🚨A Critical Challenge in the World of DeFi:
How do we discover fair lending rates without intermediaries?
💥📣 NEW JBBA RESEARCH ALERT
📍 Decentralised finance lending faces unique challenges in determining fair interest rates without traditional intermediaries, often leading to inefficiencies from information asymmetry and liquidity risks.
🚀 This ground-breaking research from 🇫🇷 Université Paris Dauphine - PSL introduces a Novel Framework for rate discovery in decentralised finance (#DeFi) — a critical challenge in the emerging world of on-chain lending without intermediaries.
✍🏽 The authors Charlotte Eli and Professor Hervé Alexandre propose an auction-based mechanism that determines borrowing rates by integrating borrowers’ risk profiles with market liquidity conditions, removing the need for centralised oversight.
➡️ The Framework introduces:
✅ Fair and transparent interest rate formation in DeFi lending
✅ Alignment of incentives between borrowers and lenders
✅ Efficient, market-driven rate discovery using lending pools and smart contracts
✅ Informed participation and improved credit risk assessment
✅ Potential scalability of unsecured DeFi lending
🔍 Key finding:
➡️ By encouraging financial disclosure and transparent auction dynamics, DeFi lending platforms can achieve faster convergence to true market rates and greater stability — a vital step toward credible, decentralised credit markets.
🎤 Originally presented as an Abstract at the BBA's ISC2025, London:
📄 Now the Full paper has been published Open Access in The Journal of the British Blockchain Association (JBBA).
🔗 Read the paper here:
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