The institutions are here. @eth_strategy is the first onchain ETH treasury; issuing convertible debt to buy ETH, giving bonders cheap, near-riskless leverage if ETH rallies. Think of it as an onchain MSTR. The innovation? ETH Strategy is a natural options seller. By selling

Thirty weeks, thirty buybacks.

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RT @eth_strategy: ETH Strategy's Perpetual Note completed its first options cycle on @DeriveXYZ today, earning 66% APR. Call options sold….

ETH Strategy’s $1M deposit cap for its perpetual note vault on Derive (a gamma scalping yield vault) was reached within 1 hour.

Shoutout to @conduitxyz for lifting our gas limit to 200m. We're gearing up for tighter spreads and cleaner execution as more retail traders and institutions onboard. 3 commas club next 😎

SERs now hold nearly 4% of supply, chasing ETFs’ 5.5%. Could hit 6-10% by year-end. Derive x ETH Strategy vault launching: real USD yield from ETH options, built for institutional demand. Odds by EOY:.BTC $150K: 22%.ETH $6K: 44%. Read the full update:

Rates expected to fall. Institutions are buying ETH fast. Last week: ETFs added +250K ETH Strategic . ETH Reserves added +330K ETH – 33% more than ETFs

Traders lean up but hedged. As Derive’s Head of Research @SeanNotShorn says: market makers will sell rallies and buy dips. Range unless the Fed surprises.

How Options Sellers Get Paid - Options Master Class Day 10. Ian @CptRandlelwa dropped an easily digestible 83 article Master Class on our new Insights channel @deriveinsights.

Onchain options protocol Derive founder @itseneff tells @Cointelegraph that futures traders have become more bearish over the past seven days. Future traders are pricing in a 7% chance of Bitcoin reaching $150,000 by the end of October, down 14% from last week.

RT @Fink_Big: Love reading research like this, important to note that:. - Only 451 minutely observations were used, around 7.5 hours of dat….

Weekly Buyback #30 Complete 🐎. 343,889 DRV was purchased at an average price of $0.05. Derive DAO has bought back a total of 10,951,439 DRV.

Trade like an onchain pro with Derive’s Portfolio & Cross Margining. 🔸 This feature allows you to use multiple assets as collateral. 🔸 Offset risk across positions, avoid liquidation. 🔸 Unlock more capital for new trades with our onchain risk engine.

Bumping the API Broker Program 🚀. If you’re building a project that tracks options data or can leverage options for trade execution, we’d love to hear from you. We offer:. 🔸 Hands-on integration support. 🔸 Grants for the right partners. 🔸 Up to 50% net fee rebates.

Eyes on Eric Trump in Tokyo, a fresh ETH token launch, and Friday’s U.S. jobs print; a busy first week of September for crypto.

Thanks to everyone who joined our breakfast meet-up, the takeaway is clear: traders, market makers, and protocols are aligned on moving onchain options forward. See you at the next one! 👀

August was solid with ~$2m protocol fees revenue annualized. ETH Strategy Partnership - A new Perpetual Note Vault on Derive, generating yield on their treasury through a gamma-scalping strategy. The Dark Horse of DeFi is accelerating 🐎

August Community Update. @DeriveInsights is live! Our new research hub for thought leadership, interviews, and guest articles. @MezoNetwork Partnership. Opening the door for BTC yield in DeFi. Rust CLOB in production:. – Sub-1ms order placement. – 200μs cancel latency. – Up

RT @binji_x: interesting to see how DATs being onchain can simply do more. entire castles will be built out of defi legos.