Optimal Adaptive Market Making: A Theoretical Framework for High-Yield Liquidity Provision in Perpetual Futures Markets

Abstract

arXiv:2607.11888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop a rigorous theoretical framework for optimal market making in perpetual futures markets with zero maker fees. We model the market maker's problem as a stochastic optimal control problem on a filtered probability space, where the controls are adaptive bid-ask spreads and inventory hedging decisions across two exchanges. Our contributions include: (i) a PnL decomposition theorem separating revenue into spread income, adverse selection loss