Bitquery found that only 18% of closed regular positions below $1,000 in eight sampled Ethereum Uniswap v3 pools beat holding after gas costs, compared with 51% before gas. The median gas bill for that group was 67 cents. Across all 71,166 closed regular positions, the share beating holding fell from 49% before gas to 34% afterward. Uniswap v4 can reduce transfer costs, but providers can still lag holding when inventory shortfalls exceed fee income. Bitquery's separate v3-v4 activity comparison does not measure matched position returns.
