Research
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The Costs of Swapping on the Uniswap Protocol
Accepted to Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference 2024
Austin Adams, Benjamin Y Chan, Sarit Markovich, Xin Wan -
UniswapX
Hayden Adams, Noah Zinsmeister, Mark Toda, Emily Williams, Xin Wan, Matteo Leibowitz, Will Pote, Allen Lin, Eric Zhong, Zhiyuan Yang, Riley Campbell, Alex Karys, Dan Robinson -
FLAIR: A Metric for Liquidity Provider Competitiveness in Automated Market Makers
Jason Milionis, Xin Wan, Austin Adams -
On-Chain Foreign Exchange and Cross-Border Payments
Presented at Workshop at CoDefFin'23
Austin Adams, Mary-Catherine Lader, Gordon Liao, David Puth, Xin Wan -
Uniswap v3 TWAP Oracles in Proof of Stake
Presented at Workshop at FC'23
Austin Adams, Xin Wan, Noah Zinsmeister -
Just-In-Time Liquidity on the Uniswap Protocol
Presented at DuneCon 2022
Xin Wan, Austin Adams
Positions & Services
- Advisory Committee @ Design of Blockchain-Enabled Markets Conference, 2024
- Program Committee Chair @ The Latest on DeFi Research (TLDR), 2024
- Program Committee @ ACM CCS Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security, 2023
- Judge @ ETHGlobal Paris Hackathon (July 21 - 23, 2023)
Media
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Research Hour Series By Uniswap Labs
Co-hosting with Austin Adams
Selected Talks
2024
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The Costs of Swapping on the Uniswap Protocol
@ Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference 2024 [Youtube video]
2023
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Economic Security of Onchain Oracles
@ DeFi Security Summit 2023 [Youtube video]
@ Blockchain Oracle Summit 2023 [Youtube video]
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Facilitating On-chain FX and Cross-border Payments with Stablecoins @ Stable Summit 2023
[Youtube video] -
Hyper Fragmented Liquidity, Fully Adversarial Mempool, Wat Do?
@ Ethereum Community Conference 2023 [Youtube video (shortened)]
@ CryptoEconDay Paris 2023 [Youtube video (full)]
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Fifty Shades of MEV Mitigation (Lightning talk) @ DeFi Cafe Paris 2023
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Onchain Foreign Exchange Workshop @ CoDecFin'23
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TWAP manipulation under Ethereum POS Workshop @ FC'23
- Guest Lecture @ HK PolyU (Prof. Daniel Luo's class)
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Overview of Onchain Liquidity Provision @ ETH Denver
[Youtube video] -
Next Growthpole of DeFi (Panel Discussion) @ ETH Denver
[Youtube video]
2022
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Data Science On Uniswap v3 & Just-in-time Liquidity @ DuneCon 2022
[Youtube video]
Professional Experiences
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Dec 2021 - Current - Research Scientist @ Uniswap Labs
- Jul 202 - Dec 2021 - Quantitative Researcher @ AQR Capital Management
- Jul 2015 - Jun 2018 - Trader @ KGS Alpha Capital Markets
Education
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Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
Master in Financial Mathematics
Princeton University -
Sep 2011 ~ May 2015
B.A. in Mathematics (School of Arts & Sciences)
B.S. in Economics (Wharton School of Business)
University of Pennsylvania