Can $450B a Day in TradFi Options Finally Move On-Chain?
summary
Crypto options market currently totals about $3B in DeFi and roughly $90B on centralized venues versus $16T in TradFi, with exchanges reporting 2–5 billion daily turnover and some DEXs hitting $10B volumes. Teams deploy physically settled American-style options and fixed coupon notes (vaults) to concentrate liquidity; vaults attract retail via automation while most TVL remains institutional. Major headwinds are liquidity fragmentation, UX, portfolio margining, on‑chain performance (cited ~400 ms block times) and regulatory risk, so broad migration is promising but not yet complete.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:50Speakers
- 4:10Market Size
- 11:22Perpetual Futures vs Options
- 16:41Vanilla vs Exotic Options
- 18:21Structuring Options
- 20:18Depositors
- 26:26Retail
- 28:17Financial Engineering
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