A multivocal literature review of decentralized finance: Current knowledge and future research avenues

V Gramlich, T Guggenberger, M Principato… - Electronic Markets, 2023 - Springer
While decentralized finance (DeFi) has the potential to emulate and, indeed, outperform
existing financial systems, it remains a complex phenomenon yet to be extensively …

Prime Match: A {Privacy-Preserving} Inventory Matching System

A Polychroniadou, G Asharov, B Diamond… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Inventory matching is a standard mechanism for trading financial stocks by which buyers
and sellers can be paired. In the financial world, banks often undertake the task of finding …

Fairtradex: A decentralised exchange preventing value extraction

C McMenamin, V Daza, M Fitzi… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present FairTraDEX, a decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol based on frequent batch
auctions (FBAs), which provides formal game-theoretic guarantees against extractable …

Kicking-the-bucket: Fast privacy-preserving trading using buckets

MB da Gama, J Cartlidge, A Polychroniadou… - … Conference on Financial …, 2022 - Springer
We examine bucket-based and volume-based algorithms for privacy-preserving asset
trading in a financial dark pool. Our bucket-based algorithm places orders in quantised …

Block auction: A general blockchain protocol for privacy-preserving and verifiable periodic double auctions

T Constantinides, J Cartlidge - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We use blockchain technology to tackle the problem of securing periodic double auctions for
financial 'dark pool'trading, such that the privacy of pre-trade order information is preserved …

Trustworthy sealed-bid auction with low communication cost atop blockchain

Q Zhang, Y Yu, H Li, J Yu, L Wang - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Auction, widely used by firms and governments, has facilitated trillions of dollars in the world
economy. However, when price is the only factor determining the winner, how to guarantee …

Maximal extractable value: Current understanding, categorization, and open research questions

V Gramlich, D Jelito, J Sedlmeir - Electronic Markets, 2024 - Springer
In traditional financial markets, front-running is a well-structured phenomenon. It represents
a form of privileged actors utilizing knowledge or power advantages to extract undue profit at …

[HTML][HTML] A blockchain-based privacy-preserving and collusion-resistant scheme (ppcr) for double auctions

X Jia, L Wang, K Cheng, P Jing, X Song - Digital Communications and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Electronic auctions (e-auctions) remove the physical limitations of traditional auctions and
bring this mechanism to the general public. However, most e-auction schemes involve a …

An Efficient Data-Independent Priority Queue and its Application to Dark Pools

S Mazloom, B Diamond… - … on Privacy Enhancing …, 2023 - petsymposium.org
We introduce a secure data-independent priority queue which supports polylogarithmic-time
insertion operations and constant-time deletions and read-front (aka peek) operations as …

Blockchain for Artificial Intelligence (AI): enhancing compliance with the EU AI Act through distributed ledger technology. A cybersecurity perspective

S Ramos, J Ellul - International Cybersecurity Law Review, 2024 - Springer
The article aims to investigate the potential of blockchain technology in mitigating certain
cybersecurity risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Aligned with ongoing …