
Options from a Builder’s Perspective
A Gap Analysis with Interviews from Rysk, Derive, Panoptic, and GammaSwap.
Castle Labs' broadest research lane is market structure: where liquidity sits, which venues capture flow, how capital moves across public and private markets, and what the data says before the narrative catches up. This is the home for our market maps, tokenisation work, exchange and venue analysis, volatility coverage, and macro-to-onchain research. It serves readers who need to understand not just what happened, but what changed in the structure of the market.
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A Gap Analysis with Interviews from Rysk, Derive, Panoptic, and GammaSwap.

PLUS: Lighter's horizontal bet, Prediction Market regulation, and SECZ’s tokenised stock

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.

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.

Mapping the growth of RWAs in DeFi

PropAMMs are all about onchain execution

Over the last couple of years, since the launch of Bitcoin ETFs, BTC has become an increasingly institutionalised and legitimised asse.

While most metrics are down across the board, the RWA sector is the only one showing consistent growth, with tokenised stocks among the fastest-growing RWA categories right now.

Vaults are becoming DeFi's default entry point for institutions

2026 is one of the most eventful years for IPOs, with the biggest IPO calendar in a generation.

For the last cycle, crypto has been strengthening its infrastructure, but the core audience remained the same.

The Beginning of Agentic Finance — research from Castle Labs.