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In "Breaking the Wall," @citrini gave DERIVE $DRV a 10% weight, tied for the biggest in its 15-token crypto portfolio The bull case is mass adoption of on-chain options to hedge tokenized stocks and commodities Derive had 74.9% of onchain options volume as of Sept 25, and its V3 upgrade went live Oct 6th. V3 lists BTC, ETH, HYPE and other alts, plus only one real-world asset group: gold, via XAUT. The biggest room for growth is in the RWA space IMO. The volume is real. Options volume hit $14.22B this year by Sept 25, about 2.6x all of 2025, with a record $3.43B in September The token has been on a huge run lately. $DRV ran to an all-time high of $0.569 on Oct 9th from $0.137 on Sept 16th. Most of that move happened before Citrini published Fees per trade are shrinking, though. Derive earned 1.19 bps of volume in September, its lowest of the year So revenue went the other way. Q3 came in at $1.69M vs $1.88M in Q2, despite record volume Value capture got stronger on Oct 14th. Holders voted 47.69M to 0 to send 50% of net fees to DRV buybacks, up from 35%, with the other half going to the insurance fund Buybacks are SO hot right now. When Nick Forster came on @MilkRoadDaily in August, he told me the core contributors never raised money into an equity entity, so the token is the one instrument in the Derive ecosystem That is so powerful to hear because it makes the investment thesis very clear and simple. Everyone is aligned on the token. No nonsense. I love this More than 28M DRV has been bought back so far For context, about $6.6M of annualized revenue against a $429M market cap is roughly 65x. Which is rich. But it reflects how strongly so many believe in the potential of an onchain options product Supply: 1.0B of 1.5B DRV circulates per CoinGecko, and 230M contributor tokens vest over 4 years now that their $150M market cap gate is met The prize is big if this works out. Onchain options open interest is about $2B vs about $40B globally, and Forster puts Deribit at 70-75% of crypto options So, the market is huge, but competition is coming. @Lighter_xyz's Trevor King @trevor_flipper told me on @MilkRoadDaily that Lighter plans to have a full options suite by the end of the year Hyperliquid and many other big players will also be coming after Derive's market, but Nick and his team have been locked in exclusively on onchain options for many years now, and they have a really high-quality product. I don't think any of this hits primetime until 2027 at the earliest. Capital is still getting used to things like Perps and Prediction Markets. I don't think they're going to be ready for onchain options for a little bit yet. But this is coming. And soon. And with size. Once $DRV starts moving into equities options and not just crypto and gold, the onchain options markets are going to rip. At that point, Citrini's 10% allocation to $DRV could start to look like a brilliant move. I was early to $UNI (+54.8%), $AERO (+93.7%), and $SOL (+39.1%) in my Milk Road PRO portfolio Try Milk Road PRO for $1 for 7 days, link in bio: @BitcoinJesusETH