The technology of decentralized finance (DeFi)

R Auer, B Haslhofer, S Kitzler, P Saggese, F Victor - Digital Finance, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a new financial paradigm that leverages distributed
ledger technologies to offer services such as lending, investing, or exchanging cryptoassets …

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 …

Risks and returns of uniswap v3 liquidity providers

L Heimbach, E Schertenleib… - Proceedings of the 4th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Trade execution on Decentralized Exchanges (DEXes) is automatic and does not require
individual buy and sell orders to be matched. Instead, liquidity aggregated in pools from …

A theory of automated market makers in DeFi

M Bartoletti, JH Chiang… - Logical Methods in …, 2022 - lmcs.episciences.org
Automated market makers (AMMs) are one of the most prominent decentralized finance
(DeFi) applications. AMMs allow users to trade different types of crypto-tokens, without the …

Behavior of liquidity providers in decentralized exchanges

L Heimbach, Y Wang, R Wattenhofer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.13822, 2021 - arxiv.org
Decentralized exchanges (DEXes) have introduced an innovative trading mechanism,
where it is not necessary to match buy-orders and sell-orders to execute a trade. DEXes …

Constant function market makers: Multi-asset trades via convex optimization

G Angeris, A Agrawal, A Evans, T Chitra… - Handbook on …, 2022 - Springer
The rise of Ethereum and other blockchains that support smart contracts has led to the
creation of decentralized exchanges (DEXs), such as Uniswap, Balancer, Curve, mStable …

Automated market making and arbitrage profits in the presence of fees

J Milionis, CC Moallemi, T Roughgarden - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.14604, 2023 - arxiv.org
We consider the impact of trading fees on the profits of arbitrageurs trading against an
automated marker marker (AMM) or, equivalently, on the adverse selection incurred by …

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 …

Centralized exchanges vs. decentralized exchanges in cryptocurrency markets: A systematic literature review

S Hägele - Electronic Markets, 2024 - Springer
Research on cryptocurrency exchanges, consisting of both centralized exchanges (CEXs)
and decentralized exchanges (DEXs), has seen a significant increase in contributions in …

Replicating market makers

G Angeris, A Evans, T Chitra - Digital Finance, 2023 - Springer
We present a method for constructing constant function market makers (CFMMs) whose
portfolio value functions match a desired payoff. More specifically, we show that the space of …