Quote from: Tytanowy Janusz on Today at 07:17:51 AM

Quote from: donlogan on September 09, 2020, 09:49:07 PM

Would such a thing be possible? I know a lot of exchanges have holdings in each other's wallets. For example, Bittrex could have a store of LINK on Kucoin.

Wouldn't it make sense for centralized exchanges to utilize staking pools to increase their liquidity?

I'm a novice at understanding these technologies so I might be off here in terms of the viability of such a transaction.

It is possible, but liquidity provider takes currency risk on his arms. The main condition for the delivery of a stable, safe trading platform is to stay as far as it is possible from unnecessary risks. CEX takes fee from others taking a risk trading on CEX and it can also take fee from others taking a risk from providing liquidity in liquidity pools - binance already launched it's own swap service that allow users to provide liquidity -https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-takes-on-defi-with-uniswap-competitor-and-liquidity-mining

There's a trade off there though right? Between increased liquidity and the increased risk of liquidity pools. Does illiquidity not contribute to an unstable trading platform for CEX? Illiquidity holds back a lot of legitimate projects. And I would argue that it allows for shitcoins to fool people because they can manipulate liquidity. Because there's such a scarcity of liquidity people fall for it.

Again, I'll preface by saying I'm just a novice in understanding this technology. Hasn't Defi taken off on the principle liquidity? This is crux of the issue that we're trying to solve right? It's a fundamental problem that is always brought up by critics of this space.