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Delta-Neutral LP — Market-Neutral Farming

// The baseline structure of the series: the LP gains what the short loses, and vice versa. What is left is LP fees and funding — and a headline rate that is not the number people plan around.

You provide liquidity to a pool and hold a short on the volatile asset at full position size. Price direction roughly cancels — and this is the baseline structure every other page in this series varies.

// WHAT IT IS

  • You provide liquidity to a pool AND hold a short on the volatile asset at full position size.
  • Price direction roughly cancels: the LP gains what the short loses, and vice versa.
  • What's left as the earnings engine: LP fees + funding on the short (when longs are paying).
  • This is the baseline structure — every other page in this series is a variation of how much of this hedge you run, and when.
// OPEN THE WAR BOARD

// WHEN PEOPLE RUN IT

  • When they want pool yield without a directional bet.
  • The trend read still matters: Reading THE FRONT shows where to check what the market is doing around the position.
Reading THE FRONTOPEN →

Where to check what the market is doing around the position.

 // READ THE TREND

// THE WALKTHROUGH

1. The bond row — read the whole row, not the headline.

// example — rates change constantly

2. The headline rate vs the honest floor — the floor is a deliberately conservative fraction of the headline, and it's the number people who run this structure plan around. Both appear; both get labeled.

// example — rates change constantly

3. The short leg — where the funding on the short is read.

// example — rates change constantly

4. SUPPLY LINES — Where a market carries incentive rewards, the product renders the reward APR as a separate chip beside the base rate. No live market carries one as of this snapshot, so the plate shows the base figure only.

// example — rates change constantly

5. The position tracker — where both legs are watched together.

// example — values change constantly
// OPEN THE TRACKER

// WHAT CAN GO WRONG

  • Funding flips sign — the short can start costing instead of earning. Explicit signs on the board exist for this reason.
  • Impermanent loss — the LP leg's composition shifts as price moves; the hedge offsets direction, not IL itself.
  • Range exit (concentrated pools) — out of range, fees stop.
  • The BASIS WARNING — the two legs can price apart; it's ringed on the plate above, not fine print.
  • Liquidation on the short — a hedge with leverage is still a position with a liquidation price.
// OPEN THE FUNDING BOARD

// THE MATH BOX

Headline APR 27% → honest floor range 3%–5%. Funding on the short: +23.6%.

Example — rates change constantly. The floor is a conservative fraction of the headline, not a measured guarantee.

// NOTICE FROM THE FORGE