Bernadette Charron-Bost

CNRS senior researcher and research Fellow at LIX-CNRS

Publications & Outlooks

Contagion in Decentralized Lending Protocols: A Case Study of Compound

We study financial contagion in Compound V2, a decentralized lending protocol deployed on the Ethereum blockchain. We explain how to construct the balance sheets of Compound's liquidity pools and use...

The Economics of Constant Function Market Makers

We use microeconomic theory to describe the inner workings of Constant Function Market Makers (CFMMs). We show that standard results from consumer theory apply in this new context, endowing us with...

SoK: Constant Function Market Makers

We provide an overview of the academic literature on Automated Market Makers for Decentralized Exchanges. Our review puts an emphasis on contributions from researchers in economics and finance. We...

Rollups: a Powerful Scaling Mechanism

One of the major challenges in the world of blockchains is that of scaling up, particularly in terms of throughput, i.e. the number of transactions per second. One way to increase throughput is to use...

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