Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that enables users to communicate in a trust-less
manner. It revolutionizes the modes of business between organizations without the need for …

As an integral part of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, decentralized exchanges
(DEXs) with automated market maker (AMM) protocols have gained massive traction with …

Decentralized Finance (DeFi), a blockchain powered peer-to-peer financial system, is
mushrooming. Two years ago the total value locked in DeFi systems was approximately …

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 …

Blockchains, and specifically smart contracts, have promised to create fair and transparent
trading ecosystems. Unfortunately, we show that this promise has not been met. We …

Permissionless blockchains such as Bitcoin have excelled at financial services. Yet,
opportunistic traders extract monetary value from the mesh of decentralized finance (DeFi) …

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 …

Credit allows a lender to loan out surplus capital to a borrower. In the traditional economy,
credit bears the risk that the borrower may default on its debt, the lender hence requires …

In this whitepaper, we articulate a vision for the evolution of Chainlink beyond its initial
conception in the original Chainlink whitepaper. We foresee an increasingly expansive role …

We introduce Themis, a scheme for introducing fair ordering of transactions into
(permissioned) Byzantine consensus protocols with at most ƒ faulty nodes among n≥ 4ƒ+ 1 …