Ethereum
Ace high or busted flush? Digital Asset and the big bet on DLT
Blockchain pioneer’s bumpy journey raises questions over future of distributed ledger technology in finance
Beyond trustless: strong governance in crypto is needed
To build trust, the crypto ecosystem can borrow proven governance principles from TradFi
Crypto custody faces regulatory death-roll
New measures to safeguard digital assets threaten to squeeze the life out of custody business, insiders fear
TMX eyes spot crypto trading launch next year
Exchange group would become first in North America to offer direct access to spot market in digital assets
CFTC chair gloomy over crypto legislation prospects
FIA Boca 2023: Behnam also asks Congress to grant more powers to regulate third-party tech providers
Crypto gets to grips with interest rate swaps
New derivatives provide synthetic access to staking yields and are being used in structured products
Stablecoins: good as the buck, or breaking the buck?
Collateral concerns and iffy auditing have raised fears of a ‘de-pegging’ event – and possible contagion across crypto and beyond
FTX failure resets US crypto legislative programme
Lawmakers expected to seek stronger customer protection; industry wants flexibility for DeFi
Crypto structured products come of age
After some growing pains, the space is now offering the type of structures seen in TradFi equities markets
Quants search for way to size crypto bets
Standard models say as much as 4% of a diversified portfolio could go into digital assets
Are decentralised exchanges the future for trading?
Success of blockchain venues has implications even beyond crypto
Do DEXs work? Using Uniswap V2 to explore the effectiveness of decentralized exchanges
The authors investigate the effectiveness of the Ether–Tether liquidity pool on the Uniswap V2 and note that cointegration between the price set by the liquidity pool and its price elsewhere is a necessary condition of effectiveness.
The closer quants look, the less diversifying crypto appears
Analysis seems to confirm that the asset class is not an effective diversification play
The stETH slide and what it means for crypto liquidity
Q&A: Automated market-making may have contributed to depegging, says a crypto fund manager
Why even the safest stablecoins could fail
Settlement delays, insolvency risks mean collateralised coins could falter
Podcast: Lipton on (un)stablecoins and FX market-making
Veteran quant has long warned about fundamental flaws in algorithmic stablecoins
Automated market-making for fiat currencies
A framework to exchange fiat currencies on-chain consistently with off-chain prices is presented