Concentrated Liquidity Pools
Concentrated Liquidity Pools are a more advanced version of automated market makers that allow liquidity providers to specify the price range in which their capital is deployed. Instead of providing liquidity across the entire price spectrum, providers can concentrate their assets where they believe most trading activity will occur.
This significantly increases the capital efficiency for the provider and results in deeper liquidity for traders within that specific range. However, it also increases the risk of impermanent loss if the price moves outside the selected range.
Aggregators must be able to navigate these pools to ensure they are capturing the best prices for their users. This innovation has greatly improved the efficiency of decentralized trading.