Derive (DRV) News

Our Head of Research, Sean Dawson in Reuters on where the December BTC book is sitting. Full article in next tweet 👇 https://t.co/KGwCwb5Y1p

Weekly Buyback #84 Complete 199,760 DRV was purchased at an average price of $0.14. Derive DAO has bought back a total of 27,645,461 DRV. Buybacks are allocated 35% of protocol fees. https://t.co/4Amg6KmfCY

Crypto options could become much more than another trading product. @nickforster sees them becoming part of the industry’s risk infrastructure: “When our options markets become liquid, volatility actually generally comes down.” “You can have hedges embedded via the options to https://t.co/7tUXWooDc0

Super $ETH concentration on two strikes. 89,100 ETH calls are open at $5,000 and $7,000 for March 2027. 96% of them sit on Derive, the remaining 4% is split across ten other venues. Already $222m in notional and still six months out. https://t.co/XdDAmAE8Bw

Options made easy. $HYPE covered calls in just a few clicks, pick your outlook, strategy, name your strike and expiry. Our Strategy Builder does the rest. Also for ETH, BTC, SOL, XRP, XAUT, ZEC. https://t.co/uMBEUI1UWw

This is the biggest copy trading moment outside of memes in a long time Reach out if you're building a social trading app or a wallet w/ an existing perps offering, it's time to add options now, or you'll be late

A new governance proposal is now live on the Derive forum. Community members are invited to review and discuss. Read the proposal: https://t.co/YsZZSE6Tx9

Spot first → then perps → and now options. Nick joined @TrustlessState on @BanklessHQ to discuss Derive V3 and what it will take to bring the full options market onchain ↓

FOMC Meeting loading 👀 The market has already priced in a 25bps rate hike. With no changes, it will be giga bullish after yesterday's Clarity Act This is how market has behaved : Top Gainers 📈 $BR +98% $LSK +57% $DRV +25% $ARB +22% $USELESS +16% Trending Altcoins 🔥 $ZEC $NEAR $ARGUS $PONS $ONDO $LINK Bitcoin slipped under $76k Ethereum under $2.4k It is a short term cool off but rate hikes can change that.

📊 Price Gap · Top 5 Biggest cross-exchange price spreads, live now. Live board → $DRV $ELSA $AI $WAVES $VVV Not financial advice.

Daily Crypto Market Update 📊 Top Gainers 🚀 | Top Losers 🔻 $BR +108.95% | $PLAY -24.07% $LSK +77.57% | $IDOL -18.08% $DRV +25.85% | $HONEY -16.90% uchain-2:native +22.72% | $AI -16.74% $ARB +20.01% | $NAORIS -16.51% Stay up to date with our daily market update. See more →

What Smart Money were buying on Base chain in the last 24 hrs, according to $DRV $AERO $TIBBIR $NOCK $STONX

Big and Bullish ETH 24h on Derive. $150.7M traded. Three expiries took nearly all of it: March '27: ~13,600 ETH in a $5K/$7K call spread ~4,800 ETH in $3.6K/$4.5K Dec 25: ~2,800 ETH in $4K/$6K call spreads Sept 16: ~3,000 ETH in $2.7K–$2.8K calls, two days out https://t.co/BoTBggH90h

Back with another play on short dated calls before the CPI release on Bitcoin. On Derive the volatility was crazy during this wick of ETH to the upside, the writings were there. I could hold till end or even keep for more upside, sold here to make a lot of gains. https://t.co/Un3jLKeCqX

A perp has a fixed slope. An option has convexity. For a perp, twice the move gives you twice the P&L. For an option, the curve shrinks when wrong and grows when right. That's why option payoffs are asymmetric . https://t.co/6n9Ic6UaM8

A trader on Derive just bought 10,000 of the $ETH March 2027 5,000/7,000 call spreads, paying $300k to win up to $20 million if $ETH hits $7k by March 2027 🤯 Only spent the last 10 years waiting for $5k ETH, hope this trader is right https://t.co/llfTP8jqwz

Introducing the Derive Trade Tape Bot - hit follow👇 Every trade above $200K notional hits @DeriveTradeTape in real time, complete with a payoff chart, max loss, breakeven, max gain, and a direct link to copy the exact structure on Derive with legs pre-selected and ready to

A new user who knows their way around options just opened a $46m+ notional position on BTC. They bought 100 BTC of $76k puts expiring Sep 12 and 250 BTC of $74k/$70k put spreads expiring Sep 18. They spent ~$142k betting on a fast drop from ~$78k. If BTC finishes at $70k or https://t.co/IMYeoXcFEo

V2 settled billions. We’re building V3 for trillions. @nickforster joined @Edge_Pod to discuss the new ZK architecture, scaling onchain options and bringing RWAs to Derive. Give it a listen 👇

Derive is accelerating...gearing up for v3...join us! https://t.co/Jn9Nfb9xyg