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Bibliography ​

Consolidated references from the XPower Banq paper suite (banq-ref). Each entry is anchorable — cite as [Kyle 1985](/reference/bibliography#kyle1985continuous) from any page in this site.

XPower Banq companion documents ​

  • XPower Banq: A Permissionless DeFi Lending Protocol with Lethargic Governance and Beta-Distributed Position Caps. Karun The Ritch. Preprint, 2026. → Protocol. xpowerbanq.com

  • XPower Banq: Technical Appendices. Karun The Ritch. Preprint, 2026. (Superseded by the standalone theory, simulations, and reference papers below.) xpowerbanq.com

  • XPower Banq: References & Glossary. Karun The Ritch. Preprint, 2026. (This document, in PDF form.) xpowerbanq.com

DeFi lending protocols ​

  • Compound: The Money Market Protocol. Leshner, R.; Hayes, G. Compound Whitepaper, 2019. compound.finance

  • Aave Protocol Whitepaper V2.0. Aave Protocol. Aave Documentation, 2020. docs.aave.com

  • The Maker Protocol: MakerDAO's Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) System. MakerDAO Team. MakerDAO Whitepaper, 2017. makerdao.com

  • Euler Finance: Permissionless Lending Protocol. Euler Labs. Euler Whitepaper, 2022. docs.euler.finance

  • Liquity: Decentralized Borrowing Protocol. Lauko, R.; Pardoe, R. Liquity Whitepaper, 2021. docs.liquity.org

  • Morpho Optimizer: Optimizing Decentralized Liquidity Protocols. Frambot, P.; Gontier Delaunay, M. Morpho Whitepaper, 2022. whitepaper.morpho.org

Surveys and academic references ​

  • SoK: Lending Pools in Decentralized Finance. Bartoletti, M.; Chiang, J.H.; Lafuente, A.L. Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), LNCS vol. 12676, pp. 553–578, 2021.

  • SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi). Werner, S.M.; Perez, D.; Gudgeon, L.; Klages-Mundt, A.; Harz, D.; Knottenbelt, W.J. ACM Computing Surveys, 2022.

  • The Decentralized Financial Crisis. Gudgeon, L.; Perez, D.; Harz, D.; Livshits, B.; Gervais, A. Crypto Valley Conference, 2020.

  • Liquidations: DeFi on a Knife-edge. Perez, D.; Werner, S.M.; Xu, J.; Livshits, B. Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2021.

Oracles and TWAPs ​

  • TWAP Oracle Attacks: Easier Done than Said? Mackinga, T.; Nadahalli, T.; Wattenhofer, R. IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, 2022.

  • ChainLink: A Decentralized Oracle Network. Ellis, S.; Juels, A.; Nazarov, S. Chainlink Whitepaper, 2017. chain.link/whitepaper

  • Improved Price Oracles: Constant Function Market Makers. Angeris, G.; Chitra, T. ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT), 2020.

  • Uniswap v2 Core. Adams, H.; Zinsmeister, N.; Robinson, D. Uniswap Documentation, 2020. docs.uniswap.org

  • Uniswap v3 Core. Adams, H.; Zinsmeister, N.; Salem, M.; Keefer, R.; Robinson, D. Uniswap Documentation, 2021. docs.uniswap.org

MEV and attacks ​

  • Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning in Decentralized Exchanges, Miner Extractable Value, and Consensus Instability. Daian, P.; Goldfeder, S.; Kell, T.; Li, Y.; Zhao, X.; Bentov, I.; Breidenbach, L.; Juels, A. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), pp. 910–927, 2020.

  • Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest? Qin, K.; Zhou, L.; Gervais, A. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), pp. 198–214, 2022.

  • Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit. Qin, K.; Zhou, L.; Livshits, B.; Gervais, A. Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), LNCS vol. 12674, pp. 3–32, 2021.

  • Hack Analysis: Beanstalk Governance Attack, April 2022. Immunefi. Security Report, 2022. medium.com/immunefi

  • What Really Happened to MakerDAO on Black Thursday. Glassnode Insights. Glassnode Analysis, March 2020. insights.glassnode.com

  • Anatomy of a Run: The Terra Luna Crash. Liu, J.; Makarov, I.; Schoar, A. Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, May 2023. corpgov.law.harvard.edu

Cryptography and Sybil resistance ​

  • Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. Nakamoto, S. 2008. bitcoin.org

  • The Sybil Attack. Douceur, J.R. International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), LNCS vol. 2429, pp. 251–260, 2002.

  • Pricing via Processing or Combatting Junk Mail. Dwork, C.; Naor, M. Advances in Cryptology — CRYPTO '92, LNCS vol. 740, pp. 139–147, 1992.

  • Transaction Fee Mechanism Design. Roughgarden, T. ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2021.

  • Slither: A Static Analysis Framework for Smart Contracts. Feist, J.; Grieco, G.; Groce, A. IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain (WETSEB), pp. 8–15, 2019.

Vote-escrow and time-locks ​

  • A combinatorial problem. de Bruijn, N.G. Proceedings of the Section of Sciences of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 49(7):758–764, 1946.

  • A lock-free, cache-efficient shared ring buffer for multi-core architectures. Lee, P.P.C.; Bu, T.; Chandranmenon, G.P. Proc. 5th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), pp. 78–79, 2009. doi.org/10.1145/1882486.1882508

Numerical methods ​

  • Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms. Higham, N.J. SIAM, 2nd edition, 2002.

  • Accurately Computing the Log-Sum-Exp and Softmax Functions. Blanchard, P.; Higham, D.J.; Higham, N.J. IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, 41(4):2311–2330, 2021. doi.org/10.1093/imanum/draa038

  • Solidity Documentation: Checked or Unchecked Arithmetic. Ethereum Foundation. Solidity Docs, v0.8.x, 2024. docs.soliditylang.org

Standards ​

  • EIP-20: Token Standard. Vogelsteller, F.; Buterin, V. Ethereum Improvement Proposals, 2015. eips.ethereum.org

  • EIP-4626: Tokenized Vaults. Santoro, J.; t11s; Jadeja, J.; Cuesta Cañada, A. Ethereum Improvement Proposals, 2022. eips.ethereum.org

Finance and microstructure ​

  • Continuous Auctions and Insider Trading. Kyle, A.S. Econometrica, 53(6):1315–1335, 1985.

  • Option Pricing When Underlying Stock Returns Are Discontinuous. Merton, R.C. Journal of Financial Economics, 3(1–2):125–144, 1976.

Where to go next ​

  • Glossary — comprehensive terminology that cites these references.
  • Whitepaper — landing page for the full XPower Banq paper bundle.

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