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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…
Revisiting Transactional Statistics of High-scalability Blockchains
Daniel Perez, Jiahua Xu, Benjamin Livshits
Scalability has been a bottleneck for major blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Despite the significantly improved scalability claimed by several high--profile blockchain pro…
The Decentralized Financial Crisis
Lewis Gudgeon, Daniel Perez, Dominik Harz +2
The Global Financial Crisis of 2008, caused by the accumulation of excessive financial risk, inspired Satoshi Nakamoto to create Bitcoin. Now, more than ten years later, Decentrali…
Fast-Fourier-Forecasting Resource Utilisation in Distributed Systems
Paul J. Pritz, Daniel Perez, Kin K. Leung
Distributed computing systems often consist of hundreds of nodes, executing tasks with different resource requirements. Efficient resource provisioning and task scheduling in such…