2_DeFi.md

📚 Research Resources on DeFi, Intents, and Fee Markets

📙 (Multidimensional) Fee Markets

• StableFees: A Predictable Fee Market for Cryptocurrencies, by Basy et al.
• Bayesian Mechanism Design for Blockchain Transaction Fee Allocation, by Chen et al.
• A Short Note on Setting Swap Parameters, by Shah et al.

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📗 Mechanism Design

DAG Mechanisms

• MEV Protection on a DAG, Dahlia Malkhi

LVR

• LVR reduction via Auction-Managed AMM
• LVR reduction via Function-Maximizing AMM

MPC-Assisted Models

• Renegade Protocol Whitepaper
• What Can Cryptography Do For Decentralized Mechanism Design?, by Shi et al. (with bayesian incentives)

Privacy

• The Limits of AMM Privacy and MEV, by Tarun Chitra

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📕 Orderflow Auctions

1️⃣ Intents

• Decoding Intents, by Grace Deng
• Intents, MEV, and Batch Auctions, by Cookies
• Intent-Based Architectures and Their Risks, by Quintus Kilbourn et al.
• Searcher Limit Order Book, by Jump_ Crypto
• Vitalik's take on MEV Minimization through Intent-based Swaps
• EVIntent - Darkmatter in MEV, by propellerheads

2️⃣ Oracles Extractable Value

• Oracles and the New Frontier for Application-Owned Orderflow Auctions, by Multicoin Capital

3️⃣ Protocols Leveraging Intents

CowSwap

• CoW Protocol

Uniswap 4

• UniswapX

Anoma

• Anoma, A unified Architecture for full-stack decentralized applications, by Goes et al.

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📘 Strategies for Agents

1️⃣ Arbitrage

• Arbitrage as a Convex optimization problem on Solana, by ChorusOne