Decentralized Finance

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Decentralized finance studies financial services built on blockchains, where smart contracts let users trade, borrow, lend, and manage assets without traditional intermediaries. Work covers automated market maker liquidity and trade execution, on-chain credit and systemic risk, governance, fraud detection, and smart-contract security. Researchers use transaction and event analysis, graph and time-series models, reinforcement learning, simulation, and formal or execution-based checks of contracts and AI agents. A central challenge is making systems efficient and safe under changing protocols, adversarial behavior, and real transaction costs, since strong benchmark or simulation results may not transfer to live use.

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  1. Graphlet-based Decentralized Finance Transaction Method Classification

    Oct 16, 2026Célestin Coquidé, Alessio Brini, Natkamon TovanichDecentralized Finance

    UTINAM Institute, UMR 6213 CNRS, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, Besançon, France · Duke University, Durham, NC, USA · TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

  2. DeFiRank: Federated Pairwise Ranking for Governance in Decentralized Financial Networks

    Oct 9, 2026Zahra Batool, Michael Duchesne, Kaiwen Zhang +1Decentralized FinanceLearning to Rank

    Ecole de technologie sup´erieure, Montr´eal, Canada · Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Montr´eal, Canada · T-RIZE GROUP, Montr´eal, Canada

  3. Werracle: Sub-Cent Intra-Block AI Reflex Oracles and Flash-Loan Circuit Breakers for EVM Smart Contracts

    Sep 25, 2026Volkan Dağlı, Zerrin Dağlı, Dağhan DağlıDecentralized Finance

    ITOUCH Bili¸im Sistemleri Ltd. S¸ti., C¸ukurova Teknokent, Adana, Türkiye · Anadolu University, Eski¸sehir, Türkiye · Mersin University, Mersin, Türkiye +1

  4. ETH-TraceBench: A Large-Scale Event-Stream Benchmark for Ethereum DeFi under Temporal, Protocol, and Contract Shift

    Sep 20, 2026Kemal Kirtac, Carsten MapleDistribution Shift RobustnessBenchmark Auditing

    Department of Computer Science, University College London 66–72 Gower Street, London WC1E 6EA, United Kingdom · Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom · WMG, University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom

  5. SAiFE-gym: Model-based Environments for Automated Market Making with Concentrated Liquidity

    Sep 15, 2026Georgios Chionas, Charalampos Kleitsikas, Stefanos Leonardos +2Reinforcement LearningDecentralized Finance

    University of Oxford Oxford, UK

  6. DeFiFlowBench: Benchmarking and Improving Safe Executability in Natural-Language DeFi Workflow Synthesis

    Sep 10, 2026Abhinav Rajeev Kumar, Harshit Arora, Varun Singh +1LLM Safety BenchmarksLLM Guardrails

    SRM Institute of Science and Technology

  7. DeFiFusion: Combining Transaction Events with Smart Contracts to Detect Price Manipulation Attacks

    Sep 10, 2026Rui Cao, Shaojing Fan, Liming Fang +3Financial Fraud DetectionDecentralized Finance

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), National University of Singapore, Singapore · School of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China +2

  8. zScore-N: A Neural Network for On-Chain Wallet Reputation Scoring

    Sep 8, 2026Girish G N, Ashutosh Sahoo, Akshay SP +2Decentralized Finance

    Zeru AI

  9. Catching the Rug: Early Prediction of Fraudulent Memecoins on Solana via Machine Learning

    Aug 20, 2026Jianghai Li, Pavel Kuznetsov, Yury Yanovich +2Financial Fraud DetectionDecentralized Finance

    Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia · Moscow State University Moscow, Russia · Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Moscow, Russia +2

  10. Concentrated Liquidity Provision: a Reinforcement Learning Perspective

    Aug 19, 2026Georgios Chionas, Charalampos Kleitsikas, Stefanos Leonardos +2Decentralized FinanceAlgorithmic Trading

    University of Oxford Oxford, UK

  11. PACE: Policy-Attested Contract Execution for Safe AI Agents in Decentralized Finance

    Aug 18, 2026Rabimba Karanjai, Yang Lu, Richard Williamson +5AI Agent SafetyRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Larry · University of Houston, USA · PayPal, USA +1

  12. zLend: A Dual-Scope Cash-Flow Reconstruction Framework for On-Chain Credit Underwriting

    Aug 17, 2026Girish G N, Ashutosh Sahoo, Akshay SP +2Decentralized FinanceCredit Scoring

    Zeru AI

  13. ZAPs: A Reward Attribution Framework for DeFi Ecosystems with Adversarial-Robust Scoring via Parallel Anomaly Ensemble Detection

    Jul 30, 2026Girish G N, Ashutosh Sahoo, Ajay Bhat +4Adversarial RobustnessFinancial Fraud Detection

    Zeru Finance · The Ohio State University, USA

  14. Reinforcement Learning for Execution under Dynamic Fees in a Closed-Loop DEX Simulator

    Jul 12, 2026Wen-Ting WangDecentralized FinanceFinance

  15. MPFlow: Learning Budgeted Max-Flow Optimization on the Lightning Network with Deep Graph Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 9, 2026Harrison Rush, Vincent Davis, Simone Antonelli +3Combinatorial OptimizationDecentralized Finance

    Amboss Technologies, Green Cove Springs, USA · CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security · Stillmark, San Francisco, USA +1

  16. CyberChainBench: Can AI Agents Secure Smart Contracts Against Real-World On-Chain Vulnerabilities?

    Jun 24, 2026Jintao Huang, Fengqing Jiang, Radha Poovendran +1Automated Program RepairSoftware Vulnerability Detection

    1The Ohio State University · University of Washington

  17. DeXposure-Claw: An Agentic System for DeFi Risk Supervision

    Jun 17, 2026Aijie Shu, Bowei Chen, Wenbin Wu +2Financial ServicesAI Agent Monitoring

    University of Edinburgh · University of Glasgow · University of Cambridge

  18. Post-Quantum Secure Federated DeFi for Inclusive Banking

    Jun 9, 2026Swati Sachan, Dale Fickett, Richard Buchinger +1Financial ServicesDecentralized Finance

    AI FinTech Group, University of Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK · University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA · Chain Crunch Labs based in Finsbury, London, UK +1

  19. Post-Rejection Follow-up Sampling: Measuring Outcomes of Rejected Decisions in Algorithmic DEX Trading

    Jun 6, 2026Arati Uday KamatCounterfactual EvaluationDecentralized Finance

    Independent researcher, United States

  20. Paper Agents, Paper Gains: An Empirical Analysis of DeFi Investment Agents

    May 27, 2026Jay Yu, Amy Zhao, Danning SuiFinancial ServicesAI Agent Evaluation

    Pantera Capital · Stanford University · IC3 +1

  21. Intent2Tx: Benchmarking LLMs for Translating Natural Language Intents into Ethereum Transactions

    Apr 30, 2026Zhuoran Pan, Yue Li, Zhi Guan +2Financial ServicesLLM Evaluation

    School of Computer Science Peking University Beijing, PA 100871 · Taiyuan University of Technology Taiyuan, Shanxi, PA 030024 · Peking University Beijing, PA 100871

  22. Towards Event-Aware Forecasting in DeFi: Insights from On-chain Automated Market Maker Protocols

    Apr 22, 2026Huaiyu Jia, Jiehshun You, Yizhi Luo +2Event Time PredictionTemporal Point Processes

    HKUST(GZ) · GUANGZHOU, China · Hong Kong Polytechnic University +1

  23. From Risk to Rescue: An Agentic Survival Analysis Framework for Liquidation Prevention

    Apr 16, 2026Fernando Spadea, Oshani SeneviratneFinancial ServicesDecentralized Finance

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY, USA

  24. Optimal Adaptive Market Making: A Theoretical Framework for High-Yield Liquidity Provision in Perpetual Futures Markets

    Apr 5, 2026Minmin Zeng, Yi LiuAlgorithmic TradingDecentralized Finance

    tsaftech.

  25. Knowdit: Agentic Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection with Auditing Knowledge Summarization

    Mar 27, 2026Ziqiao Kong, Wanxu Xia, Chong Wang +6Financial ServicesSoftware Vulnerability Detection

    Nanyang Technological University · Beihang University · Independent Researcher +4

  26. Early Rug Pull Warning for BSC Meme Tokens via Multi-Granularity Wash-Trading Pattern Profiling

    Mar 14, 2026Dingding Cao, Bianbian Jiao, Jingzong Yang +2Financial Fraud DetectionDecentralized Finance

    School of Big Data, Baoshan University, Baoshan 678000, Yunnan, China · School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

  27. Grassroots Bonds: Financing by the People, for the People

    Mar 14, 2026Ehud ShapiroFinanceDecentralized Finance

    London School of Economics, UK · Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

  28. RAmmStein: Regime Adaptation in Mean-reverting Markets with Stein Thresholds -- Optimal Impulse Control in Concentrated AMMs

    Feb 23, 2026Pranay AnchuriHJB EquationsDecentralized Finance

    Offchain Labs

  29. DeXposure-FM: A Time-series, Graph Foundation Model for Credit Exposures and Stability on Decentralized Financial Networks

    Feb 3, 2026Aijie Shu, Wenbin Wu, Gbenga Ibikunle +1Financial ServicesDecentralized Finance

    School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom · Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom · Business School, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom +1

  30. TxSum: User-Centered Ethereum Transaction Understanding with Micro-Level Semantic Grounding

    Dec 7, 2025Zifan Peng, Jingyi Zheng, Yule Liu +8Financial ServicesGrounded Text Generation

    1Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · 3Independent Researcher · University of North Texas +2