What Is “LP Farming” and How Does It Relate to Arbitrage and Impermanent Loss?
LP farming refers to providing liquidity to a pool and staking the resulting LP tokens to earn additional rewards, often in the form of a governance token. This extra yield is intended to incentivize liquidity and is crucial for offsetting impermanent loss.
Arbitrage activity generates the trading fees that LPs earn, but the farming rewards are often a separate, larger source of income designed to make the net position profitable despite the IL.