Derivatives
In traditional finance, a derivative is a contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity. This underlying entity can be an asset, index, or interest rate, and is often simply called the “underlying.”
Cryptex Finance
Cryptex Finance tokenized Total Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization into TCAP token that gives holders real-time price exposure to this key metric. Interview with founder.
Fractional
Fractional is a decentralized protocol where NFT owners can mint tokenized fractional ownership of their NFTs
Hegic
Hegic is on-chain options trading protocol, allowing you to buy ETH call and put options as an individual holder (buyer) or sell ETH call and put options as a liquidity provider.
Indexed Finance
Indexed Finance is a set of capitalization-weighted index pools designed to replicate the behavior of index funds
Kwenta
Kwenta is a decentralized derivatives trading platform, live on Optimism, offering real-world and on-chain synthetic assets using the power of the Synthetix protocol.
Lyra
Lyra is a decentralized options exchange on Optimistic Ethereum, giving traders access to crypto markets with low fees and subsecond transaction speeds.
mStable
mStable combine stablecoins and tokenized assets into higher-yielding instruments. mStable Explained. Interview with Co-founder
NFT20
NFT20 is a permissionless protocol enabling trade, swap and sell NFTs that tokenized at indices pools.
NFTX
NFTX is a platform for making ERC20 tokens that are backed by NFT collectibles and governed by a community-owned protocol. Interview with core contributor.
Olympus DAO
Olympus is a decentralized reserve currency protocol based on the OHM token. Each OHM token is backed by a basket of assets in the Olympus treasury, giving it an intrinsic value that it cannot fall below.
Opyn
Opyn is the insurance layer for decentralized finance. Opyn co-founder Aparna told us about Opyn backstory, state of defi options market and what’s new in Opyn v2
PieDAO
The PieDAO is a decentralized organization dedicated to bringing market accessibility and economic empowerment through Pie Protocol and Tokenized ETFs governed by a DAO
Ribbon Finance
Ribbon Finance uses financial engineering to create structured products that deliver sustainable yield.
Synthetix
Synthetix platform enables creation of the on-chain synthetic assets that tracks value of assets in real world. Interview with Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix.