Conference Agenda

The canonical mechanism for financial asset exchange is the limit-order book. In decentralized blockchain ledgers (DeFi), costs and delays in appending new blocks to the ledger render a limit-order book impractical. Instead, a “pricing curve” is specified (e.g., the "constant product pricing function") and implemented using smart contracts deployed to the ledger. We develop a framework to study the equilibrium properties of such markets. Our framework provides new insights into how informational frictions distort liquidity provision in DeFi markets.