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Nick Forster | Derive

Nick Forster | Derive

@itseneff

cofounder and CEO @DeriveXYZ

Katılım Haziran 2015
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Nick Forster | Derive
Nick Forster | Derive@itseneff·
The vision for Derive - which a lot of people get wrong - is not just onchain Deribit. We’re building the infinite payoff factory: any payoff, on any asset, 24/7. Tailored yield generation, hedging, and speculation at institutional scale that can wrap around any high quality asset, be repackaged, and distributed wherever it’s needed across the Internet Financial System. We’ve positioned Derive intentionally. Options venues take years of expertise, liquidity building, and grinding BD to reach competitive depth. That work is all coming together now. Teams can integrate with Derive, add their own layer on top, and deliver differentiated financial products to their users, without spending years doing the most difficult parts. This is why 20+ teams are already building on Derive. As more high quality assets come onchain at scale, we are readying our infrastructure for a world where that number to grow into the thousands.
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Blockworks
Blockworks@Blockworks·
The business can grow while the token captures none of it. Derive is built differently. They just dropped their B1. 93% disclosed. This is what real token to protocol alignment looks like.
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Jake (in sf)@soft_servo·
hectic week: - flown over to SF by openai for the gpt 5.5 party - met @sama - saw a fleet of humanoids running down the street (and then boxing? lol) - met a bunch of amazing robotics / consumer hardware founders - disc golf in golden gate park now back to building
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lito
lito@litocoen·
stoked to announce that im joining @ethena to lead a new product which will be revealed publicly soon after my last job, i thought i would take a longer time off but some opportunities don't wait for you there is a very short time window where you need to act or the opportunity may not be there in that form a few months later this was the case here everything i'm passionate about, reunited in one product all the stars aligned for that industry segment to explode over the next few years everything i've done in crypto so far, all the skills i acquired seem like preparation for this next chapter more soon
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Nick Forster | Derive@itseneff·
First big Cardano (yes you read that right, Cardano) options trade hit the tape on @DeriveXYZ today ~$5m call spread selling upside and collecting USD, collateralized with $ADA If you want market leading pricing for exotic options in size (this is a pilot), DM me
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Nick Forster | Derive@itseneff·
In Miami this week with @ksett13 - reach out if you’re: - Market making options / perps - Building onchain structured products - Integrating options trading into your product - A Derive power user - A friend There is much to discuss
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Nick Forster | Derive
Nick Forster | Derive@itseneff·
Ksett is Derive's secret weapon, our Head of Partnerhips who spent 10+ years running a TradFi options desk - this was a really great conversation
MCG@MCGlive

Today on MCG: @ksett13 | @DeriveXYZ 99% of people in crypto know perps but few understand options... Ksett breaks down why they are the next frontier, how they will be accessible on-chain, and why $22.3 billion in notional volume is just the beginning 👇 00:46 - Meet Ksett 01:19 - Background 01:37 - From user to team member 02:11 - Most people know perps — why options are the next step 02:48 - Perps limitations 03:36 - What you can build with options 04:42 - The team 05:56 - What Derive offers 08:59 - On-chain benefits 09:33 - Self-custodial 11:53 - How Derive came to be 21:26 - Who is the target audience? 21:55 - The institutional set 22:10 - The broker program 23:47 - Agentic trading 27:05 - A retail agent version 28:32 - Is Derive bridging CeFi to DeFi? 29:38 - Commodities on Derive 41:10 - Coinbase acquisition 42:17 - $22.3 billion in notional volume 43:28 - Governance and tokenomics 45:40 - Options MM program 50:31 - The SEC side and regulation 51:37 - White label opportunities 51:53 - 35% of fees go to buybacks 57:07 - Wrap up and takeaways

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Nick Forster | Derive
Nick Forster | Derive@itseneff·
$HYPE two week implied vol sits at ~60% (implying a 3% average daily move until May 15). This is down from 100% (!) in February, a big drop. Flow has overwhelmingly been selling HYPE vol as the market has developed, with covered calls being the most popular strategy on Derive.
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Nick Forster | Derive@itseneff·
Crypto needed a forest fire to refocus on building financial systems that only work onchain. I thought FTX was going to catalyze this in late 2022, but instead we had memecoins, restaking, and pre-PMF, 0 revenue teams TGEing on Korean exchanges at multi billion dollar valuations. Only now - in 2026 - are capital and attention consolidating around teams building systems that leverage what blockchains actually enable: - Global, instant rails - 24/7 markets - Programmable capital - Open access Available asset quality is improving (RWAs), and the market is converging on fewer, higher quality tokens. There is no silver bullet, just hard work, attention to detail, and time. I'm confident we've reached an inflection point in DeFi TVL - and expect to see $1 trillion in assets onchain by the end of 2028. 2026-2028 won't bring another cycle, but it’ll be the first real attempt at building a parallel financial system.
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Garrett Skrovina
Garrett Skrovina@GSkrovina·
@itseneff Need more stablecoin TVL growth and liquidity for all of these assets coming onchain
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Jamie Coutts CMT@Jamie1Coutts·
@itseneff Nice iterative move. Now update your stats pages. Things are humming...
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Nick Forster | Derive@itseneff·
New gov proposal, DRV holders take a look, tldr: - Buyback % increase from 25% to 35% - DRV Staking emissions down 60% - Unstake period down from 28 days -> 7 days 'Together, these changes are intended to reduce unnecessary emissions, improve capital efficiency, and make staking more flexible for token holders.' forums.derive.xyz/t/dip-update-d…
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Nick Forster | Derive
Nick Forster | Derive@itseneff·
Big Sunday on Derive with the flow skewing bearish - particularly on $ETH with some upside selling (May $2,500/$2,800 call spreads), put buying ($2,500 Apr 26 expiry) and $BTC put spread buying (68k / 62k April 26)
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