{"title":"THE MARKET VALUE OF DECENTRALISATION","authors":"Matt Brigida","doi":"10.24135/afl.v12i1.682","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A prominent motivation for the use of cryptocurrencies is the system of exchange does not require a central trusted authority. In fact there are a class of decentralised exchanges where participants can exchange cryptocurrencies using a protocol rather than a centralized exchange. This analysis uses the failure of the centralized FTX exchange to estimate the value the market assigns to decentralised versus centralised exchanges. We find the market assigns a significant value to decentralisation.","PeriodicalId":32128,"journal":{"name":"Applied Finance Letters","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Applied Finance Letters","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.24135/afl.v12i1.682","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A prominent motivation for the use of cryptocurrencies is the system of exchange does not require a central trusted authority. In fact there are a class of decentralised exchanges where participants can exchange cryptocurrencies using a protocol rather than a centralized exchange. This analysis uses the failure of the centralized FTX exchange to estimate the value the market assigns to decentralised versus centralised exchanges. We find the market assigns a significant value to decentralisation.