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title: Liquidity Provision on DEX
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4694683/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4694683
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4694683
featured: 2024-01-17
citations: unknown
topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
---


# Liquidity Provision on DEX

Decentralized exchanges' infrastructure can lead to arbitrage losses for liquidity providers, with design changes offering limited reduction in these losses, as shown in a study using the Silicon Valley Bank collapse.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4694683
- Identifier: SSRN 4694683
- Released: 2021-03-17
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 33 (2024-01-17): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-01-17/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution

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