Layer-2 Arbitrage: An Empirical Analysis of Swap Dynamics and Price Disparities on Rollups
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02172v1
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 10:03:23 GMT
- Title: Layer-2 Arbitrage: An Empirical Analysis of Swap Dynamics and Price Disparities on Rollups
- Authors: Krzysztof Gogol, Johnnatan Messias, Deborah Miori, Claudio Tessone, Benjamin Livshits,
- Abstract summary: This paper explores the dynamics of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) within the Layer-2 ecosystem.
By examining the price differences between AMMs and centralized exchanges, we discover over 0.5 million unexploited arbitrage opportunities on rollups.
Our results show that arbitrage in Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism pools ranges from 0.03% to 0.05% of trading volume, while in zkSync Era it oscillates around 0.25%, with the LVR metric overestimating arbitrage by a factor of five.
- Score: 6.892626226074608
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: This paper explores the dynamics of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) within the Layer-2 ecosystem, focusing on Automated Market Makers (AMM) and arbitrage on Ethereum rollups. We observe significant shifts in trading activity from Ethereum to rollups, with swaps on rollups happening 2-3 times more often, though, with lower trade volume. By examining the price differences between AMMs and centralized exchanges, we discover over 0.5 million unexploited arbitrage opportunities on rollups. Remarkably, we observe that these opportunities last, on average, 10 to 20 blocks, requiring adjustments to the LVR metrics to avoid double-counting arbitrage. Our results show that arbitrage in Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism pools ranges from 0.03% to 0.05% of trading volume, while in zkSync Era it oscillates around 0.25%, with the LVR metric overestimating arbitrage by a factor of five. Rollups offer not only lower gas fees, but also provide faster block production, leading to significant differences compared to the trading and arbitrage dynamics of Ethereum.
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