This repository is a Liquidity Module for the Nova SDK.
Liquidity Modules allow relayers to instantly fill their orderbooks and bootstrap liquidity with minimal effort. This particular module uses a Constant Product Market Making Model, discussed in greater detail below.
This repository is a subset of https://github.com/novaprotocolio/nova-scaffold-dex. It is designed to start a market making bot to provide liquidity on an existing Nova Relayer.
Automated Market Making (AMM) bots provide liquidity to a marketplace through use of algorithmic market making.
This repository is setup to run naturally on the Nova Dex Scaffold. For use on other marketplaces, you could modify the code snippets below.
BOT_TYPE=CONST_PRODUCT \
BOT_PRIVATE_KEY=0x............... \
BOT_BASE_TOKEN=HOT \
BOT_QUOTE_TOKEN=DAI \
BOT_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3001 \
BOT_MIN_PRICE=0.8 \
BOT_MAX_PRICE=1.2 \
BOT_PRICE_GAP=0.02 \
BOT_EXPAND_INVENTORY=2 \
BOT_WEB3_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8545 \
go run main.go
docker run --rm -it \
-e BOT_TYPE=CONST_PRODUCT \
-e BOT_PRIVATE_KEY=0x............... \
-e BOT_BASE_TOKEN=HOT \
-e BOT_QUOTE_TOKEN=DAI \
-e BOT_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3001 \
-e BOT_MIN_PRICE=0.8 \
-e BOT_MAX_PRICE=1.2 \
-e BOT_PRICE_GAP=0.02 \
-e BOT_EXPAND_INVENTORY=2 \
-e BOT_WEB3_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8545 \
novaprotocolio/amm-bots
BOT_TYPE
Type of botBOT_BASE_URL
Nova relayer api base urlBOT_WEB3_URL
Ethereum json rpc urlBOT_BASE_TOKEN
Symbol of base token (e.g HOT)BOT_QUOTE_TOKEN
Symbol of quote token (e.g WETH)
BOT_PRIVATE_KEY
Ethereum address for place order
This bot runs a "constant product market maker model" (popularized in the DeFi community by Uniswap). In short, this model generates a full orderbook based on an initial price for the market. Every transaction that occurs on this market will adjust the prices of the market accordingly. It's a basic supply and demand automated market making system.
- Buying large amounts of the base token will increase the price
- Selling large amounts of the base token will decrease the price
A typical Constant Market Making model has a continuous price curve. This bot discretizes the continuous price curve and creates a number of limit orders to simulate the curve. The order price is limited between BOT_MAX_PRICE
and BOT_MIN_PRICE
. The price difference between adjacent orders is BOT_PRICE_GAP
.
Constant product algorithms have a disadvantage of low inventory utilization. For example, by default it only uses 5% of your inventory when the price increases 10%. BOT_EXPAND_INVENTORY
can help you add depth near the current price.
BOT_MAX_PRICE
Max order priceBOT_MIN_PRICE
Min order priceBOT_PRICE_GAP
Price difference rate between adjacent orders. For example, ask price increases by 2% and bid price decreases by 2% ifBOT_PRICE_GAP=0.02
.BOT_EXPAND_INVENTORY
Multiply your order sizes linearly. For example, all order sizes will be tripled ifBOT_EXPAND_INVENTORY=3
.
Constant Product AMM requires a single source of funds for both the base and quote token. As such, the general flow of setting up the AMM bot from scratch is:
- Prepare an address that holds both the BASE and QUOTE token of the trading pair you want to provide liquidity for
- Set the initial parameters for the bot
- This determines the initial price, spread, sensitivity, etc.
- Run the bot
Upon running the bot, it will generate an orderbook for your marketplace. The orderbook will appear to be static, but every trade will shift the market accordingly.
For more information on these models, Scalar Capital provided a detailed analysis of constant market making.
This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details