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Market Structure & Capital Flows

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.

$22.9B
RWA protocol TVL tracked
$3.1B
Circle USYC TVL (largest)
$29B
tokenised RWA ex-stablecoins (rwa.xyz, Q1)

key figures as of 2026-07-07 · refreshed daily

Markets Articles

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Options from a Builder’s Perspective
·Markets

Options from a Builder’s Perspective

A Gap Analysis with Interviews from Rysk, Derive, Panoptic, and GammaSwap.

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The Builder’s View on Onchain Options
·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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The Rebirth of Onchain Options: An Ecosystem View
·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
·MarketsPredictions

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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Composable TradFi: RWAs in DeFi
·DeFiMarkets

Composable TradFi: RWAs in DeFi

Mapping the growth of RWAs in DeFi

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propAMMs: Better than CEX?
·L2sDeep Dives

propAMMs: Better than CEX?

PropAMMs are all about onchain execution

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Stacks POX Upgrade: Solving BTC Capital Problem with the Right Incentives
·Deep DivesL2s

Stacks POX Upgrade: Solving BTC Capital Problem with the Right Incentives

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

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RWAs: A Blueprint for the Future of Mantle
·Deep DivesMarkets

RWAs: A Blueprint for the Future of Mantle

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.

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Vaults: The Infrastructure Layer for Institutional Finance Onchain
·Deep DivesDeFi

Vaults: The Infrastructure Layer for Institutional Finance Onchain

Vaults are becoming DeFi's default entry point for institutions

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Pre-IPO Markets are Moving Onchain
·Deep DivesMarkets

Pre-IPO Markets are Moving Onchain

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

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MegaEth and the Bet on Consumer Apps
·Deep DivesL2s

MegaEth and the Bet on Consumer Apps

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

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The Beginning of Agentic Finance
·AIMarkets

The Beginning of Agentic Finance

The Beginning of Agentic Finance — research from Castle Labs.

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