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We present a measurement study on compositions of Decentralized Finance protocols, which aim to disrupt traditional finance and offer services on top of distributed ledgers, such as Ethereum. DeFi compositions may impact the development of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Stefan Kitzler , Friedhelm Victor , Pietro Saggese , Bernhard Haslhofer

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are crypto projects developed on the blockchain to manage digital assets. Attacks on DeFi have been frequent and have resulted in losses exceeding \$77 billion. However, detection methods for malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Wenkai Li , Xiaoqi Li , Yuqing Zhang , Zongwei Li

DEX, or decentralized exchange, is a prominent class of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications on blockchains, attracting a total locked value worth tens of billions of USD today. This paper presents the first large-scale empirical study…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jiaqi Chen , Yibo Wang , Yuxuan Zhou , Wanning Ding , Yuzhe Tang , XiaoFeng Wang , Kai Li

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been the target of numerous profit-driven crimes, but the prevalence and cumulative impact of these crimes have not yet been assessed. This study provides a comprehensive assessment of profit-driven crimes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Catherine Carpentier-Desjardins , Masarah Paquet-Clouston , Stefan Kitzler , Bernhard Haslhofer

As of August 2022, blockchain-based assets boast a combined market capitalisation exceeding one trillion USD, among which the most prominent are the decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) tokens associated with decentralised finance…

General Economics · Economics 2025-05-08 Teng Andrea Xu , Jiahua Xu , Kristof Lommers

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a prominent application of smart contracts, representing a novel financial paradigm in contrast to centralized finance. While DeFi applications are rapidly emerging on mainstream blockchain platforms, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Wei Ma , Chenguang Zhu , Ye Liu , Xiaofei Xie , Yi Li

Credit allows a lender to loan out surplus capital to a borrower. In the traditional economy, credit bears the risk that the borrower may default on its debt, the lender hence requires upfront collateral from the borrower, plus interest fee…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Kaihua Qin , Liyi Zhou , Benjamin Livshits , Arthur Gervais

The rapid growth of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) boosts the Ethereum ecosystem. At the same time, attacks towards DeFi applications (apps) are increasing. However, to the best of our knowledge, existing smart contract vulnerability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Siwei Wu , Dabao Wang , Jianting He , Yajin Zhou , Lei Wu , Xingliang Yuan , Qinming He , Kui Ren

Recently emerging Decentralized Finance (DeFi) takes the promise of cryptocurrencies a step further, leveraging their decentralized networks to transform traditional financial products into trustless and transparent protocols that run…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Bowen Liu , Pawel Szalachowski , Jianying Zhou

Smart contracts led to the emergence of the decentralized finance (DeFi) marketplace within blockchain ecosystems, where diverse participants engage in financial activities. In traditional finance, there are possibilities to create values,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Rasheed , Yash Chaurasia , Parth Desai , Sujit Gujar

Currently cryptocurrencies and Decentralized Finance (DeFi), which enable financial services on public blockchains, represents a new growing trend in finance. In contrast to financial markets, ruled by traditional corporations, DeFi is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Mar Grande , Florentino Borondo , Javier Borondo

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a new financial industry built on blockchain technologies. Decentralized financial services have consequently increased the ability to lend, borrow, and invest in decentralized investment vehicles, allowing…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-09-27 Hugo Inzirillo , Stanislas de Quenetain

With the development of decentralized finance (DeFi), lending protocols have been increasingly proposed in the market. A comprehensive and in-depth evaluation of lending protocol is essential to the DeFi market participants. Due to the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Shuai Yang , Wei Cui

Cryptocurrency has seen an explosive growth in recent years, thanks to the evolvement of blockchain technology and its economic ecosystem. Besides Bitcoin, thousands of cryptocurrencies have been distributed on blockchains, while hundreds…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Ru Ji , Ningyu He , Lei Wu , Haoyu Wang , Guangdong Bai , Yao Guo

Decentralized finance, powered by blockchain technology, is growing day by day. This field, which emerged a few years ago, today manages $70 billion in assets. In this study, the concept of decentralized finance is discussed and explained…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-04-05 Mansur Bestas

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) offers a whole new investment experience and has quickly emerged as an enticing alternative to Centralized Finance (CeFi). Rapidly growing market size and active users, however, have also made DeFi a lucrative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Mingyi Liu , Jun Ho Huh , HyungSeok Han , Jaehyuk Lee , Jihae Ahn , Frank Li , Hyoungshick Kim , Taesoo Kim

The blockchain technology is believed by many to be a game changer in many application domains, especially financial applications. While the first generation of blockchain technology (i.e., Blockchain 1.0) is almost exclusively used for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Huashan Chen , Marcus Pendleton , Laurent Njilla , Shouhuai Xu

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has become one of the most successful applications of blockchain and smart contracts. The DeFi ecosystem enables a wide range of crypto-financial activities, while the underlying smart contracts often contain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Palina Tolmach , Yi Li , Shang-Wei Lin , Yang Liu

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are crypto projects developed on the blockchain to manage digital assets. Attacks on DeFi have been frequent and have resulted in losses exceeding $80 billion. Current tools detect and locate possible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiaoqi Li , Wenkai Li , Zhiquan Liu , Yuqing Zhang , Yingjie Mao

Flash Loan attack can grab millions of dollars from decentralized vaults in one single transaction, drawing increasing attention from the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) players. It has also demonstrated an exciting opportunity that a huge…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-02-02 Yixin Cao , Chuanwei Zou , Xianfeng Cheng