Research Papers

CAPO: Machine Learning-Driven Price Discovery for Competitive Market Making

Ryan Watts

August 2025

This paper explores machine learning-driven competitive market making in illiquid stablecoin markets, introducing CAPO (Competitive Aggressive Pricing Optimizer) to predict safe pricing boundaries and avoid costly bidding wars through active boundary discovery.

Exploiting the Gaps: Arbitrage Potential in Illiquid Crypto Markets

Ryan Watts

June 2025

This paper explores the potential for arbitrage in illiquid crypto markets across multiple exchanges.

EURQ/USD Market Making

Ryan Watts

June 2025

Using TradeByte, I've analyzed illiquidate crypto pairs and implemented a market making strategy. Specifically, I've been using the EURQ/USD pair, which is a stablecoin pegged to the Euro.