Decentralized Finance
WIP
Options
Convexity Protocol: Building a Generalized Liquid Options Protocol in DeFi
A generalized noncustodial options protocol
By depositing crypto-collateral, options writers are able to mint arbitrary fungible ERC20 option tokens called oTokens.
Selling those minted oTokens allows writers to earn premiums, thereby generating revenue on their collateral.
Buyers can then purchase these oTokens, which trade on exchanges such as 0x or Uniswap, ensuring market liquidity.
Lending
Compound
Analysis by Gauntlet
The Yield Protocol
Fixed-term secured lending
Debt is fungible and can be traded on @UniswapExchange
Interest rates are implicit and determined by market
Can be used to construct a yield curve
Thread
Tinlake: bringing individual, non-fungible assets to DeFi
DEX
Analysis
Front-running
See in Censorship
An analysis of Uniswap markets
See in Cryptoeconomics
Proposals
BitDEX by UMA
Rainbow Network
Off-chain decentralized exchange built on synthetics
Supports any liquid asset (even non-crypto)
Supports leverage and shorting
Implementable on Ethereum, or on top of Lightning
Stable coin
Analysis
See in Cryptoeconomics
Proposals
Reserve Protocol (Japanese)
UMA: A Decentralized Financial Contract Platform
Prediction markets
List of primitives useful for using cryptoeconomics-driven internet / social media applications
Related: Futarchy
Blog (2014)
Experiment
Futarchy Considered: a guide to blockchain-based prediction markets and futarchy
Cryptocurrency/tokens
A signaling theory model of cryptocurrency issuance and value @ethresear.ch, Vitalik
TokenTaxonomyFramework
GitHub
Interactive coin offerings
Jason Teutsch (TrueBit Establishment), Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation), Christopher Brown (Modular, Inc.)
Others
A bunch of posts at ethresear.ch