Measuring Asset Composability as a Proxy for DeFi Integration

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Decentralized financial (DeFi) applications on the Ethereum blockchain are highly interoperable because they share a single state in a deterministic computational environment. Stakeholders can deposit claims on assets, referred to as ‘liquidity shares’, across applications producing effects equivalent to rehypothecation in traditional financial systems. We seek to understand the degree to which this practice may contribute to financial integration on Ethereum by examining transactions in ‘composed’ derivatives for the assets DAI, USDC, USDT, ETH and tokenized BTC for the full set of 344.8 million Ethereum transactions computed in 2020. We identify a salient trend for ‘composing’ assets in multiple sequential generations of derivatives and comment on potential systemic implications for the Ethereum network.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFinancial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2021 International Workshops - CoDecFin, DeFi, VOTING, and WTSC, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsMatthew Bernhard, Andrea Bracciali, Lewis Gudgeon, Thomas Haines, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Daniel Perez, Massimiliano Sala, Sam Werner
Number of pages6
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2021
Pages109-114
ISBN (Print)9783662639573
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event2nd Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance, CoDecFin 2021, 1st Workshop on Decentralized Finance, DeFi 2021, 6th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting, VOTING 2021, and 5th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts, WTSC 2021, held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 5 Mar 20215 Mar 2021

Conference

Conference2nd Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance, CoDecFin 2021, 1st Workshop on Decentralized Finance, DeFi 2021, 6th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting, VOTING 2021, and 5th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts, WTSC 2021, held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2021
ByVirtual, Online
Periode05/03/202105/03/2021
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume12676
ISSN0302-9743

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, International Financial Cryptography Association.

    Research areas

  • Asset composability, Blockchain, DeFi, Integration risks

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