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Options from a Builder’s Perspective
A Gap Analysis with Interviews from Rysk, Derive, Panoptic, and GammaSwap.
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March 2026The Evolution of Commodities
State of Commodities and a Quantitative Analysis of the Growth of these Markets Onchain
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May 2026The Vaultification of Finance
The evolution of Vaults as the infrastructure layer of institutional finance onchain
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June 2026The Full-Stack Privacy Ecosystem
Privacy as Infrastructure for User Protection and Institutional Adoption
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June 2026Real-World Assets: Bringing TradFi Onchain
Mapping the growth of RWAs and institutional adoption — the $29B tokenised market, who is issuing, and where the assets actually get used
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July 2026The Renaissance of Onchain Options
Mapping the expansion of options as a trading instrument and the volatility that prices them — co-authored with BlockScholes
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·DeFiMarkets
The Builder’s View on Onchain Options
PLUS: Lighter's horizontal bet, Prediction Market regulation, and SECZ’s tokenised stock
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·Deep DivesTrading
The Rebirth of Onchain Options: An Ecosystem View
This article is an excerpt from our research on The Renaissance of Onchain Options, mapping the expansion of options (and prediction markets) as a trading instrument and the volatility that prices them, published in collaboration with Block Scholes.
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Prediction Markets: From Curated Platforms to Open Protocols
In the last 18 months, Prediction markets (PMs) grew from roughly $2 billion in monthly volume to more than $30 billion, scaling rapidly from a niche category to a mature ecosystem.
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