AMM Capital Efficiency
AMM Capital Efficiency refers to the degree to which a decentralized exchange protocol utilizes the liquidity provided by its users to facilitate trades with minimal slippage. In traditional Automated Market Makers, liquidity is distributed across an infinite price range, meaning much of the capital remains idle.
High capital efficiency implies that liquidity is concentrated within the price ranges where trading activity is most frequent, allowing for larger trade sizes with less price impact. By optimizing how capital is deployed, protocols can offer better rates to traders while simultaneously increasing the fee revenue generated for liquidity providers.
This mechanism is central to the evolution of decentralized finance, shifting from passive, broad-range liquidity to active, concentrated strategies. Enhanced efficiency reduces the total value locked required to maintain deep markets, thereby improving the overall economic utility of the protocol.