Overview of Episode 25
In this episode, we delve into liquidity mining on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) using PancakeSwap, a leading decentralized exchange. We recap the advantages of liquidity mining over traditional mining methods, emphasizing the potential for higher returns and lower costs. The episode includes a comprehensive demo for beginners, guiding viewers through the process of setting up a MetaMask wallet and participating in liquidity pools.
Key Points Covered
- Recap of Liquidity Mining: A brief overview of liquidity mining, its benefits, and the concept of impermanent loss, which is crucial for understanding the risks involved. For a deeper understanding of this concept, check out our summary on Understanding Stablecoins: The Risks of Tether and USDT.
- Binance Smart Chain: Introduction to BSC and its advantages over Ethereum, including lower transaction fees and faster processing times. To learn more about the differences between trading and investing in cryptocurrencies, refer to Understanding Crypto Trading vs. Investment: A Comprehensive Guide.
- Setting Up MetaMask: Step-by-step instructions for creating a MetaMask wallet and connecting it to the Binance Smart Chain. This process is essential for anyone looking to engage in decentralized finance, which you can explore further in Understanding Decentralized Finance: Key Concepts and Ethereum's Role.
- Using PancakeSwap: A detailed demo on how to trade, provide liquidity, and stake tokens on PancakeSwap, including the process of earning rewards. For those interested in practical applications, we also have a Quick Demo: Transferring and Staking CRO in Crypto.com DeFi Wallet.
- Understanding Fees: Discussion on transaction fees and how they compare to Ethereum, highlighting the cost-effectiveness of using BSC.
- Tips for Successful Liquidity Mining: Warnings about the addictive nature of liquidity mining and strategies for managing investments effectively.
FAQs
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What is liquidity mining?
Liquidity mining involves providing liquidity to decentralized exchanges in exchange for rewards, typically in the form of transaction fees and tokens. -
How does Binance Smart Chain differ from Ethereum?
BSC offers lower transaction fees and faster processing times compared to Ethereum, making it more accessible for small investors. -
What is impermanent loss?
Impermanent loss occurs when the value of tokens in a liquidity pool changes compared to holding them separately, potentially leading to reduced returns. For more insights on this topic, refer to our guide on Understanding Decentralized Finance (DeFi): A Comprehensive Guide to Earning Opportunities. -
How do I set up a MetaMask wallet?
You can set up a MetaMask wallet by downloading the extension, creating a new wallet, and securely storing your recovery phrase. -
What is PancakeSwap?
PancakeSwap is a decentralized exchange built on the Binance Smart Chain, allowing users to trade tokens and provide liquidity. -
Can I participate in liquidity mining if I'm a beginner?
Yes, the episode provides a beginner-friendly guide to understanding and participating in liquidity mining. -
What are the risks of liquidity mining?
Risks include impermanent loss, market volatility, and the potential for losses if liquidity is frequently switched between pools.
hello everyone uh welcome to the 25th episode of my uh crypto series uh in episode 24 we
talked about uh decentralized finance and especially how you can do liquidity mining in
decentralized finance we spoke about the advantages of doing liquidity mining better than how it is better than
bitcoin mining or any computer based mining operations that are more expensive and probably the return
of investment in liquidity mining is so much better and easier compared to the bitcoin mining if you didn't watch
it please understand the video please understand what is d5 mining before we
get into this video so we talked about how we could do liquidity mining better using the
binance marching and today we're going to be doing a full end to end demo using the binance
marching and one of the top liquidity mining providers or top decentralized exchanges called panzcx
web which is using binance smart chain full and full and we'll do a complete end-to-end demo even if you
have never done crypto before you'll be able to understand most of these concepts so let's get into
the video so obviously we'll start with the disclaimer i'm not a financial advisor or an investment expert none of
my videos are financial advice or investment advice this is a disclaimer
and also if you are if you are watching my videos you would know i always say that don't
send your money to people who call themselves as professional brokers or investment advisors none of them are
true all of them are scammers uh quick recap what we're going to see today is a quick
recap of what liquidity mining is even if you've watched episode 24 and we'll also go through metamask sign
up you know whatever is required for doing liquidity mining today so we'll start with a quick recap so in
episode 24 if you had seen it i showed you what liquidity mining is all about you
know broken it down in very very simple terms for people who don't understand what
decentralized finances or what liquidity mining is i explained with very very simple examples what liquidity mining is
and how everyone can become a liquidity provider and earn a passive income in crypto
which was not something that was easily possible for small investors like us before
and most importantly what we saw was a basic illustration of what is an impermanent loss this is a
very very critical concept that you need to understand because it is one of the biggest risk in
liquidity mining and what we saw was that how there is a there is a double reward structure
with mining rewards which is trying to overcome this this impermanent loss so big warning
before you proceed is that you know if you did not understand impermanent loss watch the video again
write it down and you know make sure you understand impermanent loss before you go proceed with the
video because that is extremely important another warning is that liquidity mining can be extremely
addictive um you know i generally don't trade too much like i have explained in episode
15. only on rare occurrence otherwise i buy a crypto and i hodl
i keep it for a longer time and it's easier and uh that's probably the best option for most
people but here there will be a need to chase yield higher yield pools
and you will probably often switch liquidity pools if you switch liquidity pools multiple times on the same day
because you are addicted to this liquidity mining it could cause significant loss i mean for
example one pool could be 500 and then if it reduces to 300 percent you want to jump to another pool
then it will result in a significant loss you need to keep your liquidity over at least in a few days
for you to get better yield out of it instead of jumping from one liquidity pool to another liquidity
so we will explain that uh later but uh liquidity mining as a concept uh was introduced by uh the smart
contracts of ethereum ethereum virtual chain we spoke about it in a previous episode
on the erc20 platform but uh we saw in in the previous video how it is extremely high like you know even
sometimes like 100 dollars 150 dollars like in lowering we saw it cost 200
to get into the liquidity mining just as an entry fee alone so erc20 has a concept even though it's
existed for a long time we saw how really congested and slow it is and what we spoke about last video was that
binance had introduced a smart chain ecosystem called the brands marching now even though binance
had a blockchain of their own for a few years now uh through their crypto token standard
called bep2 which bnb is their own coin like was there excess wrx bmb is their own coin
the binance smart chain main net went live in september 2020 about six months back roughly
and since then the growth of the the binance marching bsc at this co as it is called and the bep 20 platform
the token standard the new token standard that they created in decentralized finance has been
staggering and unprecedent i mean there's been nothing like this um this kind of a smart chain uh
adoption i would say uh in the recent times in crypto this kind of you know changed the
landscape of decentralized finance where it enabled small retail investors like us
to get involved and not just the big whales and you know the the rich who were participating in the ethereum
based uh liquidity mining before so today we'll be looking at you know if you look at the fee structure of the be
p20 and the binance smart chain and most of the fees is so low and you will be able to easily compare it so
uh binance had actually created this binary smart chain in collaboration with a lot of big names and they had vasirax
as one of the biggest collaborators as well because verzerx is obviously owned by binance so
there are more updates that are expected on the collaboration partnership soon and it could happen that those exchanges
and their tokens can also be issued on on binance marching like wrx could be issued on
binance marching which could be one of the reasons why wrx is also picked up um
in in value quite a lot recently you know it has jumped almost like 100 times in the recent
few months people who had bought wrx based on my epithelia episode 3 video had made like 50 times 60 times
profit so um that's one of the reasons and if you compare it the bse was built to
be many times faster many times cheaper than ethereum how is it faster and cheaper
like you can take 2g internet as an example if you compare ethereum was like a 2g internet on a 64
kbps you know seven eight years back when internet was so expensive and it was not affordable for everyone
you know 10 years back it was like in a thousands and thousands of rupees today however you can get 5g internet or
4g internet for like 1gbps broadband at dirt cheap cost literally i mean in uk for example you can get it for next
nothing um some things to know right so um gas fees on transaction fees and finance
unlike ethereum is expected to be always kept at a very very low rate so for example
they are saying that they are trying to keep it under one dollar and in fact most of the transactions that it
did were like either three cents or 15 cents on an average and it was never probably exceeding 23 cents
and what they've done is they are regardless of the price that goes up they are trying to keep the
gas fees low and they keep reducing the gas fees when the binance price goes up as compared to ethereum
when where they didn't do that because of which the prices are the gas fees kept
increasing to 100 200 dollars when comparatively ethereum it takes like you know hours to complete
whereas bsc takes like few seconds to complete the block is very very quick and the
transaction speed is amazing as a result of this technical advancement in the
in the blockchain and smart chain a lot of d apps d app is a short form for decentralized
applications a lot of d apps have been created uh just like uni swap your new swap is a d app right
loop ring is a dia but they are all created on the ethereum network and they are great dex platforms
but similarly uh people created a lot of d apps for uh finance smart chain as well
there were a lot of early adapters even binance themselves included an integrated dex
integrated decentralized exchange and an integrated dex eco ecosystem they created it on
their own but a few third-party dex platforms they utilize the finance smart chain
but much better than binance themselves and one of the top performers is called as pancake swap exchange and pancakes
factors change when you compare it uni swap for example was started in 2018
and uh binance was only launched in september 2020 like i said along with the finance marching
it took two years for uni swap at that point to come to our total value log which means that's the total money that
is staked in uni spa about two and two million two billion dollars
but within six months pancake swap has already gone from like zero dollars it had nothing
uh when it started six months back it has already caught up with uni swap so uni swap was today
when i made this we when they made this content last week new sub was sitting at 7.75 billion dollars
and pancakes were already had a total value logged off nearly 7.5 billion dollars so
it had almost you know caught up or even overtaken probably when you see this video
pancake swap could have overtaken uni swap was the world's leading decent realist exchange
so this is phenomenal and uh we will today what we'll do is we'll do an end-to-end demo of
what is pancake swap how you can use it and there are lots of ways that you can trade on the pancake swap exchange so
today i'm going to be showing you one of the common and easiest ways using computer which is
using a non-custodial d5 wallet called as meta mask there are a lot of ways to send crypto
to metamask but today what we're going to do is for people in india and outside india we're going to
have two methods if you are outside india you can sign up and binance obviously this is not
working in u.s is what i am being told but you can sign up on binance you can buy bmv and cake and you can
send a cake is a their own cryptocurrency like wrx for uh xerx
cake is their own uh cryptocurrency and you can send it to metamask easily you can connect your pancakes to
metamask and then you can set up and start trading it for people in india slightly longer
method where you sign up in wazirik's and you sign up in binance using the same email id and you can connect it
together i'll show you the demo as well and you can transfer from wazirex to binance instantly and free
without having to go through addresses or anything basically it's a bridge that gets connected between resurrection
venus because they are owned by the same company finance so um then you can easily
once you have transferred usdt from wazirex to binance for free then you can follow the same process you
can buy bnb and cake in binance and you can send it to metamask and you can you can start using
pancakes web in the normal way so from that point onwards after you have transferred usdt to
binance for free from that point onwards the the process is the same for
anybody whether in india or outside india so that's the advantage of decentralized finance once you enter
into that ecosystem it doesn't really matter which country or like i said in my previous video it's
borderless so um how are you going to send crypto we're going to sign up in wazirex and
the detailed demo of how to sign up in wazirex in the demo
was already done in episode 3. that's the only thing that i'm not going to show today
how to sign up in verzerex and how to enable your bank account how to deposit that detail in complete
detail for beginners i have done it in my episode 3 i will give you the link for that video as well
you can go and have a look at it and there is a link to sign up as well those links are all referral links for
vasirex and binance alone those are referral links decentralization there is no reference
where you can you can easily click on the links contents of the demo i'll give you the
content of this demo in my as a timestamp in my video as well i still need to work on the the
timestamp process a bit quicker but i'll try and put this timestamp so that you can
easily skip to that point if you want it so the buying and sign up all of these
processes you know how to add binance uh to smart chain to the meta mask those are all small
small videos you'll find uh in in youtube in multiple places i'm trying to combine everything into a single
video for people to refer to as a quick guide um so wazirex obviously like i said
that's the link to sign up that's a referral link but you can go and line up directly as well
but if you want to see that demo you can click on that demo so today metamask pancakes finance everything i
have given a demo so binance if you click on the the binance link you can this is also a referral link you can
directly go sign up if you don't want to use it so if you click on it it will ask you for an email address and sign up
and once you you do that they will send you an email address they'll send you a code for account
verification you enter it and that's it you don't need to enter anything at that point if you are inside
india for example what you can do is you can immediately connect your z-rex you don't need to enter your kyc
or you don't need to do a kyc again if you already set up your x account so you go to settings and click on
version x and then it will say that connect version x the button will be enabled
so you click on connect xerix and if you had used the same email address that will be very very
efficient so there will be a wazirex window that will open which will say log in via binance so now
the the login details that you just set up in binance um use the same login details and we'll
say that it's going to establish a bridge between your binance account and buzzer x account
so it is very very fast it takes like couple of minutes to do once you have created
the binance account they will send you a one time password to the same email address
enter it and then it is connected now you will see a new option called transfer funds to binance
from your xerx account by using this you can transfer instantly and fast remember a lot of
people are still not using the wrx 50 fees and they came back to me so remember to use the 50 fees option so
if when you click on it you can you have a list of cryptos that you can send there's about
15 20 cryptos that you can send for free from from 10x to binance on the other way
around but i recommend using usdt so this is the option that i told you about where in settings you have the fee
option where you can pay using wrx and you get a 50 discount that's like almost you know
saving a lot of money uh over the long period of time so we're going to buy
usdt and uh i'm going to at this point i'm going to buy like 120 worth of usdd and i'll tell you why so
once i've bought 120 of usdt i go to the transfer and i click on transfer to binance enter the
authenticator code i shown all of this demo in my episode 3 as well so
and then you can transfer money to binance if you are directly registering in binance you can enter your debit card
credit card details and you can click on continue it will ask for um i think about you know 1.8 percent fees
which is like if you are entering 50 dollars like 90 pence fees that you need to pay
um 50 cents 50 pounds 90 pence that i paid but once you have done that if you go to
buy usdt you can actually use the cash balance i recommend depositing money as a cash
balance into your account and then using that to buy your crypto as a two-step process
so um now that we've done it we've bought it using our debit card and credit card now you can also use it
do it using faster payments which is using your bank account which is free of charge which is there
is no transaction fees for it you see the transaction fees is zero i don't know if it's the same in all the
countries but in uk currently it is zero so what they will do is they'll give you a short code and account number an
account detailed reference with a reference code you open your bank account like i am
opening my tsb bank account on my mobile app and then i am paying like a normal payee
i enter the reference code that is very very important once you enter the same reference code
within a few minutes it took me about you know 20 30 minutes but within a few minutes it kind of transferred so now i
have 120 dollars of usdt that is transferred i'm going to first buy bnb
so bnb is their own coin binance own coin like wrx and that's thing so now i have 120 of usdt
what i'm going to do is uh uh i'm going to buy roughly about 40 worth of us 40 worth of bmb uh so i'll
tell you why the the amount is you can vary your amount depending on how you want to use it
so now i have bought forty dollars worth of uh usdd now here itself i'm going to go to the
exchange and select cake i'm going to buy 80 worth of cake and i'll also explain why i'm buying 80
worth of cake so uh i'm going to install metamask now so go to the description click on
metamask.io and that link will open up so you can directly go to metamask io as well this is a browser extension like
previously d5 wallets we installed it on our mobile phone this is a browser extension that we are
going to install that you can use a d5 wallet on the computer itself so like any other browser extensions that
you have used right like a lot of browser extensions are available most people who use internet explorer or
any chrome or anything they will know so i am using chrome today so once you enable it it will open up
like this and then it will ask you whether you are new to meta mask and you say yes i am
new to my damask and create a wallet so this is very similar to how you created a wallet in your d5 wallet in
your decentralized finance we saw it in a piece of 23 we saw it in episode 24 as
well so um i said no thanks to collecting data anyway they are only going to
collect anonymous data but anyway i have said no thanks for the statistics collection so
it will ask you to set up password so you need to remember this password every time you close the browser and open the
browser when you access meta mask it will ask you for this password here is where it
will ask you for the 12 word phrase this is going to be very very important write it down in multiple places like i
always say about d5 wallets there is no login to a centralized location nobody can help you
if you forget this that's it your you've lost your wallet so make sure you write it down
and you you keep it in multiple places and that's it once you've done uh the the validation
the wallet is now ready now by default the metamask d5 wallet is set up to ethereum main net now what
we are going to do is we are going to change it to binance matching now there are multiple
ways of doing it i am using metamask because it is one of the most popular and
most convenient ones so what we are going to do is we we're going to click on that
the dot and we're going to go to settings and then networks so in networks we have only ethereum
network and some of the other test networks we're going to add a network and we're
going to add the binance smart chain network to the meta mask so it is only using the
ethereum for now we are enabling binance marching so where do i get the binance marching
details from how do i enable it i have given the link for that as well where binance themselves
have given the the three or four details that you need so network name is actually customized
but what you need mainly is the rpc url chain id and symbol so rpc url if you copy and you paste it
in the meta mask in that add network option um it will automatically
populate everything else so network name i'm keeping same as what binance recommended but you can keep it as
binance smart chain on smart chain whatever you want to keep it that's just a custom name
so rpc url i copied chain id i'm going to copy and also the block explorer i'm going to
copy i'm going to copy and paste everything into this so that i don't make any
entry mistakes so currency symbol i'm going to keep it exactly as binance bnb um so just use exactly what is
mentioned in those four fields that's all our five fields basically so it takes you like literally 30 seconds
to do and once you've done it make sure you've done it correctly and click on save that's it
now the finance smart chain has been enabled and you will notice on the top that from
ethereum mainnet it has now switched to binance marching or smart chain in short and you'll notice that there is only one
address and that is your address for all your crypto currencies like in uh in normal scenarios
you will have a separate address for every cryptocurrency in finance marching it's a smart contract which means that
every crypto uh will be using the same address using a smart contract
so what we are going to do is we are going to add a token so cake is not enabled by default some
tokens are already enabled by default and you can just search and add it cake is a custom token that we are going to
add pancakes own exchange so what you do is you go to the bsc scan
and you search for pancakes pap and then you will get a pancake swap token you can copy the smart contract
and once you copy the smart contract address the contract address when you go and place it in the contract
address it will by default say that okay this is what you want to add this is a new token that you want to add
one of the easiest methods is that you have to coin market cap coin market cap is like our coin stats
it's a a good aggregator web page where if you search for the pancakes map on the coin there is a button called add
to multimask that wolf icon is there so if you click on that wolf icon add to metamask it will automatically
open your meta mask and will say that it is suggesting add to tokens click on attribute token by this
way you will not make a mistake of copying smart chain contracts and all that so it is an
easier way so i prefer this way now that you have done that it is now added to your metamask wallet
now we are going to transfer bnb so we are going to go copy the address in metamask and we are going to from b
and from binance we bought b and b right so we are going to transfer it to
metamask so you copy the address and then you go to binance and in binance you select your bmb i have 40 worth of
bnb i click on withdraw so in withdraw it asks me for two options so first i am
going to paste the address here whatever address that i had copied from my from my meta mask
and then i'm going to select make sure you select the branch marching if you select the binance chain which is the
older network before the smart chain came it won't transfer your money properly so
make sure that you select the finance margin and you notice the fees is only like
you know 23 cents like i said it's always kept very very low as compared to ethereum where the fees
was like you know thirty dollars forty dollars so it will ask for authentication code
from mobile and phone once you've done it your withdrawal will be submitted so and
you can see that the withdrawal is very very quick as well so i'm going to do the same thing for cake
cake also the same address exactly same address that you copied um and then you're going to say finance
marching the difference is that because the smart contract whatever currency you send to that
address it will automatically detect what contract it is going to go to and it will give you that token balance
so cake again is like you know 21 cents here so i'm going to send the uh 80 worth of
cake that i um had bought in binance earlier now within like you know two minutes
roughly one or two minutes it is now transferred into my metamask so whatever i transfer from
finance has now come into my metamask balance now i'm going to set up a profile in
pancake swap finance this is an optional step um but the reason why you need to set up a profile
is because it enables you to participate in ifo and it gives you a lot of rewards
and there are additional benefits of doing it but if you don't want to do this we can skip this step
but connect to matamas this is important click on the connect and it will launch the metamask
connection authorization window and click on connect don't worry uh meta mask every time you want to spend
it will still ask you for a connection you're only establishing a bridge between your meta mask and your pancake
spa now like i said click on that profile icon and you can start creating a
profile you can skip this step if you don't want to have the additional benefits like ifo
participation free crypto and all that but um i recommend doing this because i have done
this and i i found this beneficial so but it does cost you at this point 1.5 gig
which is roughly about 40 dollars i would say so you can select
any profile in that and this is an nft so we'll talk about non-fungible tokens in
other episodes but basically it's like you are buying a label kind of thing or an icon kind of
thing for profile picture there is no option to upload so you are buying a profile picture lets say
so its uh there is a transaction fees of about 16 cents like i said transaction fees is always kept to that
amount so click on confirm and you are now basically buying using one cake the cost
you see that at this one cake which is roughly at that point when i did that episode it was about 20 to 23 dollars
so it is standing around 25 that's the value of cake so it's asking me to confirm and then it
will take one cake from my metamask so i had three cake that i bought with
80 now i'm spending 25 on creating the contract then it will ask me to use that same
thing that i bought to be set as a profile picture and i do it so it's a four step process
and every step everything that you do in pancake finance it will ask you for confirming
it these fees that you are seeing is a one-time fees for setting up a profile
after that it is only every transaction that you do that you need to do the fees but again as compared to
ethereum the total fees in this entire process was like less than one transaction ethereum
so then you ah you be part of a team you can select whichever team it doesn't really matter
and then you put any name here um this name if people know about it they can actually look at your transactions
because it is on the blockchain binance smart chain you can actually look it up so
if they knew your username they can view your wallet balance so i'm going to use a name just for this
purpose but unfortunately if you use your social media names then other people can also
view your wallet balance so be careful about that so then again finally when you when you
when you are about to create your wallet it will again ask you to sign it now you have completed your profile so
this profile creation process like i said is optional and you can skip it if you don't want those additional benefits
so finally ah you're signing an nft contract to say that um i i want to create my profile that
costs point five cake so totally in the first step it cost one cake and now it is costing 0.5 k
so this is another 15 so first we spend about let's say twenty five dollars and now we
are spending fifteen dollars so in total about uh forty dollars and in fees we would
have spent maybe about one dollar in total so forty one dollars we spent for creating the profile completely
so now this is the step for creating a profile in pancake swap and what they're trying to do is that
they're trying to encourage you to be part of the ecosystem so there's 1.5 gig that you
you are spending they are giving you additional benefits and then they are trying to
get you to be part of the ecosystem that's how they are they're attracting it is like you know
getting a membership with a spigy or something like that right so becoming a premium member with ola or
something like that so that you know you get like benefits small benefits on future transactions so
it's membership that they're trying to get so now um we're going to go on um farm so
that you see that there is a farm that is about 500 percent liquidity right now so first thing i'm going to do is i'm
going to buy one of those forms so i'm going to buy one of those cryptos so itam was the coin that i saw was was
having a higher liquidity percentage so i don't have any item i'm going to swap it i'm going to
go to the trade exchange swap i have bnb so i have 40 dollars worth of bnb
so what i'm going to do is i'm going to buy roughly about you know 15 16 worth of item i need to
keep some bnb always for my uh liquidity fees so i'm going to spend like 15 dollars worth of uh
bnb i'm going to swap it to itam so it says that 0.03 bmp gives me 162 item
as you can see liquidity product fees is like less than ten cents or five cents practically so
click on swap we saw it in unisport as well how we can swap it from one currency to another currency
this is the decentralized finance swap and now uh i click on confirm every time i do a transaction i have to click on
confirm in my in my meta mask so now in in like five or six seconds at the swap is complete
now i have both b and b and i time and now i am going to become a liquidity provider so the same
liquidity the same swap i did i am now going to become a liquidity provider i am going to earn fees from
that so i click on add liquidity and i have to select a pair like i said in my
previous episode right i have to select a pair now so i select item which is my
other crypto that i just bought and then i select maximum and it tells me the equivalent amount of my
bnb remember the dollar amount equivalent of both like apples and oranges that we did
right so we have to have the same dollar amount so it automatically calculates the same dollar
amount and it says approve the uh item spend first of all so first i need to click on approve the
item spent so to spend a cryptocurrency for the first time
in pancake swap uh if it's a new crypto that we have not spent in my case up there is an approval process first that
this is a new crypto that you have not used in pancake approve it first so item is a crypto
that we not spent in uh pancakes for so we are approving it then there is a supply button
which means that ok we are ready to supply this liquidity to the liquidity pool
we saw what liquidity provider is what liquidity pools are in episode 24. so now i am click on
confirming supply so when i confirm at this point i get liquidity provider token which is a
lp token is a representation of the fact that i have become a liquidity provider so which what it tells me is that i have
provided liquidity and this is evidence of the fact that i have become a liquidity provider
and this is the quantity that i have provided liquidity for in bnb and i time at that point and it
could it will start to vary every minute so again you have to confirm in your
metamask so every transaction like i said there will be a confirmation button so
even though the bridge is connected pancake swap cannot take funds from your metamask without you authorizing
every single transaction so now that's done and lp tokens are in your wallet now if
you go to your metamask you can see these lp tokens in your wallet as well and this is like i said is a
representation of the fact that you've become a liquidity provider and notice that you have a ratio of how
much bnb and how much item you have submitted and this will vary every minute if the liquidity if the if it's a
fast moving transaction uh item will go up b and b will come down or b and b will go up any time will
come down like the oranges and apples explanation that i did at this point if you go to metamask
and you see you can see that lp token representation in your so you click on the three dots on expand
view so that you can make it bigger in meta mask not just for this but for any purpose and here you can
if you scroll down you can see the lp token being represented as dash lp which means that that is the
liquidity provider token that you have got now you will see it only at this stage when we use this
liquidity provider token to submit it in a form after that that is in a form and you won't see it
some people had said that no no i'm not seeing it that's because you've done it in the next step in this
step between providing liquidity and and putting your lp tokens in the form if you see it you'll be able to see it
in the metamask now i'm going to go to the form so farm is where after i have deposited
after i become a liquidity provider my my mining rewards like i said right how mining rewards the second step of
rewards so here i go see that's it's 579 percent it will reduce over time
and you will notice it when you start using it and then explain it much better in the
next episode so i click on enable first of all i am enabling access to this form again for every enable for every
transaction every confirmation it cost about you know 15 16 cents this is something to keep in mind but
it's a one-time fees that you pay and then you click on stake lp now it will tell me how much balance i
have these are the two liquidity provider tokens that i have and i'm going to stake it so when i'm
staking it what it means is that in this form the liquidity provider token that i had got
by providing liquidity i am taking it and i am staking it into this form and this is giving me a mining reward
what it is doing is that the reward option that we spoke about the second level of reward so you get a liquidity
provider fees for every transaction in the liquidity pool apart from that you also get the second
level of reward which is this mining reward and you will see slowly and steadily depending upon
how much money you've invested slowly uh you will start to see that the money like for example if you invest a
thousand dollars you will see it to raise much faster if you put only hundred
dollars you slowly see that increasing the third level of reward the that's what makes pancakes pop even more
interesting is called the syrup so in syrup pool now that we have cake right so cake is what is being generated
out of that form so all the cake that we earn we can come to a syrup pool you have to enable a
syrup pool or approve cake spend for the first time for every pool and then you can you can
select any pool and you notice that most of it is above 100 i am selecting item pool here
as an example and i confirm what i am doing is first i use my lp tokens and i'm getting
cake free cake now i'm using that free cake so i bought that extra cake to show this option
i'm taking the cake and i'm putting it into the syrup pool and i'm getting free item tokens
so this is my third level of reward so that's the three level reward structure that they have
now you can see that immediately after putting my my stake my itam pool is starting to increase
it is starting to show that i am getting free item tokens now we can put it in any of these tokens they are all binance
smart chain tokens as much and crypto so you can stay cake and get more cake as well that also you
can do so this is like you can see that the the interest percentage is is very
very different and goes down over time when a new pool is create new form is created
it is higher and then it goes down over time so you can you can transfer from metamask to bnb
very very quickly same process like how you did it so in bnb you go and click on deposit
and they will give you a b p 20 address which is the binance margin address so you can only use b
p 20 for transferring so you copy the cake whatever free cake that you earn right
so you can take that k chord you can take any crypto for that matter and if you find it in bnb you can
transfer it and you can transfer it to bnb and you can sell it like a normal process
so this is a basic demo um what i wanted to establish was that how much money you can earn so i'm going
to give you a very very simple sample this is a tool that i use to monitor how much my
my my profits are getting so for example i deposited on on friday into this pool last friday
and uh on ninth of april uh and in two days uh roughly about let's say thousand
dollars that i had deposited uh thousand dollars equal which is five hundred dollars of bnb and five hundred
dollars of rpa which is another token that i deposited i time also i deposited 738 on friday
same day i transfer i deposit and this is a good tool that i use to monitor i'll explain about this tool
also in my next episode in detail because this tool also requires a bit of detailed explanation
but um you can see that the amount of money that it has generated or the cake that it is generated and the
percentage that it has generate or the dollar amount is generated for illustration purposes if we just
quickly see right how much money that i have got in two days for example thousand dollars into the
first pool and 738 into the first pool second pool 28 dollars roughly that i've got from
the tool what it's showing me and the cake that it has generated the yearly interest is that much and the
on the calculated yearly api is that much percentage so again this is only an illustration for
the earning potential it will reduce over time and that way that's where the need for
an effective yield hunting is i will explain this yield hunting process and tips and tricks in my next
video but again one of the uh summary is that however high this bnb value goes like
unlike ethereum they are trying to keep the fees um lower in the last two three weeks when
i've been doing this and in fact last two days they've reduced the the gwui fees the
gas fees that it has called uh even lower that you know they're trying to always keep regardless how
much our bnb goes up they're trying to keep the fees much much lower and
in the first two three days it was uh probably around 20 cents and then it actually came down to like less than
20 12 cents 11 cents and every transaction was costing like 10 cents 11 cents compared to
you know 30 40 100 in ethereum so that's the huge difference impermanent loss can
still be higher if you're not careful and if you keep moving like if you only put liquidity provided amount as 200
it will take you two three days to recover your fees don't keep moving your staking from syrup like you
keep your cake in a syrup pool for two hours and then you move it you're not actually
getting benefit out of it by having a small amount if you have a very large amount okay
that's fine you know you if you have like thousand dollars two thousand dollars or ten thousand
dollars it makes sense but if you have like hundred dollars two hundred dollars you need to keep it in a firm or
a syrup pool for at least three four days so that it covers your fees and gives you enough benefits
over and above your impermanent loss so i'll explain some of these calculations in a little more detail but
that's the process if people want to start doing that process and start getting
used to that system so the standard earning option um you know we can actually be
a lot more profitable if you do it really really carefully understanding impermanent cost
but you know hoarding crypto like keeping a crypto buying it and keeping it and waiting for
like three months four months five months that's the best way to make profit what
i'm showing here is the fact that you can do that also use that crypto to passively earn
from it you know instead of keeping it idle in your uh wizard x account for example
x you get nothing if you put it in bitro for example i showed you how you can get like seven percent eight percent on
interest on your crypto here i'm i'm showing you additional methods where it's uh
it's there is there is a little bit more of a learning curve than just putting it in a stake
there's a little bit more of a learning curve but if you follow up on the video if you look at the video previous video
on this one you will understand the advantages better and i'll also post a follow-up video in
episode 26 with some tips and tricks and benefits of being early and you know how to use twitter account
efficiently so make sure you follow me on twitter as well and hopefully this was useful to you thank you bye
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