Tag: Derivatives

Arrington Capital and Cumberland DRW led a $5M round recently covered in Techcrunch this morning. This strategic round consists of…

0:00 Welcome 2:10 How did you get started with Delta? 5:09 Size of Derivatives Market 10:03 Why Derivatives Exist 14:50 Financial Assurance 16:21 Puts and Calls 19:49 Insurance 24:27 Sharpe Ratio 29:05 Derivatives and Institutional Capital 30:37 The Need for Liquidity 35:13 Yield, no free lunch. 37:17 XRP vs XLM Tether vs USDC 38:37 On…

opium is a long running and exciting Derivatives exchange. Learn more from founder and CEO of Opium and get two announcements about the new Insurance products! 0:00 introduction 1:53 How Opium Started 3:43 Why switch from CeFi to DeFi 9:09 Announcing Insurance Products 15:41 Where can users buy Opium Insurance 16:47 What if Tether Collapses?…

In this video I interview Kain Warwick the founder of Synthetix. TimeStamps 0:00 Welcome 1:49 Announcing Synthetix on Chainlink 7:23 Derivatives on Synthetix 8:35 DEX Volumes 9:21 SNX, Product or Protocol? 11:33 Decentralization Maximalism 13:49 Optimism and Roll-ups 16:29 Implementation of Optimism 17:40 Smart Contract Audits 20:25 DeFi Insurance 23:15 Mainstream Adoption 26:31 Governance 29:10…

UMA allows for the creation of synthetic assets. This requires a price to move from off-chain to on-chain which is of course the Oracle problem. UMA embeds a novel form of oracle that only needs to be consulted during a dispute, for example during a liquidation event. Prices are pushed on chain during disputes. As…