#471: Dan Rysk, Co-founder of Rysk, on DeFi Options Vaults (DOVs), Trading Options on Hyperliquid, and Why Volatility Yield is the Missing Layer in DeFi

Dan Rysk is the co-founder of Rysk, a DeFi protocol building options strategies as a new financial primitive. He has been focused on options and structured products in DeFi since 2020, beginning with Opyn, one of the first options protocols. Before that, he worked in investment banking at BofAML and founded and exited a web2 startup in online education. 

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The inception story of Rysk 
- Trading Options on Hyperliquid 
- What is ‘options trading’ in tradfi? 
- Options provide volatility exposure, whereas perps do not 
- DeFi Options Vaults (DOVs) 
- Volatility yield = the missing yield layer in DeFi 
- Why Hyperliquid is the right place for Rysk and options to work at scale 
- What’s next: roadmap, integrations, and how Rysk expands from here 

Rysk
Website: app.rysk.finance
X: @ryskfinance
Discord: discord.gg/ZH34Fc3D5S

Dan Rysk
X: @DanDeFiEd
Telegram: @DanDeFiEd

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