Derive welcomes FalconX as a market maker to help tighten spreads and deepen liquidity across our options markets. We’re building the best onchain options markets anywhere; now with institutional-grade participation starting to take shape.

A huge win for Derive. This will further tighten spreads and allow users to trade Options in size, onchain. FalconX client access will be added later this year. 🔥

The Derive RFQ system is now natively accessible through Liquid Mercury. This will combine TradFi routing with onchain clearing. Desks can now quote, route & settle composable options with smart contract certainty; combined with Liquid Mercury’s algo suite (Sweep, Spreader,

Built for desks that move size, we are live with Derive’s RFQ engine; bringing real options liquidity onchain.

We need a better way to hedge alts. Altcoin options are coming to Derive. After the recent market events, we’re listing altcoin options to give traders a smarter way to manage risk and hedge exposure. Let us know which alts you’d like to see first - get in touch.

Perhaps all you leverage folks that got liquidated could consider options instead this time around - No risk of liquidation - Same levered return profile - Don’t need to manage collateral (low stress) - Can be entirely on chain (Derive Labs) - Know how much it’ll cost you (no

Options are good for a variety of reasons They’re also bad for a variety of reasons Best case for them over the last week would have been hedges that printed 100x and would have been relatively liquid at peak fear Cancerous to try and buy the dip. Options mmers are faster

The Dutch popularized options, now they’re bringing them onchain. 0xAtreyu | Derive XYZ (former CMO at Deribit) is the new CMO of Derive Labs. With years of experience behind him, he’s already adding momentum.

When the guy who led growth at Deribit DMs saying Derive feels like Deribit in 2020 and he wants to run it back - you don’t negotiate. You ask when he can start

youtu.be/7rzhd7olMAY Sean | Derive Derive Labs 0xAtreyu | Derive XYZ

1/ $DRV rallies 85% as AI-derivatives narrative grows Derive Labs’s token rebounded from April lows following a tier-1 exchange listing and sustained growth of its cross-margin perps platform. Protocol revenue now annualizes at $1.9M.

dHEDGE is now executing options trades on Derive. As their name suggests, dHEDGE is doing decentralized asset management; hedging their DAO treasury via Safe and keeping full custody onchain. This is the beginning of a broader trend: asset managers running strategies fully

dHEDGE was built for non-custodial, manager-led vaults. Extending that to options is the natural next step. We’ve begun to hedge treasury risk on Derive while keeping control in Safe, so position intent, execution, and reporting remain verifiable onchain.

Now tracking Derive Labs Options on our Open Interest Dashboard

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so @derivexyz is the 7th largest dex by OI with $435m 30% of Lighter, 6% of HL no points and virtually no incentives real traders? must be

Quietly growing. It takes forever to build up the network effects for an options protocol. But there is a massive moat once you have achieved it.

Even if you never plan to trade options please look at the new landing page it looks really cool

Our teams shipped non-stop in October: 🔥 OI jumped to ~$500M 📊 PM accounts now support 256 instruments 👀 Ex-Deribit CMO joins as Derive's CMO 🫰 Native RFQs accessible via Liquid Mercury 🎙️ New Derivexyz Podcast: HIGH SIGNAL 🖥️ Complete Derive UI redesign now live 🪙 100%

"CRYPTO TRADING FIRM FALCONX TO BUY ETF MANAGER 21SHARES: WSJ" Congrats to our partner FalconX on a legendary acquisition. 👏