SoK: Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) with Automated Market Maker (AMM) protocols
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12732
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12732
BLOCKEYE: Hunting For DeFi Attacks on Blockchain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02873
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02873
On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02228
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02228
arXiv.org
On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in...
In this paper, we investigate two methods that allow us to automatically create profitable DeFi trades, one well-suited to arbitrage and the other applicable to more complicated settings. We first...
SciviK: A Versatile Framework for Specifying and Verifying Smart Contracts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02209
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02209
A theory of Automated Market Makers in DeFi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11350
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11350
arXiv.org
A theory of Automated Market Makers in DeFi
Automated market makers (AMMs) are one of the most prominent decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. AMMs allow users to trade different types of crypto-tokens, without the need to find a...
How Decentralized is the Governance of Blockchain-based Finance: Empirical Evidence from four Governance Token Distributions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10096
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10096
Measuring Asset Composability as a Proxy for DeFi Integration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04227
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04227
Flashot: A Snapshot of Flash Loan Attack on DeFi Ecosystem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00626
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00626
arXiv.org
Flashot: A Snapshot of Flash Loan Attack on DeFi Ecosystem
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...
SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08778
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08778
arXiv.org
SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Decentralized Finance (DeFi), a blockchain powered peer-to-peer financial system, is mushrooming. Two years ago the total value locked in DeFi systems was approximately 700m USD, now, as of April...
DeFi-ning DeFi: Challenges & Pathway
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05589
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05589
arXiv.org
DeFi-ning DeFi: Challenges & Pathway
The decentralized and trustless nature of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology leads to a shift in the digital world. The possibility to execute small programs, called smart contracts, on...
Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05511
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05511
Decentralized Finance, Centralized Ownership? An Iterative Mapping Process to Measure Protocol Token Distribution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09306
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09306
Towards A First Step to Understand Flash Loan and Its Applications in DeFi Ecosystem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12252
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12252
AMR:Autonomous Coin Mixer with Privacy Preserving Reward Distribution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01056
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01056
Automated Market Makers for Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01676
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01676
arXiv.org
Automated Market Makers for Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
This paper compares mathematical models for automated market makers including logarithmic market scoring rule (LMSR), liquidity sensitive LMSR (LS-LMSR), constant product/mean/sum, and others. It...
Decentralized Custody Scheme with Game-Theoretic Security
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10895
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10895
arXiv.org
Decentralized Asset Custody Scheme with Security against Rational Adversary
Asset custody is a core financial service in which the custodian holds in-safekeeping assets on behalf of the client. Although traditional custody service is typically endorsed by centralized...
DeFi Protocols for Loanable Funds: Interest Rates, Liquidity and Market Efficiency
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13922
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13922