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Autodeleveraging as Online Learning

Autodeleveraging (ADL) is a last-resort loss socialization mechanism used by perpetual futures venues when liquidation and insurance buffers are insufficient to restore solvency. Despite the scale of perpetual futures markets, ADL has received limited formal treatment as a sequential control problem

Holy Grail Math 7.5 Rigor 8.5 ·  February 16, 2026

Autodeleveraging: Impossibilities and Optimization

Autodeleveraging (ADL) is a last-resort loss socialization mechanism for perpetual futures venues. It is triggered when solvency-preserving liquidations fail. Despite the dominance of perpetual futures in the crypto derivatives market, with over $60 trillion of volume in 2024, there has been no form

Holy Grail Math 8.5 Rigor 7 ·  November 30, 2025

An Efficient Algorithm for Optimal Routing Through Constant Function Market Makers

Constant function market makers (CFMMs) such as Uniswap have facilitated trillions of dollars of digital asset trades and have billions of dollars of liquidity. One natural question is how to optimally route trades across a network of CFMMs in order to ensure the largest possible utility (as specifi

Holy Grail Math 8 Rigor 7 ·  February 9, 2023

A Curationary Tale: Logarithmic Regret in DeFi Lending via Dynamic Pricing

Lending within decentralized finance (DeFi) has facilitated over $100 billion of loans since 2020. A long-standing inefficiency in DeFi lending protocols such as Aave is the use of static pricing mechanisms for loans. These mechanisms have been shown to maximize neither welfare nor revenue for part

Lab Rats Math 8 Rigor 3 ·  March 23, 2025

How much should you pay for restaking security?

Restaking protocols have aggregated billions of dollars of security by utilizing token incentives and payments. A natural question to ask is: How much security do restaked services \emph{really} need to purchase? To answer this question, we expand a model of Durvasula and Roughgarden [DR24] that inc

Lab Rats Math 8 Rigor 2.5 ·  August 1, 2024

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