Unstake Liquidity Pool
Overview
The Marinade mSOL/SOL unstake pool is an internal mSOL-SOL pool which is intentionally unbalanced and operating at its best if 100% of its liquidity is filled with SOL from liquidity providers.
Because liquidity providers only deposit SOL, the Marinade Unstake Liquidity pool is free from divergent/impermanent loss. You are guaranteed by code that you will remove the same or more SOL value than the amount you deposited (minus the 0.00001 transaction fees from Solana).
This liquidity pool serves multiple purposes:
- Provide immediate liquidity for unstaking.
- Provide a fair-price, no-slippage source for mSOL liquidations.
The pool has a linear swap fee decreasing until the target liquidity is reached to cover for operation costs and incentivize liquidity providers. 50% of the fees goes to liquidity providers and 50% to the Marinade treasury.
Current parameters are:
- max fee: 9%
- min fee: 0.3%
- liquidity target 150,000 SOL
Fee structure of the mSOL/SOL pool. As long as the liquidity target is maintained after your unstake, the fees will be 0.3%.
Any user can become a liquidity provider.
Liquidity providers can add or remove liquidity at any time, and they receive a LP Token representing their share of the liquidity pool. As other users utilize the liquid-unstake option, fees are added to the pool and then to LP's share value.
Composition and flow of the mSOL/SOL liquidity pool.
Let's take a scenario where the parameters of the pool are close to the current situation:
- Unstake liquidity: 581,250 SOL
- Amount you want to unstake immediately: 90 SOL
Your fees are calculated as such:
581,250 - 90 = 581,140Is 581,140 above 'liquidity target'?Yes. The fees are 0.3%.90 SOL - 0.3% = 89.73 SOL
You receive 89.73 SOL after your transaction and you pay 0.27 SOL in fees for unstaking without delay.
Now, let's take a (fictive) scenario where the parameters of the pool are very different:
- Unstake liquidity: 100,030 SOL
- Amount you want to unstake immediately: 9030 SOL
Your fees would be calculated as such:
100,030 - 9030 = 91,000Is 91,000 above 'liquidity target'?No. We calculate the fees with the following formula:unstake_fee = max_fee - (max_fee - min_fee) * amount_after / targetunstake_fee = 9 - (9 - 0.3) * 91,000 / 150,0009030 - 3.722% = 8693.9034SOL
In this scenario, you would receive 8693.9034 SOL immediately and pay 336.0966 SOL in fees.
As you can see, in some cases 'Unstake now' will generate more fees because your withdrawal impacts the liquidity of the pool. In this situation, consider using 'Delayed unstake' if you want to avoid fees.
To minimize unnecessary operations and achieve the best efficiency of the liquidity pool, Marinade continuously adjusts the liquidity pool to be 100% SOL. This is how it’s done:
- 1.Once an immediate unstake operation is done, the liquidity pool now includes the mSOL (sent by the user unstaking) and original SOL liquidity.
- 2.When another stake operation is called, the mSOL is provided from the liquidity pool.
- 3.Marinade refills the liquidity pool with user deposited SOL at no cost for the user to achieve pool adjustments and full liquidity for immediate unstaking.
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