What is Osmosis (OSMO)?

The Osmosis blockchain protocol has three key strengths that set it apart from other AMM money market protocols.

First, Osmosis has customizable liquidity pools. Unlike Uniswap, where LPs can provide liquidity only to a two-token pool with an equal ratio, Osmosis allows for providing liquidity to pools with several tokens and unequal ratios. Osmosis argues that agents in a maturing DeFi market like arbitrageurs and LPs need a more flexible solution that allows them to self-identify opportunities and react to them by adjusting parameters. Thus, on Osmosis LPs can adjust factors slippage, transaction fees, and more.

Coordination between stakeholders is of equal importance, which is why liquidity pool shares on Osmosis are not only used to calculate the fractional ownership of a liquidity pool, but also the right to participate in the strategic decision-making of the liquidity pool as well. This incentivizes long-term liquidity provision and prevents possible vampire attacks from other protocols. Thus, liquidity providers with more skin in the game get a bigger say in the strategic direction of the pool, which is in line with the bigger risk they're taking.

Finally, Osmosis introduces the idea of "AMMs as serviced infrastructure." With an increase in the amount and complexity of DeFi products, AMMs have had to:

• Compromise efficiency and trade on AMMs with non-optimal bonding curves.
• Take on the risk of building a custom AMM to maximize efficiency.

Osmosis wants to remedy that by providing AMM creators with an option to define the bonding curve value function and reuse the rest of the infrastructure using Osmosis' products.