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Research

Our research team is composed by leading researchers in algorithmic trading. We value open science as a way to move decentralized finance forward.

Discover our recent papers below:

Price-Aware Automated Market Makers: Models Beyond Brownian Prices and Static Liquidity​

In this paper, we introduce a suite of models for price-aware automated market making platforms willing to optimize their quotes.

These models incorporate advanced price dynamics, including stochastic volatility, jumps, and microstructural price models based on Hawkes processes. Additionally, we address the variability in demand from liquidity takers through models that employ either Hawkes or Markov-modulated Poisson processes.

Each model is analyzed with particular emphasis placed on the complexity of the numerical methods required to compute optimal quotes.

Automated Market Makers: Mean-Variance Analysis of LPs Payoffs and Design of Pricing Functions​

With the emergence of decentralized finance, new trading mechanisms called Automated Market Makers have appeared. The most popular Automated Market Makers are Constant Function Market Makers. They have been studied both theoretically and empirically. In particular, the concept of impermanent loss has emerged and explains part of the profit and loss of liquidity providers in Constant Function Market Makers.

In this paper, we propose another mechanism in which price discovery does not solely rely on liquidity takers but also on an external exchange rate or price oracle. We also propose to compare the different mechanisms from the point of view of liquidity providers by using a mean / variance analysis of their profit and loss compared to that of agents holding assets outside of Automated Market Makers.

In particular, inspired by Markowitz' modern portfolio theory, we manage to obtain an efficient frontier for the performance of liquidity providers in the idealized case of a perfect oracle. Beyond that idealized case, we show that even when the oracle is lagged and in the presence of adverse selection by liquidity takers and systematic arbitrageurs, optimized oracle-based mechanisms perform better than popular Constant Function Market Makers.