Slippage is the dumbest concept in crypto. You’re telling me I can’t know exactly how many tokens I’ll get back, and that’s supposed to be normal???

No, that’s not the future of money. That’s a joke. Get rid of slippage and all other shitty defi artifacts holding the space back.

This is a function of low, distributed liquidity, not UX. You can try to create a “better” experience for the user but this fundamental property of DeFi and liquidity doesn’t change.

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You know more about this than I do (thanks for posting that writeup you did). But what IS fundamental is the uncertainty in final trade price, especially in low liquidity markets. Taking on risk (by a market maker) requires compensation. So it seems like avoiding slippage implies higher cost to the retail traders over time. Maybe you’re saying thats an acceptable trade off.

Not fundamental at all. It's a side effect of design choices (particularly ones that protect market makers). Very few things are fundamental and slippage is far from one of them.