Daniel Barabander from me schizo talking about onchain options to a professional banger Daniel report. well done

Very interesting piece to read! Happy to help contribute!

The upside is enormous and the liquidity network effects are stronger than in any other category. Vamp attacking existing flows and building repeat onchain native trades is the name of the game - and it's winner take all Deep dive banger from Daniel Barabander and team

Options are coming.

we'll look back at 10/10 as an inflection point that drove more traders and builders to consider on-chain derivatives beyond perps. while past attempts have all fallen short, the building blocks are in place for an on-chain options exchange to finally flourish. great report!

This is your regularly scheduled break from prediction markets, stablecoins, perps and trading terminals. Options are coming !

options have a bad reputation on web3, but provide the custom shape and risk profile that perps doesn't. great read from Daniel Barabander at Variant

Trading volume for spot and perps is moving onchain and there isn’t any good reason why the same shouldn’t be true for options.

Elijah is a legend and is the brains behind this operation - give our paper a read.

On how options can become a core primitive of the onchain financial system in a way earlier attempts could not.

Great write-up by Daniel Barabander and Elijah from Variant on how all the pieces are coming together for a sustainable onchain options market. x.com/dbarabander/st…

Excited to publish my Crypto Trends Report for 2025! It frames crypto’s growth as a story of 3 compounding s-curves: asset creation, asset accumulation, and asset utilization The report applies this lens across five key thematic areas – macro, stablecoins, centralized

Perps broke out with the Binance → Hyperliquid pattern: win CEX, then win DEX. If that holds, options are the next wide-open lane. Deribit → ??? Who builds the Hyperliquid for options?

An excellent overview of the on-chain Options landscape written by Daniel Barabander and @possibltyresult 💙 x.com/dbarabander/st…

Straight off a red eye to a panel with Paul Frambot 🦋 and James | Ethereum Foundation ⟠ | Snapcrackle.eth, pit stop a beer with Jack Longarzo - Variant rolling in hot to Dev Connect. Hit me or Jack up if you’re building something cool and here this week - we’d love to chat

Really enjoyed moderating a convo with Paul Frambot 🦋 and James | Ethereum Foundation ⟠ | Snapcrackle.eth on the Future of Vaults at Vault Summit Top 3 takeaways: 1. The modular approach is beating the monolithic on institutional integrations. 2. More institutions are putting their backend onchain. 3. Vaults

Read our paper to learn more :)

Calling it now: By the end of 2025, we'll see 3-5 major policy-driven M&A deals in crypto.

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Was so much fun to join 11AM w/ Seed Club to talk about my Crypto Trends Report. Check out the full conversation below!