Vega is a bespoke blockchain designed for decentralised trading. It operates as a public sidechain to major collateral chains and is designed for high speed trading of derivatives. For more background details please see the papers that we have published to date: https://vega.xyz/background#published-papers.
As it's a first attempt (that we know of) at creating a professional grade system with such characteristics it faces research problems that are often specific to that setting and interdisciplinary in nature. The main disciplines that our research spans include Computer Science, Mathematics and Economics.
The issues in this repo capture our research agenda. We outline some concrete research problems that we're either dealing with at the moment or have on our roadmap. We hope that this will allow us to open up to the broader research community and facilitate meaningful collaborations.
- Blockchains designed for trading
- System gameability and attacks
- Quantitative risk and calibration
- Future protocol features
Active research problems are listed below. Each one contains a link to the GitHub issue associated with it and the relevant labels used throughout our repository. If you'd like to start a formal collabroration with us please email us at hi@vega.xyz to request access to this repository.
Please see LICENSE.md.