Jiggling Funds to get around the lack of liquidity on Hive-Engine.....

in LeoFinance3 years ago

With the Hive-Pump I've now got too much Swap.Hive on Hive-Engine and want to get some of it back out, but it's a struggle!

Hive-Engine may well work (most of the time) but the more funds you pile in there the more you realise that it's SERIOUSLY limited.

The 1% withdrawal fee on Hive-Engine is really too high, especially when you're moving larger amounts around, and with the current Hive Price, moving anything over 1000 Hive starts to make ETH fees look competitive.

I REALLY don't want to have to pay $15 to move 1000 Hive out of Hive-Engine, which would be the case with Hive floating around $1.150, I would only do so in an emergency.

My other options are LeoDex and BeeSwap, which both have a 0.25% fee for Hive withdrawals, but I frequently find there is no liquidity in either of these....

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So I've hit on the following TWO possibilities for jiggling funds about and getting my HIVE out.....

The hive-stables/ stables-hive option

This depends on having stable coins elsewhere (which I have).... it basically involves moving my stables staking to Hive-Engine from Binance or Polygon.

  1. Swap Hive for SWAP.BUSD/ SWAP.HBD. (I'll be pooling this on BeeSwap soon)
  2. Simply unstake/ unpool an equivalent amount of stables from whatever other platform and buy back as much Hive as I swapped in number one above.

I've actually got a fair bit of HBD saved, so this is a help here for starters!

This is for very minimal fees!

Of course the downside isn't lost on me - you're not REALLY moving anything out of Hive-Engine, you're just sort of swapping - but then again if Hive goes up, that's out, so you sort of are, in dollar terms.

The DEC Route....

My second option is what I call the DEC route...

  1. Swap Hive for DEC
  2. Move DEC to Splinterlands and from there to BSC
  3. Trade DEC for BUSD
  4. BUSD back to Binance and buy back the Hive there.
  5. Then Hive back to Hive to POWER UP, or list for sale if you so desire!

This is a very low-fee (< $1 all in) route but you roll the dice on the exchange rates you get, but at least with the massive liquidity on BSC you are unlikely to suffer from slippage issues even when moving around $1000.

Aggro over Convenience....

Of course you have the choice of paying 1% to withdraw yer swap.hive but personally I think this is too steep a price to pay for convenience, when there are other options available.

Both are a bit more hassle, but they both work!

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On the DEC route, if the bridge to BSC fails when you transfer DEC to BSC, you can have your DEC blocked for a long time before they are returned to you. But I heard they work to improve the bridge (or maybe already did that).

There is also HivePay.io, another alternative for Hive-Engine deposits/withdrawals. Fee is 0.2%, but it suffers from the same liquidity issues for the SWAP.HIVE->Hive conversion as the others.

OK - Note to self: only transfer DEC in small quantities!

Hive engine can be better if we have a decent liquidity on stable coins. That way you will not need to withdraw anytime there is a pump and can wait a bit.

Hope the soon to come BXT improves things just a bit.

I hope so.... I've already pooled some stuff in anticipation!

I've been fighting with the trading bots all morning trying to get some Leo sold into Hive so I can put it in the Tribal DEX pools. It is mind numbing. I can feel your pain. Best of luck with whatever you try to do.

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I think I might be talking about something different - getting money out of HE!

But those bots, are annoying!

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Yeah, totally different. I try to do it from Leo Dex since the fees are so much lower, but like you said, there isn't always the liquidity.

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@swaps is another option, but there too is a liquidity issue.

As a side note, @swaps is an "all-in-one" solution rather than just a "bridge". If there is liquidity in Swaps, you use it just as you do other services.

If there is no liquidity internally on Swaps, it will rely on other services (like Beeswap, Leodex, Hivepayswap) to complete your swap. However, if all 4 does not have enough funds, it'll refund you.

OK cheers, I wasn't even aware of @swaps - thanks for the info!

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If hive should hit 5$ today 1$ fee will be way too high, I normally use hive-engine for everything but 1% gradually is becoming too high

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It's flawed logic, people will avoid using it if it's so high!

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Definitely

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1% is a lot - it's like a robbery in the middle of the day.

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It is way too high for sure, at leas there are alternatives, one just has to be patient!

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Muy buen post y muy útil.
Quisiera preguntar en peakd acerca de un depósito que realicé a binance el 31 de mayo y hasta ahora no ha llegado. He llenado muchos formularios en binance,y no me dan una respuesta lógica.
Hay alguna instancia aquí dónde preguntar por mis 281.77 Hives?
Gracias

Hive is alternative best platform

not much liquidity but i use https://hivepay.io/swap as well sometimes, works well.

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