Sok: Decentralized exchanges (dex) with automated market maker (amm) protocols

J Xu, K Paruch, S Cousaert, Y Feng - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
As an integral part of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, decentralized exchanges
(DEXs) with automated market maker (AMM) protocols have gained massive traction with …

A multivocal literature review of decentralized finance: Current knowledge and future research avenues

V Gramlich, T Guggenberger, M Principato… - Electronic Markets, 2023 - Springer
While decentralized finance (DeFi) has the potential to emulate and, indeed, outperform
existing financial systems, it remains a complex phenomenon yet to be extensively …

Blockchain large language models

Y Gai, L Zhou, K Qin, D Song, A Gervais - arxiv preprint arxiv:2304.12749, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a dynamic, real-time approach to detecting anomalous blockchain
transactions. The proposed tool, BlockGPT, generates tracing representations of blockchain …

Sok: Decentralized finance (defi) attacks

L Zhou, X **ong, J Ernstberger… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within just four years, the blockchain-based Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has
accumulated a peak total value locked (TVL) of more than 253 billion USD. This surge in …

zkbridge: Trustless cross-chain bridges made practical

T **e, J Zhang, Z Cheng, F Zhang, Y Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Blockchains have seen growing traction with cryptocurrencies reaching a market cap of over
1 trillion dollars, major institution investors taking interests, and global impacts on …

Understanding security issues in the NFT ecosystem

D Das, P Bose, N Ruaro, C Kruegel… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have emerged as a way to collect digital art as well as an
investment vehicle. Despite having been popularized only recently, NFT markets have …

Financial crimes in web3-empowered metaverse: Taxonomy, countermeasures, and opportunities

J Wu, K Lin, D Lin, Z Zheng, H Huang… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
At present, the concept of metaverse has sparked widespread attention from the public to
major industries. With the rapid development of blockchain and Web3 technologies, the …

Quantifying blockchain extractable value: How dark is the forest?

K Qin, L Zhou, A Gervais - 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Permissionless blockchains such as Bitcoin have excelled at financial services. Yet,
opportunistic traders extract monetary value from the mesh of decentralized finance (DeFi) …

The technology of decentralized finance (DeFi)

R Auer, B Haslhofer, S Kitzler, P Saggese, F Victor - Digital Finance, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a new financial paradigm that leverages distributed
ledger technologies to offer services such as lending, investing, or exchanging cryptoassets …

High-frequency trading on decentralized on-chain exchanges

L Zhou, K Qin, CF Torres, DV Le… - 2021 IEEE Symposium …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) allow parties to participate in financial markets while
retaining full custody of their funds. However, the transparency of blockchain-based DEX in …