Crypto Volatility Index (CVI) Introduces Margin Trading for Volatility Tokens
The young crypto economy has earned a reputation for volatility, but now DeFi is marching forward with powerful new services for directly capitalizing on volatility. One such service that’s a must-track in this vertical right now is the rising Crypto Volatility Index project.
The Crypto Volatility Index’s flagship release is the CVI, a
decentralized “market fear index” for DeFi that functions like the VIX does for
TradFi. Developed by the COTI team in collaboration with VIX creator Prof. Dan
Galai and governed by GOVI token holders, the CVI is a novel “money lego” for
understanding, trading, and hedging against Cryptocurrency volatility.
Better yet? Thanks to the new CVI V2 protocol release,
making the most of this volatility is now simpler than ever!
Inside the Revamped CVI V2 System
At its core, the CVI protocol helps users track and trade the
30-day implied volatility of ether (ETH) and bitcoin (BTC) via the CVI Index,
which uses the Black-Scholes options pricing model to foster an index that
fluctuates between 0 and 200.
The CVI V1 system performed well, particularly during the
acute DeFi market drawdown a few months back. The new-and-improved V2 system
has evolved from that robust foundation and now provides an even more per formative
and user-friendly dapp for DeFi volatility traders.
So what’s new with V2, exactly? First off the protocol’s
been deployed to both the Ethereum and Polygon main nets, meaning traders can
enjoy near-instant and near-free transactions on the latter’s sidechain as
needed.
Speaking of Polygon, CVI’s V2 deployment on the sidechain
launched with a new USDC platform that allows users to trade the CVI with the
crypto economy’s second-largest stablecoin by market cap. The USDC platform is
also the first to support the CVI V2 system’s new margin trading capabilities,
which lets leverage up to 2x (and later further) your CVI positions.
Another major new addition to CVI V2 is volatility tokens,
with the protocol’s first being ETHVOL and next up CVIVOL. These tokens, which
are adjusted via funding fees and rebased to maintain their pegs, give DeFi
traders an unprecedented way to trade volatility tokens.
These are the first volatility tokens that can be traded on
margin in the ecosystem, and notably CVI V2’s different leveraged tokens (e.g.
ETHVOL-X2 and ETHVOL-X3) can be supported within the same AMM liquidity pool.
Additionally, the CVI V2 user interface (UI) and user
experience (UX) revamp will ensure investors can navigate and easily trade
through the app. The protocol’s lockups and rewards systems have also been
updated to shrink liquidity providers’ (LPs) lockup period to 48 hours and to
launch dynamic rewards for CVI traders.
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