
Distilling DeFi Primitives with Guillermo, Alex and Tarun
About this episode
This week, Anna catches up with Guillermo Angeris, Alex Evans and Tarun. The conversation charts their research on CFMMs, AMMs and related primitives and explores the goals and methodology of this work. They also revisit the topic of private AMMs and specifically their recent work on using differential privacy to achieve a more private system.
Here are some links for the episode:
- Paper: Replicating Market Makers
- Paper: How Liveness Separates CFMMs and Order Books
- Paper: Replicating Monotonic Payoffs Without Collateral
- Paper: Differential Privacy in Constant Function Market Makers
- Paper: Constant Function Market Makers: Multi-Asset Trades via Convex Optimization
- Paper: Replicating Market Makers
- Paper: A Note on Bundle Profit Maximization
- Paper: A Note on Borrowing Constant Function Market Maker Shares
- Paper: When does the tail wag the dog? Curvature and market making
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