"this has fundamentally never been done before, at least at the scale that you see"
CEO @fiddybps1 on launching the first Bitcoin VTF at @consensus2026
vaults earn yield by selling $BTC options. all on-chain, powered by high throughput derivatives trading.
CEO @fiddybps1 on RFQ coming to Paradex:
+ pair trades in size (long $BTC / short $ETH, spot vs perp) with bulk leg execution
+ basket trades: one RFQ, one price, 50-asset portfolio
+ exit your entire book instantly. no working orders across multiple books
+ mix perps & options into programmable portfolios
"nothing like this exists in crypto" perfected on Paradigm since 2019.
minimum block sizes in the hundreds of dollars.
institutional execution for everybody.
XP Season 3: Week 16
+ 4M XP was distributed across 4.3k wallets for activity during the period of May27-Jun2
+ 219K XP was distributed to referral codes and affiliates of which 87K XP was distributed to referred users
+ Options trading was overweighted
+ MB Holders and $DIME HODLers received a boost on this weekβs XP
your options UI should adapt to how you actually trade, not the other way around. 7+ years of building for options traders taught us that.
+ toggle between price and IV view
+ set strikes based on percentage moves
+ filter to ATM strikes / custom ranges
+ chart shows underlying, not premium
trade options with full privacy 24/7
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CEO @fiddybps1 on new features bringing institutional-grade speed to paradex:
+ one-click trading directly on the order book
+ pre-set default order sizes per asset (USD or BTC)
+ double-click to execute IOC at best bid/ask
+ zero friction between seeing price and filling
"on paradigm, one-click trading with RFQ is immensely popular. everybody uses it. this is the default way of executing"
now it's on paradex
trade options with full privacy 24/7
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How Paradex is becoming a home for all options traders in crypto
Hosted by: @FBChaiTrading & @cissora
Featuring: @fiddybps1
+ Saylor selling BTC
+ VTFs
+ $HYPE options
+ DIME Terminal & aggregated market intelligence
Today 21:30 SGT | 09:30 ET
$HYPE already had one of the most active alt options markets OTC last year
+ covered call sellers generating yield
+ put sellers accumulate on a pullback
+ crypto funds buying upside calls
$HYPE & $ETH options coming soon to Paradex
XP Season 3: Week 15
+ 4M XP was distributed across 5k wallets for activity during the period of May20-May26
+ 221K XP was distributed to referral codes and affiliates of which 89K XP was distributed to referred users
+ Options trading was overweighted
+ MB Holders and $DIME HODLers received a boost on this weekβs XP
markets are moving
TUE: Consumer Confidence
THU: PCE Inflation, Warsh's first big test
THU: Q1 GDP second estimate
FRI: $6.6B in $BTC options expire on Deribit
$23M in options open interest on Paradex.
24/7, full privacy, lowest fees.
trade now.
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XP Season 3: Week 14
+ 4M XP was distributed across 5k wallets for activity during the period of May13-May20
+ 224K XP was distributed to referral codes and affiliates of which 90K XP was distributed to referred users
+ Options trading was overweighted
+ @MoneyBadgersX Holders and $DIME HODLers received a boost on this weekβs XP
just the beginning of paradex becoming the home for all options traders in crypto
institutional grade liquidity powered by Paradigm & lowest fees in crypto
trade options with full privacy 24/7
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Tomorrow: Warsh sworn in at the Fed. Same day, over $1.5B of BTC options expire.
Deribit ($1.54B): call-heavy, 88% OTM. The 90K call alone is $152M.
Paradex's new options book ($24M): three-quarters of it stacked in the 75K / 85K strangle.
The real test comes a week later: $6B+ on the 29MAY end-of-month expiry. Tomorrow is the warm-up.
tokenized equities + VTFs unlock what was impossible before
Flowdesk on DimeTV:
"the key is getting the smaller investors, those guys who can't access the big private banks, but still want to invest their funds in some sort of managed system"
"there's a lot of middle money out there who can't access the big structured products but they want some sort of structured mechanism for investing in equities. this is where (VTFs) become really interesting"
VTFs are the next evolution of ETFs
watch the full episode below
Pravin Pathmanathan from @flowdesk_co on DimeTV talks about crypto options market structure, the HYPE options boom and why vaults & VTFs are the next evolution of ETFs
00:00 β Intro: Who is Pravin & what does Flowdesk do in options
01:33 β From equities to crypto: why he made the move
05:58 β How efficient is the crypto options market really
10:23 β Biggest shifts in crypto options since 2018
12:27 β Mistakes TradFi traders make crossing into crypto (inverse options, delta confusion)
14:36 β Equity guys vs FX guys: different approaches to crypto options
17:10 β Flowdesk's edge & the HYPE options boom
21:11 β Alt options flow: what else are clients asking for
22:21 β Geopolitics, vol regimes, and why 10/10 is still in every trader's head
25:16 β Crypto going macro: watching S&P and Truth Social more than CT
27:26 β Tokenized equity options: Flowdesk is already doing this OTC
30:27 β Vaults, VTFs, and the democratization of structured products
32:11 β The real opportunity: derivatives on RWAs is what blockchain was always for
markets are moving
+ TUE: Pending Home Sales
+ WED: FOMC Minutes release
+ THU: Jobless Claims, Philly Fed Index
+ FRI: Kevin Warsh takes over as Fed chair
$24M+ in options open interest. trade the volatility with institutional liquidity & lowest fees.
https://t.co/fMaJJClTsU