Sok: Decentralized finance (defi) attacks

L Zhou, X Xiong, J Ernstberger… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within just four years, the blockchain-based Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has
accumulated a peak total value locked (TVL) of more than 253 billion USD. This surge in …

On the quality of cryptocurrency markets: Centralized versus decentralized exchanges

A Barbon, A Ranaldo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.07386, 2021 - arxiv.org
We compare the market quality of centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs) such as Binance
and Kraken to decentralized blockchain-based venues (DEXs) such as Uniswap v2 and v3 …

Credible decentralized exchange design via verifiable sequencing rules

MV Xavier Ferreira, DC Parkes - Proceedings of the 55th Annual ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Trading on decentralized exchanges has been one of the primary use cases for
permissionless blockchains with daily trading volume exceeding billions of US ‍dollars. In the …

Decentralized finance and automated market making: Predictable loss and optimal liquidity provision

Á Cartea, F Drissi, M Monga - SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, 2024 - SIAM
Constant product markets with concentrated liquidity (CL) are the most popular type of
automated market makers. In this paper, we characterize the continuous-time wealth …

Decentralized finance (DeFi): A survey

E Jiang, B Qin, Q Wang, Z Wang, Q Wu, J Weng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a new paradigm in the creation, distribution, and utilization
of financial services via the integration of blockchain technology. Our research conducts a …

From x* y= k to Uniswap Hooks: A Comparative Review of Decentralized Exchanges (DEX)

MA Asef, SMH Bamakan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.10162, 2024 - arxiv.org
Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs) are pivotal applications in the Decentralized Finance
(DeFi) landscape, aiming to facilitate trustless cryptocurrency trading by relying on smart …

Strategic liquidity provision in uniswap v3

Z Fan, F Marmolejo-Cossio, DJ Moroz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Uniswap v3 is the largest decentralized exchange for digital currencies. A novelty of its
design is that it allows a liquidity provider (LP) to allocate liquidity to one or more closed …

Liquidity fragmentation on decentralized exchanges

A Lehar, C Parlour, M Zoican - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.13772, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study economies of scale in liquidity provision on decentralized exchanges, focusing on
the impact of fixed transaction costs such as gas prices on liquidity providers (LPs). Small …

Finding the right curve: Optimal design of constant function market makers

M Goyal, G Ramseyer, A Goel, D Mazières - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Constant Function Market Makers (CFMMs) are a tool for creating exchange markets, have
been deployed effectively in prediction markets, and are now especially prominent in the …

An economic model of a decentralized exchange with concentrated liquidity

J Hasbrouck, TJ Rivera, F Saleh - Available at SSRN 4529513, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We provide an economic model of a decentralized exchange (DEX) that allows investors to
concentrate liquidity within exogenously specified price intervals (eg, Uniswap V3). We …