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DeFi Options will allow you to: AS A BUYER (TAKER): - Leverage trade without fear of liquidation as soon as it hits “zero”. With options, you have TIME. Options are contracts after all, which have an expiration date. And it is up to you to decide how “far out” you want the contract to be. So as a buyer you will have TIME for your speculative trade. - Speculate on more than just price action. Want to gain more based on volatility? Trade Out-of-the-Money (OTM) options, aka “Extrinsic value”. Want to have your option more correlated to the underlying asset while maintaining leverage? Trade In-the-Money (ITM) options, aka higher “Intrinsic value”. - Trade fractional portions of a contract. You don’t need to pay the “full Premium” of an option as a buyer if you don’t want to. For the first time in financial history (likely), @EpicentralLabs allows for option contracts to be “fractional, allowing buyers to buy 0.01 of an option instead of whole. —— AS A SELLER (MAKER): - Become the house. Too many crypto protocols building “options trading” don’t allow retail or institutional to become the “market maker”. As a maker, @opxmarkets lets you can create price discovery, and set the “Strikes” for buyers to take. And no, this doesn’t exactly work like a limit order book. - Fair Option Pricing. OPX isn’t like a typical P2P market. The option prices are already accurately and fairly calculated for you through our Option Pricing Model. There’s no need for guessing of “what’s fair to short sell?”. - Earn Theta. Unlike buyers, TIME works in your favor. As time goes by, and price moves away from the options you’re short-selling, you collect the premium the buyer paid up front. Allowing for unique “theta-strategies”. Earn yield on speculators being WRONG. - Use Margin. Like in traditional finance, brokers offer “margin” (leverage) to short sell options to incentivize market makers. In crypto, this hasn’t been done before since options need to be “cash-covered” at all times for checks and balances. Soon this will no longer be the case. You will be able to short sell options by only needing to provide 10% of the collateral. Which allows of leveraging up to 10x. —— FOR LIQUIDITY PROVIDERS: - Earn consistent Yield. Traditionally, banks and large financial institutions provide liquidity and make interest on the money provided. This is no longer the case. ANYONE can provide liquidity into our “OMLP” (Option Margin Liquidity Pool) and THRIVE off of market makers using margin. Best part? Lenders never get liquidated while having full custody of their deposits. The ultimate liquidity solution for DeFi Options. There is a lot more. - Options solve the problem of “Impermanent Loss” for LPs - Options allow leverage with small up front capital. - Notional Volume will be sky high. - integration capability on other protocol. - upcoming open source SDK for developers to create “new types” of derivatives. - possible for ANY spl-token on @solana This is what we’re building at @EpicentralLabs — I’m so bullish. $LABS is our governance token. Protocol Revenue goes to $LABS holders.