Charm Options

Charm Optionsarrow-up-right is a breakthrough automated market-makerarrow-up-right (AMM) that can create liquid options on the blockchain.

It works by splitting an asset into different options and creating a prediction market for them, so that they can be priced and traded. This results in options markets that are cheaper, more liquid, and more scalable.

Charm Options is unique because:

  • Options are priced purely by supply and demand and don't rely on Black-Scholes or an approximation formula. This means price discovery can occur naturally and options are cheaper.

  • All option markets for a given underlying and expiry are combined into a single poolarrow-up-right, which means trading activity in one market will benefit all the other markets. This means Charm's option markets can support bigger trades and are therefore more liquid.

  • A single pool of optionsarrow-up-right also means that liquidity is not fragmented across multiple markets. This means more options markets can be provided for any given amount of liquidity.

In summary, Charm has invented a new type of capital efficient arrow-up-rightAMM that can provide a number of unique benefits.

These benefits are described in the next page.

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