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DeFi Options Protocol Architecture — Liquidity Vaults and Automated Market Making for Options
On-chain options require liquidity vaults to act as option sellers and pricing models that can be computed in the EVM. Here is how the leading DeFi options protocols — Lyra, Dopex, Hegic — approach this problem. In traditional options markets, market makers provide bid and ask prices for every strike and expiry. They h...
contract CoveredCallVault is ERC4626 { address public immutable underlyingAsset; // ETH address public immutable optionsProtocol; // Opyn, Lyra, etc. uint256 public strikePrice; // Current round strike uint256 public expiry; // Current round expiry uint256 public lockedCollateral; // ETH locked for current options roun...
Common integrations: The Graph, Alchemy/Infura, OpenZeppelin Defender, and popular wallet providers.
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LPs give up upside above the strike price (the call buyer exercises and takes the ETH at below-market price) while retaining the downside (if ETH falls, LP loses ETH value). The premium earned partially offsets this. Best strategy: high-implied-volatility environments where premiums are high relative to actual realized volatility.
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