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Marginal Price Optimization

We introduce a new framework for optimal routing and arbitrage in AMM driven markets. This framework improves on the original best-practice convex optimization by restricting the search to the boundary of the optimal space. We can parameterize this boundary using a set of prices, and a potentially v

Holy Grail Math 7.5 Rigor 6 ·  February 12, 2025

The Quantitative Finance Aspects of Automated Market Markers in DeFi

Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are a class of smart contracts on Ethereum and other blockchains that “make markets” autonomously. In other words, AMMs stand ready to trade with other market participants that interact with them, at the conditions determined by the AMM. In this this paper, which relie

Lab Rats Math 6.5 Rigor 3 ·  December 21, 2022

DeFi's Concentrated Liquidity From Scratch

The scope of this article includes the three preeminent descriptions of concentrated liquidity from Bancor (2020 and 2022), and Uniswap (2021), as well as three additional descriptions informed by trigonometric analysis of the same. The purpose of this contribution is to organize the seminal and der

Lab Rats Math 6 Rigor 2 ·  April 30, 2024

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