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devcon 6 / security risks in defi delineating technical and economic security

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Security Risks in DeFi: Delineating Technical and Economic Security

Duration: 00:27:47

Speaker: Ariah Klages-Mundt, Daniel Perez, Lewis Gudgeon

Type: Talk

Expertise: Intermediate

Event: Devcon

Date: Oct 2022

The frenetic evolution of DeFi makes it hard to understand its principles and risks. In our talk, We delineate DeFi along the axes of primitives, protocol types and security risks. We distinguish technical security, which has a healthy literature, from economic security, which is largely unexplored, connecting the latter with new models and thereby synthesizing insights from computer science and economics. Finally, we outline the open research challenges across these security types.

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