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Auto.gov: Learning-based Governance for Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Jiahua Xu, Yebo Feng, Daniel Perez +1
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is an integral component of the blockchain ecosystem, enabling a range of financial activities through smart-contract-based protocols. Traditional DeFi…
Dissimilar Redundancy in DeFi
Daniel Perez, Lewis Gudgeon
The meteoric rise of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has been accompanied by a plethora of frequent and often financially devastating attacks on its protocols There have been over 70…
SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Sam M. Werner, Daniel Perez, Lewis Gudgeon +3
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, n…
Liquidations: DeFi on a Knife-edge
Daniel Perez, Sam M. Werner, Jiahua Xu +1
The trustless nature of permissionless blockchains renders overcollateralization a key safety component relied upon by decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. Nonetheless, factors…
DeFi Protocols for Loanable Funds: Interest Rates, Liquidity and Market Efficiency
Lewis Gudgeon, Sam M. Werner, Daniel Perez +1
We coin the term *Protocols for Loanable Funds (PLFs)* to refer to protocols which establish distributed ledger-based markets for loanable funds. PLFs are emerging as one of the ma…
Step on the Gas? A Better Approach for Recommending the Ethereum Gas Price
Sam M. Werner, Paul J. Pritz, Daniel Perez
In the Ethereum network, miners are incentivized to include transactions in a block depending on the gas price specified by the sender. The sender of a transaction therefore faces…