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We investigate the welfare loss of continuous and discrete order matching models in blockchain-based decentralized exchanges (DEX) that utilize order books to record outstanding orders. Continuous processing matches each incoming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tiantian Gong , Zeyu Liu , Aniket Kate

The efficiency of decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and the influence of token routing algorithms on market performance and stakeholder outcomes remain underexplored. This paper introduces the concept of Standardized Total Arbitrage Profit…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-08-06 Yu Zhang , Claudio J. Tessone

Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) form a cornerstone of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, processing token trades worth billions of dollars daily. Yet, a significant fraction of these trades are suboptimal: alternative routing paths…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yu Zhang , Claudio J. Tessone

Decentralized exchanges are revolutionizing finance. With their ever-growing increase in popularity, a natural question that begs to be asked is: how efficient are these new markets? We find that nearly 30% of analyzed trades are executed…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Jan Arvid Berg , Robin Fritsch , Lioba Heimbach , Roger Wattenhofer

Cryptocurrency has been extensively studied as a decentralized financial technology built on blockchain. However, there is a lack of understanding of user experience with cryptocurrency exchanges, the main means for novice users to interact…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Zhixuan Zhou , Bohui Shen

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 asset trading volume on blockchain-based exchanges (DEX) increased substantially since the advent of Automated Market Makers (AMM). Yet, AMMs and their forks compete on the same blockchain, incurring unnecessary network and block-space…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Liyi Zhou , Kaihua Qin , Arthur Gervais

Blockchains, and specifically smart contracts, have promised to create fair and transparent trading ecosystems. Unfortunately, we show that this promise has not been met. We document and quantify the widespread and rising deployment of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Philip Daian , Steven Goldfeder , Tyler Kell , Yunqi Li , Xueyuan Zhao , Iddo Bentov , Lorenz Breidenbach , Ari Juels

We analyze the market quality of centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs) and decentralized blockchain-based venues (DEXs) using a unique and comprehensive dataset. Focusing on two fundamental aspects, transaction costs and deviations from the…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-09-16 Andrea Barbon , Angelo Ranaldo

We study liquidity on decentralized exchanges (DEXs), identifying factors at the platform, blockchain, token pair, and liquidity pool levels with predictive power for market depth metrics. We introduce the v2 counterfactual spread metric, a…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-01-20 Brian Z. Zhu , Dingyue Liu , Xin Wan , Gordon Liao , Ciamac C. Moallemi , Brad Bachu

Financial markets have evolved over centuries, and exchanges have converged to rely on the order book mechanism for market making. Latency on the blockchain, however, has prevented decentralized exchanges (DEXes) from utilizing the order…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2022-11-11 Lioba Heimbach , Eric Schertenleib , Roger Wattenhofer

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

Opening up data produced by the Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices for public utilization can maximize their economic value. Challenges remain in the trustworthiness of the data sources and the security of the trading process,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yue Li , Ifteher Alom , Wenhai Sun , Yang Xiao

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

The Uniswap is a Decentralized Exchange (DEX) protocol that facilitates automatic token exchange without the need for traditional order books. Every pair of tokens forms a liquidity pool on Uniswap, and each token can be paired with any…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Tao Yan , Claudio J. Tessone

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

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

We find an approximate Nash equilibrium in a game between decentralized exchanges (DEXs) that compete for order flow by setting dynamic trading fees. We characterize the equilibrium via a coupled system of partial differential equations and…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-03-11 Leonardo Baggiani , Martin Herdegen , Leandro Sanchez-Betancourt

The standard approach for compensating liquidity providers on many decentralized exchanges (DEX) for serving as counter-party to swaps is through charging a small percentage of fees. The expected payoff from the cash flow of this mode of…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-09-07 Jin Hong Kuan

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