A DEX Implied Volatility Proxy

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Highly relevant for DeFi-native quantitative trading, particularly for Panoptic perpetual options pricing, AMM market-making strategies, and on-chain risk management. The σ_fee proxy provides an oracle-free state variable for premium scaling and activity monitoring. However, its limitation as a non-structural volatility measure means it cannot directly replace CEX implied volatility in cross-venue arbitrage or delta-hedging strategies without additional microstructure filtering. Most relevant for practitioners building DeFi options infrastructure or concentrated liquidity strategies.

The core formula σ_fee = 2·feeRate·√(Volume/L_tick) is trivially simple to compute. However, practical implementation requires: (1) consistent windowing of volume and liquidity, (2) reconstructing tick-level active liquidity from pool state history, (3) aggregating swap volume correctly across blocks, and (4) handling the distinction between pool-level and range-level attribution. The non-identification analysis and Dirac approximation proofs are theoretical and do not require implementation. Overall moderate complexity for a production system.

The paper provides closed-form formulas and specifies the ETH/USDC 30bps pool as the empirical test case. On-chain data is publicly accessible via Uniswap v3 contracts. However, no code repository, specific data pipeline, or exact query scripts are provided. Tick-level attribution methodology is described conceptually but not fully specified for replication. The windowed estimator and volume aggregation conventions are stated but implementation details (e.g., exact swap event filtering) are left to the practitioner.