
  3. Smoothed fee income
    Global fee sharing distributes trading fees from the entire network to all active LPs, reducing income variance and keeping capital yield more consistent.
  4. Range-based precision retained
    LPs still define custom price ranges for their positions, maintaining Uniswap V3-style control — but those ranges now participate in cross-chain price discovery and fee accrual.

Capital Efficiency Comparison

FeatureSiloed AMMs (per-chain)Skate AMM (unified)
Liquidity scopeConfined to a single chainShared across all connected chains
Price curveIndependent per networkCanonical global curve on hub
Fee accrualLocal onlyAggregated and distributed globally
Idle liquidity riskHigh — unused on low-volume chainsLow — all liquidity contributes to global activity
Effective depth per unit capitalModerateHigher, via aggregated tick bitmap
Income volatilityDependent on local chain demandSmoothed by network-wide fee sharing
Capital efficiencyFragmentedSystem-wide and optimized

Fee Accrual

As swaps occur across chains, trading fees accrue globally and are distributed pro-rata to all active LPs based on their position size and range.

Displayed APY

The displayed APY reflects the aggregated yield from all connected networks — not just the local chain. This means liquidity provided on one chain earns from cross-chain trading activity, thanks to Skate’s Unified Liquidity Model.