Did my pool do better than holding?

Ask your agent in Terminal and it compares two things from your own records: what your pool position is worth now, and what the coins you deposited would be worth now if you had simply kept them. Reading your own records is free, and Settings shows whether Terminal is live for you. The Wallet page also shows what your pool positions are worth now.

Why a pool position drifts from holding

A pool keeps its two coins balanced against each other. When one coin rises in price against the other, traders buy the rising coin out of the pool and leave more of the other behind. So your share ends up holding less of the coin that rose and more of the one that fell.

Compared with holding both coins untouched, that usually leaves the position worth less. This gap is called impermanent loss. If prices go back to where they were, it shrinks. Once you withdraw, whatever gap is left is final.

The fees the pool keeps

Every swap against the pool pays a fee. A share of it goes to Tinyman, and the rest stays in the pool for its providers, which raises what each pool token is worth. Those fees are what providers earn for taking on the drift. Whether they outweigh it depends on how much the pool is traded and how far prices move, and nobody knows either in advance.

How the comparison is made

• It takes the deposits into that pool that PortMula recorded, and the coins that left your wallet for them.
• It values those coins at the pools' prices now, the same way the Wallet does, and sets that against what your position is worth now.
• If you have withdrawn part, it compares the part still in the pool with the same part of what you deposited.
• Network fees and what you paid to build each deposit are not included.

What it leaves out, and when it will not answer

• Some deposits did not record the pool tokens that arrived. If the ones that did account exactly for what you hold, it compares those and says which deposits, and any withdrawals, were left out. Otherwise it tells you the comparison cannot be made from the records.
• Pool tokens that did not come through PortMula have no record here, so they are not compared.
• If one of the coins has no price right now, there is no figure for holding, and it says so rather than guessing.

This looks back at your own records. It is not a forecast, and it is not advice about what to do next.