Leveraging machine learning for multichain defi fraud detection

G Palaiokrassas, S Scherrers, I Ofeidis… - … on Blockchain and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart contracts across Blockchains provide an ecosystem of decentralized finance (DeFi),
with a total locked value which had exceeded 160B USD. While DeFi comes with high …

Decentralized lending

F Irresberger, K John, F Saleh - The elgar companion to …, 2024 - elgaronline.com
Borrowing and lending of cash and other assets is an important function in any financial
system. Households require mortgages and personal loans to fund purchases of real estate …

Defi lending during the merge

L Heimbach, E Schertenleib, R Wattenhofer - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Lending protocols in decentralized finance enable the permissionless exchange of capital
from lenders to borrowers without relying on a trusted third party for clearing or market …

Leveraging federated learning for unsecured loan risk assessment on decentralized finance lending platforms

S Wan, D Hu, J Yan, J Hu, X Yang - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study proposes a novel privacy-preserving unsecured loan risk assessment system that
allows decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platforms to offer loans without collateral. This …

Machine Learning in DeFi: Credit Risk Assessment and Liquidation Prediction

G Palaiokrassas, S Scherrers, E Makri… - … on Blockchain and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the application of Machine Learning for credit risk assessment in
Multichain Decentralized Finance (DeFi). With DeFi expanding its scope, the need for …

[HTML][HTML] Phase transitions in debt recycling

S Aufiero, P Forer, P Vivo, F Caccioli… - Journal of Economic …, 2025 - Elsevier
Debt recycling is an aggressive equity extraction strategy that potentially permits faster
repayment of a mortgage. While equity progressively builds up as the mortgage is repaid …

Contagion in decentralized lending protocols: A case study of compound

N Tovanich, M Kassoul, S Weidenholzer… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We study financial contagion in Compound V2, a decentralized lending protocol deployed
on the Ethereum blockchain. We explain how to construct the balance sheets of …

Monetary policy, digital assets, and defi activity

A Kyriazis, I Ofeidis, G Palaiokrassas… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper studies the effects of unexpected changes in US monetary policy on digital asset
returns. We use event study regressions and find that monetary policy surprises negatively …

[PDF][PDF] Phase transitions in debt recycling

P Vivo, P Forer, S Aufiero, S Bartolucci… - Journal of Economic …, 2025 - kclpure.kcl.ac.uk
Debt recycling is an aggressive equity extraction strategy that potentially permits faster
repayment of a mortgage. While equity progressively builds up as the mortgage is repaid …

Computer Science Abstractions to Help Reason About Decentralized Stablecoin Design

B Charoenwong, RM Kirby, J Reiter - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computer science uses abstractions as a tool for reasoning. It is no surprise that computer
science might have something valuable to lend to the world of decentralized stablecoin …