For individuals
Your first $25 can own a slice of the whole market, whenever you decide to invest.
We are building the marketplace itself: our own indices, cash-settled index options, futures and low-cost ETFs, listed, traded and settled in one place, in one account, at any hour. The platform is in development.
One marketplace, built for two kinds of investor. People putting their own money to work get something simple; institutions moving size get something deep. Both trade on the same ledger.
Your first $25 can own a slice of the whole market, whenever you decide to invest.
Your whole book on one ledger, settled in seconds, with nothing left to reconcile at the end of the day.
Today options trade on one exchange, futures on another and funds through a third channel, each with its own account, collateral and clearing. Settlement takes a day or more and passes through a chain of intermediaries that adds cost and ties up capital. And the whole thing closes in the evening, on weekends and on holidays. We are building one marketplace to replace that.
Every product in the same account against one cash balance, funded by bank transfer or approved stablecoins. Every position is fully paid for or fully collateralized; nothing is borrowed.
Cash and assets change hands at the same moment on distributed-ledger infrastructure, so no one pays without receiving.
Designed to operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, holidays included.
Fewer intermediaries and no legacy infrastructure, so trading and holding cost less than they do in traditional markets.
Rules-based indices with published methodology, and a settlement record either party can check for themselves.
Smaller contract sizes and fractional ETF shares, so a position can begin with a small amount.
Index options, futures and ETFs are the core. Later, major crypto assets such as bitcoin and ether will trade beside them as one asset class among many, without leverage; this is not a crypto-native venue built around leveraged trading. We build for verified participants, within securities regulation. Blockchain is the infrastructure behind the marketplace, not the product, and we will not issue a native token or a stablecoin of our own.
Follow one contract from signature to settlement. The same record does every job that a chain of intermediaries does today.
Terms
Instrument, underlying, strikes, expiry, notional and settlement are fields in a record, not lines in a PDF. Both sides hold the same record from the start.
Pricing
The underlying's price comes from the ledger, the rate from the funding market, the terms from the record. Every figure points back to what produced it.
Collateral
Every position is fully paid for or fully collateralized from the start, and the collateral is visible to both sides. Nothing is borrowed, so there is no call to chase; the contract checks its collateral with every mark.
Settlement
At expiry the contract computes the payout, pays it from posted collateral in the same step, releases the rest, and appends the event to its own record. Nothing to confirm, nothing to wait a day for.
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