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Option Contracts in the DeFi Ecosystem: Opportunities, Solutions, and Technical Challenges

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This paper investigates the current landscape of option trading platforms for cryptocurrencies, encompassing both centralized and decentralized exchanges. Option contracts in cryptocurrency markets offer functionalities akin to traditional markets, providing investors with tools to mitigate risks, particularly those arising from price volatility, while also allowing them to capitalize on future volatility trends. The paper discusses these applications of option contracts in the context of decentralized finance (DeFi), emphasizing their utility in managing market uncertainties. Despite a recent surge in the trading volume of options contracts on cryptocurrencies, decentralized platforms account for less than 1% of this total volume. Hence, this paper takes a closer look by examining the design choices of these platforms to understand the challenges hindering their growth and adoption. It identifies technical, financial, and adoption-related challenges that decentralized exchanges face and provides commentary on existing platform responses. Subsequently, the paper analyzes the impact of absent options markets on the inefficiencies of automated market maker liquidity. It examines historical on-chain data for 14 ERC20 token pairs on Ethereum. The analysis shows 1143 instances in which deeper liquidity levels, as high as × 6 more, could have been achieved by establishing an options market.

CEXcryptocurrencydecentralized financeDeFiderivativesDEXoptionsvolatility

Srisht Fateh Singh、Vladyslav Nekriach、Panagiotis Michalopoulos、Andreas Veneris、Jeffrey Klinck

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada||Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2025

International journal of network management

International journal of network management

ISSN:1099-1190
年,卷(期):2025.35(2)
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