Charm Finance – the decentralized options protocol – has launched their mainnet and users can start trading immediately. However, the contracts are still unaudited so proceed with caution.
Charm is livehttps://t.co/g2Uw1mEYUf
— Charm (@CharmFinance) January 18, 2021
The Charm Finance team believes that their options protocol stands out from the rest as they have implemented a unique approach of splitting tokens into tokenized payoffs and using a prediction market AMM to create liquidity.
Doing so enables the following benefits:
- Price is purely determined by supply and demand, no reliance on external oracles
- Options can be sold any time before expiry
- Options can be shorted
- Low slippage
- Options that expire in the money are automatically exercised
- Positions are represented as ERC-20 tokens
To learn more about how this novel mechanism work, check out this in-depth post by the Charm team.
As part of a guarded launch, Charm is launching with a cap on total value lock on each of the markets that it supports. Currently, once the deposited amount reaches $100K the protocol will stop allowing additional deposits. New users will not be able to open additional positions until current users close theirs.
Charm Finance is offering cash-settled, European options during this initial launch. While there is no fee for closing your position or final settlement there is a 1% fee charged when users open a position. Chainlink oracles are still used for final settlement price as well.
Keep up with Charm by following their Twitter.
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