The Risk Protocol

#StartInBlock 2026 Top 100 Is Here! 1000+ Founders applied, and these are the most promising early-stage startups in Web3, filtered, evaluated, and selected as the 100 best candidates. Get your VIP INVESTOR TICKET to access the DEAL FLOW, pick the 12 finalists, and hear them pitch in Paris at the Louvre. Grab Your Investor Ticket with code: PBWINVESTOR First 10 tickets get 25% off: parisblockchainweek.com/tickets The 12 finalists will be announced to pitch in front of our amazing sponsors and partners @bit2me, @SpectrumNodes, @Cardano_CF, @AdevarLabs, @ai, @yzilabs, @oviohq, @PitchBook, @DraperDragon, @0xProject, @deel, @DraperVC, @Bpifrance, @Taisu_Ventures, @brian_wong, @LBV_VC, @edenblockvc, @cryptocom, @halo__xyz, @50Partners, @Dune, @MCSocialVenture, @CoinMarketCap, @Cointelegraph, @Sony_Innov_Fund, @trgcapi, @strobefund, @BanklessVC, and @Maven11Capital, and jury members @samizb (@draperdragon), @mfelicepace (@Spectrumnodes), @tkstanczak (@nethermind), Cosmin Staicu (@bit2me), and Jessi Brooks (@RibbitCapital). Let's take a look at who made it to the top 100 👇

#StartInBlock 2026 Top 100 Is Here! 1000+ Founders applied, and these are the most promising early-stage startups in Web3, filtered, evaluated, and selected as the 100 best candidates. Get your VIP INVESTOR TICKET to access the DEAL FLOW, pick the 12 finalists, and hear them pitch in Paris at the Louvre. Grab Your Investor Ticket with code: PBWINVESTOR First 10 tickets get 25% off: parisblockchainweek.com/tickets The 12 finalists will be announced to pitch in front of our amazing sponsors and partners @bit2me, @SpectrumNodes, @Cardano_CF, @AdevarLabs, @ai, @yzilabs, @oviohq, @PitchBook, @DraperDragon, @0xProject, @deel, @DraperVC, @Bpifrance, @Taisu_Ventures, @brian_wong, @LBV_VC, @edenblockvc, @cryptocom, @halo__xyz, @50Partners, @Dune, @MCSocialVenture, @CoinMarketCap, @Cointelegraph, @Sony_Innov_Fund, @trgcapi, @strobefund, @BanklessVC, and @Maven11Capital, and jury members @samizb (@draperdragon), @mfelicepace (@Spectrumnodes), @tkstanczak (@nethermind), Cosmin Staicu (@bit2me), and Jessi Brooks (@RibbitCapital). Let's take a look at who made it to the top 100 👇

i explored @TheRiskProtocol dashboard Historic volatility and Forcast volatility. Got 2 signals that standout. walk with me 🧵 first is Volatility Compression in Majors based on my observation, BTC and ETH forecast volatility is sitting well below their historic levels, while altcoins are showing the opposite pattern. what does this tell us🤔? That’s a textbook volatility compression regime in the majors. When the big coins go quiet like this, it usually doesn’t last. it’s often the setup before a breakout. Trading angle : This is the moment to prep straddles or strangles on BTC/ETH. You’re not betting direction, you’re betting that the calm won’t hold. Meanwhile, altcoin volatility looks overstated that’s where you fade the noise and sell premium.

Everyone talks about avoiding downside risk. Almost nobody talks about trading risk itself. That's a blind spot—and it's costing you big. Think about what happens during a market correction. ETH drops 30%. The entire market panics. Leveraged longs get liquidated. Treasuries bleed. The universal response is reactive: sell, hedge into stables, wait it out. But what if you could see that correction coming—not the direction, the volatility—and position for it? In TradFi, entire desks are dedicated to trading volatility. The VIX underpins a multi-billion-dollar ecosystem that lets traders profit from rising or falling volatility. Some of the most consistent returns in TradFi come not from picking winners, but from correctly reading the risk environment. Crypto has none of this. The most volatile asset class in finance has zero native infrastructure for expressing a view on volatility itself. You can go long ETH. You can short ETH. But you can't say "I think volatility is about to spike" and then put on a position to exploit it. That's the gap we're filling. RiskON gives you amplified upside without liquidation—leveraged exposure as a token. No margin. No funding rates. No 1 am liquidation because a wick hit your stop. RiskOFF gives you dampened-volatility exposure to the same asset. You still participate in the upside. Your downside is capped at 5%. Park it as lending collateral. Use it for treasury management. It's the "I want crypto, but I can sleep at night" token. And these are just the first two products. Our SMART Token framework is designed to support an entire spectrum of risk expressions—from volatility trading to yield generation to downside protection—each as a composable ERC-20 that plugs into the existing DeFi stack. The litepaper outlines what's coming: docs.riskprotocol.io/protocol-paper… This is the mental shift: risk is not a single thing to avoid. It's a multi-dimensional spectrum to navigate. Every point on that spectrum is an opportunity for someone. Crypto has spent years building increasingly sophisticated ways to bet on price direction. 50x leverage. 100x. 500x. More ways to go long. More ways to go short. But the question has always been the same: up or down? RiskFi introduces new questions: How much risk? What kind of risk? When will risk expand or contract? How do I profit from being right about it? That's not risk management. That's risk alpha. The next generation of DeFi returns won't come from being the fastest to ape into a new token. It will come from understanding risk dynamics and positioning accordingly—the same edge that's powered the most consistent performers in traditional markets for decades. We're building the infrastructure to make that possible on-chain, for everyone.