2023/11/15 by Adithya Bhaskara, Bhaskara, Adithya, Rafael Frongillo +4
Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Auction Theory and Applications #Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Financial Markets and Investment Strategies #Stochastic processes and financial applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2311.08725
openalex publication_date 2023/11/15 · openalex created_date 2023/11/17 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Liquidity provisioning in automated market makers is the practice of recruiting third-party liquidity providers (LPs) to contribute assets to the market in exchange for fees skimmed off of trades. This paper introduces a general framework for liquidity provisioning in cost function prediction markets. Our most general protocol allows LPs to submit or update an arbitrary cost function that specifies their liquidity over the entire price space. We show that our protocol encapsulates several notions of running market makers in parallel, which we prove to be equivalent. We also recover existing protocols from decentralized finance as special cases. In our protocol, liquidity can be expressed as a matrix-valued function, which we argue is necessary with three or more securities. Due to this inherent multidimensionality, the design of trading fees with three or more securities is nontrivial: we show that natural axioms on the design of these fees are incompatible.