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Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) provide a means for users to trade pairs of assets on-chain without the need for a trusted third party to effectuate a trade. Amongst these, constant function market maker DEXs such as Uniswap handle the most…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Zhou Fan , Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío , Ben Altschuler , He Sun , Xintong Wang , David C. Parkes

Arbitrage can arise from the simultaneous purchase and sale of the same asset in different markets in order to profit from a difference in its price. This work systematically reviews arbitrage opportunities between Automated Market Makers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Krzysztof Gogol , Johnnatan Messias , Deborah Miori , Claudio Tessone , Benjamin Livshits

Trading on decentralized exchanges has been one of the primary use cases for permissionless blockchains with daily trading volume exceeding billions of U.S.~dollars. In the status quo, users broadcast transactions and miners are responsible…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Matheus V. X. Ferreira , David C. Parkes

Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are crucial to decentralized finance (DeFi) as they enable trading without intermediaries. However, they face challenges like impermanent loss (IL), where liquidity providers (LPs) see their assets' value…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Irina Lebedeva , Dmitrii Umnov , Yury Yanovich , Ignat Melnikov , George Ovchinnikov

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 individual liquidity providers enables trading between…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-09-23 Lioba Heimbach , Eric Schertenleib , Roger Wattenhofer

This paper examines the impact of reducing Ethereum slot time on decentralized exchange activity, with a focus on CEX-DEX arbitrage behavior. We develop a trading model where the agent's DEX transaction is not guaranteed to land, and the…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-05 Aleksei Adadurov , Sergey Barseghyan , Anton Chtepine , Antero Eloranta , Andrei Sebyakin , Arsenii Valitov

We propose a mathematically rigorous framework for identifying and completing Coincidence of Wants (CoW) cycles in decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregators. Unlike existing auction based systems such as CoWSwap, our approach introduces an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Abhimanyu Nag , Madhur Prabhakar , Tanuj Behl

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, and SushiSwap, which enable agents to trade cryptocurrencies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Guillermo Angeris , Akshay Agrawal , Alex Evans , Tarun Chitra , Stephen Boyd

Inspired by Bitcoin, many different kinds of cryptocurrencies based on blockchain technology have turned up on the market. Due to the special structure of the blockchain, it has been deemed impossible to directly trade between traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Hangyu Tian , Kaiping Xue , Shaohua Li , Jie Xu , Jianqing Liu , Jun Zhao

Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs) are pivotal applications in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) landscape, aiming to facilitate trustless cryptocurrency trading by relying on smart contracts and blockchain networks. The developments in the DEXs…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Mohammad Ali Asef , Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini Bamakan

The prosperity of the cryptocurrency ecosystem drives the need for digital asset trading platforms. Beyond centralized exchanges (CEXs), decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are introduced to allow users to trade cryptocurrency without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Pengcheng Xia , Haoyu wang , Bingyu Gao , Weihang Su , Zhou Yu , Xiapu Luo , Chao Zhang , Xusheng Xiao , Guoai Xu

We present FairTraDEX, a decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol based on frequent batch auctions (FBAs), which provides formal game-theoretic guarantees against extractable value. FBAs when run by a trusted third-party provide unique…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Conor McMenamin , Vanesa Daza , Matthias Fitzi , Padraic O'Donoghue

We investigate the behavior of liquidity providers (LPs) by modeling a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) based on Uniswap v3. LPs with heterogeneous characteristics choose optimal liquidity positions subject to uncertainty…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-16 Erhan Bayraktar , Asaf Cohen , April Nellis

Distributed securities exchanges may become de facto fragmented if they span geographical regions with asymmetric computer infrastructure. First, we build an economic model of a decentralized exchange with two miner clusters, standing in…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2019-11-07 Marius Zoican , Sorin Zoican

In decentralized exchanges (DEXs), the arbitrage paths exist abundantly in the form of both arbitrage loops (e.g. the arbitrage path starts from token A and back to token A again in the end, A, B,..., A) and non-loops (e.g. the arbitrage…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-06-25 Yu Zhang , Tao Yan , Jianhong Lin , Benjamin Kraner , Claudio Tessone

Decentralized exchanges using automated market makers create arbitrage opportunities with centralized exchanges, where gas fees and transaction ordering are critical. Existing models largely overlook competition among arbitrageurs, despite…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-27 Xue Dong He , Chen Yang , Yutian Zhou

Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) form a cornerstone of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, processing token trades worth billions of dollars daily. Yet, a significant fraction of these trades are suboptimal: alternative routing paths…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yu Zhang , Claudio J. Tessone

This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of an emerging cryptocurrency scam named "arbitrage bot" disseminated on online social networks. The scam revolves around Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) arbitrage and aims to lure victims…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Kai Li , Shixuan Guan , Darren Lee

Trading through decentralized exchanges (DEXs) has become crucial in today's blockchain ecosystem, enabling users to swap tokens efficiently and automatically. However, the capacity of miners to strategically order transactions has led to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Yuhao Li , Mengqian Zhang , Jichen Li , Elynn Chen , Xi Chen , Xiaotie Deng

We mine the leaked history of trades on Mt. Gox, the dominant Bitcoin exchange from 2011 to early 2014, to detect the triangular arbitrage activity conducted within the platform. The availability of user identifiers per trade allows us to…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-09-24 Pietro Saggese , Alessandro Belmonte , Nicola Dimitri , Angelo Facchini , Rainer Böhme