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Decentralized finance (DeFi) applications depend on accurate price oracles to ensure secure transactions, yet these oracles are highly vulnerable to manipulation, enabling attackers to exploit smart contract vulnerabilities for unfair asset…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Bo Gao , Yuan Wang , Qingsong Wei , Yong Liu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , David Lo

We consider Geometric Mean Market Makers -- a special type of Decentralized Exchange -- with two types of users: liquidity takers and arbitrageurs. Liquidity takers trade at prices that can create arbitrage opportunities, while arbitrageurs…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-03-21 Masaaki Fukasawa , Basile Maire , Marcus Wunsch

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

Liquidation of collateral are the primary safeguard for solvency of lending protocols in decentralized finance. However, the mechanics of liquidations expose these protocols to predatory price manipulations and other forms of Maximal…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-13 Agathe Sadeghi , Zachary Feinstein

Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are essential in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) as they match liquidity supply with demand. They function through liquidity providers (LPs) who deposit assets into liquidity pools. However, the asset trading…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Viraj Nadkarni , Sanjeev Kulkarni , Pramod Viswanath

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

Financial options are fundamental to traditional markets, enabling strategies ranging from hedging to speculating. Yet, while the Automated Market Maker paradigm has revolutionized decentralized spot markets, no equivalent standard has…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-20 Maxim Bichuch , Zachary Feinstein

An automated market maker (AMM) provides a method for creating a decentralized exchange on the blockchain. For this purpose, individual investors lend liquidity to the AMM pool in exchange for a stream of fees earned from its operations as…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-30 Maxim Bichuch , Zachary Feinstein

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

Decentralized finance (DeFi) borrowing and lending platforms are crucial to the decentralized economy, involving two main participants: lenders who provide assets for interest and borrowers who offer collateral exceeding their debt and pay…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Mahsa Bastankhah , Viraj Nadkarni , Xuechao Wang , Chi Jin , Sanjeev Kulkarni , Pramod Viswanath

Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are a central component of decentralized exchanges, yet their equilibrium foundations and microeconomic mechanisms remain incompletely understood. This paper develops a dynamic equilibrium framework for…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-10 Chengqi Zang , Zhenghui Wang , Weitong Zhang

We investigate the behavior of liquidity providers (LPs) by modeling a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) based on Uniswap v3. LPs with heterogeneous characteristics choose optimal liquidity positions subject to uncertainty…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-16 Erhan Bayraktar , Asaf Cohen , April Nellis

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

Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs) are pivotal applications in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) landscape, aiming to facilitate trustless cryptocurrency trading by relying on smart contracts and blockchain networks. The developments in the DEXs…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Mohammad Ali Asef , Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini Bamakan

In the ever evolving landscape of decentralized finance automated market makers (AMMs) play a key role: they provide a market place for trading assets in a decentralized manner. For so-called bluechip pairs, arbitrage activity provides a…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-16 Abe Alexander , Lars Fritz

This paper develops a rigorous mathematical framework for analyzing Concentrated Liquidity Market Makers (CLMMs) in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) within a continuous-time setting. We model the evolution of liquidity profiles as…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-12-25 Shen-Ning Tung , Tai-Ho Wang

We address the liquidation problem arising from the credit risk management in decentralised finance (DeFi) by formulating it as an ergodic optimal control problem. In decentralised derivatives exchanges, liquidation is triggered whenever…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-12-02 Jialun Cao , David Šiška

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

In decentralized finance ("DeFi"), automated market makers (AMMs) enable traders to programmatically exchange one asset for another. Such trades are enabled by the assets deposited by liquidity providers (LPs). The goal of this paper is to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jason Milionis , Ciamac C. Moallemi , Tim Roughgarden

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