A new governance proposal to pursue Derive's expansion into US-regulated derivatives markets is live on the Derive forum.
Community members are encouraged to review the proposal and join the discussion: forums.derive.xyz/t/dip-expand-d…
Big LIT options flow on Derive 🕯️
A trader sold $330k notional of LIT calls expiring 25 December, collecting $31k in premium upfront.
TL;DR: they’re selling upside roughly ~36% above spot into year-end.
Derive V3 started with one question: how do you scale an onchain derivatives exchange without moving settlement away from Ethereum?
Our answer was to build an application-specific rollup for derivatives, with Celestia for data availability, Succinct for proofs and Ethereum for
Derive, the leading onchain options exchange with over $40B in cumulative trading volume, has used Celestia for nearly 3 years.
With V3 now live, we spoke to the Derive team about what changed in the upgrade and why they continue to build on Celestia.
Here's what we learned👇
Weekly Buyback #89 Complete
148,932 DRV was purchased at an average price of $0.40. Derive DAO has bought back a total of 28,358,307 DRV.
Buybacks are currently allocated 50% of protocol fees.