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The always-available liquidity of automated market makers (AMMs) has been one of the most important catalysts in early cryptocurrency adoption. However, it has become increasingly evident that AMMs in their current form are not viable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Conor McMenamin , Vanesa Daza , Bruno Mazorra

Liquidity providers (LPs) on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) can protect themselves from adverse selection risk by updating their positions more frequently. However, repositioning is costly, because LPs have to pay gas fees for each update.…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-03-20 Basile Caparros , Amit Chaudhary , Olga Klein

Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs) are now a significant component of the financial world where billions of dollars are traded daily. Differently from traditional markets, which are typically based on Limit Order Books, DEXs typically work as…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-28 Daniele Maria Di Nosse , Federico Gatta , Fabrizio Lillo , Sebastian Jaimungal

This empirical study presents the Decentralized Exchanges Comparison Service (DECS), a novel tool developed by 1inch Analytics to assess exchange efficiency in decentralized finance. The DECS utilizes swap transaction monitoring and…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-05 Evgenii Onishchuk , Maksim Dubovitskii , Eduard Horch

Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are emerging as a popular decentralised trading platform. In this work, we determine the optimal dynamic fees in a constant function market maker. We find approximate closed-form solutions to the control…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-06-26 Leonardo Baggiani , Martin Herdegen , Leandro Sánchez-Betancourt

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

Designing automated market makers (AMMs) is crucial for decentralized token exchanges in cryptoeconomic systems. At the intersection of software engineering and economics, AMM design is complex and, if done incorrectly, can lead to…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-03-24 Daniel Kirste , Niclas Kannengießer , Ricky Lamberty , Ali Sunyaev

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

Blockchain has attracted broad interests to build decentralised applications. Blockchain has attracted broad interests to build decentralised applications. However, developing such applications without introducing vulnerabilities is hard…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Qinghua Lu , An Binh Tran , Ingo Weber , Hugo O'Connor , Paul Rimba , Xiwei Xu , Mark Staples , Liming Zhu , Ross Jeffery

In this paper, we analyze traders' behavior within both centralized exchanges (CEXs) and decentralized exchanges (DEXs), focusing on the volatility of Bitcoin prices and the trading activity of investors engaged in perpetual future…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-26 Erdong Chen , Mengzhong Ma , Zixin Nie

The prevalence of maximal extractable value (MEV) in the Ethereum ecosystem has led to a characterization of the latter as a dark forest. Studies of MEV have thus far largely been restricted to purely on-chain MEV, i.e., sandwich attacks,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Lioba Heimbach , Vabuk Pahari , Eric Schertenleib

In peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading, a secured infrastructure is required to manage trade and record monetary transactions. A central server/authority can be used for this. But there is a risk of central authority influencing the energy…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Nitin Singha , V Shreyas , Sandeep Kumar

We investigate the most common type of blockchain-based decentralized exchange, which are known as constant function market makers (CFMMs). We examine the the market microstructure around CFMMs and present a model for valuing the liquidity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Richard Dewey , Craig Newbold

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

Machine learning has recently enabled large advances in artificial intelligence, but these tend to be highly centralized. The large datasets required are generally proprietary; predictions are often sold on a per-query basis; and published…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Justin D. Harris , Bo Waggoner

Automated Market Makers (AMMs) hold assets and are constantly being rebalanced by external arbitrageurs to match external market prices. Loss-versus-rebalancing (LVR) is a pivotal metric for measuring how an AMM pool performs for its…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-01 Matthew Willetts , Christian Harrington

Unihedge is a decentralized platform for prediction markets with a novel approach. Using Harberger Tax (HTAX) economic policies a new type of prediction market, named HTAX prediction market, was build. HTAX prediction market derivates from…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2021-12-10 Marko Corn , Nejc Rožman

This paper proposes a novel multi-layer blockchain architecture for the cross-border trading of CBDCs. The permissioned layer-2, by relying on the public consensus of the underlying network, assures the security and integrity of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Krzysztof Gogol , Johnnatan Messias , Malte Schlosser , Benjamin Kraner , Claudio Tessone

Layer-2 (L2) blockchains inherit Ethereums security guarantees while reducing gas fees. As a result, they are gaining traction among traders at Automated Market Makers (AMMs), sparking debate over whether they contribute to liquidity…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Krzysztof Gogol , Manvir Schneider , Claudio Tessone , Benjamin Livshits

Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are essential to decentralized finance, offering continuous liquidity and enabling intermediary-free trading on blockchains. However, participants in AMMs are vulnerable to Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Mengqian Zhang , Sen Yang , Fan Zhang