Over the past year, about $12 million has been spent purely on managing LP positions across Uniswap v3, Balancer and Curve.
It is a hidden tax most LPs never account for🧵
The network-level data shows that rebalance count remains consistently high across the year and gas spikes align with periods of volatility, precisely when LPs must act more aggressively.
LPs must rebalance more when the market is chaotic and that’s exactly when cost is highest.
Each LP interaction burns ~$3 in gas. Sounds trivial, until you repeat it 70 times a year. The average LP now leaks ~$197 annually just to rebalance.
It creates a compounding drag on performance, especially for smaller positions.
When annual gas spend is expressed as a percentage of LP capital, smaller positions are brutally penalised. At a $5,000 TVL, average gas drag sits around 3-4% per year. This is where “attractive APY” stops being impressive. Average erosion only falls below 0.5% above $50,000 TVL.
Superposition breaks this loop by allowing users to manage positions without paying gas, it removes the structural friction that defines current LP economics.
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