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Contagion in Decentralized Lending Protocols: A Case Study of Compound

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Abstract

We study financial contagion in Compound V2, a decentralized lending protocol deployed on the Ethereum blockchain. We explain how to construct the balance sheets of Compound's liquidity pools and use our methodology to characterize the financial network. Our analysis reveals that most users either borrow stablecoins or engage in liquidity mining. We then study the robustness of Compound through a series of stress tests, identifying the pools that are most likely to set off a cascade of defaults.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDeFi 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages55-63
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9798400702617
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Nov 2023
Event2023 Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security, DeFi 2023 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 30 Nov 2023 → …

Publication series

NameDeFi 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security

Conference

Conference2023 Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security, DeFi 2023
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period30/11/23 → …

Keywords

  • decentralized finance
  • financial contagion
  • financial network
  • stress test
  • systemic risk

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