Derivatives
Investors Pile Into Opyn’s ‘Crab Strategy’ to Profit from a Sideways Market
A new way to play a sideways crypto market drew a lot of investors this week.
Opyn to Unveil Squared ETH Token as DeFi Derivatives Race Heats Up
Here comes SQUEETH. Decentralized options protocol Opyn is readying to launch its Squared ETH or SQUEETH token, which is designed to hedge ETH-based liquidity provider (LP) positions on automated market maker (AMM) exchanges. In a Dec. 17 blog post, Opyn developer Joe Clark described SQUEETH as a “new DeFi primitive” that allows stablecoin/ETH liquidity providers…
Index Coop Makes 2X ETH Leverage Token Cheaper with Move to Polygon
Index Coop has introduced a 2X leveraged token for Ether turning up the risk for traders.
Basis Trading Using Perps, Stables and a Whole Lotta Lemma
Lemma uses a market neutral derivatives position to issue a stablecoin and generate sustainable yield
First Uniswap ETP Goes Live as Institutional DeFi Products Proliferate
Institutional investors appear to be flocking into DeFi assets, with a flurry of institutional investment products offering exposure to the decentralized finance sector being launched by major asset managers this year.
Arrival of Futures ETFs Stokes Bitcoin in DeFi
Bitcoin in decentralized finance has been surging since speculation strengthened that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would finally approve an exchange-traded fund to invest in the world’s largest cryptocurrency. BTC deposited into Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem as shown on DeFi Pulse’s “Bitcoin at Work” page, jumped 2% to 284,331 BTC since Oct. 14, when one…
Lyra Plunges into Layer 2 Options Pool with Offering for Hedge Hungry Investors
With the market for Layer 1 tokens such as AVAX red hot this month, it would be easy to overlook a development on the Layer 2 side of the DeFi universe. Yet three days ago Lyra, a cryptocurrency options platform, released a new offering that will let investors trade on Layer 2, a catch-all term…
Index Coop’s Leveraged ETH Token 2x-ed Only on the Way Up –– Here’s Why
In a week where the entire market was gapping down, a curious case was how Index Coop’s indexed token ETH 2x – FLI did not reflect this price action proportionally in relation to its methodology, i.e. if ETH is up X, this index token should be up 2x, while if it’s down X, the FLI…
An Ape-Friendly Guide to DeFi Yield Derivatives
Generating passive income using DeFi is one of the most attractive things for a newcomer. The interest rates of these protocols are often promoted to be in the range of hundred to thousands % APY, putting the bank interest rates to shame –– but that’s somewhat misleading as returns are calculated on an annual basis,…
CME Group to Launch Bitcoin Mini Futures
CME Group, the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange, is set to launch Micro Bitcoin futures, at one-tenth of a Bitcoin, on May. CME Group already offers standard Bitcoin futures, which have traded at an average volume of 13,800 contracts (roughly 69,000 BTC) daily throughout 2021. Micro Bitcoin futures will offer institutional traders and investors more…
