Search Results for author: Sam M. Werner

Found 4 papers, 3 papers with code

SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

no code implementations21 Jan 2021 Sam M. Werner, Daniel Perez, Lewis Gudgeon, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Dominik Harz, William J. Knottenbelt

Decentralized Finance (DeFi), a blockchain powered peer-to-peer financial system, is mushrooming.

Cryptography and Security General Economics Economics

Liquidations: DeFi on a Knife-edge

1 code implementation28 Sep 2020 Daniel Perez, Sam M. Werner, Jiahua Xu, Benjamin Livshits

We find that liquidators' efficiency has improved significantly over time, with currently over 70% of liquidable positions being immediately liquidated.

DeFi Protocols for Loanable Funds: Interest Rates, Liquidity and Market Efficiency

1 code implementation11 Jun 2020 Lewis Gudgeon, Sam M. Werner, Daniel Perez, William J. Knottenbelt

We coin the term *Protocols for Loanable Funds (PLFs)* to refer to protocols which establish distributed ledger-based markets for loanable funds.

Step on the Gas? A Better Approach for Recommending the Ethereum Gas Price

3 code implementations7 Mar 2020 Sam M. Werner, Paul J. Pritz, Daniel Perez

In the Ethereum network, miners are incentivized to include transactions in a block depending on the gas price specified by the sender.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

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