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Finding the Fun in Fundamentals #2 - Wemade
The token briefly ran 50% ($2-$3) in the weeks leading up to release before continuing to chart a seemingly...
18 Min
Gaming
Jun 2025
Ribbon Expands to Options DEX With Aevo
Introduction DeFi options have failed to take off....Furthermore, market makers buying these options from DOVs capture an easy spread by selling options and...leader for options DEXs....Currently, on-chain options only account for 0.19% of notional open interest (OI), with a high of 2%...DeFi options have failed to take off.
11 Min
Options
Feb 2023
WTF Is Anoma? Part 2: WTF Are Intent-Based Apps?
Part 2 – Applications In Part 1 we have overviewed Anoma’s intents and seen how they compare to Ethereum-style...“Part 2: WTF are intent-based apps?”...Zones are external accounts (typically smart contracts) that users can optionally specify to assert certain...It has 2 modes of operation; fast and slow.
24 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Sep 2023
Lyra: A Next Generation Options AMM
...the option price....The reading for vega is positive for option buyers and negative for option sellers....of the options contracts....commences, buying that option at seven days out (a 28 day option)....same five options....When it comes to crypto options, Deribit reigns supreme.
23 Min
Options
Sep 2022
Zetachain Part 2: The Opportunity Ahead for Omnichain Applications
If a different CEX has deeper liquidity for the asset you want to trade, you have two options: Dont...The Bitcoin faithful have a few options when trying to access leverage against their holdings: use an...
47 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Jan 2024
Is Zeta the Solution to On-Chain Options?
Problems with On-Chain Options and Zeta’s Answer A few option DEXs have been built out in recent years...Full collateralization of options – Most options platforms require full collateralization when selling...The Secret Sauce Part 2: Collateral Management and Liquidations Zeta’s collateral framework resembles...
14 Min
Options
Aug 2022
Opyn Options With Ribbon
The DeFi options market is very young and cumulatively has less than $200m in total value locked....These two protocols account for over $100 million in TVL and $90m worth of on-chain options volume weekly...These oTokens are tokenized call options that can be traded like any other ERC-20 token.
7 Min
Options
Aug 2021
The Inner Workings of DeFi Option Vaults (DOVs)
DOVs mainly have two strategies – 1) writing Covered Calls and 2) Cash-Secured Puts....DOVs sell out-of-the-money options as the goal is to minimize the risk of the option expiring in-the-money...downward at a parabolic rate, the option holder will exercise the put option to sell their assets....of option sales.
15 Min
Vaults
Jul 2022
Axie Part 2 - Gamer Economics
Axie floor prices increased from 0.03 ETH to around ~0.066 ETH, and MEO 2 Axie prices rose from 0.084...flat throughout the month while Mystic 1 Axie floor price grew from 5.5 ETH to 9.99 ETH and Mystic 2...
9 Min
Games
Jul 2021
Option Skews, Ribbon's Divergence, & Transactional Traction
Option Skews Don’t Look Too Hot Implied volatility for near-term options are skewed towards puts, indicating...Option expiries slightly further out at the end of the year (Jan. – Feb. 2022) are less skewed, indicating...A tweet by options exchange Deribit also stated that most option premiums have been from call writing...
3 Min
DeFi
Dec 2021
BAYC Gets BendDAO-ed & Internet Game Season 2
Internet Game is an interactive entertainment platform that is launching its Season 2, titled “Bear Market...There are 2 parts to the games....Part 2 is a live finale with 3 multi-player games hosted by Gmoney & Leah Lamarr.
11 Min
NFTs
Aug 2022
The Great cvxCRV Lockening, DeGods NFT Collection, DeFi Option Vaults
The long thesis for DeGods stems from 2 main things: That the Solana & the Solana NFT ecosystem...The Inner Workings of DeFi Option Vaults (DOVs) [Excerpt from a Delphi Pro Report] Decentralized Option...DOVs mainly have two strategies – 1) writing Covered Calls and 2) Cash-Secured Puts....to sell more options in the next cycle.
9 Min
Asset Management
Jul 2022
BTC Breaks Out, L2s on the Rise, & Options TVL Slumps
Option Vaults Drop in TVL and Performance in January TVL in option protocols has dropped across the...and a “flight to safety” amid the market volatility, causing investors to withdraw capital from risky option...SQUEETH Trading Volume Opyn’s growth in TVL was an outlier to other options protocols.
3 Min
Infrastructure
Feb 2022
ETH & BNB Hold Strong, Options Weakness, & Liquidity Concerns
...that hardly seems to be the case; its latest move could be explained by a lack of trading activity on options...Near-Term Options Skews Don’t Inspire Hope BTC’s market price was roughly $57K when this data snapshot...
4 Min
Infrastructure
Nov 2021
Layer 2: Rollups
In this report, we look at how the Layer 2 ecosystem is shaping up and dive into the varying rollup solutions...
1 Min
Infrastructure
Dec 2020
L1 Performance, Funding Spikes, Options Get More Expensive
Volatility Ticking Up Implied volatility for short-term options is beginning to increase again, which...means the cost of buying these options is going up too....investor alert list by Singapore regulatorhttps://t.co/OJcpz1sAWO — The Block (@TheBlock__) September 2,...pic.twitter.com/zNGf9uf7AX — korpi (@korpi87) September 2, 2021 Patrick O’Shaugnessy talks to Yield...
3 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Sep 2021
Reserve & Celo - Part 2
...https://storage.googleapis.com/members-portal-bucket/uploads/2020/07/Research-Report-Reserve-Celo-Part-2-...5-31-2020.pdf” title=”Research Report – Reserve & Celo – Part 2 – 5 31 2020″]...
1 Min
DeFi
May 2020
BTC Options Expiry, Ethereum Thrives
Key Takeaways Monthly options for BTC and ETH are set to expire tomorrow at 8 AM UTC (4 AM EST)....majority of calls expiring this month will expire worthless, which could prompt fresh purchases for June’s options...Notable Tweets Uniswap Labs supports the community-led Arbitrum deployment effort. 2/ Assuming the snapshot...
3 Min
Infrastructure
May 2021
Axie Shorts Stack Up, BTC Options, Polygon's Contraction
...would imply a confirmation of BTC’s head and shoulders pattern we’ve been noting recently. 42.6% of Option...OI Wiped Out on June Expiry At the end of every month, when options expire, open interest reduces by...Not every option holder rolls their position over to the next month’s contract, so this is very much...
4 Min
DeFi
Jul 2021
World Update (2 Months Later)
...high level numbers as of the mid-May (the 18th to be exact): And now (July 28): In just over 2...World App users grew 16% from 26.7M to 30.9M, maintaining the ~2:1 ratio between app downloads and completed...For now, the gap between user demand (evidenced by the 2:1 app-to-verification ratio) and Orb availability...
6 Min
Artificial Intelligence
Jul 2025