awesome-foundations-of-DeFi
An Awesome list for resources on the foundations of Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Papers
Automated Market Makers
- Automated Market Makers That Enable New Settings: Extending Constant-Utility Cost Functions
- An Analysis of Uniswap Markets
- Improved Price Oracles: Constant Function Market Makers
- Liquidity Provider Returns in Geometric Mean Markets
- Logarithmic Market Scoring Rules for Modular Combinatorial Information Aggregation
- Automated Market Making: Theory and Practice
- Why Stake When You Can Borrow?
- DeFi Protocols for Loanable Funds:Interest Rates, Liquidity and Market Efficiency
- A Practical Liquidity-Sensitive Automated Market Maker
- When does the tail wag the dog? Curvature and market making
- Replicating Market Makers
- Optimal Fees for Geometric Mean Market Makers
- YieldSpace: An Automated Liquidity Provider for Fixed Yield Tokens
DEXs
Stablecoins
- Stablecoins 2.0: Economic Foundations and Risk-based Models
- While Stability Lasts: A Stochastic Model of Stablecoins
- (In)Stability for the Blockchain: Deleveraging Spirals and Stablecoin Attacks [
📺 video] - SoK: A Classification Framework for Stablecoin Designs
- stablecoins.wtf – Stablecoin Data-Dashboard & Educational Content about Stablecoins
Stress Testing
Collateral
Courses and Lecture Notes
Articles
- Uniswap: A Good Deal for Liquidity Providers?
- Understanding Uniswap Returns
- Uniswap -- A Unique Exchange
- Beginner’s Guide to (Getting Rekt by) Impermanent Loss
- Liquidity Mining: A User-Centric Token Distribution Strategy
Books
- Introduction to Quantitative Finance
- Options, Futures and other Derivatives
- A History of Interest Rates