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Financial fraud cases are on the rise even with the current technological advancements. Due to the lack of inter-organization synergy and because of privacy concerns, authentic financial transaction data is rarely available. On the other…

Much of the recent excitement around decentralized finance (DeFi) comes from hopes that DeFi can be a secure, private, less centralized alternative to traditional finance systems. However, people moving to DeFi sites in hopes of improving…

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Decentralized finance (DeFi) has the potential to disrupt centralized finance by validating peer-to-peer transactions through tamper-proof smart contracts, thus significantly lowering the transaction cost charged by financial…

General Economics · Economics 2023-12-04 Ziqiao Ao , Lin William Cong , Gergely Horvath , Luyao Zhang

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is built on a fundamentally different paradigm: rather than having to trust individuals and institutions, participants in DeFi potentially only have to trust computer code that is enforced by a decentralized…

General Economics · Economics 2022-07-14 Kanis Saengchote , Talis Putniņš , Krislert Samphantharak

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is known for its unique mechanism design, which applies smart contracts to facilitate peer-to-peer transactions. The decentralized bank is a typical DeFi application. Ideally, a decentralized bank should be…

General Economics · Economics 2025-08-11 Yufan Zhang , Zichao Chen , Yutong Sun , Yulin Liu , Luyao Zhang

The rise of Web3 and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has enabled borderless access to financial services empowered by smart contracts and blockchain technology. However, the ecosystem's trustless, permissionless, and borderless nature presents…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hesam Sarkhosh , Uzma Maroof , Diogo Barradas

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

Within just four years, the blockchain-based Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has accumulated a peak total value locked (TVL) of more than 253 billion USD. This surge in DeFi's popularity has, unfortunately, been accompanied by many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Liyi Zhou , Xihan Xiong , Jens Ernstberger , Stefanos Chaliasos , Zhipeng Wang , Ye Wang , Kaihua Qin , Roger Wattenhofer , Dawn Song , Arthur Gervais

The scaled Web 3.0 digital economy, represented by decentralized finance (DeFi), has sparked increasing interest in the past few years, which usually relies on blockchain for token transfer and diverse transaction logic. However, illegal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Shuyi Miao , Wangjie Qiu , Hongwei Zheng , Qinnan Zhang , Xiaofan Tu , Xunan Liu , Yang Liu , Jin Dong , Zhiming Zheng

To non-experts, the traditional Centralized Finance (CeFi) ecosystem may seem obscure, because users are typically not aware of the underlying rules or agreements of financial assets and products. Decentralized Finance (DeFi), however, is…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-06-17 Kaihua Qin , Liyi Zhou , Yaroslav Afonin , Ludovico Lazzaretti , Arthur Gervais

The evolution of cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi) marks a significant shift in the financial landscape, making it more accessible, inclusive, and participative for various societal groups. However, this transition from…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-07-03 Amrutha Muralidhar , Muralidhar Lakkanna

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

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) services are moving traditional financial operations to the Internet of Value (IOV) by exploiting smart contracts, distributed ledgers, and clever heterogeneous transactions among different protocols. The…

General Economics · Economics 2023-07-18 Teng Andrea Xu , Jiahua Xu

In recent days, the proliferation of several existing and new cyber-attacks pose an axiomatic threat to the stability of financial services. It is hard to predict the nature of attacks that can trigger a serious financial crisis. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Pushpita Chatterjee , Debashis Das , Danda B Rawat

Peer-to-peer trading and the move to decentralized grids have reshaped the energy markets in the United States. Notwithstanding, such developments lead to new challenges, mainly regarding the safety and authenticity of energy trade. This…

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

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

DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is one of the most important applications of today's cryptocurrencies and smart contracts. It manages hundreds of billions in Total Value Locked (TVL) on-chain, yet it remains susceptible to common DeFi price…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Juantao Zhong , Daoyuan Wu , Ye Liu , Maoyi Xie , Yang Liu , Yi Li , Ning Liu

Smart contracts in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms are attractive targets for attacks as their vulnerabilities can lead to massive amounts of financial losses. Flash loan attacks, in particular, pose a major threat to DeFi protocols…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Abdulrahman Alhaidari , Balaji Palanisamy , Prashant Krishnamurthy

The rise of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has brought novel financial opportunities but also exposed serious security vulnerabilities, with flash loans frequently exploited for price manipulation attacks. These attacks, leveraging the atomic…

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