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Blockchains have popularized automated market makers (AMMs). An AMM exchange is an application running on a blockchain which maintains a pool of crypto-assets and automatically trades assets with users governed by some pricing function that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 T-H. Hubert Chan , Ke Wu , Elaine Shi

We investigate the market microstructure of Automated Market Makers (AMMs), the most prominent type of blockchain-based decentralized exchanges. We show that the order execution mechanism yields token value loss for liquidity providers if…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2021-07-22 Agostino Capponi , Ruizhe Jia

Automated market makers (AMMs) are pricing mechanisms utilized by decentralized exchanges (DEX). Traditional AMM approaches are constrained by pricing solely based on their own liquidity pool, without consideration of external markets or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Alexander Kondratskiy , Vincent Harvey , Hsuan-Wei Fu

Within this work we consider an axiomatic framework for Automated Market Makers (AMMs). AMMs are smart contracts that set prices for swaps on a pool of assets. By imposing reasonable axioms on the underlying utility function, we are able to…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-02-04 Maxim Bichuch , Zachary Feinstein

This paper demonstrates that Automated Market Maker (AMM) based markets, such as those using constant product formulas (e.g., Uniswap), are inherently path-dependent. We prove mathematically that the sequence of operations in AMMs…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Keroshan Pillay

Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are decentralized applications that allow users to exchange crypto-tokens without the need for a matching exchange order. AMMs are one of the most successful DeFi use cases: indeed, major AMM platforms process…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Massimo Bartoletti , James Hsin-yu Chiang , Alberto Lluch-Lafuente

Constant function market makers(CFMMS) are a popular market design for decentralized exchanges(DEX). Liquidity providers(LPs) supply the CFMMs with assets to enable trades. In exchange for providing this liquidity, an LP receives a token…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Waylon Jepsen , Colin Roberts

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

With the emergence of decentralized finance, new trading mechanisms called Automated Market Makers have appeared. The most popular Automated Market Makers are Constant Function Market Makers. They have been studied both theoretically and…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2023-11-21 Philippe Bergault , Louis Bertucci , David Bouba , Olivier Guéant

We present a mathematical formulation of liquidity provision in decentralized exchanges. We focus on constant function market makers of utility indifference type, which include constant product market makers with concentrated liquidity as a…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-02-05 Masaaki Fukasawa , Basile Maire , Marcus Wunsch

The limit order book mechanism has been the core trading mechanism of the modern financial market. In the cryptocurrency market, centralized exchanges also adopt this limit order book mechanism and a centralized matching engine dynamically…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yeonwoo Jeong , Chanyoung Jeoung , Hosan Jeong , SangYoon Han , Juntae Kim

This article analytically characterizes the impermanent loss of concentrated liquidity provision for automatic market makers in decentralised markets such as Uniswap. We propose two static replication formulas for the impermanent loss by a…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-03-03 Jun Deng , Hua Zong , Yun Wang

Liquidity and trading activity on constant function market makers (CFMMs) such as Uniswap, Curve, and Balancer has grown significantly in the second half of 2020. Much of the growth of these protocols has been driven by incentivized pools…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2020-12-16 Guillermo Angeris , Alex Evans , Tarun Chitra

Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are major centers of matching liquidity supply and demand in Decentralized Finance. Their functioning relies primarily on the presence of liquidity providers (LPs) incentivized to invest their assets into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Viraj Nadkarni , Jiachen Hu , Ranvir Rana , Chi Jin , Sanjeev Kulkarni , Pramod Viswanath

Constant function market makers (CFMMs) are a popular decentralized exchange mechanism and have recently been the subject of much research, but major CFMMs give traders no privacy. Prior work proposes randomly splitting and shuffling trades…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Mohak Goyal , Geoffrey Ramseyer

Silkswap is an automated market maker model designed for efficient stablecoin trading with minimal price impact. The original purpose of Silkswap is to facilitate the trading of fiat-pegged stablecoins with the stablecoin Silk, but it can…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-02-16 Nicola Cantarutti , Alex Harker , Carter Woetzel

An automated market maker (AMM) is a state machine that manages pools of assets, allowing parties to buy and sell those assets according to a fixed mathematical formula. AMMs are typically implemented as smart contracts on blockchains, and…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-01-29 Kenan Wood , Maurice Herlihy , Hammurabi Mendes , Jonad Pulaj

Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) face persistent challenges in liquidity retention and user engagement due to inefficiencies in conventional automated market maker (AMM) designs. This work proposes a dual-mechanism framework to address these…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-02-28 CY Yan , Steve Keol , Xo Co , Nate Leung

We present an automated market-making (AMM) cross-settlement mechanism for digital assets on interoperable blockchains, focusing on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and stable coins. We develop an innovative approach for generating…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2021-09-28 Alex Lipton , Artur Sepp

Automated market makers (AMMs) are automata that trade electronic assets at rates set by mathematical formulas. AMMs are usually implemented by smart contracts on blockchains. In practice, AMMs are often composed: and outputs from AMMs can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Daniel Engel , Maurice Herlihy