Ribbon Finance is a new protocol that helps users access crypto structured products for DeFi. It combines options, futures, and fixed income to improve a portfolio’s risk-return profile.

Here you can find the product descriptions and outgoing links to the different communication channels if you want to contribute.

Core Products

Theta Vault

Theta Vault, which is a yield-focused strategy on ETH and WBTC. The vault earns yield on its deposits by running a weekly automated options selling strategy. The vault reinvests the yield earned back into the strategy, effectively compounding the yields for depositors over time.

The Theta Vaults run two options strategies to generate yields:

Covered call – Vault writes out of the money covered calls.

Put selling – Vault writes out of the money put.

Theta Vault Yearn

Currently, funds held in Theta Vaults do not generate any yield, aside from writing options. Every Friday, the vault converts 100% of its USDC balance into yvUSDC by depositing USDC into the Yearn USDC yVault. This helps depositors gain exposure to the yield generated from Yearn on top of the options strategy.

What are Theta Vaults?

Theta Vaults use the Vault terminology because it stems from the idea of depositing your assets into a vault and earning a yield on them, set-and-forget.

Users can simply deposit their assets into a smart contract and will automatically start running a specific options strategy. This alleviates a majority of the gas problems by socializing the gas costs across all the vault depositors. Instead of doing 3–4 transactions per week per user, the vault will do 3–4 transactions per week for thousands of users at once. This makes the user experience of using these Theta Vaults extremely straightforward and relatively cheap — deposit, wait for yields and withdraw.

What is a Covered Call strategy?

The covered call strategy is a unique options strategy where you earn yield for selling the potential upside of an asset. For example, if you are willing to give up the potential upside of ETH going above $25k by the end of the year, you can get paid 2% in yield for selling a $25k call option. This is over 10x the yield you can earn by supplying ETH on Compound.

In the unlikely case that ETH goes to $30k, you would have given up $5k, but you are still tremendously up in USD terms — it is a win-win scenario for you because you only risk getting exercised when ETH absolutely moons.

Strike Selection and Expiry

To further reduce the risk of our options getting exercised, we can sell call options that expire sooner rather than later, because of how difficult it is to predict how ETH could perform over a longer time frame. Our initial vaults will sell weekly call options, meaning we can adjust our expectation of ETH’s price on a weekly basis. This also has the nice side effect of letting us compound our premiums more frequently.

Secondly, we need to select strike prices that are far enough from today’s spot price to reduce the risk of exercise. Our current methodology for strike selection and backtests shows that we only get exercised less than 5% of the time from Jan 2020 to today, even throughout the entire run-up of ETH from $80 to $2000. We will publish a follow-up blog post about our strike selection methodology in detail.

Technical Architecture

Theta Vaults in its present design relies on Opyn oTokens. oTokens are ERC20 token representations of an options contract, where each of them has a strike price and expiry. Owning oTokens is functionally equivalent to owning an options contract. This gives the oToken holder the right to redeem some amount of the underlying asset if the strike price is hit.

In order to run an options-writing strategy, the Vault needs to be able to mint and short oTokens. The Vault uses the users’ deposited funds to lock collateral into Opyn + mint oTokens, then sells them for a premium. The Vault’s collateral will be locked until the expiry of the oToken. This collateral is used to pay off oToken holders in the case that the options expire in the money.

To facilitate the week-by-week operations of Theta Vaults, there is a privileged role called the Manager. The Manager is responsible for:

Selecting the parameters of the oToken to mint i.e. strike price and expiry.

Participating in Open Auctions

Open Auctions are a batch auction conducted on the Gnosis Auction platform to sell off options that are minted by Theta Vault.

A batch auction means that there is only one clearing price.

Using an auction allows for price discovery on-chain, to ensure the options sale process is decentralized.

Max Supply: 1,000,000,000 RBN token

Circulating Supply: 46,799,623.03 RBN

How and Where to Buy RBN token?

RBN has been listed on a number of crypto exchanges, unlike other main cryptocurrencies, it cannot be directly purchased with fiats money. However, You can still easily buy this coin by first buying Bitcoin, ETH, USDT, BNB from any large exchanges and then transferring to the exchange that offers to trade this coin, in this guide article we will walk you through in detail the steps to buy RBN token.

You will have to first buy one of the major cryptocurrencies, usually either Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Tether (USDT), Binance (BNB)…

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