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The need for data trading promotes the emergence of data market. However, in conventional data markets, both data buyers and data sellers have to use a centralized trading platform which might be dishonest. A dishonest centralized trading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Guoxiong Su , Wenyuan Yang , Zhengding Luo , Yinghong Zhang , Zhiqiang Bai , Yuesheng Zhu

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

Digital contents are typically sold online through centralized and custodian marketplaces, which requires the trading partners to trust a central entity. We present FileBounty, a fair protocol which, assuming the cryptographic hash of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Simon Janin , Kaihua Qin , Akaki Mamageishvili , Arthur Gervais

We study the economic viability of liquidity provision in decentralised exchanges (DEXs) within a structural framework in which market outcomes are endogenous. We formulate strategic interactions as a sequential game: a risk-averse…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2026-03-05 Fayçal Drissi , Xuchen Wu , Sebastian Jaimungal

The transaction ordering dependency of the smart contracts building decentralized exchanges (DEXes) allow for predatory trading strategies. In particular, front-running attacks present a constant risk for traders on DEXes. Whereas legal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Lioba Heimbach , Eric Schertenleib , Roger Wattenhofer

Decentralized Exchanges (DEXes) enable users to create markets for exchanging any pair of cryptocurrencies. The direct exchange rate of two tokens may not match the cross-exchange rate in the market, and such price discrepancies open up…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2022-01-17 Ye Wang , Yan Chen , Haotian Wu , Liyi Zhou , Shuiguang Deng , Roger Wattenhofer

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a rapidly evolving segment of blockchain technology that enables a transformative approach to financial services through Web3 applications. By leveraging smart contracts, DeFi allows developers to build…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Ignat Melnikov , Roman Vlasov , Vladimir Gorgadze , Andrey Seoev , Yury Yanovich

Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs) are one of the most important infrastructures in the world of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and are generally considered more reliable than centralized exchanges (CEXs). However, some well-known decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Rundong Gan , Le Wang , Xiaodong Lin

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

Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) allow parties to participate in financial markets while retaining full custody of their funds. However, the transparency of blockchain-based DEX in combination with the latency for transactions to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Liyi Zhou , Kaihua Qin , Christof Ferreira Torres , Duc V Le , Arthur Gervais

Decentralized finance (DeFi) markets spread across Layer-1 (L1) and Layer-2 (L2) blockchains rely on arbitrage to keep prices aligned. Today most price gaps are closed against centralized exchanges (CEXes), whose deep liquidity and fast…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Burak Öz , Christof Ferreira Torres , Christoph Schlegel , Bruno Mazorra , Jonas Gebele , Filip Rezabek , Florian Matthes

Cyclic arbitrage chances exist abundantly among decentralized exchanges (DEXs), like Uniswap V2. For an arbitrage cycle (loop), researchers or practitioners usually choose a specific token, such as Ether as input, and optimize their input…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-06-25 Yu Zhang , Zichen Li , Tao Yan , Qianyu Liu , Nicolo Vallarano , Claudio Tessone

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

This paper introduces and analyzes \emph{defensive rebalancing}, a novel mechanism for protecting constant-function market makers (CFMMs) from value leakage due to arbitrage. A \emph{rebalancing} transfers assets directly from one CFMM's…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Sam Devorsetz , Maurice Herlihy

We develop a model of coordination and allocation of decentralized multi-sided markets, in which our theoretical analysis is promisingly optimizing the decentralized transaction packaging process at high-throughput blockchains or Web 3.0…

General Economics · Economics 2023-01-27 Yuxuan Lu , Qian Qi , Xi Chen

We study data exchange among strategic agents without monetary transfers, motivated by domains such as research consortia and healthcare collaborations where payments are infeasible or restricted. The central challenge is to reap the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Rashida Hakim , Christos Papadimitriou , Mihalis Yannakakis

Batch auctions are a classical market microstructure, acclaimed for their fairness properties, and have received renewed interest in the context of blockchain-based financial systems. Constant function market makers (CFMMs) are another…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Geoffrey Ramseyer , Mohak Goyal , Ashish Goel , David Mazières

Exchanges acquire excess processing capacity to accommodate trading activity surges associated with zero-sum high-frequency trader (HFT) "duels." The idle capacity's opportunity cost is an externality of low-latency trading. We build a…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2019-07-26 Michael Brolley , Marius Zoican

Automated market makers (AMMs) are a new prototype of decentralised exchanges which are revolutionising market interactions. The majority of AMMs are constant product markets (CPMs) where exchange rates are set by a trading function. This…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-06-19 Álvaro Cartea , Fayçal Drissi , Marcello Monga

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