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title: Market Power in Defi
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5224672/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5224672
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5224672
featured: 2025-04-23
citations: unknown
topic: Crypto & DeFi
---


# Market Power in Defi

The need for transaction privacy in decentralized finance (DeFi) leads to the rise of powerful intermediaries, a Staff Report suggests.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5224672
- Identifier: SSRN 5224672
- Released: 2025-04-21
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 94 (2025-04-23): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-04-23/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Crypto & DeFi

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