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Imagine if we quit.
28 Mar 2025
Startups die when they stop believing. 2024 almost broke Rysk. We built a leading DeFi options protocol, but scaling was hard. Everyone kept saying: "No one wants options." Finding capital and PMF felt impossible. We nearly quit. But Rysk team never stopped believing. We regrouped, got scrappy, analyzed every design and on-chain behavior, questioned every assumption, and relentlessly talked to users. Builders, investors, and friends like @evan_van_ness pushed us forward. They challenged us to take a new approach. To build something completely new. Rysk V12 isn’t just a product. It’s proof we refused to quit. Refused to stop believing. It’s our mission.
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rysk mentioned but also some interesting projects I was curious to learn more about it good one from @tradinghoex
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I love the Milan Stock Exchange middle finger picture because it perfectly sums up my view of DeFi. We're here to build a better financial system that is trust minimized, transparent and designed to remove counterparty risk. That's what I fight for. That's what we're building at Rysk.
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Been quanting around all morning on HIP-4 World Cup. This is my thesis: - Long Norway because they killed Italy - Long Uruguay as a sign of respect - Long Brazil because Italian coach - Long Colombia because my quants like latinas NFA hyperliquid
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Dan Rysk retweeted
Jun 10
The future of volatility markets is onchain. As institutions bring more assets to blockchain networks, they'll need options and derivatives infrastructure where those assets already live. @DanDeFiEd of @RyskFinance on why Ethereum is the home for onchain volatility markets.
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Dan Rysk retweeted
Jun 10
Building the Infrastructure for Onchain Volatility Markets @DanDeFiEd, Co-Founder at @ryskfinance ⏰ Breakout Stage, 3:05pm
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Speaking today at 3:00pm @ethconf No suit. Just an OG Rysk t-shirt. Come by to Rysk it all.
Options don't work in DeFi. I've been hearing that for years. Looking forward to speaking at @ETHConf NYC next week about how we built @ryskfinance, what we've learned bringing volatility products onchain, and how we're making volatility accessible to anyone. If you're around, happy to meet.
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I don't care if sentiment around crypto is at its lowest. I care that DeFi is creating opportunities that simply don't exist anywhere else. Over the last two years at Rysk, we've built new primitives for onchain options that would have been impossible in traditional finance. We launched the first accessible options products on HYPE because we saw an opportunity and believed in the ecosystem. We didn't need permission from anyone. We saw an opportunity, built it, and launched it when users wanted it. Using the same infrastructure, we launched institutional volatility vaults that benefit from onchain transparency, onchain settlement, and the removal of counterparty risk. That's what still excites me about DeFi. The technology enables financial experimentation at a pace traditional finance simply can't match. But more importantly, we need to double down on what made DeFi worth building in the first place: accessibility, transparency, and open financial infrastructure that anyone can build on. That's why I believe this is the best time to build in DeFi.
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Dan Rysk retweeted
Replying to @0xMerp @ryskfinance
Love rysk its my most used defi protocol, built a dashboard for me and then spruced it up for the public rysk.watch/

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Dan Rysk retweeted
Jun 5
decided to start harvesting some premiums by selling HYPE calls on @ryskfinance instead of selling coins gud way to accumulate cash to buy more coins if you believe broader crypto ecosystem suffers in general due to recent FUD andthe reality of flows app.rysk.finance/join?code=t…
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Dan Rysk retweeted
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rysking it all with mr rysk
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I went to a run club in NYC. Guy asked what I do for a living. I said crypto. He started running faster.
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Dan Rysk retweeted
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NY friends, anyone willing to host me and @berluscoin_ for a coworking day? I promise I won't complain about the coffee.
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Needed to show to team we need a rysk tie merch
Bro gets invited to one institutional conference and starts wearing suits.
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Options don't work in DeFi. I've been hearing that for years. Looking forward to speaking at @ETHConf NYC next week about how we built @ryskfinance, what we've learned bringing volatility products onchain, and how we're making volatility accessible to anyone. If you're around, happy to meet.
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Friday was Rysk's biggest settlement day and biggest inflow day to date. The best part wasn't the metric itself, but how smoothly the inflow was handled. Over the last few months we've faced challenges as demand grew, sometimes resulting in a poor user experience. The team spent a lot of time redesigning parts of the system, fixing bottlenecks, and introducing ROSF, a mechanism that reinvests protocol fees directly into RFQ liquidity to improve execution. Still a lot to improve. But Rysk V12 is maturing.
Biggest settlement day to date Biggest inflow right after Driven by volatility Hyperliquid
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How I feel being an Italian in NY
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new favorite weekend activity unlocked watching football through Hyperliquid IRL perfect 50% btw
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definitely not me
Imagine selling your HYPE to buy this 😂
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